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Why The Disposable Black Girlfriend Is A Problem
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0:00 I am a pretty solid fan of the series the first season was incredible the 0:05 memes were fantastic and with there being so many different superhero deconstruction shows and adult animated 0:11 series it managed to still feel fresh I will also watch almost anything with JK 0:18 Simmons in it almost anything but there was one aspect of the show I've always 0:24 strongly disliked I heard you took a few on the chin for me again Invincible was originally a comic book series by Robert 0:31 Kirkman who also co-created and co-wrote The Walking Dead it began publication in 0:36 2003 and lasted for 144 issues and 25 volumes ending in 2018 as the show has 0:43 been adapted for the animated am*zon Prime series Kirkman has admitted to rewriting certain parts of the series 0:48 and updating it the comics had a lot of very Peak 2000's humor gay jokes rward 0:54 poorly written female characters messy depictions of sexual assault so with over a decade Plus distance changes were 1:01 made and I think that's commendable I think that it's really cool to be able to know that your work can be updated 1:06 and then when you're given the opportunity to do so you take it Kirkman told radio times when we sit down with 1:11 the source material if we feel like everything is working we just try to make sure that we uphold what existed in 1:17 the comics trying to put a Fresh coat of paint on it trying to expand things where we can expand them truncate things 1:23 where you feel like that's necessary following the finale for this past season a lot of attention was made to 1:28 the monologue that the character Conquest made that was not present in the original comic no one wants to be my 1:34 friend they think I am unstable [ __ ] me too when I write an episode I always go 1:40 through the comic and think about how I can make things more interesting because I'm writing myself I feel an extra 1:46 responsibility if I'm going to write the same thing a second time I need to make it interesting for me and hopefully make 1:53 it better for the audience one change that happened while 1:59 making the new series series was having the main character Mark Grayson also known as half Korean I think 2:05 representation matters not to get on a soap box or anything especially in the world of superheroes you didn't start 2:11 getting nonwhite superheroes regularly until the 70s and even then through the 2:16 ' 80s and '90s and 2000s they're still somewhat rare yeah but they don't tell them that they all think it's organic 2:22 diversity there's nothing about his race that is essential to that character his race could literally be anything I think 2:28 because we were in that position we decided it'd be a responsible thing to do and a really cool thing to do and do 2:35 something with his race that was interesting in the animated series and that's why we decided to go down that 2:40 road down down down the road down the witches Road in the comics Mark and his 2:46 mother Debbie are very white-coated and I did see the arguments about the our style being ambiguous but using just 2:54 kind of like media General literacy like we can inert that they are white because that is the default in American comics 3:00 and I think up until Mark was confirmed to be Korean in this I don't think anyone would have doubted his whiteness 3:05 anyway Steven Yun is Korean and was cast as the voice actor for Mark and Sandra o voices his mother and so visually they 3:12 were changed to be more Korean in design the show however has never really given 3:17 a lot of cultural markers for the characters beyond that not even the obligatory like no shoes in the house 3:22 but that's not my culture or background to critique it is just interesting that I think the most explicit mention of 3:29 Mark's non whiteness recently was like Dr seismic calling him like token diversity which is like it's my old 3:36 friend's token diversity and gender stereotype another character whose race 3:41 was changed was Amber in the comics Amber was a white character who is L show the difficulty of being the 3:47 girlfriend of a superhero it's very like early Gwen Stacy Lana Lang except she 3:52 gets to live so in the adaptation they wanted to add a bit more layer to the character make her more fleshed out and 3:58 because she is voiced by zaz beats she was turned from a white character to a 4:03 black character and this as often happens with race bending is where the 4:10 trouble [Music] begins hi I am princess weeks if you 4:17 enjoyed this video please like share and subscribe I talk about the intersections between pop culture and gender race etc 4:24 etc and so forth I also have a podcast called open tabs where where I talk 4:30 about fanfiction it is not safe for work but it is very enjoyable uh so if you are interested in 4:37 something about fanfiction uh that is a little bit you know like having a dirty conversation with friends over you know 4:44 the smudy queer fanfic that 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think of many black men who have served this 6:59 function oh my God you're Jimmy Olen the photographer from The Daily Planet but let's get back to Invincible even before 7:06 I looked into the comics I felt like Eve was always intended to be endgame for Mark I always got the feeling that he 7:13 