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The most common responses I've gotten to criticizing bigotry in media are, in no particular order:

1. Clearly you didn't actually read the books / watch the movie

(A patently absurd statement to make, when you are discussing details that could only be known by reading the books or watching the movie. Sometimes they will cave and admit you did read/watch the thing in question, but then, clearly, you're lacking in media comprehension. For criticizing the things that require actually comprehending the media to even notice.

Because a shallow reading of the text would literally make you think this isn't a problem because that's what the writers wants you to think because the writers are bigots.)

2. The person summarizes the thing I am criticizing, and then acts like them summarizing it means it's magically no longer a problem.

Example:

Me: The slavery apologism in this series is bad.

The person: So, you are upset by the fact that the author is going out of her way to demonize slaves and slave rebellions and keeps having the protagonists murder slaves like they're mindless automatons while doting on slave owners and none of this is portrayed as a bad thing? We're still supposed to think the protagonists are good people? That's not actually a problem.

3. The person acts like their headcanon magically fixes and erases all the bigotry in canon.

Example:

Me: This movie is doing the racist trope where the white girl is not allowed to get together with the Black boy at the end of the movie simply because he's Black, when we all know that if he were white they would have gone riding off into the sunset together, kissing and smiling. But he's not even allowed to try and hold her hands without getting grossed out. That's absolute pure racism.

The person: Well, I headcanon the white girl as aro, and I thought she wasn't interested in him at all, maybe even scared of him, so it's not racism at all, she's just Queer.

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the trans community is more outraged over a binary trans person's "mischaracterisation" as exorsexist than over that same person using their large platform to mischaracterise a group of people that is marginalised even in the trans community.

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[ID: The meme of Padme and Anakin talking in a field, with Anakin now albeled, "Erec", and Padme labeled "Me". Erec first says calmly: "Enide, no matter what happens, no matter what you see, you must not turn back to speak to me, and must stay moving forward and never stopping for anything." Me responds, smiling, "Because you're going through an enchanted wood and that will activate a curse, right?" Erec, now staring ominously, says, "I'm now threatening to kill Enide for warning me that someone was about to attack me from a direction I couldn't see." Me says, "Oh, you're just an abusive asshole, aren't you?" End ID.]

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I increased the brightness and contrast so now you can actually see it.

He just did a fucking flip

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Marlena is the chillest cat ever. Who abandoned her outside.

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Fallout 4 on the computer is so much more stable than on the ps4. For shame

Not my computer though. It would explode lol

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nothing is more frustrating than when I’m leading a serious discussion about the importance of learning how to properly research folklore & cultural stories from reliable sources and someone pipes in like “why does it matter if it’s all made up anyway?”

yeah dude vampires are made up and the whole “vampires couldn’t see their reflections in antique mirrors because of the silver backing” is made up so you can combine those however you want for fun.

but you can’t say “the Victorians believed vampires couldn’t see themselves in mirrors because of the silver backing, which is why Dracula has no reflection,”

because the author of Dracula was a real man who never said that and the Victorians were real people of a real era and you can’t just make up things about real people because it’s important historically for us to understand what people believed about the world and why.

Making up facts about vampires is folklore & literature. Claiming random people in the past believed that, with no evidence, is just lying.

Am I making sense??

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Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, uaing the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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My friend Amal (@amalashuor) reached out to me and shared with me the horrible situation her and her family are experiencing right now.

Remember a few weeks ago, Amal was amongst the hundreds of thousands displaced Palestinians who made their journey back to the north of Gaza. When they arrived they came face to face with the magnitude of destruction that Israel had inflicted in the area; their homes were destroyed, with no electricity or water available.

Since the ceasefire in January, Israel has been obstructing the entrance and delivery of aid to all of Gaza but more specifically to the north. Due to that, Amal, her toddler, and husband are now homeless and sheltering in a school.

I can feel Amal's pain through her words and I can't stress this enough but donations are needed and they are needed quite desperately. You can donate here. Any amount, no matter how small, definitely helps. Don't underestimate the power of collective action. Share Amal's story so that it may have a happy ending.

(This campaign is vetted #175)

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A bilateral gynandromorph ceratopsian, whose asymmetrical horns appear to complete a thin crescent moon

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Why did the Animorphs authors decide to make "being mean to (USAmerican) war veterans means you deserve to be enslaved and tortured every day until you die" the hill their books were gonna die on.

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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That's literally why there's a news article Right There. This was not organized on tumblr. It's just being shared on tumblr so more people can join in who aren't in the union. No one is pretending that this post is what started the whole thing.

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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