well behaved women

First the Avatar casting.

Now THIS.

Dumbstruck with rage and offense. Wait, I'm over it. JUST. NO. Prince of Persia is hallowed. My dad used to play it when we were wee and up past our bed times and my sister and I would point and giggle while watching over his shoulder. We used to call it 'the dead game' because he died so much.

YOU DON'T FUCKING GET TO WHITEWASH PRINCE OF PERSIA. **in denial**

This never happened, you hear me?

Also, wtf is with Gambit not having Gambit-eyes? I knew the new X-men movie was going to fail, but jeez. And they're advertising the refridgeration of a female character, christ.

I KEEP ON LINKING TO THIS STUFF.

I think it's because...I can hardly believe it's actually happened. Like, who is stupid and infantile enough to pull this shit?

Who harasses someone and then tries to turn around and accuse their victim of it? Not only that, but inform the PoC involved in a discussion, (dissection included in this link) using unpleasant dehumanizing and patronizing language, that if they have money--and if they're on a computer at an ivy league school, obviously they have money--they aren't allowed to participate in a discussion involving race. Dear sweet god this woman is seriously loathesome like a rotting toadstool.

The quote: While her lizardoid minions were passing through my blog this afternoon, I took a whole bunch of screen shots. They go to Harvard. They go to Princeton. They go To Columbia. They go to NYU. They go to Oxford. They go to Cambridge. (I kept doing it until I got really bored.)

While surely some of those people are on full scholarship, it strikes me as highly unlikely that all of them are. It cost two hundred grand to get an undergrad degree at Harvard these days. Downtrodden? Yeah. Right. Suuuure . . .

delux_vivens

So wait.

Is she saying, is she really saying, that the people involved in this dont matter because there are a bunch of people watching this unfold from ivy league schools?

Is she so far out of the goddam loop but attached to her seething resentment of people who she thinks have more money than her that she's saying that because someone is reading this from an ivy league school's IP address, that they are automatically rich students?

Someone needs to tell me how the fuck I and my allies have to be "downtrodden" enough to the standards of this walking incarnation of everything that embodies why people of color will not participate in scifi to be able to talk about racism.

Someone needs to tell me how this woman and W*** SH***** get to decide whether or not I as a BLACK WOMAN IN AMERICA lead a life that is "downtrodden enough" for me to able to speak my mind about how racism affects me, my family, and my community.

Oh wait. THEY DONT.

And from coffeeandink

...I wish to also point out what they probably felt was too obvious to say, which is that referring to people of color as "lizardoid minions" participates in a long history of racist imagery that debases people of color by referring to them as animals, as well as a long history of racist conviction that people of color must be "minions" or "followers"; that they cannot address their own oppression, or indeed anything about their own lives, without the assistance of white people.

Further dissection of that quote

And who on earth threatens people on a professional level (scroll down) because her husband is disagreed with and his tender ego can't handle it?

The sheer childishness of all of these actions astounds me, especially coming as they are from professionals in the field. I am left reeling and filled with contempt and horror that people still behave like this; that people can still think like this. Exposure to the internet has taught me that anonymity seems to encourage pronounced unpleasantness in a certain class of people, but these people are insisting on lack of anonymity, telling me they are proud of the horrors they disgorge and encourage.

This leaves me shaken and a little scared.