#prejudice

[cocomonerd]

No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

#pride and prejudice #literature #Pride #And #Prejudice #Will always defend this book #Jane austen #Lizzy Bennet #Mr darcy

[prokopetz]

It goes without saying that you'll often encounter prejudices that wouldn't fly today when you take in older media, but sometimes you also encounter prejudices which simply have no contemporary analogue. I've been taking in a lot of American media from the 1970s lately, for example, and there seems to be this whole thing about the moral degeneracy of the Swedish going on – and while I know there's probably a fascinating cultural context to that, it never stops feeling vaguely like I'm somehow being pranked.

#media #tropes #prejudice #xenophobia #history #1970s #sweden

[pratchettquotes]

"I never shook hands with no king before," said Detritus. "No dwarf, either, come to that."

"You shook hands with me once," said Cheery.

"Watchmen don't count," said Detritus firmly. "Watchmen is watchmen."

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

#detritus #cheery littlebottom #rhys rhysson #the fifth elephant #discworld #terry pratchett #trolls #dwarfs #kings #watchmen #the watch #friendship #law enforcement #solidarity #prejudice #reconciliation #equality #handshake #mutual respect #watchmen is watchmen

[globalriseofblackpeople]

#racism #prejudice #knowledge #America #amerikkka #stereotypes

[hobbieswithhobbit]

please don't tell me I am the only one who thinks that the way Mr. Darcy basically spits out "M... Mr. Wickham?" while his head tilts and he walks menacingly closer to Elizabeth - clearly angry - during the rain scene in Pride and Prejudice (2005) is very, very hot?

no? just me?

#Pride and Prejudice #Pride #and #Prejudice #Literature #Mr Darcy #Elizabeth Bennet #Lizzy Bennet #Jane Austen #p&p #he's so fine i will not take any arguments #i may or may not have rewatched that scene 50+ times #edit: he's not angry at her - i mean #he's a simp

[sleepynegress]

Amber Riley airing out some truths.

#amber riley #yep #black women #misogynoir #prejudice #microagressions #hollywood

[much-discourse-wow]

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#well well well #best buy #racial discrimination #prejudice

[sk-lumen]

Knowing the real you is a privilege

People will always make assumptions and judgements no matter what you do.

It's so funny to me when people tell me, just because I wear all black and have pokerface ("rbf"), that they assumed I'm an arrogant, calculated ice-queen. I get that a lot. Meanwhile, my inner world is rosegold-colored with cotton-candy clouds, and I'm a sugary-sweet cupcake to the people I care about that also match my energy.

Or when I wear my "retro 1950's pink barbie housewife" aesthetic, they assume I'm a spoiled princess with no spine or boundaries. Meanwhile, I'm fierce about my boundaries and I have no qualms standing up for myself. And yes, I actually am a princess (princess treatment for life 🎀).

There's no point getting upset at people's presumptions about you, understand that you can't control how people perceive you, you can only control yourself. Instead, roll with these first impressions and use them to your advantage. It's okay if people don't see the authentic you right off the bat. Not everyone deserves the privilege to know the real you, and that's exactly how it should be.

#princess treatment #authenticity #prejudice #boundaries #confidence #writings #lumen's diary #chat

[victoriadallonfan]

Florida is an actual hell state

If anyone would like to contact Rep Borreo and explain to him how fucking stupid he fucking sounds, please use their public contact information for the Florida GOP

#Florida #prejudice #oppression #lgtbqia+ #lgtbq #fuck the gop

[mudwerks]

(via Jann Wenner Removed From Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Board - Variety)

A day after the publication of a New York Times interview in which Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner said that Black and female musicians “didn’t articulate at the level” of the white musicians featured in his new book of interviews, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that he has been removed from its board of directors.

“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” a terse statement from a rep reads in full; contacted by Variety, a rep for the Hall had no further comment.

Um - interesting viewpoint, truly fucked-up...but certainly interesting.

#jann wenner #roling stone #removal from rock and roll hall of fame board #prejudice #racist #misogynist

[omnybus]

You're telling me I should treat people with respect regardless of what interests, aesthetics, quirks, kinks, or identities they have? Well then who can I treat like shit based on some arbitrary trait of theirs?

