ricks2ccurls:

As a bisexual black woman, I find it odd seeing straight, white women in fandom headcanon black women as a wlw or, if she’s canon bisexual, focus so intently on their attraction to women. There’s not necessarily an issue with that in itself but I’ve seen a lot of “keep her as far away as possible from the white male fav” reasoning disguised as shipping. It’s happened with canon straight characters (Michonne, Bonnie Bennett) as well as canon bi characters (Valkyrie, Toni Topaz). And in the case of black bi women, there’s the addition of fandom implicitly or explicitly erasing their bisexuality. I don’t think shipping or fandom should be gatekept but it’s worth questioning the intent sometimes. In this case, are you using sexuality to remove a perceived undesirable/undeserving threat or because you see black women as too masculine/dominant/aggressive to be with a man?

This usually gets me the most with Bonnie when some people ship her with Elena. Her Magic negro/slave role which she mostly plays toward Elena is interpreted instead as unrequited love which I find worse because in either case it’s not reciprocal. It’s always Bonnie willing die for her and Elena saying she is but never following through. Their relationship in the context of friendship is bad enough, no need to add romance to that and fuck it up farther especially since it gives them a convenient excuse to ignore the anti-blackness of the whole situation.