autisticvoldemort:

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joannerowling:
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zendayaimdb:
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aquariary:
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King tbh
if a black woman was in this position, they would’ve been calling her all types of ugly. that’s how rampant misogynoir is. if this doesn’t prove how black men have male privilege, then i don’t know what will.
it’s all performative. white women don’t find this dude “hot” and neither do men, but even the worst of them are afraid to be called “racist” when it comes to complaining about a black man being cast in a racebent role. so they’re being polite and finding a socially delicate way to lightly complain about the choice (which is a dumb choice, truly, because it might make at least two characters in the story newly racist. so baffling.)
but people don’t hold back when it’s a black women, because being hateful and cruel to us is 100% socially accepted in white and black (and every other) culture. it’s so telling that i’ve seen a few mainstream media pieces now featuring people worrying in advance about hermione being possibly played by a black girl in light of this snape casting. like, they’re (at this point) making up a black girl child to get mad at, rather than talking about the black dude.
black men experience a kind of cultural worship even by white supremacists like elon musk. it’s fucking nuts.
Ok, look, you’re not wrong, he’s nothing special, he’s just young. Though i actually remembered seeing him in Black Mirror and his acting made him hot there, but that’s standard for actors.
This is what Alan Rickman looked like at 44 (older than Snape should be but he started his career later). Not model hot but as we can see, he wasn’t exactly an uggo.
All that aside. You’re wrong about the rest and you need to take a chill pill before you go to my post accusing me of being performative.
I’m actually pretty fucking tired at this point of people who apparently know shit about Harry Potter blabbing about this. Need i remind you all that James is not the bad guy in the Snape vs the Marauders feud, the Marauders don’t attack Snape based on class, or any of this bullshit the Snape stans love to peddle. James attacks him because the guy is siding WITH the actual racists in the story. James is the guy who films himself punching a Nazi. The fact that he’s annoying as hell about it doesn’t erase the “punching a Nazi” aspect of it all. (And i’m using “a Nazi” METAPHORICALLY, here.). Snape gets his ass handed to him because HE is the one who is a racist piece of snivelling shit, and presumably that will still be the reason why he gets his ass handed to him on tv, in 6 or 7 years of time as of now when, god willing, this single chapter in a book that’s 900+ pages long will grace our screen for perhaps half an episode.
Like clearly all of you people are not into Harry Potter, otherwise you’d know this, so what do you even care about any of it? Can you go look for some other drama to fulfill your lives? Please and thanks.
… i’m a huge harry potter fan. i’m re-reading all of the novels with my wife and one of my best friends right now. tom riddle is my current header image. i blog about HP almost constantly. i’m one of those cringe millennials who has a harry potter tattoo, for fuck’s sake. so, yeah, i’m going to fight with you about this.
what’s actually happened here is that you got very angry that @aquariary and i, two black women, called the fandom out for its history of misogynoir (which was, i remind you, primarily perpetuated by white women after the cursed child). you couldn’t engage with that, so you ranted about the relationship between james and severus.
first, the death eaters are not a nazi analog. jo has never liked that comparison; she made it quite clear in the fantastic beasts franchise that blood purity politics in the wizarding world is a good deal more complicated than simply “being like racism” or “being like xenophobia”. she’s a masterful world-builder, and she isn’t interested in simplistic one-to-one comparisons. blood purity fanatics are bad, yes, but they’re not simply “nazis”.
second, i’m not a severus fan, but the fact that a half-blooded boy joined the death eaters because he was so wounded by his own sense of pride, possessiveness of lily, and hatred of james and sirius due to their bullying of him, is pretty fucking important. even more importantly, he becomes disillusioned and rejoins dumbledore in the battle against the death eaters. that’s his character arc; he’s a prototypical loser, wounded guy who gets interested in terrorism to soothe his ego, but he de-radicalized himself. it’s simple.
none of that changes the fact that, visually, to the audience at home, white james potter and white sirius black bullying black severus snape primarily because he’s psychosexually obsessed with lily evans is not great. that is why i called it a baffling choice, because it makes james look like a fucking white supremacist. i know it’s very hard for most people who aren’t black to think deeply about race, but fortunately for you this isn’t even that deep. it’s just a dumb choice jo made, because now there’s an implication of racism on the part of, at the very least, james (if he remains white) that may not be text, but it will certainly be subtext. if you’re a james fan, you should be pretty annoyed about that, dude.
@joannerowling you clearly haven’t read HP in awhile girl because you’re missing a lot of shit with regards to the plot and characters of the HP books. that being said let me translate this to white girl speak so you can understand why you’re being a fucking piece of shit to these two black radfems:
you missed the entire point of their replies and their valid criticism of this casting and the way that it may effect the rest of the series/how casting a black woman would not be received in the same way. your frankly weird posturing about these two people not being ‘real hp fans’ is also really unnecessary.
i know white rad fems are too stupid to read someone being upset about something on a post without making it about them and their lily white feelings but neither @aquariary or @zendayaimdb were attacking you but simply stating that they do not think a black woman would receive this same treatment because black men have cultural capital that they are not afforded because of misogynoir.
misogynoir btw is that thing white radfems are always doing anytime a black radfem tries to exist in this space.
I didn’t “miss the point”. I disagree with it. (Little piece of nuance that can be tough to understand for tumblrinas, i know.) The very core of the argument - “oh no, how will audiences cope with seeing a black man play a morally grey character!!” - relies on panic, not reason. The truth is audiences will cope.
youre literally not responding to anything anyone said. it’s crazy you’re larping as someone as intelligent as jkr when you can’t even seem to grasp words being spoken to you. you should be checked for brain damage.
Ok, what?
a) I don’t “larp” as JKR anymore than you’re larping at, er, an autistic voldemort apparently? Also, not for nothing but JKR is one person we know for sure at this point that was asked “black actor for Snape, yes?” and did not blink.
b) I have been responding to you and the women above point by point, with quotes from the replies addressed to me. And your contribution to this conversation has been what, exactly, besides telling me i’m white and thus wrong?
c) Why the hell would you tell a stranger to “get checked for brain damage” over a disagreement over Harry Potter??? drink a glass of water, open the window, and breath in deep. This is cool, this is not important. Black Snape is not gonna harm you.
you look like an absolute moron. you refuse to engage with the points that aquariary and zendayimdb made about misogynoir in fandom. the only other point that was made was that his casting could look racist if james is white and bullying him over a white girl (source: the history of lynching). you have not responded to either of these points and have instead attempted to gaslight me about it???
also, implying i’m scared of a black man when you’re straight up ignoring black feminists because it’s not convenient to you is really fucking rich.
i’m actually at a loss for words. the complete lack of care and solidarity for black radical feminists is insane in this community. this person has actively attempted to gaslight me for pointing out her blatant disregard for the points made by @aquariary and @zendayaimdb about fandom misogynoir. at no point did she ever acknowledge the misogynoir that they were discussing in potential black female casting and when one of then described the poor optics of this potential casting her answer was to completely misunderstand the books of the author she clearly wishes she was as smart as. and in that same response to them about james’ potential casting as a white man she decided to imply they’re fake fans who need to chill out.
there is a sinister thing happening in the radfem community where the lot of you sit around pretending not to see black women being condescended to by clearly very conservative white rads like this. i’m done engaging with this person because she’s a racist and most likely a conservative who is playing at being purposefully obtuse in order to make me seem hysterical. these are the people you’re reblogging from and engaging with and you’re all going to get what you deserve in the end.

Anyway, yeah, you’re all gonna get what you deserve: a black Snape *sinister screams*