#Underrepresented Groups

[nadjasnandor]

@ anyone who needs to hear this 🙏

[philsmeatylegss]

I will never fear undocumented immigrants anywhere near as much as I fear Republican law makers. And that is something that will never change.

[clay-pidgeon]

virtue ref! holds up peace sign does the catgirl head tilt and falls dead to the floor

[snobgoblin]

I wanna draw him shirtless for his swimsuit but tumblr might nuke me off the face of the planet if i do that (he's trans)

[the-physicality]

oh i'll say one more thing [i haven't weighed in really bc it's too messy] but it would be a really shitty thing to do to put someone who has barely started their general management career into the shitshow that is currently pwhl minnesota... especially if someone like darwitz wasn't respected [from what i've read]

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

Uh wait I just realized the number of characters in this (Moth Wizard's) universe who are not Jewish is currently zero... Well, depending on what I end up making the Cool Character™ be but like they are the only one who is even potentially not Jewish. All other characters are very explicitly Jewish as an important part of their character. I didn't even notice and like I didn't plan to make everyone Jewish I was gonna make it culturally diverse. I still will obviously, I have like a hundred characters to go before it might get crowded, but wow all of them are just Jewish so far huh? Actually. All of them are basically orthodox too. Wild. I mean I know why but. Still.

[musical-chick-13]

I hate to tell you this, but many gays also love Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. (A musical show about discovering your identity and the negative effects of internalizing harmful societal ideas about relationships, which also has canonically queer characters in it.)

[tormentfraud]

oh the women of league of legends. everything to me.

[blackcandlesinwinter]

It's really unfortunate how a lot of folks' opinions about stereotypes in media representation have turned out. Like, it's good that we've come around to (mostly) realizing that it's shitty to only portray underrepresented people as stereotypes. But the message a lot of folks seem to have taken from this is that it's regressive to portray a certain type of person at all.

Like we shouldn't portray this Black character as speaking ebonics because that's a stereotype, we shouldn't portray this gay character as flamboyant because that's a stereotype, we shouldn't portray this Hispanic character as having a large family because that's a stereotype, we shouldn't portray this trans woman as being tall or broad-shouldered because that's a stereotype, we shouldn't portray this Jewish woman as having a large nose because that's a stereotype, etc etc. And I'm not going to claim for every individual case whether this is the right call or not because I'm sure it varies from situation to situation and in some cases it's not my lane. But taken as a whole, I feel like there's a trend towards adding "diversity" at the surface level, while simultaneously homogenizing the portrayals of different people to all be in line with white, middle-class, cis/straight, conventionally-attractive ideals.

And, you know, mainstream corporate art is never where I'm expecting to see the most revolutionary portrayals of humanity - there's other stuff out there, so it's not the end of the world. What's more disheartening is that a lot of the folks pushing for more representation in media seem to have bought fully into this paradigm. So I see many smaller, more daring works of art get torn apart over accusations that the portrayals of underrepresented people are "stereotypes" and "regressive", while praise gets lavished on mega-corporate media for its homogenized, maximally-palatable characters. And those portrayals aren't always bad; sometimes they're good! But it's a bummer that characters who look like and live like and sound like a lot of real people that I know and love are seem to be considered unworthy of representation by the very folks ostensibly clamoring for more representation.

[wordsmithic]

I love the idea that men can't talk about their feelings because if you've ever met a man as a woman you know they'll just treat you like their personal therapist with absolutely no regard for how that makes you feel

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We are often asked if multiple ink colors can be used on a single impression. In this video, Jared letterpress prints a phrase about museums showing that 6 ink colors is possible. The phrase “Museums are not neutral” was printed with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple ink using our Washington hand press. The wood type used is 15 line pica in size and the typeface is French Clarendon.

Our museum, like all museums, is not neutral. People often argue that museums should be neutral or that museums can’t be “political.” However, museums actually are cultural institutions that originate from colonial acquisition and they are about power. History is often written by the victors. It is important for museums to focus on multiple sources and perspectives, especially historically underrepresented groups. Promoting diversity is important to understanding a more holistic history of events.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

atheism as an opressed minority is the whitest attempt to pretend you are white and opressed I have ever seen in my entire black ass life

Mhm. Like fucking clockwork lmao.

1) I'm neither white nor an atheist. But sure, me calling atheists a religious minority is me pretending I'm white and oppressed.

2) I didn't use the word "oppressed", I just said "religious minority", but since you want to go there, sure let's go there.

There is no single religious affiliation that is as widely regarded as "political suicide" in the U.S. as openly identifying as an atheist, they're one of the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. government and most of the few atheist politicians that have held any political office in the U.S. have only openly come out as such either after the fact or late into their term, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to be elected in the first place.

A 2014 study by the university of Minnesota on social prejudice against atheists found that 42% of respondents characterized atheists a group of people who "didn't agree with [their] vision of american society" and that 44% of respondents wouldn't agree with their child marrying an atheists.

And also, despite the fact that these have been later ruled to be unenforceable, it's still incredibly telling that there are currently seven U.S States whose constitutions try to explicitly ban atheists from holding public office.

Notice how most of these are worded specifically so that you're not banned as long as you believe in ANY God or "supreme being", so it's not even an attempt at discrimination against non-christians in general, but specifically against atheists and other nonbelievers.

