a multi-million dollar company thought posting that video was okay b/c the fandom has made it okay

i'm pissed off today so sorry if i'm a 'jerk' but the constant side-stepping of the anti-black racism against mel and how a lot of stems from her being a black woman - and a dark-skinned black woman at that - is how we're fucking here today.

a lot of this is just misogynoir. we can't group all women of color together when the issue is a black women getting hit by a car in a fandom where people have already wrote torture fics about her and harass her black (mostly female) fans.

It's fascinating that even for the time, the female characters had good writing, even if minimal, while we barely have that nowadays with recent ff