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farlaThere's some bitchery about the racial subtext of hair jokes going on. It's mostly three camps - "Please consider the racial subtext if you're making a joke about how African hair is ugly" "You are offending the oppressed black peoples if you say anything but how awesome African hair/hairstyles are" and "WTF since when?"
What I find interesting is that one of the posters who's in the second camp has an icon from the last cycle of writing "characters of color" about how writers avoid dark-skinned characters as considered too hard to identify with when people write about vampires and other completely non-existent humanoids.
It maybe has something to do with the fact the vampires don't throw fits if you describe them as having pasty complexions.
What I find interesting is that one of the posters who's in the second camp has an icon from the last cycle of writing "characters of color" about how writers avoid dark-skinned characters as considered too hard to identify with when people write about vampires and other completely non-existent humanoids.
It maybe has something to do with the fact the vampires don't throw fits if you describe them as having pasty complexions.
