Three-year-old Aboriginal girl left in tears after she is racially abused by a grown woman for wearing her favourite Frozen costume
Samara Muir, 3, had dressed up as Queen Elsa from Disney film Frozen
The little girl wore the outfit to a Disney event in Melbourne
She was racially abused by a mother and her two daughters
‘Black is ugly’ the three-year-old was told by one of the other girls
Samara was so upset she would not go to her Aboriginal dance class
When her mother asked why she replied: ‘It’s because I’m black’
This is why people who seem to need “proof from history” that WE NEED MORE DIVERSE REPRESENTATION IN FANTASY piss me off so much. People of color get harassed at Renaissance Faires, at SCA events, in online fandoms, at LARPs, and events based entirely on fantasy and fairy tale stories, because supposedly “there were no PoC back then”.
I really don’t get why anyone would need any more “proof” than the fact that a 3 year old child was told “Black is ugly” at a Disney event because she was dressed as Elsa.
I really wonder if things would change if Frozen really had been based on media from historical Denmark, as a lot of the mistaken “historical accuracy” police had claimed it was. Maybe then people would have seen someone in Frozen, maybe even Elsa, who looked like Karel Van Mander III’s Queen Persina (from a series for the Royal Court in the 1600s):
But it’s not set in historical Denmark, or Norway, or “somewhere in Scandinavia”. It’s set in a 100% make-believe world with magic ice powers and sentient snowmen.
And in THIS world, the one we all live in, racist grown women attack toddlers for dressing up as characters who don’t look like them, when there are practically NO characters who DO look like them.
NB: I’m not gonna front, this is long as hell. There was a lot of ground to cover, and I enjoyed myself. I’ll carve some shorter, more digestible pieces out of this in the coming days, but for now, here is all 11,400 words of it. Grab a snack and stay hydrated throughout.
My, my, what a
difference a year makes. Here we are one year after the season 3 finale,
“The Price of a Free and Fair Election” (318). In fact, 422 ends a year after
318 does: Election Day. The results are very different for many of the
characters, especially Olivia and Fitz. Previous winners have become losers and
losers have become winners. And Jake Ballard is [insert
bland name here] Cooper, from Indiana. Anyway, I have watched Scandal’s fourth, and
arguably best, season finale, “You Can’t Take Command”. Commands were given,
taken, interrogated, dismantled, and wrested.
My heart and my head are so full—with satisfaction as well as schadenfreude. As celebratory as I feel right now, this
review will not be without some wig snatchery. I’m coming for the biggest, the
fakest, and the greyest wigs in the Scandalverse. But first, let me take a
moment to be smug about my rightness with regard to the arc of season 4.
