People talk about when straight cis people say things about queer people, but nobody ever told me what to do with the straight silence™.
Because I don’t get a lot of purposefully homophobic or transphobic things said to me. I get silence. I bring up an issue and all of a sudden the conversation ends right there. Dead stop. Silence. No comment. No laugh. No expression of discomfort, interest, or anger. No follow up question. Just blank face and silence.
Mention something about my transition that relates to the conversation? Silence. Bring up my cousin’s lesbian ex girlfriend? Silence. Bring up how demonetization is affecting queer YouTubers? Silence. Killed the conversation with a rainbow bullet. One shot to the head.
That’s all I’ve ever gotten. Silence. Did anyone tell me about gay people when I was a kid? No. Did I get my questions answered when I asked about cross dressers? No. Just silence. My entire life. No indication if people are for or against. It’s really starting to piss me off. You can’t continue the conversation? Say you don’t know? Drive us away from the topic? Say you’re uncomfortable or don’t understand? Anything? I’m not allowed to casually bring up queer stuff like any other topic? What?
I’m just sick of the silence. I truly am. I’m sick of just being met with silence. And this silence doesn’t happen with other queer people. It doesn’t. Even if it’s about a topic they know nothing about. Just straight cis people. They’re killing me with their silence. Why do they do that?
I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.
Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.
We fucking replaced a Muslim scientist with an apple?
In the middle ages, THE place to go for an education was the middle East, or, failing that, Spain. The Muslim world didn’t have the same limits placed on scientific inquiry that the Christian world did, and since they were willing to look at more than just Aristotole and actually compare texts to the observable world, they had some incredible scientific and mathematical advancements. And street lights and toilets. I mean theories and algebra are great and all, but street lights and toilets. In the 12th century. Also medical advancements, and fewer rules against women studying. Hell, women *should* be the ones studying the female body, would you rather a woman see your female relatives, or some old man? Would you rather have someone who lives in the same kind of body, or one who has no first hand idea what the parts can do?
Europeans erased centuries of knowledge from the East because of fear. When we “rediscovered” it, we were still too egotistical to admit that non-whites could have been smarter, so we invented our own mythology.
Bring credit back where it’s due. Honor the true pioneers.
I loved Castlevania, and I enjoy a lot of other vampire media, but what deeply bothers me is hoe, starting with Bram Stoker, every story just erases the eastern European qualities and aesthetic of Dracula and vampire myths in general. It’s jarring and borderline offensive to see Dracula dressed like a western romantic gentleman (yes i am aware it’s an iconic look by now and it was one of us who sold out and brought him to Hollywood, looking at you Lugosi Bela), it feels weird seeing so much catholic aesthetic in the stories, catholic priests being the enemies, all the Gothic architecture, all the vampire ladies looking like some 19th century English girls , it’s really damn weird!
Just once I’d like to see something that says “Eastern Europe” clearly in a vampire story.
I feel cheated and ignored by the media.
Not a big deal, they’re just our stories and history, right?
Ancestry is a concept that at first seems bound within a heterosexist framework. Ancestry—when understood within the confines of limited heterocentrist viewpoint—is thought to exist only within the realm of blood relation, stemming from the proliferation of the ideal family unit across time and space as parents produce children, who become adults that in turn find heterosexual partners and produce children. This is what is understood when we speak of ancestry.
But what of Queer Ancestry? What of the kinships that are formed by those whose families have rejected them? What of those families who’s bond to one another is not blood but instead a shared commitment to protect, support, and uplift one another? Where, in the traditional family ideal, is there room for queer understandings of love and family? Our families are not connected by some shared DNA, they are connected by a shared spirit of resistance, of a common will to life that drives us to reject the hegemonic in search of a more authentic sense of self-actualization.
Many of our Queer Ancestors’ names have been lost to time, erased by the hegemonic power of heterohistory. Although their names may be lost, their stories can still empower and embolden us. By sharing their stories we carry their essence with us; they lend us their strength and their courage, their passion and their pain. Take strength from your Queer Ancestors. Allow them to empower you. Allow them to lend you their spirit, and they will lift you to new heights.
The false equivalence in Musk is so strong, as if people anywhere should be exploited way past safe, mental and physical limitations. There are reasons for limiting work and why there are regulations about age, overtime, and compensation. Technology is already a problem where work easily bleeds into uncompensated time and leave.
This isn’t complimentary to anyone’s work ethic and falls square into the model minority myth. Many of us remember the horror of hearing about people committing suicide over work conditions or overworking themselves to death at Foxconn factories, and the reaction was to install nets and hire a PR firm. Things are outsourced to China and other “developing” countries for exploitative reasons, not because people are unwilling to do them and the safeguards against reckless profiteering in one place do not extend to corporations internationally.
This is a colonialist attitude, as if Chinese and other ethnic minorities have not been historically exploited as migrant labour–underpaid, undervalued, and put in harm’s way even as citizens of industrialized nations. People still feel the need to count how many generations their families have lived and toiled because we’re constantly reminded we are seen as foreign, discriminated against, and always a hair from being blamed for our own victimization.
Elon and his ilk can take their backhanded praise and choke on it.
LOOK AT HIM GO!!!!!!! Buff tanktop-zawa???? He loves his kids so much I’m sobbing
Since ppl are asking, this is the source :
It’s the character Taimat from Horikoshi’s pervious series Sensei no bulge. He looks A LOT like Aizawa!!! I just threw in some screen tones & beefed him up using the magic of photoshop.
