Barbie + Blonde Male Fragility Reviews (insp):

hey guys friendly reminder from your fave Canadian that esk*mo is a slur so please don’t use it!

I see it usually in the context of “esk*mo kisses” which may pop up when people talk about their ships and their headcanon, but it means “snow eaters” in cree and is a slur against Inuit people so please just don’t use it!

and I would appreciate if u reblogged this because people outside Canada don’t seem to know this for the most part

pls use Inuit instead, it means “the people” in Inuktitut which is one of the predominant languages spoken by Inuit people

it’s honestly hilarious how “did you just assume my gender?” Is a Funny Meme™ to cis people now bc in what universe is it ever safe to ask that question outside of like a very trans inclusive safe space. In what universe am I ever going to able to correct someone I just met on my pronouns or gender without feeling overwhelming fear for my personal safety? you fools just want to view us as irrational idiots who have no grasp on reality so that YOU don’t have to face the reality that your “trans people wanting to be themselves and be respected is funny/an inconvenience to me/a load of bullshit” rhetoric literally ends lives.

im so fucking glad someone put this into words

The thing about the rich of this country is that billionaires have more money than is humanly possible to spend. So like, I really do not give any amount of a shit if increasing their taxes is “faaair” because I care more about no one starving to death or going without medical care in fucking 2015 than I do about the great grandson of the guy who invented some crappy toy being able to buy his 17th yacht. We can fucking print out organs and we have people dying of the flu because they are too poor to go to the er. Like??? Tax the shit outta the rich. Take half their money. Idgaf.

And like conservatives are so quick to say its not fair to tax the fuck out of the rich, but then they say to people struggling that “life isn’t fair” like??? If anyone is getting screwed here I want it to be the guy who owns four mc mansions not the family of four living out of their car.

@Hajabeg: “So yesterday on my flight to Vancouver I was watching Supergirl, more specifically, the episode where Alex comes out to Kara. I had headphones on but I was watching it with subtitles, which I do a lot because it is hard for me to understand spoken english sometimes. After Kara tells Alex to go get the girl, I feel a tap on my shoulder. I pause, the guy next to me trying to get my attention. Guy tells me I’m being inconsiderate and disrespectful becausr there were kids on the flight. I shouldn’t expose them to “gay abomination”. I pointed out that the audio is off, but even so, there’s nothing wrong with kids being exposed to queer character, queer heroes on TV. He says it’s wrong, I tell him that a lot of kids are already queer and that I’m sure they’re happy to have their sexuality represented on TV. He gets upset, calls me “one of those disgusting dykes” and “a fucking n*****”. He tells the flight attendant he must switch seats ASAP. I usually don’t let those things get to me, but I was emotional from leaving my home and my family behind, so I got visibly upset. She asks me what’s wrong, I tell her the guy has been attacking me with racial slurs and homophobic comments; the woman behind me backs me up. Guy outright tells FA he absolutely can’t stand sitting next to someone as filthy as me. Of course, I get livid, as well as those around me. FA tells him she’ll solve the problem and leaves, then she comes back and tell me I’ve been upgraded to 1st class, free of charge. Guy is outraged, FA claps back, “You wanted her gone, so she is. Stop disrupting the flight or you’ll have the police waiting upon landing”. I get to First Class, I’m still livid, I take my laptop out and keep watching Supergirl because I can, I love the show and fuck homophobia. After Alex & Maggie kiss, I notice the woman next to staring at my screen so I brrace myself for yet another argument. Thankfully, I’m wrong. She asks if I like Supergirl, I tell her it’s one of my favorite shows. She tells me her daughter loves it & actually got her to watch it. She asksme if I’m alright, and I tell her no–I’m still angry–then tell her what happened. Once I’m done, she tells me Supergirl helped her. Because her BFF of 35 years came out to her as a lesbian and at first, she jusy couldn’t accept it. It went against her beliefs. It was wrong. But watching Alex Danvers’ journey with her daughter “who, mind you, I’m sure she’s a little bit gay” helped her understand her best friend. She told me she saw her best friend’s struggles reflected in Alex. That Alex helped her understand what her best friend was going through. And basically thanks to Supergirl she got past her own prejudice and wrongful belief and now their frienship is stronger than ever. She told me she also joined a group for parents of LGBTQ kids cause she wants to be ready when her daughter comes out to her. It was a happy coincidence that I got to meet a kind and understanding human being after experiencing a very uncomfortable situation”

THIS IS DAMN GOOD AND BRILLIANT. I LOVE STORIES LIKE THIS. I MCFREAKIN MCFLIPPED!