was into Eve and that if she hadn't been daing Rex he'd probably have gone for her in the first 7:19 place and when Mark and Amber started dating at least for me it never felt like this was like his great one first 7:26 love it always felt like I'm going to watch him go through all of this just to get to his actual soulmate Eve who is 7:34 non- derogatorily the like comic cliche of overpowered busty redhead who can't 7:40 actually use all her powers because then she would just break the format tragically boring but a friend of mine is working on a video about that and 7:46 they'll cover that there but like yeah that undercurrent poisoned my entire experience of watching Amber Amber was 7:52 already not liked by fans because she was seen to be the worst kind of thing a woman on a show like this can be 7:59 a hypocrite did you hear what I just said I know you're a superhero you know 8:05 you you know I'm not an idiot I figured it out weeks ago oh she knew he was invincible the whole time oh does she 8:12 not want him to save people why is she so mad about the goddamn soup kitchen 8:17 it's not about the soup kitchen she's not really mad about the soup kitchen it's about the whole lying thing but no 8:24 one cares and I'll say this I think Amber was always going to fail with an audience because that kind of character 8:31 is always hated the CW arse hate boards are filled with angry comments about 8:37 women who don't understand why their partner is always ditching them and they don't understand the mission and their 8:43 struggle and their Journey like this happens all the time on Arrow despite the fact that we the audience knew that 8:50 Oliver cheated lied and kept personal stuff from his then partner Laurel in 8:55 their relationship including the fact that her sister who he cheated on Laurel with was alive Laura was always framed 9:01 as the bad guy because her reaction to being lied to was an endless patience 9:08 plus they already had like two cool girl side options on the roster for him anyway but people already hate the kind 9:14 of character narrative Amber was a part of tie that with a character who is opinionated and assertive and black mess 9:22 and even when they do this as well as they can you are never really set up to 9:28 take the side of the person you were always made to feel like that woman is tripping it's already hard and then on 9:34 top of it this is not an important long-term relationship it is meant to teach him a lesson and it's a lesson 9:41 that we have seen done all the time so that's annoying and then on top of it 9:46 because Amber is black we now have to experience racism and Amber is now the only female black character of note in 9:53 the entire series as of right now and when I brought this up on Tik Tok there was a question of if Amber was always 10:00 meant to be sort of a disposable character as a love interest why does it matter if she's black or white why is 10:07 this so of Merit that it has a name and any relevance 10:17 well I have another video coming up shortly about the tragic motto stereotype so I don't want to repeat 10:23 things over and over again so for the sake of this video I need to accept a few things that I would hope you you 10:29 know but here we go race is a construct but it matters in terms of society 10:34 before we had the concept of race as we know it now a lot of stereotypes about women men sex Etc was all nationalistic 10:42 if you look at something like genital herpes which has existed for as long as there have been humans in England they 10:48 call it the French disease in France they call it the napole disease you know white on white violence very elegant um 10:56 which is why when people say they want European nationalism it's like the global impact of the transatlantic 11:01 slave trade and then later European colonialism did help refine race along 11:07 different Norms than previously nationalistic borders this is why even though there has always been slavery 11:13 imperialism Empire Etc we talk about this so much as having an impact because we are still actively dealing with those 11:20 repercussions today that's why we like oh whatever was over Savannah we know Savannah I hear 11:27 you but we have sociology that tells about how it infects us right now in Sabrina strings fearing the black body 11:32 she explains the racial roots of European and American fat phobia in early parts of the book strings 11:38 discusses beauty standards in the 14 and 1500s when the Portuguese started the slave trade major cities became more and 11:45 more familiar with African women and therefore they became part of the regular conversations and trius on 11:51 beauty African women were described as well proportioned and plump and consequently viewed as physically 11:56 appealing yet the burgeoning discourse about African suggested that their purported distinctive facial features 12:02 made them facially unattractive black women were further denigrated due to their surval status therefore despite 12:09 black women's reputations as well-formed Beauties their purported African physiy 12:14 and status as slaves became the early basis of social distinctions between low 12:20 status African women and their High status European counterparts strings then explains that one of the big 12:26 cultural Transformations from African women being seen as physically appealing to a more hypersexualized way was the 12:33 exploitation of Sarah Bartman also