"He was white-bread enough to have yellow-blond hair"
Lol, I think LKH's mind would explode if she ever went down to Jamaica. My family and I took a vacation there to visit family, and because Jamaica is pretty much a melting pot of different races, there's some really interesting and beautiful combinations you see. There were many dark skinned people with bright yellow-blond hair and light eyes, granted the hair wasn't that silken 'white-bread' stuff that LKH loves, but it was naturally colored that way. So yeah, LKH really needs to expand her horizons when it comes to race, because white people aren't the only ones who can 'naturally' have blond hair. Of course if she knew this, she'd probably use her insulting, roundabout ways of talking about mixed people (fun genetics, flavors, something darker and more 'exotic' than European).
"smooth empty socket of scar tissue"
How can a socket of scar tissue be 'smooth?' Really?
The whole Raborn thing is just so predictable at this point. There's always this sexist/racist/homophobic cop that Anita has to fight with, and this strawman always has a personal vendetta against Anita because she's just so tiny and beautiful and tough like one of the boys and good golly a red-blooded American boy just can't stand that sort of thing. And then she gets to have revenge fantasy arguments with him that makes her look so smart and cool, look at Anita standing up against racists. The thing is, this is all just pure fantasy from someone who has never, ever been in that situation before. LKH really has no idea what racism is like and how POC have to deal with it. She writes Anita as a white person dealing with 'meanies', not as a POC dealing with real-life bigots and racists. It's really kinda insulting, particularly when LKH tweets about how she stopped a white man from telling a racist joke in public and acts like that gives her all the experience and understanding she needs, while completely forgetting that she approached that situation as a white woman and had the privilege of her whiteness. If LKH had been a black woman in that situation, I am positive that it would have gone a lot differently.
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Date: 2013-10-07 08:30 pm (UTC)Lol, I think LKH's mind would explode if she ever went down to Jamaica. My family and I took a vacation there to visit family, and because Jamaica is pretty much a melting pot of different races, there's some really interesting and beautiful combinations you see. There were many dark skinned people with bright yellow-blond hair and light eyes, granted the hair wasn't that silken 'white-bread' stuff that LKH loves, but it was naturally colored that way. So yeah, LKH really needs to expand her horizons when it comes to race, because white people aren't the only ones who can 'naturally' have blond hair. Of course if she knew this, she'd probably use her insulting, roundabout ways of talking about mixed people (fun genetics, flavors, something darker and more 'exotic' than European).
"smooth empty socket of scar tissue"
How can a socket of scar tissue be 'smooth?' Really?
The whole Raborn thing is just so predictable at this point. There's always this sexist/racist/homophobic cop that Anita has to fight with, and this strawman always has a personal vendetta against Anita because she's just so tiny and beautiful and tough like one of the boys and good golly a red-blooded American boy just can't stand that sort of thing. And then she gets to have revenge fantasy arguments with him that makes her look so smart and cool, look at Anita standing up against racists. The thing is, this is all just pure fantasy from someone who has never, ever been in that situation before. LKH really has no idea what racism is like and how POC have to deal with it. She writes Anita as a white person dealing with 'meanies', not as a POC dealing with real-life bigots and racists. It's really kinda insulting, particularly when LKH tweets about how she stopped a white man from telling a racist joke in public and acts like that gives her all the experience and understanding she needs, while completely forgetting that she approached that situation as a white woman and had the privilege of her whiteness. If LKH had been a black woman in that situation, I am positive that it would have gone a lot differently.