It's always seemed to me narrow-minded to imagine that people can only identify with a character of their own skin colour
The hooman mind anthropomorphises to a remarkable degree, which is why a huge metal truck-robot can be a figure for emulation. Same with talking vegetables, a starfish, and a sea sponge
@roanoke way to put words in Cakelovers mouth, Literally was just talking about how humans can identify with anything. At no point did they say that people shouldn't be able to see their own race in media, but thinking that they can ONLY identify with their own race is Extremely closed minded.
@cakelover@that_creepy_guy please don’t accuse me of putting words in your mouth and put words in mine.
I agree; humans can relate to a great many humans, objects, ideas. Just as dark skinned people can relate to light skinned characters, light skinned people can relate to dark skinned characters. Right? If the skin color doesn’t matter, why does it matter?
I have put no words in your mouth, but I did ask a question relevant to the topic. Yes, people can and do relate to figures that do not look to them, but my question stands—does it matter if people see figures that look like them?
Dark skinned girls were able to relate to light skinned Ariel, why can’t light skinned girls relate to dark skinned Ariel? She’s a mythical creature—there’s no ethnic heritage to portray. There’s no cultural background. The skin color is meaningless to the story.
So, what am I missing?
Where did I put words in your mouth, I was only trying to clarify * cakelovers point? My apologies if it came off that way.
*(edited because I saw that I wrote "his cakelovers point")
You suggested my question was putting words in someone’s mouth. Note that I didn’t make a comment about how people need representation/people that look like [me]/race/blah blah… I asked, is the subtext of your statement [this].
So it seemed, that you saw my question as a challenge to the veracity of the original statement. You reiterated the statement, as if I had challenged it. By the same token that I have put words in another’s mouth, you have as well.
Now, it’s really all semantics. Because I don’t disagree with the statement, and we have both asserted that we have not intended to put words where they weren’t.
And, maybe it is just as simple as not realizing unintended subtext that some conversations gather. This is one of those conversations, and I can see how being well intentioned it would be easy to dismiss all the noise.
The hooman mind anthropomorphises to a remarkable degree, which is why a huge metal truck-robot can be a figure for emulation. Same with talking vegetables, a starfish, and a sea sponge
I agree; humans can relate to a great many humans, objects, ideas. Just as dark skinned people can relate to light skinned characters, light skinned people can relate to dark skinned characters. Right? If the skin color doesn’t matter, why does it matter?
I have put no words in your mouth, but I did ask a question relevant to the topic. Yes, people can and do relate to figures that do not look to them, but my question stands—does it matter if people see figures that look like them?
Dark skinned girls were able to relate to light skinned Ariel, why can’t light skinned girls relate to dark skinned Ariel? She’s a mythical creature—there’s no ethnic heritage to portray. There’s no cultural background. The skin color is meaningless to the story.
So, what am I missing?
*(edited because I saw that I wrote "his cakelovers point")
So it seemed, that you saw my question as a challenge to the veracity of the original statement. You reiterated the statement, as if I had challenged it. By the same token that I have put words in another’s mouth, you have as well.
Now, it’s really all semantics. Because I don’t disagree with the statement, and we have both asserted that we have not intended to put words where they weren’t.
And, maybe it is just as simple as not realizing unintended subtext that some conversations gather. This is one of those conversations, and I can see how being well intentioned it would be easy to dismiss all the noise.