stitchmediamix: What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Smartest Girl in the World Has To Be A Mary Sue O
stitchmediamix:What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Smartest Girl in the World Has To Be A Mary SueOn the first day of Black History Month, a random writer on Archive of Our Own gave to me… two separate stories that framed Shuri – T’challa’s brilliant baby sister in Black Panther – as a character that couldn’t possibly be as smart as the MCU claims and as a victim of child abuse by the Wakandan elite who are “taking advantage” of her brilliance.These stories were written in response to Black people calling out the author’s racism in deeming Shuri a Mary Sue in Black Panther in a tumblr post (that used the Black Panther tag) and subsequently writing off the film.I said I’d do my “What Fandom Racism Looks Like” series during the summer, but this “Shuri is a Mary Sue” nonsense has me heated and the vent video did not help. So I’ve started early.This is a post about how one user calling Shuri a Mary Sue and all the support that they got for their racist stories doubling down on their take is emblematic of what fandom racism looks like.If you got something out of this post and would like to help support a struggling freelancer, you can via: PayPal or Patreon! (I also have a support tweet that y’all can share!) -- source link
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