known as the hot and tot Venus Bartman was an 12:38 African woman who was part of an erotic freak Show in the 19th century she was a slave who was brought to places in 12:44 Europe where people especially white men would gawk at her cartoonishly depicted large backside it was usually very 12:51 exaggerated and used to place the African female body as Savage and primitive but also inherently sexual 12:59 this racial ftiz worked to do two things hypersexualize black bodies and establish their sexuality as something 13:06 that did not belong to themselves but to white people in the public sphere when 13:11 we think about the role of gender in this time under the patriarchy the ideal woman was meant to be an innocent 13:17 domestic being and this was one way to remove black women from Womanhood 13:24 culturally but then especially in the Americas it was also done legally In 13:30 1855 the state of Missouri prosecuted a slave named Celia Celia murdered her master Robert Nome while he was in the 13:37 process of sexually assaulting her something he allegedly did to her since he purchased her as a teenager during 13:42 her trial her lawyer argued that the laws in missoury concerning ravishment included enslaved women courts rejected 13:49 that as IR rationale the enslaved could neither give nor refuse consent nor 13:55 offer reasonable resistance yet they were criminally responsible and liable 14:01 the slave was recognized as a reasoning subject who possessed intent and rationality solely in the context of 14:08 criminal liability as a result Celia was found guilty of murder and was hanged adding on to this Dynamic of black women 14:15 not being able to be under the law while being subj to the harassment of their owners white women who were married to 14:21 these slave owners possessed resentment towards black women for being their husband's Mistresses which could 14:29 contains so much more agency than an the slave woman would have Mary boyin chestn not known for her diaries about the 14:35 Civil War and probably like the Confederate version of Lenny refall said that slave women were the culprits 14:40 responsible for their husband's downfall and forced decent white women to live with disgraced white men and be 14:47 surrounded by prostitutes I know sometimes when you're asked why a Trope 14:52 exists and someone gives you this long historical answer it can be like really overwhelming because for many people 14:58 it's just not that serious ious they are viewing the experiences of these characters from show to show but to 15:03 understand what the Disposable black woman is a problem you need to understand the social construction around the disposability of black women 15:09 in this country black women could be violently gang and the white men could brag about it and nothing would be done 15:15 it wasn't until the rap of Betty Jee Owens in 1959 that white men in the South were sent to jail for her and one 15:23 of the men who was convicted was paroled tried to kill Owens murdered another black woman and put her in a shallow 15:29 grave this was 66 years ago the new Senate's median age is 15:36 64.7 years which is down from 65.3 the start of the previous Congress and let's 15:42 think about this the transatlantic slave trade starts roughly around what people say is like 15:48 1526 the first significant case of a black woman getting legal justice for 15:54 her sexual assault happened in 1959 do you think that 433 years of seeing 16:01 black women as sexual trinkets as disposable goes away in 60 years or does 16:09 that mentality evolve and translate into other ways that black women now are still spoken and treated sexually in the 16:16 modern era especially when it comes to dating and relationships especially when 16:22 you have to watch dating shows Temptation Island is a humiliation 16:30 ritual where women take men that have cheated on them and test them to see if they're done cheating at least that's 16:36 what I got from the season that I watched they're all beautiful if you guys can take them you can have them 16:42 they get 12 hot men and 12 hot women to serve as Temptations one of the couples 16:47 on the show on this latest season was Taylor and 16:53 Tyler Taylor noted that Tyler's type is Tiny and blonde but during the first 16:58 opportunity they have to pick a date Tyler picks Courtney this beautiful sexy 17:04 black woman and the reaction was telling who do you think that he was 17:09 going to pick yellow dress that is his type to a tea to be honest I'm really proud of him at first I was like Taylor 17:18 what do you mean that it's really Brave of him that's weird however as the series progressed she clocked that tea 17:23 because the girl that Taylor initially clocked as being someone that Tyler would have dated is who he hyper fixates 17:30 on for the rest of the season Courtney this beautiful black woman was simply being used as a prop in this moment for 17:37 him to say something about himself on national television and to stun on his ex let's talk about it so in that moment 17:45 in which Tyler chose me for the first 17:51 date the entire group of girls standing beside me gassed but their gas wasn't in 17:58 a happy gasp it was more in a disappointment gasp in her book The End 18:04 Of Love yeah she's back Sabrina strings quotes from B hooks's 1992 essay eating 18:12 the other while teaching at Yale I walked one bright spring day in the downtown area of New Haven and found 