How do I explain to you people that interracial relationships are okay
Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.
Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like “your kids will be so pretty” they’re not dating for pretty kids. They’re dating bc they like each other.
Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.
People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.
Their partner isn’t culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.
Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But you’re not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.
Interracial relationships aren’t always toxic, and some of y’all need to stop projecting onto other people.
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Calling ineterracial relationships toxic or fetishizing just seem like anti race mixing or racism with extra steps
Propaganda as submitted by YOU, in initial entries, tags, and reblogs:
Murder, She Wrote:
“Angela Lansbury. End of. And the bad 80s acting. Being able to spot the stars of yesterday with the stars of the future.”
“Jessica Fletcher literally has the ideal life. She’s a famous author, she has a billion friends and relatives that she gets to jet around the world to hang out with, and she makes cops and murderers look foolish. She lives in a charming cottage and has the best outfits.”
hey um so i slowly started replacing all of your boyfriend’s parts with indistinguishable, identical parts and now he’s not sure he’s your boyfriend anymore. sorry about that
“my brother refused to argue with me about diversity while we were at our cousins funeral, just another example of people I disagree with avoiding admitting they don’t have facts to back them up” WHAT.
Right wing assholes are like this no matter what country.
I have nearly come to blows with conservative family members starting shit at moments like this on several occassions. They are all dicks who look to start shit at vulnerable times knowing any answer they get they can twist to make themselves look good. I swear they have a playbook.
You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN
I feel like a dumbass, but @rapidashmascot just revolutionised my understanding of that parable.
My family quotes that parable loudly every time another planned housing community on a former floodplain gets inundated with water.
“stories dont need conflict” girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict
ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go “thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict” OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR
even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki’s delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro’s central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!
[ID: A diagram showing a line of four intersecting colored circles, orange, gray, yellow, and blue. From left-to-right, the circles are labeled: “Man vs. Himself”, “Man vs. Man”, “Man vs. Society”, and “Man vs. Nature”. END ID]
There’s a really good quote from Screenwriting for Neurotics by Scott Sublett, which applies to all storytelling: “The least that can be at stake is your main character’s happiness.” The conflict can be as abstract and internal as you please, but there’s still going to be something your character wants, something that’s stopping them from getting it, and at the end they’ll either get it or don’t. “It” can be anything from treasure to a love interest to inner peace.