#lightskin men

[theereina]

IG: lightskinkeisha & IG: cocavango

[purgatoire-noir]

so i’ve dyed my hair, beard, moustache, and eyebrows copper…

i’ve always wanted to be a black ginger… who knew it would look so natural

[g0ldgauntlet]

Being a Genshin Impact Fan is Embarrassing.

First, CW for grooming. This is about Diluc's English voice actor.

If you still would like to read further, proceed below. (Image description is in alt text)

So, more people are finding out about Sean Chiplock having tried to groom a minor. His victim also spoke out against him yesterday (at the time of making this post). Sean has not denied any of these claims when attempting to talk to the victim.

Am I surprised about Sean being a weirdo? No, not in the slightest. He has always been weird about minors and unprofessional around them, and it's frustrating that people constantly kept giving him passes because he's "trying to get a reaction out of people."

No, Sean doesn't get a pass for making a sexual joke about Sayu.

Sean does not get a pass for telling a kid to "send proof of ID" with suggestive intentions behind that response just because they insulted him online.

Sean does not get a pass for constantly arguing with kids on the internet just because they don't like him.

Sean, you are a grown ass man. You can block and ignore these people at any time. Clearly they must have struck a nerve if you were willing to double down on this behavior for so long until you finally got caught for what you did to Casper.

Again, though, I'm not surprised. This is the same person who shamed the victims of Tighnari's ex-voice actor because Sean deemed them to be attention-seekers.

Birds of a feather flock together. (He backpedaled and deleted this tweet later, likely because he knew how poorly this reflected on him.)

This fandom's priorities with protecting weird white/lightskinned influencers and creators until it's too late to take that back - all the while bullying brown/other marginalized people at the same time - has infuriated me since day 1 of when I played Genshin. I watched creators and influencers of color in this fandom be harassed, driven off of platforms, and sent threats because they made a joke in relation to an artwork (Layla's VA),

sided with their gay friend who voiced their opinions about BL content (Candace's VA), or said negative opinions about two characters who the fandom knows are controversial (ttunaartt), yet Sean can get a pass.

Do not defend Sean Chiplock. Please send your support to Casper, his victim.

[nine1killa]

#ebony #blacktumblr #handsome #model #modeling #sexy #lightskin

[robotpussy]

this could go horribly wrong

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Seeing the black women aren’t women because white supremacy doesn’t view us as women takes circulating on social media again. I’m just going to say this

White supremacy doesn’t view black people as human either. It views us as monkeys and animals. So should the black community include monkeys as well?

Why does white supremacy dictate black peoples identity to this extreme? Even other nations in Africa that were colonized by white people don’t view themselves this way.

Why do black men get to keep their manhood but black women’s womanhood is stripped? White supremacy emasculates black men too, so why are black men still viewed as men?

Picking and choosing white supremacy rhetoric to fit your viewpoints is not going to turn out well for you.

I feel like this needs to be said for some black women, but attraction≠womanhood. Just because a white person isn’t attracted to you, doesn’t mean you’re less of a woman.

Just because YOU don’t feel like a woman because of white people, doesn’t mean you need to make other black women as genderless or masculine as you.

[yoursonlucifer]

yesterday I was in the tag for Certain Characters and some of the fanart was like. ok I'm gonna need you to go ahead and google a black person. mmhmm yep just go ahead and type that in the search bar. because what.

[lil-rhodey]

IG - @Lil_Rhodey

[papirouge]

those mixed female rappers would literally DIE if darkskin female rapper went off at them calling them "beige" and not like [them] - please spare us 🥀

[purgatoire-noir]

T R A U M A

an inheritance; without evidence or receipt

of the root. // yet I feel it grows deep.

the subtle unrest.

a hunger without sleep.

if I plead for the strength to reap//

and wade through waters where peace may seep….

~~ who would wash me anew? ~~

[tariah23]

Not Suge Knight of ALL people acting as if he’s mr. morales himself 😭… Lord-

[blueiight]

the thing about modeling is that ppl rarely talk about the exploitation dark skin african models go thru (shaving their heads bc the industry doesnt wanna style their hair, being sexually + racially abused by photographers and higher ups in the industry, the very idea of scoping out african countries for models). its like theyre more disgusted at the mere thought of dark skin women being seen as beautiful than actual concern for the individual models. ive seen them repeatedly perpetuate the myth that women being dark skin is ‘otherworldly’ & that being dark skin is unique to men when theres women in my family and women ik throughout my life who are indeed that dark in real life.

