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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	freezer 2011-01-11 04:30 am UTC (link)
	Okay then. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snacky 2011-01-11 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	I have to say, I am enjoying your icon in the context of this thread. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	white_serpent 2011-01-12 01:45 am UTC (link)
	Seconding what snacky said. (I forget: why were you smiling?) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	freezer 2011-01-12 02:01 am UTC (link)
	Why? Wouldn't you like to know? (Real answer: Wedding photo [not mine]) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2011-01-12 04:19 am UTC (link)
	So, were you smiling out of a genuine sense of happiness for the couple, or schadenfreude? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2011-01-12 04:17 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't going to comment, I was just sitting back and watching, but yeah. I have to say, you do have a sense of irony. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tehrin 2011-01-12 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	There's more than one kind of privilage and there are ways that a person who doesn't have white privilage can support that institution, unknowingly or intentionally. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	agent_hyatt 2011-01-11 07:16 am UTC (link)
	21 is worse than just characters getting whitewashed, it's actual people. They even used the fact that they were Asian as a way to avoid suspicions of cheating the casinos. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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