to re-state: diversity isn’t bad. what is bad is how diversity is presented. if you have a cast of characters in a show, game, book, or movie whos only characteristic is to be a label or mascot (IE “heres our BLACK character! theyre BLACK! they like [insert a bunch of racial stereotypes here]!”) then it strips the characters in question of any substance and, surprise, does nothing of value for the minority being represented.

shit from the 80s was notorious for this kind of BS and youll notice how this trend of having “diverse” characters has come back in swing. can any of you guys name anything of any particular substance to these characters (even if they have literal labels next to the character telling you what their interests are?)

if your descriptions for these characters all kind of sound the same “oh uhh Quami was the nice guy, and uhh, lingo was the nice guy, and uhhh–” then congratulations, you’re reaching for substance where their is none. these dopes were created to appeal to a broad audience to sell you fuckin’ burgers and toys.

want some more modern examples of this sort of shallow nonsense? ok.

heres generation zed. youd think its creation would be to shed some light on minority representation. it instead serves as a publicity stunt for the red-headed chick who has been trying to make it as a comedian, and failing miserably.

heres questionable content, one of the most popular webcomics to date. if you think for a moment any of these characters have any sort of substance to them outside of their minority status or mental-problem-of-the-week, youd be hilariously wrong! but lets be fair; the comic wasnt ALWAYS like this. it actually used to be a comic with substance to its characters that didnt revolve around how fat/gay/black/transgender/OCD-riddled they were.

and you know whats worse about the modern form of diversity pandering? some of you idiots dont think youre being pandered to, or even consider it a problem. but look closely as to how you see things “advertised” around tumblr and stop to consider the language being used to push a product.

remember when HOME was released? remember how tumblr was gushing its collective panties over this movie and when asked what it was even about, nobody could even think of anything to say about it other than that “it’s got a BLACK girl in it. LOOK AT HER HAIR LOOK AT HOW THEY RENDERED HER HAIR”

the movie wasn’t that good, for starters, but that aside, TIP (the BLACK GIRLs name?) was a character with (some) substance in the movie. you wouldnt have fuckin’ guessed it by the way shitheads on this site talked about it, because all they could ever talk about was how BLACK she was. who the FUCK cares if shes black or not? is there anything else to her character BESIDES that?

the same fuckin’ thing happened with annie. tumblr shit its collective pants over this movie because the only defining traits they could give to it were, “ANNIES BLACK DADDY WARBUCKS IS BLACK AND ANNIES HAIR IS NATURAL”

nevermind the fact that the story of annie is considered a classic and all (its about a “hardened” orphan girl desperate to find her parents, living in an orphanarium run by a crazy drunk who hates children, who is taken in by a rich guy who doesn’t like children at first but eventually warms up to annie… look. i think you all know it by now)

no, what tumblr took away from this 2014 incarnation of annie was simply that there was a black girl playing annie. PS: the movie tanked anyway for being a shallow, shitty re-creation of the original.

life is strange is ANOTHER piece of media whos only defining quality that i ever hear about it (and i know NOTHING about this series outside of how tumblr talks about it) is that its got two LESBIANNNNNSSS as the main cast? i bet theres more to this game than just LESBIANNNNSSS, but fuck me if i know. i wouldnt have guessed.

and now we have steven universe, a show that while i dont consider it to have much going for it, does to most other people. HOWEVER, the way this show gets talked about around here? youd think the only thing about it was that its a show full of–you guessed it– (black!not black!) lesbian rocks from outer space

what am i trying to prove here with this post, you wonder? that i hate minorities and minority representation? FUCKING NO, YOU IDIOT. what i hate and what other people who agree with me on this hate is having limp, shallow representations of minorities being touted around as things that all creative entities should ASPIRE to. the first half of this post isnt “good representation” for minorities, and the way some of you fucks talk about minority representation is borderline fetishistic/bigoted as fuck–yeah, those two words can exist in the same sentence. the second half of this post serves to highlight how you all view minority representation which, SURPRISE, is fetishistic and bigoted as fuck.





BASICALLY, tumblr is stormy and yall are dumb as fuck