This is an uncharacteristically US-centric post of me but let's be real this ask is written in such an aggressively american way (e.g. immediately conflating "atheist" with "white" and implicitly treating U.S. racial dynamics as universal) so I know your yankee ass isn't gonna give a shit if I talk about how e.g. a 2009 survey found atheists to be one of the most openly hated demographic groups in Brazil, or how in several countries being openly atheist is straight-up punishable by the death penalty.

[elitisim]

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Day 9's gift of [ELITISIM'S 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS ADVENT EXTRAVAGANZA!] is an act of charity. I'm making a much-needed contribution to the most underrepresented group in the entire sims custom content community: the poor, neglected, young adult females 😔. As always, the numbers are suggestions, not rules, so today you're getting WAYY more than 9 items for ladies because I have a shit ton of stuff just kicking around on my computer, collecting dust. Like, I think I converted one of these skirts during lockdown, it's that old.

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[genderkoolaid]

The report titled Unseen Battle claimed that “within the worldwide rights movement of the transgender community, it is seen that the visibility and the representation of transgender male community is comparatively lower to the transgender female community. Sri Lanka is not immune to this phenomenon. It is seen that the transgender male community shows reluctance in identifying themselves as ‘transgender male’. This also reflects on their participation in the common platforms created for the LGBTIQ+ community in Sri Lanka. This has immensely contributed in creating a void of the transgender male community within the LGBTIQ+ movement in Sri Lanka.” Instead of taking this claim for granted, it is worth critically looking at it to demystify several widely held beliefs concerning transgender men and their involvement with the transgender movement. When this assertion is being considered at face value, it seems accurate to conclude that transgender men experience a lack of visibility and their representation may be less common in comparison to that of transgender women. But the report overlooks the fact that meaningful involvement is not synonymous with omnipresent visibility or representation. Taking into account the Sri Lankan context, transgender males have contributed significantly to the LGBTIQ+ rights movement and that contribution is something that should not be trivialised. Transgender men have given their blood, sweat and tears to build the transgender rights movement in this country. This can be substantiated by both forgotten and unforgotten individuals who were involved in initiating the transgender movement. For example, the organising of transgender individuals goes back to 2002/3 and it was transgender men who first formed an informal group in Kandy, which eventually evolved into some of the current transgender rights organisations that we find today. This group of transgender men took the first step to negotiate with the country’s state medical establishment to set up transgender clinics at a time when the mere term transgender was simply alien and unheard of. One of this network’s most prominent founding members was Thenu Ranketh; along with S. Silva and a few others, they went on to establish the first ever transgender rights organisation in the country, Venasa Transgender Network. These transgender male activists also played an instrumental role in bringing the Gender Recognition Certificate into effect in 2016. It is a pity that many research reports written on the transgender community that claim to be giving a voice to an underrepresented community deliberately turn a blind eye to the history that is worth bringing to the fore.

It is evident in this kind of report that the history of the transgender rights movement and the contribution of transgender men to it has not been sufficiently documented but rather has been erased. Unfortunately, it shows that the narratives of the transgender rights movement and the contribution of transgender males to it have largely been erased and distorted at the hands of those at Colombo-based NGOs that work for LGBTIQ+ rights. They continue to hold the power to control the narratives of the transgender community. The Unseen Battle report forgets to explain why, despite the transgender male community forming autonomous groups as early as 2002/3 – long before some other groups started organising – its visibility and representation remain relatively low unlike some other groups within the LGBTIQ+ community. Therefore how fair is it to say that the transgender male community shows reluctance to identify themselves as transgender male without referring to circumstances that make their visibility and representation marginalised in the context of LGBTIQ+ rights activism? The situation analysis did not probe into what might have been the causes of marginalisation faced by transgender men or circumstances that keep them on the periphery. In talking about the low representation and marginalisation faced by transgender men, one cannot and should not ignore the factors that caused that marginalisation in the first place.

[ftmtftm]

To me saying something like:

"there are no camab intersex men claiming to be trans men/trans mascs like there are cafab intersex women claiming to be trans women/trans fems"

is on par with saying things like:

"there are no she/her gay men trying to claim gay identity like there are he/him lesbians trying to claim lesbian identity"

because it's just simply an untrue statement that is based on the assumption that just because you personally don't see something, it's not real.

All it tells me that you don't seek out interactions with intersex and nonbinary people who are legitimately marginalized / underrepresented in these conversations about the complexities of ones own identity, because they do, in fact, actually exist.

If you find yourself saying something that echos the phrasing of "[ W group of people ] doing [ X ] don't exist and therefore [ Y group of people ] doing [ Z ] are wrong/dangerous/harmful/etc." I think maybe you should stop and examine any potential biases and environmental factors in your own life that lead you to believe that [ W group of people ] don't exist / couldn't possibly exist in the first place.

Especially if we're discussing otherwise good faith self identification.

Lead with curiosity. Don't assume or project potential harm without first examining your own biases and fears. We live in a culture that shuts down curiosity about any kind of "other" and primes you to assume that difference is a threat to your safety rather than a potential source of solidarity. You are not immune from that socialization even as a queer person, and are especially susceptible to it if you are white. Be vigilant of it. Be open to others. Stop assuming malicious intent to harm when people are seeking out language to define their experiences and try to listen first instead.

[gremlingirlsmell]

transmisogynists when they see cold hard data about how underrepresented tma people are: okay but what if we fudge the data, we need to cut out "overrepresented" groups, and redefine what tma means and... voila! see? no transmisogyny, honey :)))