18:18 myself walking behind a group of very blonde very white jock type boys seemingly on aware of my presence these 18:24 young men talked about their plans to [ __ ] as many girls from other racial SL ethnic groups as they could catch before 18:32 graduation they ran it down black girls were high on the list Native American girls hard to find Asian girls all 18:39 lumped into the same category deemed easier to entice were considered Prime targets talking about this overheard 18:46 conversation with my students I found that it was commonly accepted that one shopped for sexual partners in the same 18:52 way one shopped for courses at Yale that raisin ethnicity was a serious category on which selections were B B to these 18:59 young men and their buddies [ __ ] was a way to confront the other as well as a 19:05 way to make themselves over to leave behind white Innocents and enter the world of experience as is often the case 19:12 in this Society they were confident that non-white people had more life experience were more worldly sensual and 19:19 sexual because they were different getting a bit of the other in this case engaging in sexual encounters with 19:25 non-white females was considered a ritual of transcendence a movement out into the world of 19:31 difference that would transform an acceptable right of passage give me just 19:37 half a second what the [ __ ] black women are acceptable to have sex with and date but 19:43 their roles as wives and mothers is not seen as prominent as them being sexual 19:49 objects it doesn't go away when the media attempts to craft characters who were once white into women of color in 19:55 general it often happens with a lack of understanding of what changes about that character due to those dynamics that to 20:01 be a woman of color in the west carries a lot of sexual sociopolitical baggage that needs to be accounted for in 20:07 writing characters if only to be aware of what tropes exist you don't have to like reinvent the wheel but you should 20:15 know a little bit about the women that you're going to be writing 20:23 about the thing about this troop is that when it shows up in media it's like this 20:28 death by a thousand paper cuts because a lot of people are again viewing this Dynamic solely from the perspective of 20:34 the one show itself they're not trying to automatically build connections it is a building block and usually from shows 20:41 that want to be inclusive but they still put black characters in very cliche roles or they race Band characters and 20:48 ignore race hoping that it will be received as a colorblind accomplishment Allah a Hamilton or a brandy Cinderella 20:56 that ignores that the stage in the Disney musical are almost most very organic moments for colorby and casting at least a couple years ago and that 21:03 they are short content compared to a long television series one of the most 21:08 recent examples of this that really gets on my nerves has been the casting of the members of the House valan on House of 21:16 the Dragon uh just spoilers for what's on the show no spoilers for the future just generic book wiing your lips are 21:23 moving and you're complaining about something that's winging this one's been killed six times 21:29 you don't hear him bitching about it in the book series H Valerian is one of the surviving houses along with the 21:35 targaryens from old Valeria and they often have silver gold hair and purple eyes they've intermarried with the House 21:42 Targaryen quite often and they even arrived in Westeros before their dragon flying kin for example Egon the conquer 21:49 and his Sister Wives had a father who was a Targaryen and a mother who was from house Valyrian actor Steve tucon 21:56 was cast as Lord corus valy and his family has been portrayed as an interracial black family the problem I 22:02 had with this casting was not the the cast themselves they're all really excellent the problem is that if you read Fire and Blood you know that Lor 22:10 and Lena were going to die so there is already that element now being added onto them as being these biracial black 22:17 visibly characters who are like the in between spouses for Damon and rira in 22:22 the show's defense they do try to make Lor a more complex gay man and I think that's really good but it's not that 22:29 great either and with Lena they completely admit Damon actively courting her mourning her trying to saved their 22:37 life you know Lena and Rene's relationship which is also somewhat sapply coded is completely ignored and 22:43 other than like when he's tripping balls there's no indication that Damon valued their marriage or their daughters which 22:49 is deeply [ __ ] annoying you know like even in the Next Generation Baya is engaged to Jace and yes they have spoken 22:56 to each other but these characters are super hardcore engaged and there is zero romantic attention given to them at all 23:02 it's like I know there's a war but his mother has room to kiss so why not he they made an entire house of characters 23:10 mixed race most of them are going to be characters that are not going to do anything relevant give them little to no development on top of it and they have 23:17 framed it in a way where like the targaryens and the valyrians are visually racially 23:23 distinct and in reality they wouldn't be because if you're going to say that house valaran is black 23:28 and house Taren is white and even when that combination happens