#unfriendly black hotties

[itsexclusive]

[senorablack]

hawt n hot

[simoneindiaa]

Gratitude in FULL affect

Forever walking by faith, never by sight.

xoxo, SIS <3 =)

[sunnydaygray]

summer me NOW ❤️‍🔥

[thatgirlsana]

[babytooth8483]

treat me like a person, not a concept

i grow so exhausted from people wholly enjoying the idea of have a trans or neurodivergent or disabled or racialized friend/partner — but when it comes to realizing the depth of our character and the intersections we frequent as we navigate the world as our full selves, y’all just can’t hold it.

like the hefty realization that our life experiences are anything and everything but uncomplicated destroys so many opportunities for connection, collaboration, and reconciliation— yet people continue to treat us as speculative figures in a theoretical world in an alternate timeline, little NPCs to bicker over and ultimately fuck over.

anyway im just salty about how one of my white queer trans fem coworkers treats me like sort of “wokeness” slot machine, where they regurgitate some shit they heard on breadtube about racism/classism/queer theory/etc. at me with the hopes that i’ll validate them in some way?? IDK. like I’ll be like “I like video games” and they’ll be like “did you know a black man came up with the concept for the Madden game franchise” — and I’m like literally shut the fuck up because I wanted to talk about splatoon. and also for the record, black people are not gonna vibe with you if every time y’all talk you gotta quote MLK or talk about that one time you went to a BLM protest with your eagle scout troop. literally get bent.

It’s infuriating bc I really wanna make other ND trans friends but I keep running into weird af white ppl who wanna quote marx and show me 800 transphobic tweets from jk rowling. Like girl please get help, im just trying to watch anime and suck your dick. “Have you heard of Audrey lorde?” Girl get out my mf face!!!

[thottybrucewayne]

I gotta find a way to give off unapproachable mean Black girl vibes. I'm TIRED of people seeing me and assuming I'm gonna be nice to them!

[ariannadejasade]

It's my 5 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[bigbrotherkillsme]

unfriendly black hotties

[saintsenara]

happy birthday, james potter!

the random number generator and i have collaborated to create a lovely selection of unhinged pairings for your enjoyment…and to unleash chaos in your memory 😈

🦌 james/gregorovich

🦌 james/seamus finnegan

🦌 james/alphard black

🦌 james/thomas riddle sr. (tom sr.’s father)

🦌 james/the grey lady

🦌 james/phineas nigellus black

🦌 james/fred weasley

🦌 james/lavender brown

omg cheers anon - and sorry to my king james potter that this is late. but, let's be real, what are you going to do about it, you're dead.

mykew gregorovich/james potter

james and sirius very much have the vibes of lads who went full brits-abroad in whichever european city gregorovich is based in, got steaming drunk, and lost all their possessions.

can't get home without a wand, can you? and you've got no hope of getting back to london the muggle way [especially if you're stuck behind the muggle iron curtain]. luckily gregorovich is willing to give up a couple of free wands in exchange for... something.

seamus finnegan/james potter

complete flop. james calls it "londonderry" and seamus breaks his nose.

alphard black/james potter

i actually kind of back this. my preferred view of alphard is that he's both a bit of an adventurer and that he's a "confirmed bachelor". james and sirius one hundo went drinking with him and were gagged by his wild stories, so why shouldn't james be gagged by him in another sense?

james potter/tom riddle sr.

as i will point out to anyone who'll listen, tom riddle jr. is a full-on simp for james [he devotes so much time in canon to waxing lyrical about james' lovely spine - he wishes wormtail could stand up that straight].

i always find it amusing to presume that many of voldemort's more voldemort-y characteristics come from his dad [it's just funnier to imagine quite how strong those muggle genes are - and just how much that knowledge would bother him], and i am more than willing to include a weakness for messy-haired twunks among those.

james would be into it because - like harry - he likes his men tall, thin, and with great cheekbones. and also because - had he lived - you just know tom sr. would have been a rich dilf.

james potter/helena ravenclaw

in canon, the grey lady is an extremely unfriendly hottie, which we all know from snape's worst memory is exactly what james likes in his women.

