#good thing winter is coming #gonna need some ice on that burn
I like that he kind of smiles because he can’t help but appreciate a sick burn.
But also he knows she just straight up told him she wants him to die a horrible, horrible death.
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i hate when people say FICTIONAL CHARACTER IS A BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL ANGELBABY but sansa is a beautiful wonderful angelbabyngl I didn’t get why everyone loves her at first
but she’s so good
right omg sansa is so great
i can’t take people whining about her
because she’s just so perfect
beautiful wonderful angelbaby is pretty much the most accurate description in the whole world
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basically I’m looking into the ways queer and feminist spaces are/have been unwelcoming and sometimes even hostile towards POCs, but my experience is a very limited one since I’ve made a point of seeking out places I know for a fact are welcoming and do their damndest not to be racist. (I say ‘places’ when what I mean is I exist only within Lashings and also dump friends who turn out to be bigots like hot potatoes.)
basically what I’m asking is if anyone can give examples of places/times this has happened so I can go “LOOK. I’M NOT MAKING THIS UP IT IS NOT AN ISOLATED PROBLEM THAT HAPPENS IN A VACUUM.” Anything people can point to wrt writers on this stuff would be nice too. A lot of texts are inaccessible as fuck and at some point I think I just gave up on the whole Being an Academic Feminist thing.
I realise this is a big ask, but looking around on my own brings me to general issues of white-dominated spaces rather than specifically to do with queer and/or feminist spaces. So, if anyone feels like sharing or dropping me an ask I’d really appreciate it. (Also, if you drop me an ask I will probably publish it for the sake of organisation so please let me know if you’re not okay with this.)
(also also signal boosts are massively appreciated)
i don’t have anything but signal boost for people who do
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SHERLOCK IS NOT A GAY POSITIVE SHOW
SHERLOCK IS NOT A GAY POSITIVE SHOW
SHERLOCK IS NOT A GAY POSITIVE SHOW
The closest thing in Sherlock to queer representation was Irene Alder who said she was gay and then fell in love with Sherlock. (make of that what you will.)
The whole show is about two heterosexual men. And one of those men, Watson, spends about half an hour each episode telling everyone ever that he and Sherlock are not a couple.
That is not gay representation.
I repeat: that is not gay representation.
And fuck you if you think that is representation.
A show having a large slash fandom does not count as representation.
I’m sure there a many legitimate criticisms of Elementary, but accusing the show of being homophobic because Watson is played a women is not one of them.
I cannot say this enough times: Sherlock is not a gay positive show.
Sherlock is not a progressive show in terms of representation. It is about two white cis heterosexual men solving crimes.
The fact that Elementary has a women of color as a main character pretty much already makes it more progressive than Sherlock.
And furthermore if you watch Elementary you are under no obligation to ship Sherlock/Watson. I’m sure that there will be at least one other dude you can find.
And listen, Sherlock is a good show and Elementary existing is not gonna change that. You are under no obligation to watch it. You are under no obligation to even acknowledge it.
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Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”
Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
[….]
You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”
Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via absolutely-spiffing)
In my experience, the men who are most likely to come into feminist groups to criticise them are self proclaimed ‘intellectuals’ who turn up to demonstrate to people just how oh-so-clever they are, to masturbate over their ‘logical’ arguments, to incite ‘new and stimulating’ debate about subjects that have been done to death, to willfully ignore how they are erasing experiences and silencing people, just so that they can have a few moments of ‘thrilling’ discussion in their otherwise dull, highly privileged lives. And when this brief adrenalin rush is over? They can go home, safe in the knowledge that they have shown all these silly hysterical women exactly what’s what, safe in their privilege which means that they do not have to give this encounter more than a passing thought. Believing that they have made a difference. And this makes me sick.