you can have a blackl looking character like Baya who 23:35 according to this is like 1/4 black if we're going to use pundit Square weird race science and they still look like 23:42 that I'm just saying R could look like hi Berry if we're really going to keep it a bug 50 like there it doesn't really 23:48 make that much sense they're just kind of hoping that we don't think about it and I find that to be a little annoying 23:54 cuz I do enjoy the show but that racial Pol politics of it and and just kind of 24:00 like putting them into all these spaces while omitting actual black characters it it greates the nerves flipping onto 24:07 another genre brierton which I'm only bringing up slightly cuz I can't talk about that franchise but other than 24:13 Queen Charlotte the series has yet to have a black woman at the center of a romance and we will see what happens in 24:19 the next season CU they did do the whole um gender bent and I discussed this in a previous video but Marina that character 24:26 was plucked from an entirely different book to be a false romantic rival in the relationship between Colin and Penelope 24:32 that became very racist and very racialized coded and if they keep the same element around for the book cannon 24:39 with Eloise is going to be an issue again but I think my favorite example of this that really gets on my nerves is 24:44 the originals which is the spin-off series of The Vampire Diaries if your life would Chang to a 24:51 man you left you despite your devotion what choice would you have but 24:56 to break fre Elijah Michael has two kinds of Love interests white brunettes 25:02 and black women and three of those white brunettes are pretty much the same person okay and I could go on and on 25:08 about how that series totally played in the face of every single black character on it but I won't today but it would be 25:14 exhausting to like have time to spend with alijah having these very deep intricate relationships with these black 25:21 women in his past only for them never to matter as much as his Precious Precious Haley they will constantly have these 25:28 these men these white men having sex having these intimate relationships with all these black women even like in the 25:34 case of Elijah with one character AA who is like this really big epic relationship who does she get merked by 25:45 [Music] Haley played in our faces like the most 25:52 successful relationship between a Michaelson and a black person are it's it's oh my God it's 25:58 Freya and her and her girlfriend who's a werewolf who she tortured when they start who she tortured the whole time um 26:06 um Marcel and Rebecca who are also related cuz they're like step aunt and step nephew Julie PL is never going to 26:12 see Heaven if if I go to heaven and Julie ple is there I'm leaving expeditiously it's not just women as I 26:18 said before you have Jamie James olon from Supergirl hail from Lost Girl dolls from her Robin from Buffy Finn from 26:27 [ __ ] star Wars oh my God my 26:33 Shayla my Shayla anyway now to address the 26:40 counterargument that I can hear some people saying does this mean that every single ex-girlfriend who is Black is 26:47 this tro no no actually I think a really good example of this oddly is from the 26:54 show you well hello there he was about this stalker 27:00 serial killer named Joe who attaches to a woman in a very unhealthy way while giving some very intense voice over 27:06 every season and in season 3 The Twist starts off as that he's interested in one woman at first but then that woman 27:13 dies and eventually he ends up falling for this character named maranne who is played by iconic blazion tati Gabrielle 27:20 and she is treated with the exact same kind of attention Vigor and intensity as Joe's other love interest she's also one 27:28 of them who doesn't die okay Joe Al Al 27:34 Ally Al no no impossible and there's actually another black girl who Joe does date in season one who is somewhat Adas 27:41 to this Trope but she is a never expected to be treated like a traditional love interest like it's very clear like what she that she's being 27:48 used in that sense and B not only does she survive but she left the relationship with such dignity that it 27:54 actually makes her a more memorable character despite being only in like I think two episodes you're 28:01 dumping me I'm not dumping you you're amazing I'm amazing but you kind of what 28:07 don't want to do me anymore there's never a good time do not talk for a minute please oh she's going to slap 28:13 me my curling iron okay then that's it like the problem is not them breaking up 28:19 or the relationship not being endgame it's the framing the treating of them as a stepping stone to a better wider 28:27 relationship this this is why even though boy meet's world ended with Shawn and Angela not being a couple them being 28:32 open-ended enough was already having the possibility of them getting back together especially because this is a show with unrealistic romantic 28:39 expectations only to then jump to the spin-off and make it so that Angela was married to some random man hasn't had a 28:44 relationship with the cor cast in years and returned to give Shawn her blessing 28:49 to marry a tiny blonde white woman so that he could be Sabrina Carpenter's father-in-law and I love Sabrina 28:55 Carpenter now but that was very hard for me for some people that's one of the rare places where you saw a very