[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Slut!Seamus and other ships

[Tammy Rizzo]

Pippin wrote:
> 
> > A US writer would probably be  aware that depicting a black male as
> > promiscuous would open a whole can of cultural worms. They might not
> > want to go there.

And Cindy asked:
> Hmmm.  I never considered that.  Do you think it is taboo in the U.S.
> against depicting black men as promiscuous?  Why would this be so, do
> you think?

Now I (Tammy) say:
Black males have had a long history of being stereotyped as both extremely virile 
and quite promiscuous, and while they may want to keep the 'virile' image, there's 
been a lot of effort lately to downplay the 'promiscuous' image, even so far as 
having megameetings of hundreds of thousands of black men who have publicly 
sworn fidelity to their families.

Toss a Slut!Dean on that, from a US writer, and there would be a (small, in fanfic 
circles, but definite) backlash of some sort.  Hardly rioting in the streets, but 
certainly SOME backlash.  Email bombs, bubotuber pus attacks, things like that.

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Tammy
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