I will forever want justice for every female character who was demonized by fandom because their canon ties to a male character was deemed a threat to a popular slash pairing. 

I will forever want justice for every female character who was demonized by fandom because their canon ties to a male character was deemed a threat to a popular slash pairing. 

Dear fandom,

It is ALWAYS about race.

No matter how you twist it, fandom’s collective and constant dislike of characters of color (especially if they’re in relationships/shippes with white male characters) for some reason you “just can’t put your finger on” is directly related to race.

Your race.

Their race.

Race.

From “Iris and Barry are like siblings” despite him being in love with her his whole life to “Sam Wilson would be a more realistic Hydra agent than Tony Stark” to “Lucy Liu doesn’t look like she has the emotional range to play Watson” to “I don’t hate Finn because he’s black, I just think he’s a boring character”, it’s all so very clearly about race and fandom’s issues with it.

If y'all would admit that instead of clinging to every ninny who writes a post about how people who call out fandom’s racism are sjw bullies using buzzwords and coopting language/terms (that um, btw, WE CREATED), maybe we wouldn’t have this problem every time a fan of color goes “hey, this thing fandom does is racist”.

For once fandom, maybe consider listening to fans of color who have issues with the way they and characters that look like them are treated by fandom.

Please.

A very fed up fan

Ok while there is also problems with in Fandoms in how they treat characters of color or how they think of them, but there is also a problem with how writers present the characters which is equally bad. A lot of these characters can be dismissed as boring because of the way they are written. Both people are bad but don’t just blame fans for not liking the character

Look, you clearly came into this conversation from a position where you don’t have to see what fandom does to characters of color. Where you don’t see the erasure.

Every single character of color fandom dismisses is not “more boring” than the white character that fandom rushes to replace them with. That’s an excuse that y'all use to excuse focusing on white dudes all the time and it is TIRED.

Because for people like you, it’s all about offsetting the blame.

You say stuff like “fandom has a race problem, BUT,” and then give a list of reasons why fans of color shouldn’t be livid about the way characters of color are treated.

It’s not the writers’ fault that fandom refuses to flesh main characters of color put the way they do minor white characters.

That’s on y'all.

Because you all choose to a) ignore and erase characters of color in your fanworks; b) not lift up the voices of fans calling for more introspection on the way these characters of color are treated; and c) develop white characters with bit parts and then say that the narrative made them interesting while not making the effort for characters of color.

Look, some of the white characters fandom latches onto weren’t even actual characters. Because y'all find whiteness and white dudes interesting and exciting all the time.

Fandom gave Clint and Coulson personalities and characterization before the MCU did.

They were building up Darcy, who has never met any of the avengers she’s shipped with, from day one.

They will sooner pick some random white dude out of a crowd and give him an absolutely manufactured backstory that places him in relation to their white dude faves, than have him interact with a person of color.

I’ve been in fandom a good, long time. I know the way things work and this thing about “not wanting to focus on charactera of color because the writers make them boring” is bullshit. Because boring, unfleshed out backstories don’t matter when there are white dudes involved, only POC.

Mind you, when we get the rare fleshed out villain of color or antihero, fandom rushes to say that they don’t want to ship them with their white faves because they’re dangerous or some crap like that.

So y'all keep switching your reasons as to why it’s okay that poc are erased in fandom spaces. First we’re boring, then we’re too aggressive, now, white authors claim that they are ~too afraid of criticism~ to write characters they weren’t writing in the first place.

Also: if you came out of SWTFA and decided that the space N azi with like a dozen lines (half of them propaganda and the other half snitching on Kylo Ren) was more interesting than Finn or Poe, damn straight there’s major racism at play. Because he isn’t more interesting. Not by a long shot. He’s basically a bitchy , baby Grand Moff Tarkin…

Instead of coming into a post to repeat tired excuses white fans have been giving to explain away their erasure of characters of color for YEARS, maybe you should’ve considered doing some research and listening to what people of color are saying about this and about how fandom makes them uncomfortable when it comes to race and racism??