C'moooooon, I wanna be the bully for once!

#ramblings #respect #bullying #prejudice #bigotry #satire #this is satire #this is not my actual opinion it is satire

[fixing-bad-posts]

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idk how to explain this to some of u but don't agree with problematic terrible objectively homophobic, misogynist hate.

#rip to u if ur a bigot #im better though

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #blackout poetry #best praxis #prejudice #homophobia #discrimination #bigotry #misogyny #miscellaneous

[pratchettquotes]

"I hear that goblins believe that the railway engines have a soul, elf," she said softly. "Tell me, what kind of soul have you? Do you run along your own elvish rails? With no time or place for turning?" She looked at the kelda and said, "Granny Aching told me to feed them that was starving and clothe them as is naked and help the pitiful. Well, this elf has come to my turf--starving, naked pitiful--do you see?"

The kelda's eyebrows rose. "Yon creature is an elf! It has nae care for ye! It has nae care for anyone--it disnae even care for other elves!"

"You think then there is no such animal as a good elf?"

"Ye think there is such a thing as a gud elf?"

"No, but I am suggesting that there is a possibility that there might be one."

Terry Prachett, The Shepherd's Crown

#tiffany aching #the kelda #nightshade #granny aching #iron girder #the shepherd's crown #discworld #terry pratchett #identity #souls #change #development #character development #responsibility #determinism #prejudice #stereotypes #expectations #empathy #compassion #fairies #elfs #goblins #feegles #witches #possibility #no such thing #help the pitiful #what kind of soul have you

[shifa-kazi]

p&p got deeper when I realised, mr. darcy's pride made him prejudiced against elizabeth whereas elizabeth's prejudice after the first impression made her too proud to talk with him. the flaw of pride and prejudice is in both of them due to completely different reasons and that's why the story is even more beautiful. Not only did he rectify his mistakes (pride, letting wickham run off etc) but she corrected hers too (giving darcy attention and the chance to explain himself etc)

(and now this seems to be something obvious and I was too stupid to see it first. eh.)

#pride and prejudice #books #reading #p&p #mr darcy #Elizabeth #elizabeth #omg #fitzwilliam darcy #darcy and elizabeth #jane austen #pride #prejudice #pride and predujice #books and libraries

[smashing-yng-man]

#call to activism #twitter #2022 #gun control #gun reform #NRA #racism #prejudice #politics #us politics

[maniacwatchestheworld]

About Metahuman Bigotry in the DC Universe

So as I keep browsing things within the DPxDC space, I continue to find it... Off... How people portray bigotry against metahumans within the DC universe. Because like... No. The Justice League would not see ghosts as so much of a threat that they would try to hunt down and exterminate them. They would not discriminate against Danny for being half ghost and deny him entry into the Justice League on those grounds alone. And I think that a lot of this is just kinda a misunderstanding of how bigotry against metahumans is typically portrayed within the DC universe.

As always, what I am about to discuss is highly subjective and is purely based around my own understanding from what DC media I have been consuming within the past year or so of being in this fandom space and my own experiences within minority communities. I have no doubts that media offering examples of the contrary exist out there, and I could easily be missing something HUGE from past comic runs. I'm not an expert, but these are some general trends that I myself have noticed. Proceed under the cut for more discussion. (This post got LONG very quickly!) And of course, trigger/content warning for discussions of bigotry of all kinds under the cut. (Not a lot of specifics are mentioned, but it's still worth saying.)

(Also as a brief aside, I am a person of color (mostly a Filipino/Caucasian (Irish/Scottish) mix), I am asexual (panromantic) and nonbinary, and am neurodivergent, but also come from a privileged middle class background and am often white-passing, so I do very much have my own blind spots and personal biases when discussing this kind of stuff. In any case, here we gooooo!)

