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Original title: Gilda and Trixie: Beyond Labels
Commissioner’s description:
This image is very related to my written pony world, showing off two slurs thrown at these two, one a social minority, the other an ethnic minority. Gilda may occupy an enviable social position as a Bald Eagle Griffin, and the daughter of a rich diplomat besides, but she loves women. That is anathema to Griffin culture and tags her with the insult “Egg-Grabber” (Which implies either she steals eggs from nests, or steals them from within pregnant hens.) Trixie is very different, she sits at the bottom of the social ladder, though that’s not quite so bad in Equestria. Even so there are traditional feelins of mistrust against her kind, the nomadic Roani, traditional stalwarts of Princess Luna. Traditionally, they wore a sign of loyalty that started out as full-sized tabards but by time and culture were reduced to tail ribbons, which also maintained a certain amount of modesty. The colorful ribbons are a part of their desire for beauty in all their lives, but also easily mark Roani.
Calling a Griffin hen an Egg-Grabber is like calling her a ‘dyke’ and calling a Roani a Ribbontail is like screaming ‘Gypsy’ (It’s still an insult, no matter how traditional it is.) Or, since the Roani are also a dash Ashkanezic Jew, there are other slurs but I’m not about to type that out.
However, as the bottom part indicates, those names mean nothing to the two of them. Not while they have each other.
Commissioner’s description:
This image is very related to my written pony world, showing off two slurs thrown at these two, one a social minority, the other an ethnic minority. Gilda may occupy an enviable social position as a Bald Eagle Griffin, and the daughter of a rich diplomat besides, but she loves women. That is anathema to Griffin culture and tags her with the insult “Egg-Grabber” (Which implies either she steals eggs from nests, or steals them from within pregnant hens.) Trixie is very different, she sits at the bottom of the social ladder, though that’s not quite so bad in Equestria. Even so there are traditional feelins of mistrust against her kind, the nomadic Roani, traditional stalwarts of Princess Luna. Traditionally, they wore a sign of loyalty that started out as full-sized tabards but by time and culture were reduced to tail ribbons, which also maintained a certain amount of modesty. The colorful ribbons are a part of their desire for beauty in all their lives, but also easily mark Roani.
Calling a Griffin hen an Egg-Grabber is like calling her a ‘dyke’ and calling a Roani a Ribbontail is like screaming ‘Gypsy’ (It’s still an insult, no matter how traditional it is.) Or, since the Roani are also a dash Ashkanezic Jew, there are other slurs but I’m not about to type that out.
However, as the bottom part indicates, those names mean nothing to the two of them. Not while they have each other.
However, as someone who has lived in the Balkans for a time and had to move around Eastern Europe on work I feel the need to point out that gypsies really do enforce the stereotypes they are given. I remember a friend of mine who had never really encountered any kept trying to hire them to build a wall for him to hold back run-off and the way it went was that they would sell the tools they were given, complain about how they had no tools to work with, and then get angry at him because he was someone trying to get them to work. My first encounter with a gypsy proper was when one pulled a knife on my friend to try and steal a chicken of his. I’m sure that they are decent ones out there, but as a group they more often play to the image they have than act against it.
That was part of my reason I couldn’t like this author’s Glixie fics, because they ended up using Trixie as little more than a soapbox to preach his “don’t be mean to gypsies” message. And I recall someone he mentioned never having met one, so as someone who has had friends attacked by gypsies, things stolen from my family, and other such things. I got a bit angry when Trixie’s personality was replaced with the generic suburbian view of the peaceful and wise gypsy madam Zeroni deal and her lines all “look at how wise and tolerant we gypsies are, why do you hate us?” When the ones you meet in person are some of the most intolerant people of all.
Apologies for ranting, but the fic this pic is based on rubbed me the wrong way.
this is a horrible joke and you should be ashamed.
I laughed though.
We tried to get actual gypsies to comment on this author’s portrayal of them but they kept stealing our recorders.
Gilda’s a lesbian and you’re a gypsy.
Life and love are hard, but you’ll get through them both.