oh *fandom*

[mimesere]

sometimes you make me want to cry. and/or punch people.

but hey! On the other hand, now I totally know who to avoid in fandom! So...that's a plus. *tries to look on the bright side*

(god, it JUST KEEPS GOING and horrifies me more and more).

ETA: the posts in question
In which Teyla and Ronon are white! No, really! - I swear, the more I hear about race relations in, um, England/Ireland/Wales/Scotland/what-have-you, the less likely I am to ever ever go there.

and!

In which the reason there's not more fic about characters of color is because they are not leads! or not hot enough! or interesting enough! Because when they *are*, there's a lot of fic! No, really!

Comments

[brigid31.livejournal.com]

I have a friend from Argentina who did say that in South America it would be odd to classify people like Jennifer Beals as black because people aren't socialized to think of light skinned black people as black. So I accept it but that does not excuse Americans making that claim. The sheer amount of things you would have to ignore. The mind boggles.