Gretnablue
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Didn't know where to post it but chose here since it is related to Sword and Shield. Most of you are probably familiar with what I am talking about, a meme that started on Scottish Twitter after many noticed Gloria looked very Scottish and was done as a bit self parody and fun... Then non-Scottish people chipped and then flat out took the meme over and it got rather ugly that meme for me because it stopped being tongue and cheek self parody and harmless ribbing and turned into nothing but stereotyping and just foul edginess.
Some of it just across as needlessly nasty like implying Scottish people are all idiots who are unable to understand the concepts of gravity or weight (where did that even come from?!) Always foul mouthed or incapable of being understood, embarrassing to be around, alcoholics etc. But one that really ticked me off and honestly upset me was depicting her as being violent and abusive, especially towards animals which, why? Why do this? Scotland was the first to ban Fox hunting in the UK and most forms of hunting for sport and have tons of preserves and programs to protect many wild animals like the Red Squirrel, it makes no sense and I really don't like the idea of treating abuse like that as a joke or implying that all Scottish people are horrible human beings. The same goes with the violence towards the human characters.
I really hope that now that game is out that those memes just go away, we don't need more stereotyping in the media, especially ones that double down with mocking stuff like animal abuse.
Some of it just across as needlessly nasty like implying Scottish people are all idiots who are unable to understand the concepts of gravity or weight (where did that even come from?!) Always foul mouthed or incapable of being understood, embarrassing to be around, alcoholics etc. But one that really ticked me off and honestly upset me was depicting her as being violent and abusive, especially towards animals which, why? Why do this? Scotland was the first to ban Fox hunting in the UK and most forms of hunting for sport and have tons of preserves and programs to protect many wild animals like the Red Squirrel, it makes no sense and I really don't like the idea of treating abuse like that as a joke or implying that all Scottish people are horrible human beings. The same goes with the violence towards the human characters.
I really hope that now that game is out that those memes just go away, we don't need more stereotyping in the media, especially ones that double down with mocking stuff like animal abuse.