refined version of my total drama oc shona…! she’s a mutant shark (and fang’s cousin) who became an intern for the show because she lived around the island anyway. in the water
she constantly thwaps people with her tail accidentally and she flirts with with the other intern girls by giving them poorly made seashell jewelry, which she also sells on her etsy shop
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I just feel like if you're being an utterly patronizing female head-patter and you think the most important issue in feminism is whether or not we include males, maybe you should go like. Fuck off. Or go the middle of nowhere and look up at the night sky and fuck off. Or go out onto the ocean and experience the vastness of a flat, blue horizon as you fuck off. Or climb a mountain and feel the altitude take away your breath while you fuck off.
I just. Go fuck off. Fuck off the planet we live in, the universe we live in.
And then maybe you will see that there are some very definite and specific concerns about turning feminism into the "all lives matter" movement, because as a feminist, we know which people are male and which are female, and that feminism does not give a shit who people think they are and what they want... because feminism is for the liberation of women and girls from patriarchal structures. (Including you, even though you've chosen to identify as "transmasc.")
And maybe you will also realize that those are the important things to fight for, like actually taking down the patriarchy without fighting the patriarchy wearing dresses taking over our movement and killing lesbians and sending death threats and rape threats to women who won't do as they're told and taking over our spaces and our words and beating up grandmas, and fighting colonizers and racists wearing dresses who come in to speak over women of color and women from other countries, because feminism is for women and girls, for them to exist in this world freely, so we can help them to live in a world where all of them can learn and yearn and reach for the stars.
And maybe, someday, not today obvs, but someday in the future, you will realize how patronizing this was, and how you literally bent the knee for the patriarchy while telling us dumb women that because we aren't enlightened enough to let males into our feminism and we weren't enlightened enough to identify out of womanhood, and hopefully you'll be ashamed. Someday maybe you'll look at how many males supported you with anything, and wonder why none of your brave and stunning trans women friends ever made posts like this for you.
And on that day, we'll still be here, and you'll still be welcome as a fellow female.
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on flora's whitewashing: is it possible that flora has been whitewashed in the show/movies with her artwork (illustrations) being fairly consistent with her skin tone, even prior to the reboots/nick era? like in season 1 and the movies iirc
examples: s1e3, and the movies like secret of the lost kingdom? i remember thinking she looked lighter in several scenes of lost kingdom and in that episode of season 1
i wonder if this is something that happened with flora in s1, with it not being or less a problem in s2 and 3, with the movie having a similar skintone to the reboot pictures. i swear that this has happened but i dont really see any discussions on rainbow lighting her skin other than in newer media (where it is more prevalent and more obvious) so if you have any thoughts? maybe also slightly on the merchandise/doll side of things if youre interested?
Rainbow whitewashing characters like Flora and Aisha has absolutely been an issue for a very long time. Unfortunately, a lot of white fans don't notice unless it's more of an extreme example (like Flora being stark white or Aisha looking like Bloom).
In the first three seasons, it's really not seen as a big issue because it's genuinely innocent on their part. Those seasons were hand drawn so every now and then you get a scene where the skin is too light or too dark and doesn't actually make sense with the lighting. Usually, it's an innocent mistake due to multiple artists, not understanding lighting, and things just slipping past them because they're looking at these scenes for hours and they get used to it.
Here are some examples from the first four seasons where their skin is too light even with the lighting happening around them.
And for reference, this is what their normal skin tone is (and what they look like in most scenes).
Again, people don't usually talk about these because it (most likely) wasn't racist or malicious intent from Rainbow. They just didn't understand lighting ajdhglad This actually happens with all of the winx! Just go through some episodes and you'll notice that even the white characters get lightened in ways that don't make sense.
As for the movies, Flora was 100% whitewashed in the first movie.
Flora got the brunt of it in sotlk - she's whitewashed for the entire movie, while Aisha is only whitewashed in certain scenes. There are scenes where both of them look normal and aren't whitewashed so maybe some fans just didn't realize, but if you watch the movie, you'll notice that Flora is whitewashed completely and only looks right when they're in super dark places which,, yikes ahdgalhg
The dolls were also a problem! The whitewashing in the doll lines heavily depended on the manufacturer though so it's very hit or miss.
A lot of the early dolls are perfect or almost perfect but some of them are whitewashed like in these examples. It's the later dolls that have the most whitewashing though so they tend to get more criticism (plus the early dolls are no longer being made).
Most of the other early (s1-s3) merchandising (like the magazines, bags, stickers, etc) didn't whitewash either of them.
I'd say almost all of the promotional art for the first three seasons was consistent and didn't whitewash any of the characters. It's hard to believe now of course but Iginio was initially really excited to make winx diverse (like he intentionally changed Flora to latina instead of white to make it more diverse). Rainbow intentionally whitewashing them really started with the first movie and then snowballed into what we have now. Unfortunately, I think so many white fans are so used to the whitewashing, that they've started to no longer even notice it unless it's super extreme. Like with the recent s9 promo art, most people weren't noticing Flora at all (and not ignoring her, specifically not noticing), and in a lot of fanart, they do not notice unless they're literally white.
Whitewashing has been a big issue in winx for years but I think there are a lot of fans who look at the early seasons with so much love and nostalgia that they don't want to admit it, or they don't understand how lighting affects skin, or their favorite character isn't Flora or Aisha so they just never pay attention to them (blorbo hyperbeam is very real). I'd still say that a lot of the early whitewashing was due to innocent mistakes regarding lighting and manufacturing, but the first movie was extremely on purpose (and so is everything after that).
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