Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-3025831-20140401172942/@comment-10860529-20140406230710

Poking in here, I'm just going to say that I'd actually seen the comments posted before they were unfairly deleted. Unfortunately I hadn't the time to comment, however, and I regret not stepping in beforehand (it was pretty early in the morning and I'm a sleepy bed-bug). However, I feel as though while they may have been frank, they made some rather good points. I'll try to summarize them as best as I can, with my own commentary on them:

First off, I remember Frosty's first post linking to the music video "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot which quite frankly summarize her irksome thoughts about some of the previous comments beforehand. The second comment, while it might have been somewhat harsh, made a pretty good point: Saying that one is not quite a fan of the junk-in-one's-trunk, while saying it's more common in "certain" races (aka really bad generalizing), and then contradicingly stating that it looks "better" on them while still showing general negativity over it (and especially when the butt-thing wasn't even meant to be about race in the first place) holds quite a few unfortunate implications.

On one hand I don't nessesarily think that this was meant out harm or specifically/outright intended to be some demaning anti-black/Hispanic statement. That being said, it's clear that Frosty and others were hurt by what was said, and the fact that those comments were deleted instead of being replied to with a sincere, honest apology is downright insensitive.

And last but not least, the latter comment simply stated that no, "Hispanic" actually isn't a race. It just a term for those whose cultures, peoples, and/or or country has some historical link to Spain. Hispanics can be of almost any race.

As for anything else that can be covered? I feel that some of the previous topics that were adressed were an innapropriate topic to bring up in this thread. Yes, I understand that it was originally spawned from the episode-talk, but as much Wikia expects those on the site to be 13 and older there are certain line that needs to be drawn, especially when rape happens to be one of them.

I believe that it's better off for this topic to be cleared and/or started over with this in mind. What was formerly an innocent discussion about the others' thoughts about the episode and a fan-made "line" for it and future content went way out of hand.