So, this happened to me on my way to Vancouver, and it is by a far a moment I’ll always remember. The amount of love and all the kind words I have been receiving all day warms my heart. Thank you so much <3

Yuri!!! on Ice destroying gender roles

shieldon:

Young Viktor & Johnny Weir

@judarchan OMG *_*

IT SURE AS SHIT WAS AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING:

Figure skating is a surprisingly homophobic sport, in part due to how flamboyant that was. So much so that young gay men are openly harassed and gay women even worse so. Johnny Weir was repeatedly called Johnny Queer publicly by spectators, coaches, other skaters, etc. Judges were unbelievably harsh on him, even if he had a technically perfect program (which, he often did). Why? Because he was flamboyant off the ice just as much as he was on. Even though he never really came out until the tail end of his career, he never denied his sexuality when people asked either. He maintained a neutral voice, which everyone assumed to mean he was gay, and for that simple fact, he was shit on and harassed and scored low consistently.  Broadcasters even went so far as to question his gender on public television and accuse him of being a, and I quote, “Tranny”. 

Even commentators like Scott Hamilton would admit on multiple occasions that he was one of the strongest skaters in the men’s division but he wouldn’t place because he was too “controversial”. Mind you, this was in the latter half of his career. When he first started out, he won the Grand Prix twice, placed third at worlds and won Junior Worlds when he was still establishing his career. And the minute he came into his own he was rejected.

And you know how he handled it? He smiled and continued being himself. People would ask him if he would tone down his programs and he would actively refuse because he did not want to compromise who he was. 

So for YOI to pay tribute to this skater that I have looked up to since childhood brought so many tears to my eyes. Try telling me that this show is fanservice or queer-baiting, I dare you. Because if you knew anything about skating and the politics behind it, you would know that this show is breaking down huge barriers, and not just in the Japanese culture, but an enormously international one as well. Paying tribute to an icon like Johnny Weir isn’t just a tribute to figure skating, it’s a tribute to the LGBT+ community, however subtle it may be. 

This is what I’m talking about when I say this show touches on so many issues/aspects in figure skating.

Rosenberg Loses It On Police Officer Over Alton Sterling Killing #BlackLivesMatter #AltonSterling

Show this to all your “#NotAllCops” friends.

Yuriko Kotani /  Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central

amber heard has done literally every single thing that everyone has insisted an abused woman should do –

and news reports are still acting as though there is no way that amber heard could be telling the truth

ON STEVE ROGERS #1, ANTISEMITISM, AND PUBLICITY STUNTS

JESSICA PLUMMER 5|26|16

[SPOILERS FOR CAPTAIN AMERICA: STEVE ROGERS #1 BELOW]

Yesterday, Marvel released the first issue of Captain America: Steve Rogers by Nick Spencer, Jesus Saiz, and Joe Caramagna. It’s a pretty boilerplate (albeit beautifully depicted) story of a rejuvenated Steve Rogers back in the field…right up until he tosses an ally to his death and declares “Hail Hydra” in a final page splash. The whole thing is intercut with flashbacks to his childhood of a neighbor inviting Steve’s mother to a Hydra meeting, thus implying that Steve was indoctrinated as a child and has been a sleeper agent of Hydra all along.

This is comics, right? Unleash a shocking twist to get readers to pick up the next issue! Make everything All-New All-Different for a few months until things settle back into the status quo! Have a character behave so incongruously that fans just have to know why!

Except.

Except this is different than having Superman be a jackass to Lois and Jimmy on the cover of some Silver Age issue of Action. This is different than a kiss or a death or a resurrection. This is even different than the usual “wildly out of character” stunts that would normally have readers up in arms, like Batman using a gun.

Quick comics history lesson: Captain America was created in 1941 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a superpowered, super-patriotic soldier fighting the Axis forces. He was famously depicted punching out Adolf Hitler on the cover of his first appearance, inCaptain America Comics #1—which hit stands in December 1940, a full year before Pearl Harbor and before the United States joined World War II, making that cover a bold political statement.

You probably already knew that, but I’d invite you to think about it for a minute. In early 1941, a significant percentage of the American population was still staunchly isolationist. Yet more Americans were pro-Axis. The Nazi Party was not the unquestionably evil cartoon villains we’re familiar with today; coming out in strong opposition to them was not a given. It was a risky choice.

