rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

http://felkes.tumblr.com/post/23019812161/hello-you-might-know-me-as-lanina-from-werelist-i

holy

the list of animals most commonly identified w/ is disappointing

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5xt8pbagR1qg7xy3o1_500.png

isn't there anyone who identifies as a carp or something? non-mammalian therians have it hardest imo

i keep almost starting a thread about this kind of fringe identity stuff. otherkin, but more importantly "transracial"/"transethnic" and "transabled" ppl. i want to find more examples though. all sorts of dumb shit on tumblr/livejournal.

and yeah, no one ever ends up identifying as a non-cute/cool animal/pokemon

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182852800l/1339239.jpg

looks curious

yeah i found that link via this, which is a bit too outraged for my taste, since the righteousness drowns the lulz: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/69900212.html

Methinks the lady doth protest too much etc.

Actually I'm really curious about this transabilism thing; there are actually people with such severe body dysmorphia that they seek to have healthy limbs amputated.

that ONTD was C+P'd from thought catalog, not really supposed to be funny (it is also the 1 in 50,000 thought catalog articles that doesn't belong in hell)

imo a trans woman of color can be as righteous and angry as she wants @ this bs

Well the idea of "transethnicity" is certainly troublesome. More fraught than Otherkin.

this is just white wolf fanfic, right?

black asian or hispanic wolf actually

Those last three things don't seem racist so much as people who have gone insane and take themselves way too seriously about it.

a lot of it belongs more in the "is this transphobic" thread tbh

and yeah there's nothing wrong with being an otherkin or whatever; the offensiveness comes from their co-opting the language from actually oppressed people and claiming their subculture is similarly oppressed. it's really common to hear them say a variation of "you wouldn't say that to a transgender person, would you?" in response to criticism.

zachlyon otm as far as i can see

idgi, isn't it just a metaphor for transphobia and maybe a safe space for exploring those ideas/feelings? i mean, there's no such thing as werewolves.

it's possible for people to explore their feelings and their hardships without appropriating the politics of people who are killed for theirs.

not to mention the fact that otherkin werewolves claiming trans immunity as a 'metaphor' are just gonna make it harder for the transgender people to be taken seriously and i just wish i never had to write this sentence

should say the rights of transgender people to be taken seriously ^

what does 'claiming trans immunity' mean?

using the idealogical arguments/points of the transgender discussion the a defense of a non-transgender identity as though it's all the same

*as a

transethnic?

transabled?

demisexual?

what the fuck did people even do with themselves before the internet.

'bate

Go away. Batin'.

I can relate because I think I'm a dog with sunglasses

lol

exception that proves the rule there

yep that's my identity don't were it out!

^ kudos

***VAMPIRES***AND***WEREWOLFS***

I spent a large proportion of yesterday reading about the Final Fantasy 7 house thanks to the "soulbonding" wormhole you guys sent me on. Jesus bloody Christos.

5 minute summary???

Insane young couple claim they are multiply soul-bonded video game characters from FF7 (and a host of other fictional characters), invite other young people in the fandom to stay with them and convince them the whole thing is real, take their money, separate them from their friends, hit them a lot...

No idea how much of the story is true (it seems to be fairly immature people in their early 20s, so could be a lot of dramallama interpretations, for one thing), but it's a complete mindfuck.

too bad leon festinger isn't still around to write about FF7 house

started losing my own sanity after about a page of those stories

I very clearly remember her putting on a lab coat and calling various medical supply companies in the yellow pages trying to get medical syringes.

she put on a lab coat so that she could trick the ppl she was calling over the phone.

wonderful.

have no time to read, have no energy to resist

OMG I remember reading all that some years back! Jesus, it was frightening.

wtf

So does the US Census regard "wolf" as an ethnicity or a race?

Sounds non-Hispanic to me.

http://i46.tinypic.com/311uaeb.jpg

yup

dinnertimin' is my new favorite word

wow @ "there's no tipping"

Thanks, G! I've always read this thread as "Rolling This is Racist . . ." util now. Anyway, I can't believe this was a real thing. "Dinnertimin'" is pretty great though, it's true.

yeah, it's not racist if i start using "Dinnertimin" in my day-to-day life is it? Cos i might start doing that

Did Tony Gwynn write that copy?

awesome

here comes dinnertimin' simon

?

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/06/katy_perry_says_she_wants_to_skin_japanese_people_and_wear_them_like_versace.html

Could imagine Tracy Jordan using that line.