In less than 10 years, all these white bitches blackfacing, brownfacing, yellowfacing and otherwise taking EVERY element they can find from Black women, Latinas and Asian women to create a “baddie” persona, will stop spray tanning or whatever the fuck they did to their skin, they’ll leave the lip fillers behind, the overlining the lips trend behind too, stop frying their spaghetti hair with perms, they’ll take off the braids (and wonder where all their hair went), stop faking monolids, stop paying to get their nails done like that, stop wearing jewelry typical to lower class Black and Latina women that is so trendy on white women during this decade, they’ll stop getting their hips and asses enhanced…
Then they’ll go back to their very white suburban house, they’ll say that now they’re “classy” again, they’ll mock and denigrate whatever amazing styles Black, Asian and Latina women are creating and rocking. They’ll go marry some also white dude, and start voting Republican like nothing ever happened.
bella rollin up the the cullens house knowing full well her blood smells damn near irresistible but risking it all for a chance at finally getting dicked down by the weird boy from bio
Black damsel in distress =/= white damsel in distress. The standard for which society reacts to the situation is very different and thus standard tropes CANNOT be used to assess this.
Alright. I get that the struggle black women endure silently finally being acknowledged and promoted is a definite step forward. My hesitation is any damsel in distress feels like they’re waiting for their theoretical male, (heteronormative, via-gendered) rescuer. What am I missing ?
You’re missing that Black women are so rarely viewed as treasured and precious and deserving of saving.
You’re missing that Black women have and are always expected to save themselves, pick themselves up, all the while expected to save and protect others, women and men.
You’re missing that Black women are rarely romanced, rarely sexualized in a non-oversexualized way, are depicted as naturally non-virginal and lacking of purity (and also unrapable because of our naturally hypersexualized state).
You’re missing that between being consecutively hypersexualized and desexualized it is REFRESHING to see a Black woman who does not have to do everything herself. Who does have someone who will save her FOR A CHANGE.
We want to be the glorified precious Princess for once and not always our own nameless unappreciated Knight.
That’s what you are missing.
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We actually get to be VULNERABLE and not just the Strong Independent Asexual Mammy Who Don’t Need No Emotional Support for ANYTHING ™
This. I get a lot of flak for putting a romance in THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS between Yeine and Nahadoth. “Like TWILIGHT,” people sneer – as if Twilight would’ve made as much money as it has if it featured a whiter-than-white immortal falling for a brown girl. Context matters, even when detractors conveniently choose not to see it.
I wanted Yeine to be treasured. Desired. Admired. Pursued. In every other (racist) aspect of her life, she is treated with contempt on sight, called everything from “ill-bred” to “savage”, discounted and dismissed by the people around her who are invested in her oppression and that of everyone like her. But among the gods, who have no need of mortal pettiness, she is a queen.
Exactly! The narratives that show Black women as even worthy of the THOUGHT of someone helping them unconditionally are just NOT THERE.
Too many people are out here thinking I’m ‘trying to be white’ when I say this but y’all have to realize that Black women are not beholden to the same tropes as white women. Never ever have been in both fiction and in real life.
