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niceallocockbro · 4 years ago

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realized that cishet aces/aros (and cis aroaces) who think they’re lgbt remind me a lot of christian-raised athiests (in modern day western culture) who think that they’re part of an oppressed religion

like how they use purely anecdotal “evidence” aka stories about stuff like their families kicking them out or being made fun of at school, neglecting to account for the fact that unlike ppl in non-christian religions, the ONLY way for them to be visible as atheist is if they tell people. which it might be annoying to keep secret if it ever becomes relevant, but they’re not actually being Repressed From Living Their Truth by simply omitting some of it. there’s no Atheist Lifestyle that they’re being discouraged from living. it’s just assumed that they believe in god, and that question is unlikely to be outright asked of them unless they refuse to participate in christian activities that aren’t even that much effort to do. it would really be plain stupid to come out to a devout christian family as an atheist if you thought there were going to be real consequences because you gain absolutely nothing. you Not Believing In God is not a core part of your identity that affects how you live your life in general. if you don’t genuinely need to explain, say, why you’ve stopped attending church as an adult, there’s simply no point.

there’s also how anything they DO face has nothing to do with people actively specifically hating atheists and is instead just a result of a larger issue - christian abuse - which is going to equally harm their devout family members.

and it’s specifically due to their privileged status as being christian-raised in a christian-dominant society that they’ll be ignorant to the fact that there are just entirely different concepts applied to non-christian religions. which they prove with how they’ll deride ALL organized religion as inherently bad. they don’t recognize that most other religions are essentially indigenous to where their largest populations are (or where their ethnic origins are) and have far more culture tied to them. they usually don’t even KNOW that atheists raised in other religions not only have a completely different attitude toward their atheism, but often don’t reject the religion they grew up with because you simply can’t separate the spiritual traditions from the secular ones.

atheism isn’t a religion. nor is it mutually exclusive with all religions. it doesn’t imply any set of morals, any traditions, any culture, etc. it simply means you don’t believe in the existence of any deities. ultimately, whether or not one believes there’s a god just... doesn’t matter that much. it’s internal and very personal. there’s SO much more to spirituality. which is why almost any atheist who was raised in a non-christian religion will classify themself as that religion alongside the qualifier that they are atheist. meanwhile christian-raised atheists very rarely do so.

and listen, this isn’t a perfect parallel. many sects of christianity are extremely abusive and it makes sense to want to separate yourself from that. but you can’t deny that you’ll never ever get away from christian values. they're not just in the house you grew up in. they’re in your WHOLE society.

christianity is so pervasive that it overlaps with the supposedly “secular.” ppl will say they’re completely divorced from christianity just because they don’t believe in god anymore, but they’ll still celebrate christmas and easter. they’ll still hold beliefs that they learned through christian teachings whether they realize it or not. and they’ll use the fact that their family doesn’t approve of their lack of belief in god to justify being a dick to people of other religions. because they’re convinced that they’re ALL like christianity when they’re in fact victims of christianity.

while yes, christians are all about the Thought Crimes, they don’t care nearly as much about beliefs that you lack as they do about Wrong Beliefs that you HAVE. even moreso, being open about having those Wrong Beliefs. believing in the “wrong god” and doing “rituals” that aren’t allowed, and whatnot. hell, bouts of “lacking faith” are even EXPECTED. the vast majority of the time, if a christian finds out that a fellow christian has stopped believing in god, they react with pity and a desire to help. meanwhile discovering that someone has a different religion entirely is often met with conversion attempts or outright persecution.

say a handful of ppl of different religions - jewish, muslim, sikh, hindu - were all talking about their experiences with discrimination relating to religion. even if none of these people wear identifying religious symbols or scarves or other clothing, chances are they don’t need to in order to be recognized as from a culture that’s largely non-christian.

now, you’d obviously say that it’s extremely inappropriate for a christian-raised atheist to try to JOIN this conversation, right? like, yall understand that the absolute worst thing the christian atheist could describe would most certainly be an isolated incident, meanwhile all of these visibly non-christian people are talking about very regular experiences. they would have to outright lie about their origins in order to avoid discrimination (and that still might not even work), meanwhile there’s absolutely nothing that would make an atheist get “clocked” as one. one of those original people might even also be atheist themself, but they don’t feel the need to talk about it because it’s NOT their specific lack of belief in a god that gets them persecuted; it’s the fact that they are part of a culture with non-christian values and follow non-christian traditions.

the atheist does not belong in this group - not because they’re an atheist, but because they were raised christian, and therefore cannot relate or even benefit from the conversation other than to make it about them and likely make everyone else uncomfortable at best. they could, however, certainly benefit from a conversation with other atheists who are talking specifically about their atheism.

all this to say that once again it’s not a PERFECT parallel and i’m NOT trying to make any direct comparisons between other aspects of religion, but lmao doesn’t all that sound familiar?

