I think it's great that you're boosting Sam even if you don't ship SamSteve! It's really important that white fans support characters of colour and call each other out on our nonsense. Fandom is so, so racist, but it's convenient for a lot of white fans to turn a blind eye to it. Case in point, if Rhodey was white, Tony/Rhodey would have been the main ship in the MCU for 13 years now, and everybody knows it.
And yes... IW was extremely, unnecessarily cruel to its characters of colour (Gamora, T'Challa, Okoye, Shuri, Sam, Rhodey, ALL OF FREAKIN WAKANDA....). I haven't been able to watch the trailer for part 2 (because Reasons — I'll probably make/import a post from Tumblr about the way that IW triggered the fuck out of me in terms of my PTSD), but from what I've heard from fans of colour on Twitter/Tumblr, the prognosis for characters of colour doesn't look much better.
...At least we have Black Panther 2 to look forward to?
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Date: 2019-01-06 04:06 pm (UTC)And yes... IW was extremely, unnecessarily cruel to its characters of colour (Gamora, T'Challa, Okoye, Shuri, Sam, Rhodey, ALL OF FREAKIN WAKANDA....). I haven't been able to watch the trailer for part 2 (because Reasons — I'll probably make/import a post from Tumblr about the way that IW triggered the fuck out of me in terms of my PTSD), but from what I've heard from fans of colour on Twitter/Tumblr, the prognosis for characters of colour doesn't look much better.
...At least we have Black Panther 2 to look forward to?