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starlooove · 2 years ago

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You could just look at her 💀💀💀

Siobhan isn't white. She's biracial. Calling her the token white girl is just straight-out incorrect.

Oh. Both Lane and Irmgard look white to me. I figured Lane was a sendup of Donald Trump, with his fake tan and fake hairfloof. Did the writers do an interview somewhere saying Lane wasn't white?

Because, if they did not, then the idea that Siobhan is white isn't "straight-out incorrect." It's a canon-compatible idea that doesn't happen to match yours.

Now are you allowed to think that Siobhan's biracial? Absolutely. The movie never says she's not. You'd even be allowed to think that even if the movie did say she wasn't. It's called headcanon. ("Hey you know what gives this movie more depth for me? If Peter Parker were a trans boy/if Superman flies around rescuing people because he's got anxiety/if Bruce Wayne were biracial" or "Eh, Mary Bennett just feels ace to me, you know?") Fiction is meant to be fun and enlightening, so do what works for you.

However, if what you want to do is convince other people that Siobhan is meant to be biracial in canon, you've got an uphill trek because she's portrayed in a way that's usually applied to white characters. The movie's about a famously racist system, the school-to-prison pipeline, and movies about that kind of thing tend to pick white antagonists. In this movie, that's Siobhan's parents. One of them is pale with a Scandinavian first name and the other is portrayed as a parody of a specific real-life white dude. Siobhan's also clueless about why giving a black kid a nickname without permission is bad and other things that rich white kids are usually clueless about.

But I could be wrong. Maybe all that coding was for artistic effect. If Key and Peele did an interview or an article, and they said Siobhan's biracial, then I want to read that article. You got a link?

NOTE: This post has been updated with a response from the asker.

#do y’all rlly not know what black ppl look like #the school to prison pipeline storyline tending to pick white antagonists is true but like in this movie specifically #black people and the black experience are centered #there THOUSANDS of black people just like her that’s like the point #she is subverting stereotypes not just in her turning out to actually be kind at the end but in the fact that her father is a black #capitalist.#comparing the removal of facets of her character that add to her identity to making Peter Parker trans is insane but also white asf #siobahn being clueless about common things in the black experience is due to the intersection of her class and having a white mother and #self hating father. the hair isn’t just an allusion to trump it’s about black men who hate themselves and their culture too #its a point that most white Ppl wouldn’t understand #and Im kinda glad y’all don’t bc y’all using any excuse to undermine communal ties but that’s a different convo #anyways yeah siobahn being black is judt another representation of a black experience #and it actually adds to the story that she saw another black girl being treated that way #and went from tone policing to getting it #it’s not a white storyline unless you’re white and relating lmao #and I’ve been saying this from when I first saw it #making siobahn and her dad look like Nicki and trump was funny but it made ppls brains turn off when it came to analysis #OMG THE fact that siobahn specifically looks like Nicki and acts the way she does?#don’t want the barbs to come for me but it makes sense lmao #anyways please shut the fuck up you don’t know what ur talking about #‘can I get a link’ suck my dick and LOOK with ur eyes tf 😭

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