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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]freezer
2011-01-11 04:38 am UTC (link)
Man of privilege, that's me. Yup.

Or perhaps when I see the people seriously discussing the racial overtones of a blue-skinned alien with a giant skull squaring off with someone who really REALLY should've have left it at "I don't see it that way.".. I LOL at the whole thing.

Then again, I think the whole discussion is on the same level as those who complain that there's no POCs in Mad Men.

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[info]kylenne
2011-01-11 04:39 am UTC (link)
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/12/21/and-we-shall-call-this-moffs-law/

I'll just leave that right there for you.

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[info]ekaterinv
2011-01-11 05:07 am UTC (link)
*bookmarked*

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[info]atropos_lee
2011-01-11 10:39 am UTC (link)
So - why aren't the handful of POC in Mad Men afforded the same attention backstory, homelife and character arcs as other marginalised groups in 60s society.

How come Sal, and Peggy, Faye, etc exist as rounded, flawed characters, while Carla and Toni exist only to highlight Betty's epic fail, Sally's angst or Lane's rebellion against parental abuse?

And don't give me "there were no African Americans in advertising". The Clio statuette which played such a big role in the last season of Mad Men was designed by an African American Art Director and VP at McCann-Erickson - George Olden.

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