Latinas Are Not a Fetish, !Fuck Off! |
The Latina tag is overrun by latina-focused porn blogs, and many Latinas are targeted by those blogs for following and/or harassment despite explicit requests that they stop. • Tumblr has no real block feature • Ignoring users does not prevent them from following and continuing harassment • Many of these blogs make a point of liking posts calling them out or asking that they unfollow, as well as personal pictures of those who post • These porn blogs can and have reblogged pictures of Latinas and refused to remove them • Reporting blogs for harassment has not led to any action by Tumblr This is a space for calling out specific porn blogs, for venting our collective frustration and anger, for making our voices heard and for adding to the reclaiming of the Latina tag. Submit as needed! |
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Notes"What does it mean, then, for mainstream white America to understand Latinos/as through an institution like the media? Since the Latino/a explosion of the 1990s, US popular culture has systematically sold specific images of Latinos/as. According to music, film, television, and other venues, Latino males are hot, dark, hand-some womanizing law enforcement officers or criminals (see, for instance, most of the characters played by Jimmy Smits, Benjamin Bratt, or Benicio del Toro), while Latinas are just hot and sexy (see, for instance, most of the characters played by Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, or Eva Mendez). Magazine covers are full of phrases like “sizzling hot” and “hot tamale” or the word “sexy” when describing Latinos/as. When I wrote this essay in September 2009, a general search on Amazon.com under the keyword “Latina” produced hundreds of results. What’s really telling is that of the first ten, nine were DVDs with the following titles: Sizzling Latinas, vol. 2; Joe Pusher’s Latinas, vol. 1; Joe Pusher’s Latinas, vol. 5; Latina Pole Queens; Muy Caliente: Nude Latinas; Joe Pusher’s Latinas, vol. 4; Latina Party; Sexy Latinas del Reggaeton, vol. 2; and Latina Girls Going Bananas, vol. 2. I assume I don’t have to describe the pictureson the covers of these DVDs, but I will say that they match the titles beautifully.Similarly the first two hits in a Google search under the keyword “Latinas” pro-duced the following: “Sizzling Latinas” and “Sexy Latinas, Spanish Girls, Hot Latin.”I can’t say for sure—because I dared not go to those sites—but I suspect they were pornographic, giving us a good idea of the forceful ways that Latinas and their sup-posed hotness are sexualized and turned into commodities. Similarly, an advanced Google search with the keywords “handsome Latinos” produced more than two hundred hits, most of them related to gay porn. These results are important, because they tell us a story of the commodification (by way of sexuality) of Latinos/as at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Though some may be skeptical about my using pornographic websites to show or measure Latino/a commodification, I would like to point out that just like academia, the porn industry reflects the society from which it emerges.
"Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, A Prostitute, a Servant,and a Customer-Service Representative: A Latina in Academia (via theraceproblem)
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Notes"What does it mean, then, for mainstream white America to understand Latinos/as through an institution like the media? Since the Latino/a explosion of the 1990s, US popular culture has systematically sold specific images of Latinos/as. According to music, film, television, and other venues, Latino males are hot, dark, hand-some womanizing law enforcement officers or criminals (see, for instance, most of the characters played by Jimmy Smits, Benjamin Bratt, or Benicio del Toro), while Latinas are just hot and sexy (see, for instance, most of the characters played by Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, or Eva Mendez). Magazine covers are full of phrases like “sizzling hot” and “hot tamale” or the word “sexy” when describing Latinos/as. When I wrote this essay in September 2009, a general search on Amazon.com under the keyword “Latina” produced hundreds of results. What’s really telling is that of the first ten, nine were DVDs with the following titles: Sizzling Latinas, vol. 2; Joe Pusher’s Latinas, vol. 1; Joe Pusher’s Latinas, vol. 5; Latina Pole Queens; Muy Caliente: Nude Latinas; Joe Pusher’s Latinas, vol. 4; Latina Party; Sexy Latinas del Reggaeton, vol. 2; and Latina Girls Going Bananas, vol. 2. I assume I don’t have to describe the pictureson the covers of these DVDs, but I will say that they match the titles beautifully.Similarly the first two hits in a Google search under the keyword “Latinas” pro-duced the following: “Sizzling Latinas” and “Sexy Latinas, Spanish Girls, Hot Latin.”I can’t say for sure—because I dared not go to those sites—but I suspect they were pornographic, giving us a good idea of the forceful ways that Latinas and their sup-posed hotness are sexualized and turned into commodities. Similarly, an advanced Google search with the keywords “handsome Latinos” produced more than two hundred hits, most of them related to gay porn. These results are important, because they tell us a story of the commodification (by way of sexuality) of Latinos/as at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Though some may be skeptical about my using pornographic websites to show or measure Latino/a commodification, I would like to point out that just like academia, the porn industry reflects the society from which it emerges.
"Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, A Prostitute, a Servant,and a Customer-Service Representative: A Latina in Academia (via theraceproblem)
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Notesit sucks that women of color have to wonder if men won’t be attracted to us or will fetishize us for our race/skin color.
It’s always in the back of my mind.
