you're an idiot if you think the people who play la give a shit about PoC. if they did, they would already play them. people aren't going to magically give a shit about PoC characters just because anime/manga and video game characters are out of the picture. all you're going to get is a bunch of white characters, mainly men, being apped in for ooc shipping. they have too many to choose from that they don't need to strain themselves by considering to play anything else.
Or here's a novel thought. They don't want sjw's getting their knickers in a twist over appropriation and therefore avoid the issue by not stepping on that landmine.
No, that's a dumbass chicken shit cop-out thought for people who too full of negative stereotypes about PoC that they know they can't play one without being offensive. The very fact they cannot see a PoC as an actual person or character and can only look at them from the perspective of what their skin color is says more about them than anything else.
And that isn't going to suddenly change with all the damn anime and video game characters gone. People will still claim they can't dare to play PoC or someone might wank on them. Which won't happen as long as they are IC and don't try to take on their character's issues as if they are suddenly oh-so affected by them.
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 05:02 am (UTC)(link)And that isn't going to suddenly change with all the damn anime and video game characters gone. People will still claim they can't dare to play PoC or someone might wank on them. Which won't happen as long as they are IC and don't try to take on their character's issues as if they are suddenly oh-so affected by them.
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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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