oh my god shut up. i know you think being an sjw means you can automatically tell every single person's motivation when they disagree with you but you just sound like a whiny tool. go back to tumblr, there's an echo chamber there where you'll be happy
No I'm a WoC who is sick an tired of people insisting how many more PoC character players there would be around if this ONE thing suddenly changed. Most players are white girls who don't care enough about PoC characters to even have thought about playing them beyond a fleeting consideration. Because they assume it's too hard and too tough to play a PoC. When all they have to do is treat them like a damn person and play them based on how they are in their canon.
I'm tired of people acting like it's the secret wankers keeping players away from PoC characters when that's total bullshit. How many people who have played a PoC character have actually been wanked on? How many of those weren't being offensive or playing their character OOC?
The fact they keep insisting PoC characters are these evasive special unicorn characters they "can't do justice," "can't relate to," or "will get wanked on for screwing up," is just a passive kind of racism that continues to make PoCs the Unknowable Other while shifting responsibility for their refusal to even try on some hypothetical horde of sjws out to get them that I've yet to see.
I would welcome people playing more PoC. I would even give people some leeway just for trying as long as they're willing to improve. But if you give the average rper a choice, they will pick a white character over a PoC majority of the time. So stop acting like they're so worried about wank when the truth is they keep Othering us by projecting their own assumptions of how we'll react to them playing a PoC onto us.
the reason i personally don't have a poc in my list of characters is not because i don't think i can do them justice or i can't relate to them. it's not even because i'm worried about getting wanked on for something. i don't have a poc in my list simply because i haven't found any that i want to play. this isn't because they're a poc, but because there are really so very few characters that i feel capable of playing. there are loads of characters i love and love seeing and fandoms that are great and fun to watch, but i just don't find a lot of characters that hit that button that makes me want to pick them up and play them.
i also don't watch/read/involve myself with a lot, so yes, my selections are really limited. i don't know if this is the same for anyone else, but that's my specific reason why i don't have a poc in my line up. if i wound up watching/reading something that had a poc that i really liked and clicked with and wanted to pick up, i'd play the fuck out of them. and i wouldn't give a shit that they were a poc. i'd give a shit about what an interesting/great character they were.
not everyone is running away from anything that's not white simply because of the fact that they're not white. if you want to bitch at anyone for the lack of poc characters in rp, blame the fandoms/series for whitewashing.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-12 06:02 am (UTC)(link)I'm tired of people acting like it's the secret wankers keeping players away from PoC characters when that's total bullshit. How many people who have played a PoC character have actually been wanked on? How many of those weren't being offensive or playing their character OOC?
The fact they keep insisting PoC characters are these evasive special unicorn characters they "can't do justice," "can't relate to," or "will get wanked on for screwing up," is just a passive kind of racism that continues to make PoCs the Unknowable Other while shifting responsibility for their refusal to even try on some hypothetical horde of sjws out to get them that I've yet to see.
I would welcome people playing more PoC. I would even give people some leeway just for trying as long as they're willing to improve. But if you give the average rper a choice, they will pick a white character over a PoC majority of the time. So stop acting like they're so worried about wank when the truth is they keep Othering us by projecting their own assumptions of how we'll react to them playing a PoC onto us.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-12 06:22 am (UTC)(link)i also don't watch/read/involve myself with a lot, so yes, my selections are really limited. i don't know if this is the same for anyone else, but that's my specific reason why i don't have a poc in my line up. if i wound up watching/reading something that had a poc that i really liked and clicked with and wanted to pick up, i'd play the fuck out of them. and i wouldn't give a shit that they were a poc. i'd give a shit about what an interesting/great character they were.
not everyone is running away from anything that's not white simply because of the fact that they're not white. if you want to bitch at anyone for the lack of poc characters in rp, blame the fandoms/series for whitewashing.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-12 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)