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!

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[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time the "If there were more interesting COCs, I would write them!" argument was trotted out in front of me and I went *ballistic*. Because it takes a pretty spectacular set of blinders on to dismiss the entire literary and media history of characters of color and to say that *every one of them* is boring.

It makes me insane.