it's a little disturbing that our first introduction to this black woman is her singing praises of a white character. Laila immediately points out that Anita is not only white, but has a better body than her Indeed, it really is.
'White bread' isn't really a black term. To be honest, I've really only heard white people use this term to negatively describe other white people. It just sounds kinda odd to me to see this 'ghetto' character using such a white term. It's just another case of "everyone has the same verbal tics that Anita does"...and LKH obviously doesn't know how urban black dialect actually works anyway. Not that I'm an expert (suburban white girl here) but WOW UGH.
Because all black women are curvy and sassy and like to call people 'grrlfriend' and 'mmm hmmm.' Funny story, in an Anita Blake RP I played the Regina for the werelions, and she was a 6'1 black woman with a body type a lot like how Laila's is described here. She deliberately avoided slang and had almost-perfect grammar because she *knew* that as a black woman, the second she slips up and uses anything close to ebonics, everyone is always going to see her as 'ghetto' and not worth listening to, and while she was very intelligent and called out some real bullshit going on with the Master of the City and That Guy, I never really described her as "sassy" or played her thereof...but everyone at the board decided she was. Sassy sassy sassy. I guess I wouldn't say she's NOT sassy, but...I have a feeling she'd be called that as long as she just wasn't super-shy and retiring.
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Date: 2013-07-28 08:00 pm (UTC)Indeed, it really is.
'White bread' isn't really a black term. To be honest, I've really only heard white people use this term to negatively describe other white people. It just sounds kinda odd to me to see this 'ghetto' character using such a white term.
It's just another case of "everyone has the same verbal tics that Anita does"...and LKH obviously doesn't know how urban black dialect actually works anyway. Not that I'm an expert (suburban white girl here) but WOW UGH.
Because all black women are curvy and sassy and like to call people 'grrlfriend' and 'mmm hmmm.'
Funny story, in an Anita Blake RP I played the Regina for the werelions, and she was a 6'1 black woman with a body type a lot like how Laila's is described here. She deliberately avoided slang and had almost-perfect grammar because she *knew* that as a black woman, the second she slips up and uses anything close to ebonics, everyone is always going to see her as 'ghetto' and not worth listening to, and while she was very intelligent and called out some real bullshit going on with the Master of the City and That Guy, I never really described her as "sassy" or played her thereof...but everyone at the board decided she was. Sassy sassy sassy. I guess I wouldn't say she's NOT sassy, but...I have a feeling she'd be called that as long as she just wasn't super-shy and retiring.