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Hey. Me and two other interns are looking for somewhere to live near the Amazon Robotics campus in Westborough and none of us know the area. None of us have cars. None of us know the area. We’re only there for the summer. The options seem downright dire in the town of Westborough, is there anywhere nearby that has anything to rent with a commute of 1-1.5 hours?
I notice a pattern with white feminists refusing to understand why women of color characters shown as love interests or main leads are very important. Like maybe you’ve seen this a million times but women of color and little girls everywhere haven’t?!!
Growing up as a black girl, I rarely saw black women characters portrayed much beyond a white women’s token best friend. I related to white characters I didn’t have many options and there’s nothing wrong with relating to them, its the fact little girls who like me weren’t considered. There aren’t many well written women of color characters that aren’t tropes or propping up white women.
I had one woman tell me it shouldn’t matter what color the character is as long as they are well written. Her argument was, ordinary women characters need to be shown, no matter what they look like. WRONG. Spoken like someone who has never struggled to find characters that looked like them as a child. Maybe to HER, it’s not a big deal to see women of color on screen but we’re celebrating ourselves. Representation matters period. Diversity shouldn’t be an option, and we don’t have to compromise on this.
White women get to choose between well written and ordinary characters, while women of color don’t have the same luxury. Shows depicting women of color allowed to be loved, cherished, protected, and main leads are vital. What could be empowering to white women is not mutually empowering for women of color. Strong women characters that don’t need no man aren’t empowering to women of color since many of us, especially black women get stereotyped into such roles.
