woofdad: (intense texting)
Grant Abaroa ([personal profile] woofdad) wrote 2022-04-28 03:52 am (UTC)

I mean, sure - statistically there would probably be some number of people who would be intimidated by you anyway, just because you're a big guy who doesn't take it upon himself to look cheerful and approachable and crap. But that doesn't make you unattractive, either.

But also, genuinely, every example you've given here just... sounds to me like racism. Whether the speaker knew it or not. I mean, calling your appearance shit like "brutish" and "aggressive" is INCREDIBLY loaded; white people are constantly drawing associations like that between people of color's features and whatever garbage they want to associate with us. They decide we're lesser, and then they decide that our physical features are somehow *visual evidence* of that inferiority. Even if they're not acting out of deliberate malice, a Faerghan declaring your features unattractive or scary is never going to be a culturally neutral statement


Sorry, I didn't mean to type that much.

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