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hackthis_archive) wrote2007-01-31 12:35 pm
hackthis_archive) wrote2007-01-31 12:35 pm
Brain dump.
So, like, I was trying to avoid having a massive brain dump in here, but then I said fuck it. My El Jay I can do whatever I damn well please. So.
I see a lot of speculation about Nathan being Claire's father, and obviously that's why she's 'superpowered' which, well, people, please, for my sake, use your brains.
a) Red herring, because if you're going by the teaser it's entirely too obvious, but more importantly
b) If powers are truly a genetic thing, which is what people want to show by pointing to Micah then you have to ask yourself where the hell are Mama Petrelli's powers? If Nathan and Peter got their powers from their parents, Mama Petrelli should be able to cause a fucking earthquake by stomping her foot, or possibly leap buildings in a single bound. Dude, Claire can't die, big fucking whoop. Peter is a friggin empath. He can be anybody. Nathan can fucking fly. It's like Rogue and Jean Gray having the same parents! And yet, as far as we know neither Petrelli parent can do more than shoplift and almost get indicted by their offspring. Just a thought.
c) Obviously Linderman is Claire's dad. Duh.
Last night![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
antheia pointed me towards this post in starkeymonkey's LJ, which has to do with a fandom I don't participate in (Supernatural) and some person I have never interacted with in my life (la_folle_allure). Ergo, I am not going to pass judgment on her or on whatever craziness she's said about the show she was watching. I will not even address whatever idiocy she said about all black people growing up in the hood. *thinks of blood pressure* What I will say is that as a black woman this kind of stupidity goes down all the time whether or not fandom or society at large decides to acknowledge it. They're called stereotypes.
Black men obviously have rapacious sexual appetites. Black women are always welfare queens. Southerners all fly the Confederate flag, live in trailer parks and have red necks. Asian people are all brilliant and have yellow skin. Latino people all snuck across the border.
If you've ever had a less than charming thought about somebody else of another race based solely upon their race, guess what? You might have subscribed to a stereotype. You might've had a racist thought. Maybe you didn't put it down in your LJ for the whole world to say 'WTF' to, but chances are if you're breathing and reading this, you've done it.
This person, whomever she is, she's just stereotyping. She's just ignorant. It's clear she's never met a black person in her life. It's very likely she's never met a minority in her life, because if she had she would know that every person is different. I know it's shocking. But the difference between you and I at first glance? Only melanin. The difference in psychology and temperament and everything else -- monumental. Not all black people like rap. Not all Southern people like country. Not all Latinos like burritos. Not all Asians are number whizzes.
Don't make assumptions about other people based on erroneous information. Don't project your bullshit. Because you know what that's called? That's called ignorance. Sometimes we call it racism, too.
If you want to see what minorities go through every day, Sen. Joe Biden is so pleased that Barack Obama is articulate and clean, because people who were the head of the Harvard Law Review are normally very filthy. Or maybe just not black.
And no, not everything is about race, but sometimes it damn well is. If you're asking yourself why minorities continually get riled up about race, or 'play the race card' as it were, ask yourself when was the last time someone came up to you and commented on your race, or your parentage, or where you were 'really' from, or how well you speak.
From separate e-mails toserialkarma and antheia:
I get to share my burning shame with you that I was listening to Sophie B Hawkins 'Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover' on my iTunes (yes, I am a musical encyclopedia), not really paying that much attention, and then she was all 'I had a dream I was your hero' and my brain was like Peter? Nathan? The fuck?! Damn. It's times like these I wish I had some vidding skillz, cos I would ROCK that shit. It would be so awesomely cheesy with all the friggin touching Nathan and Peter do!
Also, randomly, Nathan was STUPENDOUSLY hot on Monday. I bet y'all thought I wasn't gonna comment on that, but I am only human.
Okay, now that that's done. Everyone run over to look at the FNL prettiness onazewewish's LJ. That's what I'm talking about.
I see a lot of speculation about Nathan being Claire's father, and obviously that's why she's 'superpowered' which, well, people, please, for my sake, use your brains.
a) Red herring, because if you're going by the teaser it's entirely too obvious, but more importantly
b) If powers are truly a genetic thing, which is what people want to show by pointing to Micah then you have to ask yourself where the hell are Mama Petrelli's powers? If Nathan and Peter got their powers from their parents, Mama Petrelli should be able to cause a fucking earthquake by stomping her foot, or possibly leap buildings in a single bound. Dude, Claire can't die, big fucking whoop. Peter is a friggin empath. He can be anybody. Nathan can fucking fly. It's like Rogue and Jean Gray having the same parents! And yet, as far as we know neither Petrelli parent can do more than shoplift and almost get indicted by their offspring. Just a thought.
c) Obviously Linderman is Claire's dad. Duh.
Last night
antheia pointed me towards this post in starkeymonkey's LJ, which has to do with a fandom I don't participate in (Supernatural) and some person I have never interacted with in my life (la_folle_allure). Ergo, I am not going to pass judgment on her or on whatever craziness she's said about the show she was watching. I will not even address whatever idiocy she said about all black people growing up in the hood. *thinks of blood pressure* What I will say is that as a black woman this kind of stupidity goes down all the time whether or not fandom or society at large decides to acknowledge it. They're called stereotypes. Black men obviously have rapacious sexual appetites. Black women are always welfare queens. Southerners all fly the Confederate flag, live in trailer parks and have red necks. Asian people are all brilliant and have yellow skin. Latino people all snuck across the border.
If you've ever had a less than charming thought about somebody else of another race based solely upon their race, guess what? You might have subscribed to a stereotype. You might've had a racist thought. Maybe you didn't put it down in your LJ for the whole world to say 'WTF' to, but chances are if you're breathing and reading this, you've done it.
This person, whomever she is, she's just stereotyping. She's just ignorant. It's clear she's never met a black person in her life. It's very likely she's never met a minority in her life, because if she had she would know that every person is different. I know it's shocking. But the difference between you and I at first glance? Only melanin. The difference in psychology and temperament and everything else -- monumental. Not all black people like rap. Not all Southern people like country. Not all Latinos like burritos. Not all Asians are number whizzes.
Don't make assumptions about other people based on erroneous information. Don't project your bullshit. Because you know what that's called? That's called ignorance. Sometimes we call it racism, too.
If you want to see what minorities go through every day, Sen. Joe Biden is so pleased that Barack Obama is articulate and clean, because people who were the head of the Harvard Law Review are normally very filthy. Or maybe just not black.
And no, not everything is about race, but sometimes it damn well is. If you're asking yourself why minorities continually get riled up about race, or 'play the race card' as it were, ask yourself when was the last time someone came up to you and commented on your race, or your parentage, or where you were 'really' from, or how well you speak.
From separate e-mails to
serialkarma and antheia:I get to share my burning shame with you that I was listening to Sophie B Hawkins 'Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover' on my iTunes (yes, I am a musical encyclopedia), not really paying that much attention, and then she was all 'I had a dream I was your hero' and my brain was like Peter? Nathan? The fuck?! Damn. It's times like these I wish I had some vidding skillz, cos I would ROCK that shit. It would be so awesomely cheesy with all the friggin touching Nathan and Peter do!
Also, randomly, Nathan was STUPENDOUSLY hot on Monday. I bet y'all thought I wasn't gonna comment on that, but I am only human.
Okay, now that that's done. Everyone run over to look at the FNL prettiness on
azewewish's LJ. That's what I'm talking about.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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