Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉

Emeralds, she / her, 24, I draw cute girls
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[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

My pinned art post been long overdue for a replacement, so here!
#art

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@h_st3lla12 @Lycorysia What is up with this anime’s western distribution and popularity that Nadia is frequently completely absent from English language discussions of the representation of dark skinned people in anime? I see Japanese people themselves mention her more in that context

[Not pregnant just eating good.. @I_Hate_Ted_Cruz]

You're using an image of predominantly (North Korean) women crying, to talk about teachers (unisex profession), to defend a drama based off of a comic that you've been told is promoting racist incel rhetoric.

But they'll say the source exists independently of the drama lol

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@airbagg3d They’re gonna bring up Concord, even though that was a single failed game with a diverse ensemble cast and not a game with a definitive main character who is a fat black woman.

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@organ_knight @Lycorysia Yeah, I’m not a fan of this franchise (Cyborg 009) so I’m certainly no scholar on the evolving design philosophy of this character (Pyunma), but as you can see, this character’s gets redesigned A TON, and not all of the altered versions were 100% improvements

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@Lycorysia … When in actuality, depictions of people of color as whole have improved in comparison to the past, even though there are still good depictions that were made in previous eras, or offensive depictions made in more modern ones

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@Lycorysia people who oppose being cultural sensitive, or criticizing bad depictions will use this post to say things like “it’s because of political correctness/people criticizing bad expressions/Black people getting offended is why modern depictions of people of color are bad now!”

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@Bufalloeater @Lycorysia However, Giant Gorg is consistently better at portraying Samoan people, and the Pacific Islanders from the fictional location of “Austral Island”. The two dark skinned main characters Alois and Sara are from
Austral Island

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@Bufalloeater @Lycorysia I started watching Giant Gorg specifically because someone mentioned it in this post. It’s not flawless. The first couple episodes in New York City has African Americans with either pink donut lips, or super pale gray skin, https://t.co/EPhfwmuure

[JaAmfan @JaAmfan]

I really hope none of you are falling for this when there were pretty excellent reps even back in the 80s and 90s

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@Lycorysia But in reality, for both the past and the present, you’re not judging either era’s representation of racial minorities as a WHOLE, you’re just thinking of a select few cherry picked examples.

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@Lycorysia …but then when you discover an anime made in like the 80’s or 90’s, and realize that it’s just as good, or even better than some select examples of BAD depictions of dark skinned racial minorities that were made in the modern day, it pleasantly surprises you

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@hayatbitmedix @cyhrme The fact that fat MEN, especially fat CISHETEROSXUAL men are less likely to chose to become body positive activists or to insert themselves into those spaces, even though the door is WIDE OPEN for them, is also why people claim it doesn’t include men, either

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@hayatbitmedix @cyhrme But the reason why you feel like anti short men shaming isn’t properly covered by body positive activism is partially because short men themselves don’t actually step up to become body positive activists that often

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@cyhrme Your average insecure chubby lady who just wants a confidence boost for the weight half assume they’ll shed ONE day regardless that makes up Lizzo’s core fanbase probably didn’t give a shit. Body positive people who oppose intentional weight loss aren’t THAT high in number

[Enchanted✨Emeralds 🇵🇸✊🏾🍉 @emeraldgem777]

@cyhrme But the fat acceptance, body liberation side has always been much smaller and nicher than service level
mainstream body positivity that the average progressive person accepts- so yes, while body liberation activists did criticize and feel disappointed by Lizzo