Yeah - I hate it when people say shit like “oh they want to be white” etc etc. Marge Simpson has an afro and yellow skin, yet she is considered white. Just because they don’t have explicit stereotypical characterisation doesn’t mean they’re white - Kyoto style eyes are simply an artistic styling. They’re Japanese…

Perhaps, but again - don’t put Hollywood racism on that - they’re literally adapting Japanese shows, and they choose white actors to play Japanese characters with Japanese names within the context of their culture. “That’s what you get” is kind of a problematic tone to take. It’s on the studio execs, simple as that.

No, this is what happens when self-centered white people and Americans see white as the default. To the Japanese, anime characters look Japanese. To Americans, anime characters look white. In regards to GITs, if you bothered to even watch the series, you would know that nearly all Caucasian characters (e.g. American…

It’s not because they’re dumb. They don’t really think she is white. They just couldn’t care less that she’s Japanese. The name of the character is Major Motoko Kusanagi. They knew what they were doing.

So white amirite?

Maybe so, but you telling me that Chinese people reading that people are going to feel all fuzzy about it? Ironic racism can still hurt people. Think of more creative ways to criticise it if you want to. This might not feel like a “fun take” to Asian people reading it. Now, self aware hip white people might feel…

Or the word processing software, Sentencé.

Sure, and it is sad either way. Size numbers are so varied and arbitrary across countries - and so is the term “plus sized”, which is just loosely thrown around at random women who aren’t as skinny as models.

I completely understand what Amy is trying to say, but can we also acknowledge how sad it is that young girls (who aren’t plus sized) even thinking that they might be plus sized is considered bad for their self esteem?

lol at “strawmanning” - the oblivious go-to for any such arguments. Maybe you’ve just seen this post now, but there were at least 4 more incredibly stupid/racist comments that I personally flagged.

I was talking about the state of post colonial societies in general. Industrialization is not technically a direct product of colonialism. The British, especially, followed a one-way free trade that ruined the local artisans and economies, and resulted in share cropping and largely agricultural societies - partly due…

Try getting a rapist convicted in most , no any, Western country and then come back and tell us about those lofty cultural ideals we have here. If Western women had suffered the same fate they would be regarded with just as much suspicion, the only difference here is that there are more support groups but that’s the…

Only on this white feminist website would you get people advocating for colonialism instead of actually showing sympathy with the victims.

Yay for colonialism, amirite!

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/french-t…

You mean the same “western ideals” that made French troops force little girls and women in the Central African Republic to have sex with dogs and a variety of other sexual violence?

You’d think by now women on Jezebel would have figured out a way to sympathise with oppressed non-western women without wishing for their imperialist filled with western-ideals glory days back.

This piece by Sarah Topol is the most moving and humanizing account of the Boko Haram schoolgirl kidnapping that I’ve read. It’s stayed with me for many months. I wish we could do so much more for these women.

Um, if you study history or even bother to google, you’ll know it’s true. Ethiopians and Indians have had connections from the 9th Century A.D. Dravidians are historically mixed with Ethiopians. Some were brought to the Deccan as slaves in the medieval times (thought it wasn’t racial) and one of them famously rose in…

That is the truth, but are you just going to pretend centuries of colonialism that had its basis in the supremacy of whiteness doesn’t really factor into it? Sure, fair skin indicates that you’re rich and you spend your time indoors, just like bound feet did in China. BUT, White skin in media, in the culture and IRL…