Cultural Appropriation Cracker.

thisshitisallracist:

pantsreminder:

bossymarmalade:

pantsreminder:

bossymarmalade:

pantsreminder:

Hemashri

So I’m making up Hindu myths or something. She charms men, has sex with them, then eats their souls. fun stuff.

(Hemashri means one with a golden body apparently)

Are you Hindu?

If you’re not (and judging from this bizarre Jasmine flower-of-the-desert outfit and lack of knowledge of EXISTING Hindu myth figures, I’m guessing you’re not even Indian), why do you think it’s your right to “make up Hindu myths”?

I don’t know, creative freedom maybe? 

Just because I don’t know much about Hinduism and clearly didn’t do any research doing a stupid doodle doesn’t mean I can’t give it a half assed story related to what I happened to be inspired by. 

Maybe if I had seemed a little more serious about this I’d understand why you felt the need to ask this, but in all honesty, do I have to explain creative impulses to you? I’d do research if I was more serious about it because there’s nothing worse than being the artist that doesn’t know about what they’re drawing, but I’m not really even planning on doing anything with this character.

I don’t know if you’re an artist but if you are you know how you can just see an image in your head, and you have to draw it. Usually while I’m drawing I make up stories, and that’s not exactly a time when I want to be doing research. I just create, regardless of inaccuracies.

Maybe instead of getting angry you could try and educate me as to why you think I shouldn’t do this or what I did wrong or something. I always accept critiques on my art, which includes problems with accuracy, or if it offends you I can draw something more accurate. I’m not here to make enemies, I don’t want you to feel like you can’t tell me that I’m wrong. (for the record though, I’d definitely prefer you take it to my ask box)

Maybe if you didn’t want actual Hindus to be grossed out by your half-assed assumptions and perpetrating of stereotypes, you should keep this kind of shit in your digital sketchbook and not post it with a laconic comment about how you invented a Hindu creature who sexes up men and eats their souls.

“Artistic license” and “creative freedom” are valid concepts.  They mean that as an artist you can use images in whatever way you choose to communicate a message.  What they DON’T mean is that nobody should criticize you if blithely use the iconography of a group you don’t belong to, because we should all understand your artistic methods and that your creative impulses are more important than the way this representation of Hinduism hurts actual Hindus.

“Maybe instead of getting angry you could try and educate me”

AHAHAHAHAHHA 

I don’t do Racism 101, sorry.  Maybe instead of being defensive and demanding an education, you could DO SOME DAMN RESEARCH.

Well, I guess this’ll be the last time I post any of my doodles anywhere on the internet because they’ll offend someone

I bet you didn’t think twice about offending me, but that’s okay because I’m a white majority and I don’t get any kind of racism. I hope you read what your followers are adding, it makes me feel so important, especially all of the insulting shit about me being an ignorant ”whitey”

And since you’re so unwilling to teach me, I don’t even fucking want to learn. Why would I do research on people who are now rudely putting me down? You tell me to not be so ignorant, then you don’t even tell me what I should do to fix it? Honestly, just because you’re a minority means you can walk all over people, even when they offered to compromise? It’s not like I was planning on offending people, I realize that’s how you deal with some people but why are you taking out your anger on me? You don’t know me at all as a person, and if you couldn’t tell from my last response I just want to understand.

I know you won’t believe me but I’m literally crying right now because you did this in probably the rudest way possible. Thanks for ruining my week.

If you want me to take it down I fucking will, but it looks like now that you’ve drawn everyone’s attention on the “ignorant whitey” everyone has seen it anyway.

I like reblogging passive aggressive shit on my tumblr. I hope no one missed this. Because it’s easily one of my fave posts ever. 

Just…everything I bolded. Wow.

omg.

EDUCATE ME

NEVER MIND I DIDN’T WANT TO LEARN ANYWAY

PASSIVE-AGRESSIVE RAMBLINGS.

I’M TOTALLY CRYING WHITE TEARS.

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY.

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