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kaen ([info]kaen) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-01-10 17:06:00


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A few days ago over at the Megamind community over on livejournal kit_a_licious posted fanart of a blaxploitationized Megamind and Roxanne. An anonymous commenter replied with a link to a commenter on the New York Time's review of the movie talking about racism that they felt was in the movie.

Kit_a_licious makes another post talking about that comment, disagreeing with it any going on to say "I mean, yes, Megamind does have some black characteristics. He can rock the bald look. He can have a soul patch without looking like a total dip. He likes big butts. He probably also likes drums and watermelon, that doesn't make him a brotha."

There's some disagreement in the comments with how dismissive she (and other commenters) are being, but things really pick up going downhill when citizenjess shows up with the seemingly innocuous suggestion of changing "characteristics" to "stereotypes" in that quote up there. Kit's response is that it's just a joke, and later that "I can't agree with anyone who takes anything too seriously", spends some time whitesplaining when her blaxploitation fanart is brought up, and then her older sister torreadora show up and starts trying to defend her.

Note about ages: I know sometimes torreadora sounds like she's trying to comfort and defend a little kid who's just gotten into her first fandom fight, but kit_a_licious is actually twenty-five.


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[info]cyndra_falin
2011-01-11 12:07 am UTC (link)
Wow. Megamind wank.

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[info]seiberwing
2011-01-11 05:36 am UTC (link)
I know. I feel vaguely unclean.

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[info]dandywolves
2011-01-11 01:05 am UTC (link)
Oh god, this whole thing is just a hot mess. From the "You don't seem to know how repulsive it is to accuse someone of racism" all the way to kit_a_licious's etsy shop "mostly centered around the art of voodoo and Dia de los Muertos". I just... man.

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[info]persona
2011-01-11 01:38 am UTC (link)
I wish people would stop with the superficial obsession with Day of the Dead as ~exotic and morbid~. Yeah, sorry, it's not Halloween, actually. Same goes for whatever the hell her concept of 'voodoo' is, too.

Also, seriously? Are you fucking kidding me? I can't.

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[info]dandywolves
2011-01-11 01:57 am UTC (link)
That doll, Jesus Christ. This girl just doesn't stop.

Also, I just found this gem from torreadora's lj: "After more than two years living in what would be considered a ghetto by any first-world standard, they won't have to dread going back to their shitty apartment, surrounded by people who don't like them because they're white, who smoke pot all fucking day and night, who scream with foul language at their toddlers."

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(no subject) - [info]kylenne, 2011-01-11 04:10 am UTC

[info]cimorene111
2011-01-11 02:09 am UTC (link)
And the doll is copyright, apparently. Watch out that you don't paint traditional Day of the Dead iconography on any bedposts and sell them!

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(no subject) - [info]kylenne, 2011-01-11 04:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dandywolves, 2011-01-11 06:13 am UTC

[info]b_jellybean
2011-01-11 02:46 am UTC (link)
...I just like Day of the Dead because of Grim Fandango. There's Bread of the Dead, which rhymes!

Pretty sure the balloon animals were artistic license, though.

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2011-01-11 03:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cyan_aura, 2011-01-12 09:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]b_jellybean, 2011-01-12 12:07 pm UTC

[info]kylenne
2011-01-11 04:11 am UTC (link)
YES, THAT.

Also...yeah, the first thing I think of when I think "Juarez" is twee shit that belongs on Regretsy. It certainly isn't the ongoing femicide that's been happening.

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(no subject) - [info]persona, 2011-01-11 05:12 am UTC

[info]tehrin
2011-01-11 07:47 am UTC (link)
My god. The name. Considering my mind goes straight to this, can anyone be that stupid?

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(no subject) - [info]persona, 2011-01-11 03:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]snarkhunter, 2011-01-11 03:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2011-01-12 05:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]radiotrash, 2011-01-12 08:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]snarkhunter, 2011-01-12 01:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2011-01-12 07:02 pm UTC

[info]tehrin
2011-01-11 07:41 am UTC (link)
I take this is the Disney version of Voodoo. I'm too scared to look.

