This is so well written and explains the current trend of fetishization of latinos in media. I also loved the part about Laz Alonso and how the fetishization allianates black latines.
This is absolutely the one... you did an excellent job explaining exactly how uncomfortable I've felt seeing this whole surge of latine fetishization towards miguel online. As a latina who's been catcalled with "mami" by white boys and someone who's been asked if i'm colombian just because somebody saw encanto and they know i'm latine (i'm cuban) i feel really seen with this. Great article!!
listen, i don't want to detract from the article, but taking a stand to defend using "daddy" as a term at all was so out of left field it made my head spin. the ongoing use of "daddy" to denote sexual attraction is horribly uncomfortable no matter the context (genuinely how is it ever possible to use respectfully?), especially when most it's used for is to express desire to be dominated by an older man (which corresponds exactly with how all these people imagine their sexual fantasies with Latino men to go). i've heard about children telling each other not to use "daddy" because that is now a "dirty word". like. please. let's not.
Maybe I should've elaborated that I meant in individual relationships and jokingly with friends, not like...random people on the internet. Also the only time I get calling celebrities "daddy" is if they themselves have clarified they're okay with it but even then, there's a hard limit. When i say "respectfully", i don't mean it like non-objectifying, more like a label given with consent (sorry if that was lost, i don't know the right words sometimes since this is my second language).
like i personally am not defending it, i just acknowledge i can't regulate what 2 consenting adults say as pet/nick names for each other/for one another. it sucks but like...it's genuinely impossible.
This is so well written and explains the current trend of fetishization of latinos in media. I also loved the part about Laz Alonso and how the fetishization allianates black latines.
This is absolutely the one... you did an excellent job explaining exactly how uncomfortable I've felt seeing this whole surge of latine fetishization towards miguel online. As a latina who's been catcalled with "mami" by white boys and someone who's been asked if i'm colombian just because somebody saw encanto and they know i'm latine (i'm cuban) i feel really seen with this. Great article!!
listen, i don't want to detract from the article, but taking a stand to defend using "daddy" as a term at all was so out of left field it made my head spin. the ongoing use of "daddy" to denote sexual attraction is horribly uncomfortable no matter the context (genuinely how is it ever possible to use respectfully?), especially when most it's used for is to express desire to be dominated by an older man (which corresponds exactly with how all these people imagine their sexual fantasies with Latino men to go). i've heard about children telling each other not to use "daddy" because that is now a "dirty word". like. please. let's not.
Maybe I should've elaborated that I meant in individual relationships and jokingly with friends, not like...random people on the internet. Also the only time I get calling celebrities "daddy" is if they themselves have clarified they're okay with it but even then, there's a hard limit. When i say "respectfully", i don't mean it like non-objectifying, more like a label given with consent (sorry if that was lost, i don't know the right words sometimes since this is my second language).
like i personally am not defending it, i just acknowledge i can't regulate what 2 consenting adults say as pet/nick names for each other/for one another. it sucks but like...it's genuinely impossible.