I generally miss nuances of character description, unless it's a big deal, like someone gets rhapsodic over the color of someone's hair etc. The people in my head appear more as the shapes of their names rather than pictures of faces, ie, the shape of the word Katniss rather than a person.

I love this post the most:

I totally get where these people are coming from. It's like the time when I was on diapers.com, trying to decide which brand of diapers to order. And I see an ad showing a diaper on a beautiful, blonde baby boy, just like the one I have at home! The boy, not the diaper, because I still had to order them. And I did order those diapers because of that exact ad with the blonde baby boy because I could then envision those diapers on the bottom of my blonde baby boy. It made sense to me. And then just two days later the huge box of diapers arrived, but to my understandable shock, the face on the box of diapers was not of that blonde baby boy. It was of a baby girl, with dark skin. You know, the dark dark kind. And I was upset and confused and I just didn't understand how these diapers could work now. So I called the company's number and I could tell right away I was talking with someone, not the dark dark kind, but still dark with an accent, a slightly dark accent (but not a dark dark accent), and I couldn't stay on the phone. And when my husband came home and questioned why our blonde little boy's bottom was wrapped in one of his t-shirts and I explained the situation to him, I could tell when he hid his face in his hands how upset he was about the whole situation as well. And then he put his hands on my shoulders and shook his head before looking into my eyes and said, 'Just promise me you'll never watch The Crying Game.'

I mean, when reading Harry Potter, I didn't even picture Cho Chang as Asian. I just don't think about race when reading books.

How very enlightened of this person. I assume they also did not notice that she was female because that would imply they are closed-minded about sexual orientation.

JZ, I'd bet that what that poster really means is that characters are White until proven otherwise.

ita !, that post is made of win.

Jessica (sorry, Jess and Jesse!) and Debet, seriously. This:

everyone is a race neutral character in my head

Yeah, I'm gonna make three guesses as to what "race neutral" looks like, and the first two don't count.

Unless this person actually imagines everyone as talky meat, literal throbbing masses of raw veiny muscle tissue that express dialogue by pushing air through their meat. Because that would be kind of awesome.

(It was Jessica above)

BUT I am not that visual in my head, so don't necessarily picture characters at all, unless what they look like is explicitly described. So obviously Cho Chang is Asian, but I wouldn't (if I had read those books) have an actual picture in my head.

Except in the Hunger Games, because I dated two guys who look exactly like Peeta and Gale. The real ones, not the movie ones.

The Talky Meat Games. Just like The Hunger Games, except they remove your skin first.

Also, eww.

Jezebel has unredacted the names of the tweeters. I'm maliciously happy, and I stopped by a couple of the twitter accounts. One's deleted entirely, and one seems to be not only missing the racist Hunger Games post, but there's a re-tweet of a Trayvon Martin sympathy tweet. So sensitive, some people. So empathetic.

To counteract all the shitty Twitters, please go read the description for Dayo Okeniyi's Twitter.

I generally miss nuances of character description, unless it's a big deal, like someone gets rhapsodic over the color of someone's hair etc. The people in my head appear more as the shapes of their names rather than pictures of faces, ie, the shape of the word Katniss rather than a person.

This.

BUT I am not that visual in my head, so don't necessarily picture characters at all, unless what they look like is explicitly described. So obviously Cho Chang is Asian, but I wouldn't (if I had read those books) have an actual picture in my head.

And this.

Which is why I don't have huge problems with casting choices in general.

But if you say a coat is red, it's red.

Which is why I felt that either Schindler's Ark or Michener's Poland must have ripped off the other even though I read them years apart. Same damn girl with the red coat.