I’ll just say it now: even if TLJ had been a movie that the fandom adores and if Rose had been an overall popular character Kelly would’ve still been harassed on the internet. My proof? Well has everybody forgotten what happened to John and Daisy during the TFA era? Apparently so… and of course they won’t even admit this KEEPS happening to John on a daily basis …
A lot of these people didn’t harass Kelly bc of the movie or bc her character was badly written … some of these asshats might claim that to justify their shitty behaviour but we all know they would’ve done it regardless because their problem isn’t Rose Tico in particular or a bad movie that Kelly hasn’t freaking written … their problem is that she’s an Asian woman and this is what they let her know.
Admitting that rasicm and sexism is alive and well is something that the media doesn’t want the general public to realize. It’s much easier to pass it off as it’s the fans fault.
Though as we all learned by Solo, misblaiming your fan base is not a wise business move
This youtube channel called <the dishonoured wolf> literally called her “fat asian bitch” and this isnt even about her character but that ass narrator attacked Kelly’s actual physique. I was disgusted.
thank you for sending this and so you guys dont have to read any of it, i thought i’d share some highlights with regards to finn (tw for racism, obviously. this is a reylo fic we’re talking about)
also the comments on this fic are even worse, somehow. reylos keep finn’s name out of your fucking mouths!
here are some lovely comments from the fic
So to everyone who keeps claiming there is no issue with hatred towards Finn in the R*ylo fandom… just read this! This story has tousands of comments too of people who LOVE this!
Please for the love of God I want everyone to admit that these comments have nothing to do with canon whatsoever!
thank you for sending this and so you guys dont have to read any of it, i thought i’d share some highlights with regards to finn (tw for racism, obviously. this is a reylo fic we’re talking about)
Like R*ylos are like “Why do you spend so much time hating a ship” yet they dedicate so much time and energy to slandering Finn who has done literally nothing to warrant any slander.
And you mean to say people who criticize the Rose Tico character can’t care about the actress? Wow you fail.
And here we are back where it started on here: people claiming that every person who dislikes the character harassed Kelly and that the harassment thus came because people dislike Rose/TLJ. Which in the end lead back to
“Those who dislike the movie are toxic haters” and not “we have to protect the actors from online harassment”
It’s fucking disgusting, conflating the problem of racist and misogynist hatred WOC face with disliking some fictional story/character. Yeah, I’m sure the harassment was due to not liking Rian Johnson’s writing and not because these asshats can’t stand the idea of an Asian woman daring to exist outside prescribed visuals and roles. Not liking the work or characters is the excuse these harassers frequently use, and reylows validate them to score a point.
But then my brain stopped working when I read Finn is Gaston… yeah, right. But you’re all not racists who reinterpret the story for your shit ship, right?
As far as I can tell the whole A/B/O genre is just terrible canine sex ed, based on long-debunked theories about the social behavior of wolves.
Also who the fuck is this guy:
Later on we have Rey holding her breath to avoid smelling him. Nice.
The Force belongs to everyone but the Black man and the Latino guy have to fight for it, evidently 😂
I’ve been having a few conversations about an ask that I answered a couple of days back (link), and how I responded to a passing comment in the ask that I perceived as being sexist against Rey when the larger point was about racism against Finn. Looking back I would have handled things much differently, such as by asking the anon to clarify or just not answering the ask. Whatever the intent or context, I made a conversation about antiblack racism into one about sexism against a white woman and I regret that. I can’t change what I did but I’ll try to do better in the future.
Exactly. I still think doomerey is ridiculous, but not because of an earlier version of the script where Poe was going to die. It’s because they hadn’t even met for two movies and the third movie isn’t going to have anything near enough time to develop a believable romance. It’s also really racist tbh because the idea dismisses Finn’s two movies worth of bonding with Rey with a pat on the head. Excuse me? I have some taste, thank you, and there’s no way I’m going to accept a canon ship based on “hi” and a rushed last-minute romance when Rey crying on Finn’s chest about to die with him on a doomed planet was RIGHT THERE. Not every movie has to have a romance but if there is going to be one I demand some basic quality, not to mention respect for my intelligence as a viewer.
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