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[info]demonoflight
2011-01-12 11:56 am UTC (link)
I dunno, man, the Disney version of Voodoo was a lot more respectful than this.

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2011-01-12 06:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tehrin, 2011-01-12 10:21 pm UTC

[info]freezer
2011-01-11 02:11 am UTC (link)
Yes, because when I finished watching Megamind, I thought "Y'know what this movie could've used? Racial diversity!"

This is one of those wanks where you look at both sides and go "What is this I don't even."

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[info]kylenne
2011-01-11 04:28 am UTC (link)
...oh honey no, this is where you go, "what is this I don't even" at both "sides".

Many of us who don't have the privilege of seeing characters that share our race or ethnicity in 99% of movies (or sometimes even see characters who do get whitewashed), OTOH, frequently ask that question.

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(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2011-01-11 04:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]snacky, 2011-01-11 09:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]white_serpent, 2011-01-12 01:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2011-01-12 02:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sorchar, 2011-01-12 04:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sorchar, 2011-01-12 04:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tehrin, 2011-01-12 10:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]agent_hyatt, 2011-01-11 07:16 am UTC

[info]ecchaniz0r
2011-01-11 04:30 am UTC (link)
*sounds the *clueless privileged dood* alarm*

Come on, dude. Just come the fuck on. Think before you type and then think again before you post.

(If the bitch with giant impulse control problems out the yin-yang has to tell you this, you're in sad shape indeed.)

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(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2011-01-11 04:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kylenne, 2011-01-11 04:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ekaterinv, 2011-01-11 05:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]atropos_lee, 2011-01-11 10:39 am UTC

[info]fools_game
2011-01-11 05:37 am UTC (link)
Yes, because when I finished watching Megamind, I thought "Y'know what this movie could've used? Racial diversity!"

And because you didn't think it, it isn't a valid comment? Wow.

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[info]aaron_agonistes
2011-01-11 06:06 am UTC (link)
He probably also likes drums and watermelon, that doesn't make him a brotha.

Oh jesus christ, really?

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[info]rosehiptea
2011-01-11 06:37 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's pretty amazingly awful.

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[info]tehrin
2011-01-11 07:26 am UTC (link)
He can rock the bald look. He can have a soul patch without looking like a total dip. He likes big butts. He probably also likes drums and watermelon, that doesn't make him a brotha.

No. Just. No.

This is 2011. Not the 1970's people.

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[info]ekaterinv
2011-01-11 07:32 am UTC (link)
The watermelon thing made me think we'd been transported back to the 1920s.

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(no subject) - [info]tehrin, 2011-01-11 07:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ekaterinv, 2011-01-11 09:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bride_of_lister, 2011-01-12 11:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]fionnabhair, 2011-01-12 08:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bleurosez, 2011-01-13 08:32 pm UTC

[info]microclimate
2011-01-11 06:47 pm UTC (link)
He probably also likes drums and watermelon

oh

does this mean kirby is blacker than me

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2011-01-11 11:01 pm UTC (link)
Well, going on this bozo's fucked-up back-asswards stereotypes well thought-out criteria, I'm black and you're white.

Which is kind of a shock to me, given that last I looked I was pretty pasty-looking.

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[info]kelmendi
2011-01-11 07:34 pm UTC (link)
He can rock the bald look. He can have a soul patch without looking like a total dip. He likes big butts. He probably also likes drums and watermelon, that doesn't make him a brotha.

Lovely. La Folle Allure has a clone. Was he probably in a gang too?

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[info]seiberwing
2011-01-12 04:01 am UTC (link)
Well, he was raised in a prison, so it's possible...

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kittenwings
2011-01-11 08:53 pm UTC (link)
La la la la I'm just going to willfully ignore this wank because I love Megamind. <3

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[info]nymeria
2011-01-14 10:21 am UTC (link)
You don't seem to know how repulsive it is to accuse someone of racism,

my heart bleeds for her.

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