[mod-k]

The Boys

[dayamore]

I’m back in my tumblr h8t era this is so cunt

[reggiecristal]

The way every man here but Dev is at least half white…the genre is Touch of Brown (TM), beloved.

[writingwithcolor]

Desi Parenthood, Adoption, and Stereotypes

I have a story set in the modern day with supernatural traces, with three characters: a young boy, his bio dad, and his adoptive dad. The boy and his bio dad are Indian, the adoptive dad is Chinese. The bio dad is one of the few people in the story with powers. He put his son up for adoption when he was a child because at the time he was a young single father, had little control of the strength of his powers: he feared accidentally hurting his child. The son is adopted by the other dad, who holds spite to the bio dad for giving up his son since he lost his father as a young age and couldn't get why someone would willingly abandon their child. This also results in him being overprotective and strict over his son. When the child is older, the bio dad comes to their town and the son gets closer to him, which makes the adoptive dad pissed, mostly acting hostile to the other guy, paranoid that he'll decide to take away the child he didn't help raise. Later when they get closer he does change his biases. I can see the possible stereotypes here: the absent father being the darkskinned character, the light-skinned adoptive dad being richer than the bio dad, the lightskinned character being hostile and looking down on the darkskinned character, the overprotective asian parent, the adoptive dad assuming the bio dad abandoned the son. The reason for his bias isn't inherently racist, but I get how it can be seen that way. Is there a way to make this work? Would it be better to scrap it?

Two problem areas stand out with this ask: 

You seem confused with respect to how racial stereotypes are created, and what effect they have on society.

Your characterization of the Indian father suggests a lack of familiarity with many desi cultures as they pertain to family and child-rearing.

Racial Stereotypes are Specific

Your concern seems to stem from believing the absent father trope is applied to all dark-skinned individuals, when it’s really only applied to a subset of dark-skinned people for specific historical/ social/ political reasons. The reality is stereotypes are often targeted.

The “absent father” stereotype is often applied to Black fathers, particularly in countries where chattel slavery or colonialism meant that many Black fathers were separated from their children, often by force. The "absent black father" trope today serves to enforce anti-black notions of Black men as anti-social, neglectful of their responsibilities, not nurturing, etc. Please see the WWC tag #absent black father for further reading. 

Now, it’s true many desis have dark skin. There are also Black desis. I would go as far as to say despite anti-black bias and colorism in many desi cultures, if one was asked to tell many non-Black desis from places like S. India and Sri Lanka apart from Black people from places like E. Africa, the rate of failure would be quite high. However, negative stereotypes for desi fathers are not the same as negative stereotypes for non-desi Black fathers, because racially, most Black people and desis are often not perceived as being part of the same racial group by other racial groups, particularly white majorities in Western countries. Negative stereotypes for desi fathers are often things like: uncaring, socially regressive/ conservative, sexist. They are more focused around narratives that portray these men as at odds with Western culture and Western norms of parenting. 

Desi Parents are Not this Way

Secondly, the setup makes little sense given how actual desi families tend to operate when one or both parents are unable to be present for whatever reason. Children are often sent to be raised by grandparents, available relatives or boarding schools (Family resources permitting). Having children be raised by an outsider is a move of last resort. You make no mention of why your protagonist’s father didn’t choose such an option. The trope of many desi family networks being incredibly large is not unfounded. Why was extended family not an option?

These two points trouble me because you have told us you are writing a story involving relationship dynamics between characters of both different races and ethnicities. I’m worried you don’t know enough about the groups you are writing about, how they are perceived by each other and society at large in order to tell the story you want to tell.

As with many instances of writing with color, your problem is not an issue of scrap versus don’t scrap. It’s being cognizant of the current limits of your knowledge. How you address this knowledge deficit and its effect on your interpretation of your characters and the story overall will determine if readers from the portrayed groups find the story compelling.

- Marika.

I have one response: what? Where are the father’s parents? Any siblings? Is he cut off? Is he American? A Desi that has stayed in India? 

Estrangement is not completely out of the question if the father is Westernized; goodness knows that I have personal experience with seeing estrangement. But you haven’t established any of that. What will you add?

-Jaya