#ace discourse #exclus #exclusionist

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shirakinnie-moved · 5 years ago

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Shopping

I wrote a fic for transtalia week I’m hosting on @the-transtalia-blog and the prompt was Shopping! I’m thinking of posting this to ao3 and ffnet but I need to think of a title first.

"How do you do that?" Alfred asked.

"Do what?" Aldrich asked as he picked something off of the shelf and inspected the price.

"Wear your hair like that?"

Aldrich gave Alfred a confused look. "I'm just wearing my hair in a low ponytail. I don't understand what you mean."

"Before my transition, whenever I wore my hair like that I looked like a founding father," Alfred pouted as he put a jar of jam in the shopping cart. "We need this."

Gilbert laughed. "You looked like a what?" he asked.

"A founding father. I looked as if I was ready to fight the British and write the Articles of Confederation," Alfred said.

"I don't know what that means," Aldrich said as they started to walk down the aisle again.

Alfred groaned. "I mean, I looked really weird before my transition. Don't tell me you didn't look weird before your transition."

Aldrich sighed and stopped. "Alfred," he said, "I grew up in the eighties, and I was punk. Of course I looked weird."

"You were punk?" Gilbert asked. "I can't imagine that."

Aldrich raised an eyebrow. "Haven't you heard the music I listen to?"

"No," Gilbert said. "Is it punk?"

Aldrich looked Gilbert in the eye. "I listen to Green Day."

"I would like to see pictures," Alfred said.

"Yeah!" Gilbert exclaimed.

Aldrich rolled his eyes and continued down the aisle. "What else do you need for food?"

"First of all, I want pictures, and secondly, we need rice," Gilbert said.

"Will you eat the rice?" Aldrich asked, ignoring the first part.

"Yes," Gilbert said, "but Alfred doesn't know how to cook it."

"Yes, I do!" Alfred exclaimed. "Who said I can't? Was it Elena?"

"Me," Gilbert said. "I've seen you try to cook rice before, and it's sad."

Alfred pouted.

"But, yeah, Elena also said you can't cook rice," Gilbert said, smiling.

"That was a secret I confided in her," Alfred said. "I trusted her, and she betrayed me."

"Alfred, it was about your ability to cook rice. It's not like she told me of the bodies you've buried," Gilbert said.

"She told you about those too?" Alfred asked.

Gilbert became silent and Aldrich raised an eyebrow.

"I'm just joking! Come on, you guys," Alfred said. "Let's just get our rice so we can get out of here."

"Sounds good," Aldrich said.

They collected the rest of what they needed and made their way to the self checkout. They scanned all their items, and Aldrich paid.

As they were walking toward the parking lot, Gilbert said, "If you're not going to show us pictures of you when you were younger, then why don't you tell us about what you were like?"

Aldrich sighed as he thought about his life when he was younger. "Well, for starters, my parents wanted Agnarr and I to be good, Christian children. We used to go to church every day and they wanted me to wear dresses all the time so of course we rebelled. It started with Agnarr growing his hair out and me ripping up my dresses. We also stopped going to church.

"You can imagine how angry our parents were. They tried everything they could to get us 'back to normal.' They even hired a priest to do an exorcism on us."

"How'd that go down?" Gilbert asked.

Aldrich smirked. "We really fucked with them. We pretended to actually be possessed. My mom cried so we stopped."

"Holy shit," Gilbert said. "You never told me about this."

"I didn't?" Aldrich asked.

"You've told me none of this."

"Well, I'm telling you now."

They reached Aldrich's car and started to unload the groceries. When they were done, Alfred ran to the passenger door and jumped in.

"Hey!" Gilbert said. "That's my spot!"

"You have to sit in the back because you're cis," Alfred said, smiling.

"You heard him," Aldrich said. "Trans men get to sit in the front."

Gilbert rolled his eyes and got into the back. Aldrich was the last to get in.

"Okay, now that we're in here, continue your story!" Alfred said.

"Where was I?" Aldrich asked as he started the car.

"Exorcism," Gilbert said. "You made your mom cry."

"I got into a big fight with my parents after that," Aldrich said. "They told me and Agnarr to leave and never come back."