Now, first off, what do I mean by metahuman? I know that there is a specific metahuman condition within the DC universe that has to do with Nth metal and genes or something, but that's not what I'm using it for here in this context. Because truth be told, within my last year of gorging myself on DC comics and related media, I have barely heard that term used at all. And where I have heard it used, it is not in that context! "Metahuman" as a descriptor in my experience is more generally used to refer to anyone who is basically a person, but isn't necessarily a human or humans with powers and abilities that are beyond what a typical person may have that can change their appearance or biology to be non-human within the DC universe. Big example? Superman. If you do an image search of "metahuman dc" on Google or anything like that, what will likely come up is a bunch of images of Superman first and foremost! Superman is strictly speaking, not a human being. Because he is a Kryptonian. But for all intents and purposes, he is a person and ought to be treated as a human. Hence, metahuman. He is human in a more overarchingly general or meta sense than as a biological fact. So aliens like Superman, Starfire, or Martian Manhunter? Metahumans. People with supernatural conditions that can make them look or biologically be non-human like Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, Beast Boy, Ebon, or Plastic Man? Metahumans. Species born on Earth with intelligence and abilities comparable to humans like King Shark, Aquaman, Gorilla Grodd, or Red Tornado? Metahumans. Demons, gods, Amazonians, Antlanteans, aliens, androids, science experiments gone wrong, bang babies, people born with strange abilities, and yes. Even ghosts and half-ghosts would all be counted under the umbrella term of "metahuman"! So very VERY clearly the Justice League wouldn't discriminate against ghosts... NOT WHEN THEY ACTUALLY HAVE GHOSTS LIKE BOSTON BRAND ON THEIR TEAM! And not when the majority of the Justice League consists of people that could fall under the metahuman umbrella!

So with that out of the way, let's get to the actual bigotry!

Now I assume that a lot of how people think about metahumans and how bigotry against them would manifest in a universe like DC's comes from pieces of media like what is seen in the X-Men movies or Captain America: Civil War aka Marvel properties. Mobs of people protesting the existence of metahumans, trying to legislate them. Open, outright, hostile bigotry where people speculate on whether certain groups of people ought to be allowed to live or not. Metahuman characters within the Marvel Universe (like the X-Men specifically) have to face the very real threat of genocide from a world that looks at them with disdain and wants them gone. It's a very real, very pressing issue that does face many people in real life today! Their metahumans are often a metaphor for oppressed minorities. Which is a great way to get people within the hegemony to understand and sympathize with people who exist outside of it and it is wonderful for people within minority groups to see these fictional groups that are facing the same issues as them to be able to fight against, and win in their battles against bigotry!

But this isn't really how DC does things. Because when DC decides to tackle subjects of bigotry, they do not tend to shroud their meaning under the veil of metaphor. They just deal with it outright. When DC wants to talk about white supremacy and why it's terrible, they have Superman battle against the Ku Klux Klan. When they want to show the unfair treatment of black people within our society, they retcon the way that the Big Bang happened and how Static got his powers for it to have been because of police brutality against protestors during a Black Rights Matter protest! There was recently a book in which the Alan Scott Green Lantern went to get and saw firsthand the horrors of conversion therapy. When they want to show how shitty people can be towards trans people, Xanthe visits their parents who deadname and do not respect their pronouns (while Constantine does)! Superhuman abilities and powers are not a metaphor for being a downtrodden minority within the DC universe. These characters are just often and outright already a part of these minority communities! Being a metahuman is just another layer of bullshit that they have to deal with on top of that! And that's intersectionality right there baybee! A character's metahumaness can bleed into how they perceive their race or gender or disability or other status and vice versa! Characters still very much face bigotry and live in an unequal society that may seek to eliminate them within the DC universe. But they are just not necessarily being targeted for their metahumaness specifically.