white 29:01 show have a black woman Be Loved These Things Are deeply frustrating we have so 29:06 little representation and it's not that we needed to be perfect we would just want it to be done with like care and 29:12 consideration and concern from the beginning it shouldn't take you like three seasons to finally figure out how 29:19 to style Anna joke properly as Starfire you know like although it is Titans and everyone 29:25 did look busted so in that case there is a a little a little bit of Grace to be had it's deeply frustrating it's deeply 29:31 frustrating to have such a rampant whitewashing of certain characters of color and comics and moves and adaptations but in the comics they can 29:38 be turned into like whatever prompt people need them to be it is frustrating that even when they're like the kindest 29:44 most cam androll race B version of a character that they can be turned into a villain for being in the way of a 29:49 non-existent gay ship it is deeply unserious to show a character dating and having deep relationships with a black 29:56 woman all the time but then make every important screen time for a relationship with them be a white woman so we remain 30:03 connected you and I in spite of everything that you have done and then to turn off the screen and then live in 30:09 a society that doesn't want to teach or acknowledge history or social context when you in habit and existence 30:15 constantly being dictated by said 30:20 realities the Disposable black girlfriend is a frustrating Trope I think the reason why it's so difficult 30:26 is because it sits at this intersection of sexism racism and bad writing especially that last one going back to 30:33 Amber from Invincible the fact is that female love interest for superheroes often get caught in this Dynamic that if 30:39 they are not totally at the whim of the man they are villainized into someone un 30:44 trustworthy who doesn't get the life you know add Racin to it and you end up in a situation like Iris West Allen on the 30:51 flash where the audience is so antagonized about the idea of Iris being 30:57 like in important like the reaction to Iris saying We Are The Flash should be 31:03 studied how Candace pad was treated as a race band character is like literally like academic worthy I know that often 31:10 when you talk about issues of race people who are reactionary go to this idea of like oh you're teaching black women not to see themselves as lovable 31:17 by repeating this stuff and there is something to the fact that people are very quick to to weaponize statistics 31:23 about black women's relationships at the same time black women already know these things because they date 31:28 we live in the world we know how we're hypersexualized we know how we're stigmatized it isn't new and for me just 31:34 thinking back to myself explaining that it was invented purposefully to reduce you might be a new experience and that's 31:42 why it's important to talk about it because these things are not written in stone it doesn't mean it has to be this 31:47 way and for the record also before someone says it I'm also not saying that you need to date black women okay uh if 31:53 you don't want the little taste of Africa get away from me okay you don't have to date black women and that's not what anyone is saying uh but it is worth 31:59 examining why you think of black women as an inferior pick same with latino women or any kind of women it's not 32:06 about changing your preference it's about examining your racism your 32:11 internalized racism that's see how it's different you know my preference is Jin 32:17 Wu from solo leveling and toi from jiujitsu Kaizen and somehow I manag to 32:23 wake up every day and not treat other people like [ __ ] some at the middle of the night I like I think about Andromeda 32:30 in Greek mythology Andromeda is the princess of Ethiopia and because her mother talks about 32:36 aphrod first mistake she is chained to a rock to be fed to a monster like classic damsel and distress stuff Ethiopia as 32:43 far as we know in the ancient world is probably around like Sudan ancient Nubia 32:49 the word allegedly means like burnt faces and again there was no Africa or African identity at this point it was 32:55 very tribal so you have Andromeda this princess this ultimate archetype of 33:01 Damsel in Distress looking less like the classical images that we see of her in 33:06 the text is is said to be a darker skinned woman and it's Ved between like African Asian they don't really know how 33:13 geography Works back then so but we can we can say likely probably African right 33:19 there's nothing inherent about the way people have treated black women it is programming and learn behavior and it can be unlearned it just has to be named 33:26 and called out because black women CIS and trans have been taught to be strong 33:31 in the face of every disrespect but the people who started that those who perpetuate it fixing it should be their 33:39 burdens to carry we have always had this potential to be loved and we deserve to 33:44 have it be seen on TV and if you're going to put black women in your shows put some goddamn respect on our 33:52 names thank God for Castlevania doct turn season 2 33:59 actually let me go rewatch that right now thanks for watching 34:04 [Music] 34:28 n [Music] 34:59 n [Music] 35:22 [Applause] 35:28 he 35:34 [Music] 36:02 he [Music] [Applause] [Music] 36:26 [Music] 36:52 oh [Music]