phineas nigellus black/james potter

if magical paintings can be semi-sentient, the same must be true for any form of magical artwork, meaning that the doodle sirius drew of a topless james professing his love for him [which he then hid in his sock draw so kreacher couldn't out him to walburga] immediately absconded from the page and went on the prowl...

phineas nigellus is famously not an ethical man, and he clearly also finds being a portrait a bit dull. why wouldn't he take advantage of a situation which stumbles so willingly into his lap...?

james potter/fred weasley

gotta do something to pass the time in the afterlife! and complaining about much you both hate severus snape is great foreplay.

lavender brown/james potter

flopping. james has had enough of fucking prophecies, especially ones made by sybill trelawney, and he'd rather die all over again than listen to lavender talk about how much she adored her and how divination is definitely a good and real thing.

[simoneindiaa]

Happiness over everything, an undefeated formula

xoxo, SIS <3 =)

[sunnydaygray]

[saturngalore]

wcif the hairs from your unfriendly black hotties post ?

hi! the red hair is the mo’nique hair by brandysims x kiegross, the orange hair is the alicia hair by kiegross, the black hair is the ari hair by brandysims x kiegross, and the blonde hair is keona braids by ebonix 🫶🏾

[dreamgirlvibes]

Unfriendly black hottie.

Sike, I love y’all 🥺

[cakepoppresent]

Unfriendly Black Hotties

[brookea21]

Mean Girls

Mean Girls is a widely quoted and mainstream movie; in fact, it is one of the most well-known teen comedy films. However, for those who haven’t seen it, a quick synopsis is that this film is about protagonist Cady Heron, who moves from being homeschooled in Africa to a public school in an American suburban town and has to figure out how to navigate high school, and her new friend group ‘The Plastics’; all the while running into problems with her real friends, her love life, and even herself.

I've seen this film many times, and initially, it was one of my favorite films; however, when I rewatched it recently, I noticed many negative stereotypes regarding people of color being reinforced throughout the film, which definitely made the film more uncomfortable to watch than I had previously remembered. While I understand that this is a comedic movie that potentially utilizes these stereotypes in an attempt to mock American racism, it actually contributes to the issue by further reinforcing negative stereotypes to viewers. 

Especially when considering who directed, wrote and predominantly starred in the film and that few of these people were people of color, so this essentially reinforces negative stereotypes surrounding people of color, since these jokes are not used to provide a message and political context to the audience, but more for comedic relief at the characters of color expense, their individual identities compromised and refined to reinforce negative stereotypes for comedic relief. In particular, The 'Otherization' of the continent of Africa and the film's treatment of their Black American characters to serve as comedic relief reinforcing negative stereotypes made me uncomfortable upon a second watch.

For example, in this scene, the film is framing Black Americans as a collective whole by grouping all these individuals, silencing their identities and utilizing false and negative tropes to collectively personify them. The White characters, on the other hand, are framed as being dynamic people with complex feelings and emotions, and eventually, in the film, the main white protagonist Cady actually fixes the school clique problem by getting everyone to talk about their emotions at an assembly, which utilizes the ideology of Cady serving as the ‘White savior,’ to friend groups she isn’t even apart of. Furthermore, the scene that calls this friend group the ‘Unfriendly Black hotties’ is rooted in harmful racist stereotypes about Black People.

Additionally, as seen in this clip, the film also dehumanizes Africa and African people, labeling the continent as ‘wild’ and ‘uncultured,’ further perpetuating harmful Western and racist stereotypes surrounding the continent and using it for both comedic relief and as a way to showcase Cady’s naivety. 

In what way do you think that Mean Girls use of comedy perpetuates harmful stereotypes, and how do you think it could have utilized comedy to send a more meaningful and critical message about race to the audience? 

Why do you think this ‘otherization’ of Africa, framing it as uncultured and wild, is common in Western media, and what makes this trope harmful? Additionally, are there any films you can think of that utilize this damaging trope? 

Do you think that the Black characters in this movie could have been given a more significant plotline and individualized personalities, and how do you think that would have positively changed the film?

@theuncannyprofessoro