The character is a fashion model.
Maybe it's a shoot for a magazine?
Maybe it's a shoot for a magazine?
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Well the complaint is that an idiot or a racist thinks that 2015 Africa is still identical to 1815 Africa?
Idiot seems more likely than racist.
Then again, maybe she works at an animal refuge or a zoo?
I've been reading the first animorphs book to a nine year old at bedtime for the last few weeks, and it's up to the point where they know that they can morph into animals, but not until after they have scanned/touched an/the animal with their hands, so they broke into a zoo to scan dna.
Maybe her powers, if it's not a magical totem, has similar limitations.
Did Vixen and Animal Man ever do it?
(Or maybe B'wanna beast?)
Idiot seems more likely than racist.
Then again, maybe she works at an animal refuge or a zoo?
I've been reading the first animorphs book to a nine year old at bedtime for the last few weeks, and it's up to the point where they know that they can morph into animals, but not until after they have scanned/touched an/the animal with their hands, so they broke into a zoo to scan dna.
Maybe her powers, if it's not a magical totem, has similar limitations.
Did Vixen and Animal Man ever do it?
(Or maybe B'wanna beast?)
As a German I cringe every time someone mentions the name Vixen. 
I wonder if they'll mention The Red?
which'll open up he audience to The Green.
which'll open up he audience to The Green.
As a German I cringe every time someone mentions the name Vixen.
I had to look up what you meant. Apparently it sounds like a rude German word for masturbation. Conversely, the German word for vixen (a female fox) is Füchsin, which sounds like a rude English word for copulation. How oddly symmetrical.
(I'm not usually the type to guffaw over dirty jokes -- but I am the type to guffaw over linguistic coincidences.)
Have lions and zebras gone extinct?
Are there no remaining tribal populations in Africa who live in huts?
Perhaps there are, but they're hardly representative of most of Africa, which is why it's so problematical that it's practically the sole image we ever get of Africa in American media.
Tribal vs. Poor.
Not exactly the same thing.
The Amish, Mennonites and such, who keep to their methods and ignore the modern world as well as they do, require immeasurable conviction.
Not exactly the same thing.
The Amish, Mennonites and such, who keep to their methods and ignore the modern world as well as they do, require immeasurable conviction.
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Where is Africa? Do you Mean South Africa, maybe you mean Nigeria? Libya?
Starting to see the problem?
Oh, come on, be fair. I read his question more like "Are there no remaining tribal populations in all of Africa ...".
Africa is still a continent, but I don't think Darkest Africa is still a continent.
Did they ever mention where Brightest Africa was?
Did they ever mention where Brightest Africa was?
Yes there are tribal population various parts of Africa but so what? What was the last mainstream piece of work you can remember where the background of a character with an African connection *wasn't* tribal and didn't at some point feature people living in mud-huts or a war-torn landscape?
If we saw a range of African superhero characters that would be one thing but off the top of my head they seem to be pretty exclusively weird mish-mashes of various cultures (I'm sure Guy will point out one that is not like that...).
That's without getting into the animal symbolism or the gender aspects of what appears to be the Aryan brotherhood teaching her what it means to be a hero - and if we don't see a witch doctor using mystical herbs as some point, I'll eat my hat.
I was responding to a post in which you yourself generalized Africa. That would sort of be my whole point...yes, there are plenty of places in Africa that don't have wild animals or mud huts...but there are still places that do.
You're the one who saw a lion, a zebra, and a mud hut, immediately made the association with Africa, and implied that "Africa" (as a single entity) wasn't like that anymore
Starting to see the problem?
No I didn't - go back and re-read my post - notice how its written as 'Africa' - as for the rest of your post, there is nothing to say really - it speaks for itself.
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That's a completely disingenuous argument. The point is that Africa is the most culturally, geographically, and ethnically diverse continent on Earth, yet for decades, the exclusive image of it in American media has been wild savannahs and tribesmen in huts. That is a racist stereotype, the pervasive assumption that the huts and wild animals are the only things that exist in Africa. If that is the only image that Vixen gives us of Africa, then it is perpetuating that racist myth -- perhaps accidentally out of ignorance, but that's still a profound mistake. It's deeply naive to argue that it's somehow okay to use that as the default image of Africa. Because context matters. Trying to argue that it's a legitimate portrayal is being willfully blind to its generations of use as a symbol of racism -- as willfully blind as the people who claim that the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of Southern heritage rather than the symbol of racism that it's always been. That historical context cannot be glibly ignored.
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Notice that I didn't argue with your previous post, Christopher. You make Joe's point better than he does. Though I think your second post takes things a little too far.
All I did was respond to Joe's post, which implied that these things no longer existed in Africa, by posing a couple of questions. I didn't express an opinion at all.
Yet I'm still being painted as Teh Evil Bigotz for daring to challenge his point.
I find it sadly humorous that lions and zebras in their native habitat are now symbols of political incorrectness.
All I did was respond to Joe's post, which implied that these things no longer existed in Africa, by posing a couple of questions. I didn't express an opinion at all.
Yet I'm still being painted as Teh Evil Bigotz for daring to challenge his point.
I find it sadly humorous that lions and zebras in their native habitat are now symbols of political incorrectness.
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I saw a clip of a reality TV series called Gypsie Sisters 2 days ago where the leads were asked some basic questions about America. The end result is that they decided that if Lincoln wasn't President during World War One or Two, then he must have led America to Victory in Word War III.
Growing up where I did and when I did, I'd seen most of the Dukes of Hazzard, before the War of Northern Aggression was explained to me properly.
That car was cool.