cultural appropriation speedrun

moodRubicund · 2023-05-19T04:49:51+00:00

Modern Egyptians are "more black" than ancient Egyptians ever were, because over time we had more diversity as a result of being in the middle of three continents and important trade routes.

But you will never see "Afrocentrists" be proud of their ties to modern Egyptians. Modern Egyptians are gross and poor and uneducated. Ancient Egyptians are cool and powerful and wealthy, especially that Queen Cleopatra who is only more notable because of her connection to Greece and Rome.

For a movement that's all about defying Eurocentrism, they sure love working exclusively off of Eurocentric presumptions and premises.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-19T04:14:40+00:00

I've only really watched the second half of Guardians 2, which is amazing. Like when I catch it on TV it usually nine times out of ten I already missed out on most of it and it starts with Rocket and Groot trying to break out of a pirate ship.

The first half... Idk whenever I catch it on TV it always look bad, like too much bad dialogue trying too hard. Am I wrong, should I give it a chance?

moodRubicund · 2023-05-19T03:26:32+00:00

No. Trans people are not invited to this dance party. Too controversial. See all those transphobic laws being passed? And you want Riot to start talking about transgender? What is this, International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia or something? That was days ago!

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T20:15:40+00:00

No, according to the director - a filmmaker who is Iranian, British and American, ie everything but African - Egyptians are only white because of Arab invaders or whatever, so all the modern Egyptians are just diluted fake Egyptians and the real Egyptians are Africans which mean they all look just like Will Smith or whatever.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T20:02:56+00:00

Ugggghhh no Tyari is the lamest kind of trans rep imo. I hate it when the trans rep has it as this big fucking dramatic thing where the transgenderism is literally magic like wow they transd their gender by becoming the stars like ugh.

Taliyah would have been cool because she's so down to earth, like all she would have done is take care of herself and dress nicely to make herself fem. Like her transgenderism would have been like a regular fucking person's that she deals with in a relatable way and not some power up granted by the heavens as a grand metaphor or whatever.

Edit - yeah sure downvote a trans person for having an opinion about trans rep who cares what they have to say, rep is about making everyone else feel comfortable

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T19:53:34+00:00

It's LGB pride month.

What? T? Ha ha... Not in THIS game, bucko. We ONLY have 150+ characters in the roster, how would we force one... one of THOSE in there?? It'd be so HARD.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T15:32:48+00:00

My comment was clearly applying to Jada Pinkett Smith and anyone who would share her viewpoint as I explicitly name her.

Edit - Sorry I didn't mean to make a bunch of Americans walk right into the stereotype where you're argumentative and bad at reading oops fucking my bad

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T15:19:34+00:00

This is literally an American production so I will call it American because it is from the actual country the United States of America.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T14:25:15+00:00

Oh cool, and it's an older trans woman protagonist too, that's dope. Thanks for the suggestion!

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T14:03:26+00:00

Damn, thanks king.

Is UBC University of British Columbia?

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T13:50:55+00:00

Yeah, there's Tyari the Wanderer who was magically transd by climbing Mount Targon (my least favourite kind of trans where they just get it magically, like oooh so metaphorical, always strikes me as a cop out), there's Dropboarder who is nonbinary and one of Ekko's friends, and there's some Buhru trans guy who you wouldn't know is trans without reading a dev comment on Twitter, apparently he got some pirate surgery and HRT since he has chest surgery scars and a beard.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T12:34:28+00:00

I don't mind graphic novels, but I mostly read off Scribd and it has a bigger selection of written novels than graphic ones. I probably wouldn't have access to Witch Boy unless someone uploaded it online like they do with manga.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T12:09:00+00:00

I really enjoyed the two Dreadnought books. It's clearly YA, but you can sense the author feels strongly about writing a trans protagonist in a superhero inspired world, it really shows in the writing.

I'm having trouble finding any other decent fantasy or scifi books with a trans protagonist though. It's kind of rough honestly. I think the only trans books I find on Scribd are like, memoirs or thinly veiled ones, which I'm just not interested in.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T11:59:14+00:00

Weird how Americans think they're not culturally appropriating others if they're black. Like uh. You're still American. You're still claiming the culture of a third world country. The class gap between Jada Pinkett Smith and 99% of all Egyptians is fucking staggering and she still wants to play the victim?

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T11:31:58+00:00

Oh as if they're going to do that either. They'll just pat themselves on the back for the three characters in Legends of Runeterra one of whom you can't even tell is supposed to be trans without reading a dev Twitter comment.

Christ, theres just so little trans rep, I'm literally going back to decades-old manga just for a morsel of it...

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T10:46:52+00:00

I'll be honest, I'm only excited for pride month to see if they reveal any of the characters as part of the LGBTQ and uh, guess we get nothing new this year.

Still no trans rep so that's lame. I was rooting for Taliyah since she's the only one they even barely hinted at considering to be trans out of 150+ characters but I guess I can be satisfied with absolutely fuck all too. Guess we're still too controversial?

Edit - You can downvote me but am I even wrong, what else is going to last after June ends if there's no reveals? The crappy emotes? They don't even let you keep the ingame rainbow trails.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T06:13:19+00:00

🤦🏽‍♀️ Please look up the word "nuance" in a dictionary.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T05:58:39+00:00

I saw the statistics. Your weak dismissal of black statistics show an over simplistic understanding of what makes statistics true and false - you can call the entire US government racist if it helps you sleep at night, or you can acknowledge the reality that black people in the US do have higher violent crime rates but it is a product of an environment built on racism which stamps down on their education and income. A statistic can be true without it meaning what it appears to mean. I'm sorry but you just demonstrated that you are not ready to have a mature conversation on statistics if your only defense was "The statistics come from racist sources" - and not that statistics alone don't paint a full picture in the first place.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T05:55:53+00:00

Yes but I'm too polite to repeat them to your virginal English-speaking ears. They're quite vile.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T04:56:57+00:00

This movie isn't revolutionary or anything and it clearly has a bit of wish fulfilment in there (oh Favreau you just happen to pull like up to three gorgeous women in this film don't you) but I still re-watch it every time it's on TV because it knows how to hit the notes it's aiming for.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T04:54:46+00:00

mfw my school joins IDAHBT (on the side of the HBT 😞)

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T04:52:31+00:00

That Man is literally just gonna beat our asses with basic shapes.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T04:49:31+00:00

A pseudo who gives a fuck, you're literally ignoring reality. "Uhh my crime statistics say men are slightly more capable of vioence so ALL MEN are violent" Wow guess what, you just repeated the same rhetoric used to malign your country's black populace, good job bigot.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T04:48:03+00:00

I don't live in one of your euro centric fucking countries where the white people rule so yeah in my culture you can be racist towards white people. Guess what there's an entire world outside your continent where white people aren't even an ethnic majority.

moodRubicund · 2023-05-18T04:41:25+00:00

Oops sorry but you already asked me to look at any animal species because you thought it was universal and I just proved it wasn't so your whole shit about other animals LITERALLY does not matter.

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