Of course bigotry still exists in the DC universe, but bigotry against metahumans specifically tends to happen on a different scale than in Marvel. People don't tend to go out en masse and protest Superman's existence, telling him to go home. People generally like Superman being in Metropolis and understand that his home planet was destroyed and that he's a refugee living here on Earth... But there are still people out there who don't think that Superman can be trusted because he's an alien. There are people who think that his kindness is just a front and that he is just the first arrival to prepare the Earth for "his kind" to invade Earth. There are people who would find the idea of him falling in love with and having children with a human being to be absolutely abhorrent! But those people would never say those things about such a kind and friendly Kansas boy like Clark Kent! DC tends to deal with more of the little bigotries that society deems "acceptable," whether they intend to or not. People aren't calling for the genocide of Atlantis or Themyscira... But men will force their way onto Themyscira when they are strictly not allowed, or assume that everyone there MUST be a lesbian, or desperate for some action from a man! People who know about another person's metahumaness will often make assumptions based off of them. No, Gorilla Grodd does not want a banana since you're being an asshole about it and treating him like a mere animal, and no, Manbat does not drink blood- his species is a fruit bat and not a vampire bat, but he would prefer a sandwich regardless to be honest. Also, please stop screaming. He may be a giant bat, but he's actually here to help. Some people can go through most of their lives being seen as entirely "normal" and pass others by invisibly as a metahuman. But others are not so lucky and have a condition that makes people run the moment others see them. Robin, Raven, and Terra could go out and get some pizza without anyone batting an eye. But if Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire did the same thing, people might stare and keep their distance. Clayface can choose to look like an ordinary human to go on a date or go Christmas shopping, but if Killer Croc tried to do the same thing, people would notice, scream and run. But just because Clayface can look human, that doesn't mean that his condition can't be debilitating, or that he is able to find stable employment. People with metahuman abilities face problems because of their abilities and appearances. And these problems can lead to escalation, thus trapping said metahumans in a cycle of pain, not brought on by themselves, but rather by how people choose to discriminate against them. Ritchie and Static may still be able to go to school and pretend to be normal kids, no one being the wiser, but Ebon and Talon? Would people really feel comfortable with them attending classes with how they look and their abilities? They are young. They are poor. They have no support. Who would want to hire them for a job when they look like... THAT!? And so they live on the fringes where people won't bother them. But they still need to eat and dress themselves. So they steal what they need to survive. They now have criminal records. And since they are metahumans, they're dangerous, right? So when the police hunt after them, they shoot to kill. And so they need to avoid the police as much as possible and therefore have to keep moving, hiding, and stealing just to survive. They have no stability. And so they can't improve their lives. They are caught in this cycle and can't escape. And even if they could try to hide what they are to "pass" in "normal" society... Why should they have to? It's not their fault that they ended up like this. This is just part of who they are now.

These are systemic issues. Microaggressions and discrimination based around ignorance and fear alike. Sure, a lot of these bits of discrimination are not as obvious or loud as genocide, but they are no less real, and they come with their own host of harmful behaviors. DC doesn't usually tend to handle the big bigotries with their metahumans in the ways that are as loud as with how Marvel handles them. Because you know what? There is enough of that in the real world based around real minorities and real people. They don't have to make up fictional movements against fictional bigotries for fictional people when there are real issues to be tackled and discussed! Why make up something fictional for these characters to have to face discrimination against when you can just make those characters be members of groups that are ACTUALLY being discriminated against right now in our real world!??? That doesn't mean that bigotry against metahumans isn't a thing in DC, but rather that the bigotries that metahumans face in their universe are the exact same as the bigotries that real people face in the real world. People being judged for how they look. People being judged for who they love. People being judged for how their anatomy works. People being judged for the accommodations they need. It's all the same. The prejudice faced by metahumans is the same racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, classism, and all the other little prejudices that real people face in real life, but with a bit of a fantastical flair! They are interconnected, just as these problems are interconnected in real life! And not until all of these groups work together to solve all of their collective problems and make life better for everyone because all of these problems overlap, can they all be free!

Neither of these ways of portraying bigotry is inherently better than the other. Both have their strengths, both have their place, and both are needed by different sorts of people! But what fits in the Marvel Universe feels off when seen in the DC Universe and vice versa. So seeing the Marvel-esque in your face, life or death bigotry against matahumans in what is supposed to be the DC universe just feels... Off.