And Simon and Kirby—born Hymie Simon and Jacob Kurtzberg—were not making it lightly. Like most of the biggest names in the Golden Age of comics, they were Jewish. They had family and friends back in Europe who were losing their homes, their freedom, and eventually their lives to the Holocaust. The creation of Captain America was deeply personal and deeply political.

Ever since, Steve Rogers has stood in opposition to tyranny, prejudice, and genocide. While other characters have their backstories rolled up behind them as the decades march on to keep them young and relevant, Cap is never removed from his original context. He can’t be. To do so would empty the character of all meaning.

But yesterday, that’s what Marvel did.

Look, this isn’t my first rodeo. I know how comics work. He’s a Skrull, or a triple agent, or these are implanted memories, or it’s a time travel switcheroo, or, or, or. There’s a thousand ways Marvel can undo this reveal—and they will, of course, because they’re not about to just throw away a multi-billion dollar piece of IP. Steve Rogers is not going to stay Hydra any more than Superman stayed dead.

But Nazis (yes, yes, I know 616 Hydra doesn’t have the same 1:1 relationship with Nazism that MCU Hydra does) are not a wacky pretend bad guy, something I think geek media and pop culture too often forgets. They were a very real threat that existed in living memory. They are the reason I can’t go back to the villages my great-grandparents are from, because those communities were murdered. They are the reason I find my family name on Holocaust memorials. They are the perpetrators of unspeakable, uncountable, very real atrocities.

It’s easy, especially if you’re not Jewish, to think that anti-semitism is a thing of the past. It’s not. It flies under the radar, mostly, until suddenly it doesn’t: with graffiti in Spain, hateful party games in American high schools, vicious threats being flung at Jewish journalists for criticizing Trump. With physical attacks—with deaths—in France. Nor is neo-Nazi rhetoric, which hews closer to 616 Hydra’s shtick, a goofy make-believe thing. Not when the Republican presidential nominee spouts fascist ideology that echoes Hitler’s rise to power and spurs a literal rise in hate crimes against Muslims.

But writer Nick Spencer and editor Tom Brevoort are more concerned with making this “something new and unexpected”; with having “fun” and getting readers “invested in Hydra characters.” Because what’s more fun than downplaying genocide?

I’m not going to pretend to be cool here. I’m emotional. This is emotional. Captain America isn’t even my usual guy to get incandescently angry over the erasure of his coded Jewish history— that’s Kal-El, the Moses of Krypton—but reading this comic made me feel sick to my stomach. Reading the flippant responses of many non-Jewish readers—including friends—has brought me to tears. Somehow a community that gets up in arms about whether or not Batman has a yellow circle behind his logo seems to think that being angry about this is stupid, or indicative of a lack of experience with comics.

So let me be very clear: I don’t care if this gets undone next year, next month, next week. I know it’s clickbait disguised as storytelling. I am not angry because omg how dare you ruin Steve Rogers forever.

I am angry because how dare you use eleven million deaths as clickbait.

I am angry because Steve Rogers’s Jewish creators literally fought in a war against the organization Marvel has made him a part of to grab headlines.

I am angry because the very real pain of the Jewish community has been dismissed since this news leaked on Tuesday night as “Twitter outrage.”

If this story doesn’t hurt you? Good. I’m genuinely glad. I don’t want anyone else to have the gorge rise in their throat when they read the entertainment news. I love comics. I don’t want them to make people feel angry and betrayed. But understand that not feeling that way comes from a place of privilege, and don’t dismiss the concerns of those of us who are upset just because you have the luxury not to be.

I’ve been trying to think of how to finish this post, but I don’t think I can say it better than my friend and fellow Panelteer Sigrid Ellis did here:

And knowing that this wound is temporary, that it’s for the sake of sales and money and a story beat, that just makes it hurt more, not less. How little we must matter, the people who needed Steve to be the defender of the underdog and the weak, how little we must matter if betraying us for a story beat is so easy.

How little must we matter. The people who created Captain America, and Superman, and countless other heroes like them. The people who need him. The people whose history and suffering and hope, as we stood on the brink of annihilation, gave you your weekly entertainment and your fun thought experiment, 75 years later.

I hope it was worth it, Marvel.

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I’ve never been more alive #godblesstwitter

#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend - Part One [Part Two]

#StarringJohnCho proposes a solution to Hollywood whitewashing: John Cho

It’s no secret that Hollywood has an Asian-American erasure problem. William Yu’s solution? John Cho. Yu created the above posters to show that Hollywood already has viable Asian American stars in its ranks — filmmakers just need to use them. John Cho is far from the only one.