Originally Posted by
kurenai24
Putting my response to both, starting with the bold.
I'm not talking about emotions, I was talking about the overall trope of black female characters in media in general in my rant, basically the desexualization or the general removal.
I'm sure you know what desexualitization means but for removal I'm gonna use an example with comic characters. So using Titans, these are some early to mid late 20's something characters, say they finish a mission and want to hang out in a club or something, everybody is a go except bumblebee b/c she has a family and she really misses them or whatever, so her white counterparts get to further bond, have fun, be entertaining for the audience and the black female character is stuck being the literal stereotype of an adult with the excuse of her family being the reason why, but all the while she's removed from the main group, she's removed from the bigger scene (which would obviously be with the group), and she's removed from connecting with the audience in a fun way.
Now in comics it may be different with the panels and stuff, but in a tv series or in a movie, the whole thing I've just described I've seen play out similarly multiple times, most likely b/c the majority of what I watch is teen drama/young adult shows, and you can count how much screen time is dedicated to what, and with that you know which is more important to the show/movie and you can generally see who the audience is being more receptive to, so I don't care for it and I don't care about seeing it done with Bumblebee and Silencer.
Is it bad thing to have in comics... no, but if we're talking about media in general it's just another number in a long list of what black characters are generally stuck with.
As for my word usage, ...tbh, I don't care about how my words come across, I'm a female, the gender with the equipment to pop out a rugrat, and I'm under no illusion how writers tend to write families or babies/kids, (or mothers or just females in general) they're like a homing beacon for danger, the many tropes that writers use b/c they don't have the imagination to write up something unique, it's annoying. So yeah I will call kids baggage(s) for dragging storylines down, for not listening in the in most inopportune time, etc, and I will continue to refer to families as if they are weights holding down a character's full potential b/c they usually are, but it's in reference to how they're written in media, not in real life, like you seemed to have applied it to for some reason.