Something very important to keep in mind when thinking about how things within the DC Universe operate relative to the Marvel Universe is this. The Marvel Universe tries to be Inspirational, and the DC Universe tries to be Aspirational. Both have their uses and place, and both can be very good, but for very different reasons! Just look at the biggest heroes within each company. Spiderman is supposed to be like you. And with enough intelligence, guile, hard work, and a bit of good luck, you can become someone like Spiderman. A hero. Marvel is good at creating heroes like you and showing you how you can be better and help out the lives of everyone around you. DC prefers to do something else. You probably weren't born as a multi-billionaire, nor will you likely be adopted by one. You are probably not an alien refugee from an exploded planet or raised on an island in a female only society and are a nigh immortal demi-goddess made out of clay. You aren't supposed to relate to these characters one to one. But DC likes to take these extraordinary people and show those people choosing to use their extraordinary abilities for good and to help others. It takes these incredible beings and tries to show us how, for all of their differences to us, they are still people who struggle and also love and care just as much as any of us. DC's universe is largely inhabited by larger than life people for you to aspire to be like, and shows them choosing to be good. They are characters for you to look up to, and if you were to be in a position like them where you had the ability and power to help... Wouldn't you want to be like them...? And I think that the worlds that these stories take place in reflect that. If you are someone who has seen people protest your existence and attack you just for being alive, then you will probably see yourself in the X-Men, and seeing them rise above it and prove those people wrong is going to be very inspiring! But there is also the need to see a world where that kind of bigotry is rare and unusual. It's good to sometimes see a world where stuff like that largely doesn't happen because people have collectively decided to be better for the sake of everyone! But just because the outright and obvious bigotry doesn't usually happen in this ideal world, that doesn't mean that bigotry is gone entirely either. But it is a better world than the one we have now and something to aspire to. I don't doubt that DC has stories which really tackle the big bigotries like that of which Marvel's mutants so often have to face. And I don't doubt that Marvel's characters have to face the interconnected little bigotries that DC characters sometimes have to face. But one thing that's nice about reading DC stories is just... Because they examine the smaller problems... We also get to see the small victories as well! We have yet to defeat the forces that lead to genocide of the oppressed. But when we don't wallow in that, we get to see what kind of world we might have without that. And in that world. It's okay to just be who you are, and to be just... Happy! Victor Stone is disabled and black and is able to grow up. Alan Scott is gay and survived conversion therapy and is able to grow old. Harley Quinn is able to escape her abusive situation, get into a more healthy place for her mentally, and find genuine, mutual love with Poison Ivy. Yes, people still have their biases and bigotries. Yes, problems still happen. But problems can be overcome. And in spite of these problems, you can still live and be happy. And the DC universe is one in which no matter what you are, you can be happy for who you are without compromises. The DC Universe is one that celebrates our differences in all of our myriad, uncategorical, and incalculable ways!

And so in these stories that are obstensively supposed to be in the DC universe, when people react to Danny being half ghost and it's met with disgust, derision, and fear by everyone including the Justice League...? When that's not what the story is about or criticizing or commenting on, but is rather done as a matter of course...? It just feels... Off. It feels wrong. For the Batfamily to look at Danny turn into a ghost with confusion or assurances that this isn't possible in the way Danny says it does, it's just odd. It feels off in a similar way as Batman making a joke about dead babies. Is it something that he could do and might have done in the past at some point? Sure. But that's not what Batman and his family should be! Because they SHOULD be reacting to Danny being half ghost with curiosity, excitement, acceptance, and assertions that they KNEW IT! And the Justice League shouldn't automatically see this new population of ghosts as invaders that need to be destroyed, but rather as a people who need to be understood. Sure, if they are looking to invade, that's one thing, but very few ghosts would be looking to do that. They are just more refugees looking to make a life on Earth. They are more possible friends and allies that might fight with them in their quest to protect everyone! And hey! If nothing else, they're more people for Boston Brand to be able to talk to and hang out with! The DC universe celebrates diversity! And this includes in terms of powers and abilities! The DC universe largely does not humor ideas of metahuman genocide on Earth because there is enough of that in the real world. And so they would not do that in a DPxDC universe either. At least I don't think that they would. But that's just my view on this subject and these ideas. I have no doubts that works saying the contrary are out there. You can certainly still play with these ideas in your works. But I want to see more diversity of ideas and more loving acceptance of ghosts and half-ghosts in these works too! Because that feels so much more DC!

#dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #dc #dc x dp #dcu #dc comics #dc universe #metahuman #bigotry #discrimination #prejudice #long post