words that are biphobic and why
(Source: unhide-the-pride, via fandomsandfeminism)
alright listen up ya ding dongs cause im gonna lay it down
the reason queer people project onto characters, making them trans or queer themselves in their interpretations??? It’s because
we are not
represented
at all.
And when we are, 95% of the time it’s a horrible stereotype or as a written off one liner, which might as well not be there for all the good it does.
Us projecting onto these characters and making them relateable to ourselves has nothing to do with anything except making feel more comfortable or accepted within the small spaces we create for ourselves in fandom.
You have the canon, because chances are that character WAS written as straight or cis. So like, writing a huge essay to explain WHY A CHARACTER CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRANS OR QUEER IN ANYWAY is just you enforcing what we already know and what we already are told every day of our lives. That we don’t exist, that we have to prove what and who we are.
You’re not telling us anything new. SO us??? deciding to say a character is queer, ESPECIALLY if that character has a narrative related to queerness but has been cishet-ified by cishet writers, literally has no harm on anyone. at all. You don’t need to have everything, so let us have this.
(via theyoungdoyley)
I want queer people to be able to turn on the tv and see themselves.
i want them to be able to watch a shitty romantic comedy with an obvious plot and see themselves, to watch a serious tv show about vampire killing FBI agents and see themselves, to watch a fairytale kid’s movie and see themselves-
i want queer people to count as people outside of shitty, offensive dramas that see queerness as a gate to more drama, something all-defining and life-ruining, written by writers who don’t care enough to learn what’s a stereotype and what’s reality and still want cookies for putting goddamn cardboard cuttouts on their show-
and i want that queerness to be evident and unarguable.
i don’t want shitty backhanded references to a dude’s “friendliness” with his best friend-
i don’t want half-hearted mentions of a main character’s gay friend in an attempt to prove that the character and that the show aren’t homophobic-
I don’t want queerbaiting, that straight viewers can claim was just a joke, because it was, it’s just a joke the show can profit off for “representing” someone they don’t even fucking count as enough of a person to deserve to be treated with respect-
And i want queer ladies and queer dudes and genderqueer queers and i want them to be different races and classes and have different goals and opinions and lifestyles and fashion choices and interests and lives and challenges, because queer people are not one, shitty, poorly done stereotype
I want to count as a fucking person
i want every single queer person to count as a fucking person
a person whose story isn’t a joke, isn’t something to be ashamed of, isn’t something you see once in an afterschool special about not bullying people, until they get “turned straight” or “fixed” or “just hadn’t met the right person” or fucking kill themselves or turn out to be the villain if they “stay queer” because being queer means one has to be ‘punished’ for it-
I want us to fucking count, and i want the media to acknowledge we count.
(via stfu-moffat)
Marriage and adoption for same-sex couples are now legal in France!
We’re still far from equality (trans* rights anyone?), but it’s a big step!
*happy happy*
For those who don’t know, a law for marriage and adoption for same-sex couple is going to pass very soon in France. There’s been debates for months now, and since then the people against it have been… Noisy.
It’s hard to be insulted all the time, in public, in the medias, to be told that you and your love are not good enough, but lately there’s been more and more physical attacks and the words are becoming more violent, literally calling for blood.
It sadden me to say so, but right now it isn’t safe in France if you’re lgbtq+.
And I am afraid, for myself -because if one thing’s sure it’s that I never pass as straight- and for the one I care about (especally when they’re SO FAR AWAY. Urgh. ;;). But I’m also very angry and I’m not going to let them just win, to let the homophobia be legitimated again even if the law passes. And I’m not going to hide because this is who I am, I am real, the people they’re hating on are real, and they can fight back.
Homophobic assholes, I spit on your hate, I’ll take none of your shit and I hope you realize what morons you are by yourself because if I have to tell you I’m not going to be nice. ♥
I’m not sure if this is scientifically correct but this perfectly sums up the feeling
what tweek said
This describe how it feels so well. I’ll try to keep that explanation in mind for the next time I have to reply to yet another “but everyone felt bad in their skin at a moment or another, it’ll pass.” comment. Because it won’t.