Edit: And to be clear, as the previous reblog revealed, yes, this was an April fool’s day prank.
THE TAGS ARE KILLING ME SJHFSHGDFK
PPl are still reblogging this….After this reaction, I’ll be surprised if I don’t get hate mail in my inbox once the real chapter drops. In fact, if I don’t I might actually be disappointed…
TW depressionAsexuals show overall depression prevalence levels similar to those of queer allosexuals, comparison-wise. Aces seem more at risk than gay people, but less than mspec people (multi attraction spectrum, especially pan- & polysexuals). The comparison below should only give an overall framework to show where asexuals fit within (pansexuals as one example of an high-risk group at one…
It’s pretty interesting how the “top post” in the “Fire Island” tags is a gifset featuring a secondary white guy. I should remind you that “Fire Island” is movie about gay “Pride and Prejudice” romance between two Asian male leads written and directed by Asian men, a movie that points out how Asian men face discrimination and racism within the community…
Granted the movie just came out yesterday, the situation may change, but still. People out here watched this movie and thought that a secondary white guy is the hottest thing that should be centered above the two Asian leads.
(for the record this post is about the pattern in fandom that exists)
Context: There is a big Tweet going around that appears to be a pro-Finn tweet. I almost clicked like, then I looked at the thread. The point of the post was – “DLF is accusing the fandom that wanted Finn to be the lead in the Sequel Trilogy of racism!?”
FALSE.
The StarWars twitter said don’t be racist about Reva in the Kenobi series. A lot of fans took that personally, which is a tell. Hit dogs holler, etc.
Don’t use Finn as a deflection. The SW fandom has been fucking horrible about Finn since 2014.
a lot of shit i hear in the discourse reminds me of actual things homophobes say irl and it’s… really troubling?
“preteens identifying as ace is sexualizing!” whenever i headcanon a character as gay or bi/pan, my mom tells me, not everything has to be sexual. lgbt identities are viewed as inherently sexual and inappropriate for children.
“why do you feel the need to talk about being ace? it’s tmi, no one needs or wants to know about your sex life except your partner.” i’m not against your lifestyle, just keep it in the bedroom, okay?
“telling kids they can experience sexual attraction is grooming.” please stop conflating minority orientations to pedophilia, this has been used against gay people forever.
“asexuality is a disease and doesn’t naturally occur.” do i even have to explain this one?
what i’m trying to say is that it’s really hurtful for me, an ace lesbian, to hear this rhetoric used against me by straight people because i’m gay, then go into lgbt spaces–which are supposed to be safe for me–and hear other gay people saying almost word-for-word the exact same things, this time directed against my asexuality.
please stop using these arguments. don’t repackage homophobic rhetoric and use it against a different minority orientation.
aggressive reminder that while y’all don’t have to headcanon any unlabeled multisexual characters as pan, y’all need to start acknowledging that there are more than three sexualities and that bi isn’t the default for “not straight or gay”, therefor they could very well be pan. stop erasing us.
Using aro-spec / ace-spec identities to sideline characters in a story, isn’t the kind of representation aro-spec / ace-spec people want. This is quite often done to remove the character as a relationship option or to shift focus on characters who are not aro-spec / ace-spec. In doing so, people are basically confirming that the kinds of relationships we form are less important. They are also confirming that our existence is less important. Our stories are less important. How our aro-ness or ace-ness intersects with other experiences is less important. That is a problem for us.
What is not a problem for us, is when aro-spec / ace-spec people choose to see themselves in characters whose experiences are similar to their own. There is a big difference between us interpreting characters as such, and people who are not us interpreting characters as such in a faux-support move. We are invested in the characters being representative of us. We do not see our identity as a simple plot device. The addition of our identity to a character does not take anything about them away. It adds nuance to that character. There’s nothing wrong with that. At all.
I can understand people being upset and resistant to anyone erasing one part of a character’s canon identity in order to include a headcanoned identity. However, this happens to many different characters of different identities. I have seen this often happen to non-binary or non-binary coded characters, who are interpreted as strictly binary by fans. I have seen the very very few aro-spec and ace-spec characters we have erased by fans, who don’t care about how being aro-spec or ace-spec would play out in a relationship. So, it happens to everybody, but I’ve only seen aro-spec / ace-spec folks yelled at for doing it.
Point is, don’t be fake about your support. Don’t use aro-spec / ace-spec people as pawns in your fandoms. If you’re going to represent us, do it because you want to represent us. Not so you can write us off. Also, don’t punish aro-spec / ace-spec people for actually being invested in their representation. We are not the problem. Wanting to see ourselves in fiction is not the problem. Being aro-spec or ace-spec shouldn’t be treated like a punishment. When you address people using aro-spec / ace-spec identities to sideline characters, maybe don’t alienate actual aro-spec / ace-spec people when you address it.
If, in fact, you find people using our identities dishonestly, that is not the time to reinforce the idea that aro-spec / ace-spec identities are a punishment. That is not the time to alienate aro-spec / ace-spec people, by explaining how not aro-spec or ace-spec a character is as if being aro-spec / ace-spec is abnormal. The best thing to do is ask someone why they interpret someone as aro-spec / ace-spec. Why is it that this interpretation is being revealed while the character is being treated as less important or less valuable to a relationship? It is not a bad thing to be us. It is a bad thing to use us to treat others as less-than.
“I have shared with Alec,” [Maurice] said after deep thought. “Shared what?” Google asked. “All I have. Which includes my body.” Google sprang up with a whimper of disgust.