So, this is actually a pretty good example to use. Perhaps these men will read it and we can get it through their pseudo-intellectual heads that this is not ok. This is harmful behaviour and contributes absolutely nothing of worth to anything at all. Feminism has enough flaws as it is. Feminism is, by and large, racist, transphobic, ableist, homophobic, and classist. We do not have time to pander to these individuals too. If men really want to help? Commit to being a good ally and give us the opportunity to solve these problems without this almost constant hindrance.
Omg this is perfect.
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So much about this, so true. People think they’re throwing you some curve ball when it’s really like they’re still in the early pre-cambrian bacterial stages of earth’s global evolution yet they’re convinced they’re multicellular organisms. And you’re like “no dude, it’s really clear that you’re not.”
Anyhow, just to add my own to the first example, it’s so complicated indeed and it’s come up twice for me in the past week. I went on a date last night and I was so, so relieved that they did not hassle me at all about buying my own drink. It was in contrast to two nights before, when I was trying to pay for my drink and another guy at the table really wanted to pay for it to me. So many things go through your head- my friends are always all like, “You might as well accept it if they’re offering,” and if I don’t accept the offer in most cases the guys are not like “cool, you must be upholding your internal, personal feminist values,” they’re often offended and feeling like I made a big deal out of nothing and feel it is a slight (and these guys aren’t assholes, to be clear, they’re just accustomed to what this action normally signals). And I myself feel like I’m being unnecessarily argumentative over what is basically just a generous offer, yet I feel really conflicted about accepting a drink from someone if I’m not actually interested in them (but they are in me), and just about the whole… situation. Anyhow. Yeah, it’s complicated, and there is often no win/win solution.
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The thing people seem to forget about The Little Mermaid is that Ariel wanted to see the human world before she saw Eric.
She didn’t just see him on a ship and then magically have an entire cave full of human things. Our introduction to her is while she’s exploring a shipwreck, looking for human stuff because she loves human stuff before she even catches a glimpse of him.
She doesn’t give up her tail to meet Eric. She gives it up to be on land, and then Ursula gives her an ultimatum that makes Eric an essential part of the plot. Obviously we can all agree that going to Ursula is a pretty drastic measure but if it weren’t so dangerous she would have done it ages ago, without her dad pissing her off or the crush on the human.
Obviously there are problematic things with this movie (it is disney after all) but if you’re sayin that the message of it all was go have plastic surgery or whatever to get your man then I just feel like you were watching it while also doing something distracting like cooking a five course meal or painting a mural or some shit like that.
#thor’s impression of the avengers #1 ironman#2 hulk #i think 4 and 5 are loki #last one is nick fury #LIFE RUINER#chris hemsworth
three is obviously cap and chris evans’ dimples
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You’ve probably heard about the latest plea for attention from the uber-conservative One Million Moms. They want Marvel and DC to abandon all their gay characters and storylines and present a
moralheteronormative example for the children.And I’m pretty not much not going to talk about that. It’s stupid and they’re stupid. Instead, I’m going to talk about a different thing, addressing right to One Million Moms.
One Million Moms,
If you want to get mad at comics on behalf of the children, let me provide you with some material. Because, holy crap, there is a lot of it.
There’s this:
And this:
Does the fact that heroic characters are engaging in (what you consider) questionable moral behavior bother you? How about this?
There are countless other examples that I have neither the time or the inclination to post. And don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that I want comics to stop depicting gratuitous sex and graphic violence. And I don’t need my characters to be bastions of morality. But you’re “Moms” (with a capital “M”!) and for some reason you choose to protest creative content rather than just not buy the material for your child. Which is fine because, hey, it’s a free country. But instead of protesting that stuff on behalf of The Children, you choose to protest this:
Priorities. Maybe you should consider getting some.
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#no but like, #you could clearly hear Kurt say ‘oh not again’, #and you know that Sam does his impressions 24/7, #and now that he lives with Kurt and Finn, #it drives Kurt crazy, #he’s heard this a million times, #at the breakfast table, #while they’re watching a movie, #when he’s on the phone with Blaine, #he even fucking walked in on Sam taking a shower and doing those impression, #but they don’t talk about that
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