americachavez:

man the whole point of these posts isn’t that platonic male friends can never call each other nicknames or that people HAVE to interpret tony and rhodey’s interactions as the homogayest of homogays. but it’s a fact that romantic shipping culture dominates the majority of fandoms, especially on tumblr, and most fans view character interactions though a romantic lens, and the fact that tony and rhodey’s friendship is far less likely to be interpreted that way is indicative of racist trends in shipping culture.

like this is a critique on how the friendship between these two characters would be prime material for that section of fandom (which thrives on interpreting queer subtext/queering the canon to view such friendships as romantic), but is ignored solely due to the fact that one of the characters is black. like if you see someone critiquing the fandom at large for this, it’s not because they think everyone personally should subscribe to their shipping tendencies. it’s because this is a trend that occurs in multiple fandoms constantly and it is absolutely due to internalized racism and it needs to be called out???? don’t just sit back and be like “oh well some people don’t have to see it as romantic” this isn’t about “some people” it’s about fandom as a whole.