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NotesI am a light-skinned, freckled Latina, on the thin side. A white-American co-worker asked my background after hearing me speak Spanish. She began to gush, “My skin is tanner than yours! and my booty is bigger than yours!” Like many other times, people question my ethnic identity, “authenticity” and background because of my appearance. My co-worker whittled down my cultural identity to butt size and skin color — AND was gleeful in noting that she conformed more stereotypically to her own exoticized ideal of what Latinos look like, than I did.
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Notes baubles of my mind's eye: moonlitdarling: the recent fetishization of frida kahlo not only...the recent fetishization of frida kahlo not only strips her art & life of its revolutionary & political message but cheapens her into an accessory for quirky rookie mag type girls
SO well said. Thank you. A little part of me dies a bit every time I see some white girl dressed up as an ‘oh-so-fae’ version of Frida … Frida in a vacuum where the beautiful ways she embraced her roots and stood up for them against Westerization is turned into nothing but a meaningless, soon-to-no-longer-be-trendy fashion statement by Westerization. She was a revolutionary, not a prop for your highly original photoshoot idea.
WT Fresh hell is with shit like this? :
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Notesi am 100% for young women destroying the lives of the men who harass/assault them
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Noteswhen your Radar Fetish is going off and off and off
fucking listen to that shit
don ot give excuses to that disgusting person
do not wave their behavior away with thoughts like “they have a great appreciation for my culture/my people” or “they’re not like those other nasty fetishizing creeps”
if they did, if they weren’t
your radar wouldn’t be going off
your radar
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Exactly.
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Notes The Wretched of the Earth: every WoC and their corresponding group has a radarand that radar is finely tuned and finely honed from years of experience and bullshit they’ve encountered
it’s a Fetish Radar
black women have their own signs and cues that lets them know that a creepy white guy’s approaching them for “jungle fever” sexytimes just as latin@ women do and asian women for a similar ignoramus comment and so on and so forth
and it’s not a radar for JUST predatory white men
it’s everyone—ANYONE—who comes at us with That Tone, That Look, Those Words
we see that shit coming from miles away
don’t think we don’t
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Notes Fuck NO! Fetishization: joeborrelli: Race Fetishism A preference can come from any number of...A preference can come from any number of places – familiarity, a positive experience, a negative experience, even pop-cultural exposure. A preference can color a person’s choice of partner but doesn’t necessarily overwhelm it; a woman might have a preference for tall Nordic men but be equally happy with her husband if he were short and Mediterranean because he’s himself.
With fetishes, the race and/or ethnic background of the person involved is of supreme importance. It puts the emphasis on the ethnicity and culture – and perceived stereotypes – rather than on the individual. It isn’t that a person’s race is one factor in a host of others that attracts them, it’s the sole factor. If the fetishist’s Chinese girlfriend was suddenly white or latina, his interest would evaporate. The dudes featured at Creepy White Guys aren’t interested in individual women who happen to be Asian, they’re interested in Asian women; if they were black, Persian or white, they would never have looked twice.
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Notes PSA for all you pro-interracial dating people:Some people actually don’t appreciate it when the positive things you think about them are credited to them being of “x” race or ethnicity.
Sayings like the following:
- “I want an Asian boyfriend!”
- “Why are black guys so FUCKING sexy!?”
- “Would any Asian, Latina, Indian or black girls like to talk? You’re all so fine”
- “White girls have such beautiful porcelain skin”
- “OMG I FUCKING HATE KOREAN GUYS, YOU’RE MY OBSESSION”
- “I only like light-skinned/mixed-race people, they’re so exotic-looking and pretty and they have good hair”
- “I’m not really attracted to ___ guys, they don’t have the features I want, but YOU do”
are not, though you may intend them to be, flattering.
It can come off as creepy, psychopathic, and we, the people who get bothered by this, are often repulsed by it; and many times, it makes us skeptical of why you’re into us. Like, cool, you’re willing to date people from groups different from your own. But are you attracted to us first because of our individual personalities - because not everyone in an entire community looks or thinks or talks or lives the same - or are you attracted to us first because we’re Korean? Or black? Or light-skinned?
If your answer falls in line with the latter option, then you probably have what’s known as a racial or skin color fetish, and it’s really gross, and potentially dangerous, believe it or not. You probably also have issues with self-hate if you’re of the group that you’re trying to avoid dating for whatever reason.
There’s a difference between liking someone for who they are as a person and liking someone for the group they belong to or the lightness or darkness of their skin, and not everyone of one race or ethnicity is the same or has the same features. We aren’t objects here to marvel at and we are not all alike! We’re real people, individuals with feelings and personality flaws just like you! We should be treated like it as well!
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Notes"“One of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these body of ours.”
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Notes Being White means you don’t have to worry about being sexualized/fetishized because of your ethnicity.Which makes it A HELL OF A LOT MORE difficult to build trust in interracial/interethnic relationships.
Do you love me for who I am at heart?
Or do you love me because of the color of my skin?
Or the culture I come from?
Or the language I speak?
Or the stereotypes attached to me?
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Lost: So I find this in the food tag…
Wtf. And it has more than 15 thousand notes….
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