Farmer Zoey About Shane

Farmer Zoey about Shane

I think this one’s a little too obvious

which oc needs mobility aids?

A few things:

01. Gypsy is a slur & there is no “positive” or “acceptable” way of using it if you aren’t Romani. It should not be part of your vocabulary – the same goes for the term “gypped”. If you want to talk about the slur censor it or simply call it “the g slur.”

02. Anti Romani racism exists everywhere and there is a slur for the us in every language. Gypsy is the slur used in the English language but there is also Zigan, Tigan, Cigan, Gitano, Zigeuner, etc. - a lot of them stem from the Greek word for “slave” and are considered even worse than the Gypsy slur. However all of them are still slurs and shouldn’t be used by you if you aren’t Romani.

03. Gypsy has never been anything other than a derogatory slur against Romani that has been screamed at us while we have been branded, enslaved, hunted down, murdered, put through a genocide and a holocaust, segregated and discriminated against. 

04. Romani is the proper name of the people that are being targeted by the G slur. Some people write it as Rromani which is also correct. The term Roma/Rroma can be used too, however not all Romani are Roma.

05. Romani and Romanian do not mean the same thing. Romani are the people that are being targeted by the G slur and we are brown people originally from India. Romanians are people from the European country Romania.

06. The official term for racism directed towards Romani is called “Antiziganism”, that term however is offensive since it includes the word “Zigan” which is a horrible slur against Romani. Please do not use that term and instead use “Anti-Romani racism”, “Anti-Romanism”, etc.

07. Anti-Romani racism is very extreme in Europe (segregation in housing, education and health care, forced sterilizations, evictions and demolition of settlements, police brutality, etc), which is why we even received the title of “Europe’s Most Hated”, but it’s not an exclusively European thing. Anti-Romani racism exists in America and Canada as well. (Canada even has an immigration ban on Romani.)

08. “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” does not display actual Romani people as far as I have heard so it does not represent Romani people/culture at all.

09. Your believes that Romani “don’t want to work”, “don’t want to send their children to school”, “steal children”, “are dirty”, “genetically prone to crime”, “are lazy”, etc. are nothing but racist stereotypes and left over Nazi propaganda. All of them are untrue as well. (Also: Romani would love to work and go to school but the extreme discrimination against us in the field of education makes that very hard. And the widely spread traditional anti-Romani attitudes and prejudices don’t make it any easier either.)

10. Stereotypes such as that all Romani women are “sexual temptresses” and promiscuous disregarding of age are obviously incorrect too. Virginity is actually considered important in Romani culture. Believing in those stereotypes is very harmful and dangerous as well because despite Romani being only a minority in most European countries we make up the highest % when it comes to sex trafficking victims.

11. Romani culture doesn’t have anything to do with witchcraft, wicca, paganism, etc. We didn’t create tarot, palm reading or crystal balls either. You can stop calling yourself a “Gypsy Witch” and faking Romani heritage now. The only reason why assumptions like that came to exist is because of racist believes and lies spread by the church. Our skills with medical herbs and palm reading were seen as “evidence of heresy” and from the 16th century onward we were outlawed, expelled and persecuted, culminating in the organized killing of our people. 

12. Fortune teller costumes are racist. Romani women have always been stereotyped as fortune tellers which is why the stereotypical image of a fortune teller is always linked with Romani women - dark skin, messy black hair, a big nose, a “weird” accent, a headscarf, big hoop earrings, gold coins added to clothes and an “untrustworthy/deceiving” nature, etc. (A lot of people even use the term “fortune teller” like a synonym for the G slur nowadays.) A person’s race/ethnicity is not a costume, so if you ever consider dressing up as a fortune teller chose something different. 

If you are Romani too please feel free to add things onto this list and please correct me if I made any mistakes.

And he has at least one of them as his phone’s lockscreen since

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I seriously had gotten hit with inspiration from You’re No Good by Linda Ronstadt for the vibe of the image

And this was the dress I referenced (which is just one of her many gothic dresses she aquired over the years)

Honestly, the way so many people (*ahem*men*ahem*) in the CoD fandom not just on tiktok but every other platform degrade female OCs for their looks whether they be masc, fem, or hell even androgynous, just shows they have not once been around an actual woman in their lives.

Now, yes, male OCs aren’t as popular as female OCs, and that type of criticism is pretty valid in of itself, but even then, it’s no excuse to be a misogynist towards said female OCs.

I’ve been in fandom spaces since the early days of internet fandom spaces when I was a wee child (circa 2011-2012 before I even knew what that term was), and we’re still bashing not just female OCs, but also just OCs in general?! Like be fr, people who make their OCs present as feminine aren’t doing any harm to anyone (unless it actually is a legitimate problem ie. ped0philia and ince$t then that’s a whole other can of worms to open later).

Point is, women and female OCs alike keep fandoms afloat, whether misogynists want to admit that or not. Sexism and misogyny has no place in fandom spaces and telling people how a woman OC should look also has no place in fandom spaces, especially in the Call of Duty community!

By the way if you have to keep bashing female OCs just because they "like to dress feminine" you are not original

I just had a thought of Doe accidentally freaking out the Task Force/CoD OCs whenever she has to take her prosthetic arm off to charge it since she normally does that at home but a few times it’s died on her while working on base

And even funnier is when she’s walking around base, she only has her left arm to do stuff with and anyone that sees her just stops in their tracks and is like

“Where’s her arm?!”

“Since when does she only have one arm?!”

“Has she always been an amputee?”