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odditycollector ([personal profile] odditycollector) wrote 2010-01-20 11:41 pm (UTC)

People getting albinism Wrong is something that isn't *personal* for me - I display typical pigmentation, though it's more likely than not I'm a carrier - but it's definitely immediate. So I totally missed any sarcasm. My first reaction was actually pretty defensive - I understood how the girl on the cover's white hair might have made you assume, but I had actually given more thought to my portrayal of albinism than to most of the project's character designs. (I mean, you think the media's portrayal of *PoC* is bad....)

(Irma doesn't show up 'til later; but she's one of the more awesome characters, and I got to suggest the existence of a society where maybe what we'd think is melanin deficiency is *normal*. I dunno if we'll have that in the future, but we def. don't have it now.)

It was only later, when I couldn't get the embed code to work and had to run for a few hours, that it occurred to me you might have been using "albino" as a metaphor, which is just *odd* to me. Like... if I'd had a drawing of a very tanned white dude, and you'd referred to him as black guy, my first assumption would be I've failed at communication somewhere. Albino means something fairly specific in my world.

(Meanwhile, as we discussed in email, I *know* you're not a grandma, but its hard to get your clauses in order sometimes when you're speaking, rather than writing.
I know you know, I just thought it was funnier without footnotes!

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