The things I love, let me show them to you.
[a brief sampling of what you'll experience]
-video games
-harry potter
-nintendo
-doctor who
-paper crafting
-cat pictures
I know right now homophobes trying to distance themselves from the orlando shooter and I just want you all to know that you’re the same. you won’t take a gay persons life, but you also won’t advocate for anti-discrimination in employment, housing, and healthcare… the basic necessities that make life sustainable. so don’t pretend to feel remorse for the 50 dead and 53 injured, you wouldn’t care less if they died of poverty alone. you’re all the same every single one of you
“Hey people that don’t like dogs! You’re not allowed to feel bad when some nutcase poisons a bunch of them at the dog park! Get away from me with your sympathy and understanding that lives were lost today!”
“You’re not allowed to feel bad for an act of terrorism if you disagree with me!”
You just compared LGBT+ people to dogs.
You just compared the murder of 50 Latinix LGBT+ people to poisoning dogs.
I think we really need to reaffirm now that no amount of homophobia can be acceptable in our culture. There is no such this as harmless or victimless homophobia. All homophobia contributes to violence against us. You can not “disagree” with lgbt people’s “lifestyles” without supporting the rhetoric and legislation that puts us in very real danger.
Disagreement is not violence…
“Disagreeing” with LGBT+ people’s right to exist, right to live safely, right to full protections under the law, and right to equal treatment within society IS a violence.
i wish hermione and ginnys relationship was touched on a little bit more. idk i love the thought of them sharing a room whenever hermione visits the burrow and staying up late talking about feminism and reading books next to each other and hermione patiently listening to ginny ramble on about rumors and gossip that’s happening in her year group and hermione giving advise to ginny and vise versa and idk i just love the thought of ginny and hermione just being normal teenage girls
The negative reaction to the premier issue of Captain America Steve Rogers has been swift and irate. Some people have been going a good deal overboard, issuing death threats against writer, Nick Spencer. Death threats are never okay and is a cowardly and poor means of voicing one’s frustration.
Comics are cyclical and almost always revert back to the status quo. All his will be resolved or retconned in due time. I think Nick Spencer is probably pretty good guy. He was asked to write a book that would steel the headlines and he delivered. Besides, crazy improbable twists are an essential hallmark of superhero comics.
Nonetheless, having cap revealed as a secret nazi is in terrible taste. Yet the bigger problem is that the timing could not be worse. We are in a very rough stage of world history right now. Fascism (in it’s many forms) is actually on the rise.
Fascist political parties have made huge headways in recent elections in France and England. Plus, here in America, we are now facing a very real risk that a fascist will be elected president.
Added to that is the significant rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes throughout Europe…
..coupled with a largely racist police state here in America that can easily be viewed as neo-apartide…
..as well as a rash of zealous, totalitarian paramilitary organizations wreaking havoc all over The Middle East and Africa.
In happier, more peaceful times, this crazy twist in the pages of Captain America might have been more acceptable. It would still be a stupid stunt and likely just as quickly retconned, but perhaps it wouldn’t elicit the degree of vitriol that yesterday’s revelation brought forth.
Nick Spencer and the editorial team for Captain America should have been read the room, take the temperature of their audience and factored the matter into their decisions. These are dark times and people are scared. We need our heroes more than ever. We need escapism that elicits hope rather than adds to our dread.
“The mainstream Hollywood thinking still seems to be that movies and stories about straight white people are universal, and that anyone else is more niche.” – Aziz Ansari
Check out this story in the New York Times about Asian-American actors fighting for visibility within the whitewashing Hollywood system.