"You got kicked out?" Alfred asked.

"Yep," Aldrich said. "We barely made enough to get by, but we were getting by."

"Damn, how'd you guys reconcile?" Gilbert asked.

"I came out as trans, and I thought they deserved to know," Aldrich said. "My mom cried again, but she just hugged me and said she missed me. Our relationship after that was tense, but not more than it was before.

"Agnarr and I spent our time beating up transphobes. My parents would, of course, scold us about it. They didn't understand any of what we were doing at all. They still tried to get us to go to church until we told them we were pagan. They were furious, and our dad kicked us out again."

"Damn," Gilbert said. "How many times were you kicked out?"

"We got kicked out one more time after that when Agnarr hospitalized some transphobes who tried to commit a hate crime against me."

"That's fucked up," Alfred said.

"Yep," Aldrich said. "We traveled after that. We drove around the country, and Agnarr almost got arrested when we went to Canada. That was fun."

"How did you turn into this boring man who teaches high school German?" Gilbert asked.

"Because I then met Hans who then manipulated me and forced me back into the closet and forced me to stop being punk. That was the least punk thing I've ever done," Aldrich said.

"Abuse doesn't make you any less punk," Alfred said.

"Yeah, and you kicked Hans out and that was pretty punk," Gilbert said. "And you still fight transphobes."

"Thank you," Aldrich said. "That means a lot."

"No problem," Gilbert said. "Now how about we go home so we can teach Alfred how to cook rice."

Aldrich chuckled as Alfred groaned and said, "Fuck both of you."

#transtaliaweek2020 #hetalia #aph #hws #aph germania #hws germania #aph america #hws america #aph prussia #hws prussia #transtalia #mywriting

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metalandmagi · 6 years ago

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March Media Madness!

Hello and welcome to the post where I talk about all the movies, books, and TV I consumed this month in my seemingly never ending quest to shout my feelings into the void. And oh boy all the winter anime is ending so I feel dead inside.

*puts on sunglasses* Let’s do this.

Movies!

Bohemian Rhapsody: The one about Queen Freddie Mercury. And it’s pretty good. It’s a little weird seeing a biopic of a band with literally no struggles getting into the industry, and I wouldn’t say it does wonders for the negative stereotypes about bisexuals...but who cares because if you’re watching this movie, it’s because you just want to sing along to some Queen songs and see some big hair! 8/10

How to Train Your Dragon- The Hidden World: The third and final installment in the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, in which Dreamworks pulls a Butterfree on us, but at least we get a happy ending. This franchise holds a special place in my heart for so many reasons, and I’m glad that this one stuck the landing. Each movie has its own specific feeling and message, and they all advance the story in unique ways. Apart from being beautifully animated and hilarious, it also packs the big emotional punch we all were expecting and ends on a satisfying note overall. But it’s still not perfect. The other riders are at their most useless by far, and this is coming from someone who never really minded them before. They’re a lot more irritating if you’ve watched the tv series and can see how they can be useful. And Astrid really only provides emotional support instead of her usual ass-kicking. The villain was...fine...but he didn’t really pack much of a punch. And I really wished they had kept some sort of continuity and embraced the television series (I NEED A DAGUR CAMEO)! But these are mostly small things. If you haven’t given this franchise a try yet, please give it a chance! 9/10

Ralph Breaks the Internet: The poorly named sequel to Wreck It Ralph, in which Ralph and Venelope must travel to the internet to save Sugar Rush and keep the game characters from becoming homeless. It’s a fine follow up, but it definitely doesn’t have the same impact the first one did. There’s a heck of a lot going on in this movie, and it feels like it tried to do too much in terms of plot and character arcs in favor of sacrificing the humor from the first movie. And I really miss Felix and Calhoun. But there are a lot of good things about it too. Everything the Disney princesses do is pure gold, Shank is amazing, and there is a ton of effort put into building the world of the internet. I’m sure it will be pretty dated in a couple years, but it’s not just a quick cash grab full of name dropping and references (even though Disney seems like it wants it to be). It’s still worth checking out. 7.5/10

A Quiet Place: A family must survive in a world where deadly alien monsters that are attracted to sound have invaded the planet. I am the world’s biggest wimp when it comes to scary movies, and even I was interested enough in the premise to want to see this movie. And yes it’s amazing! The performances are all incredibly moving and believable, we get good representation of a Deaf character, the sound design is so creative it should be used in film classes, and it tells a thrilling and heart wrenching family story in only an hour and a half. I think I liked it because the focus wasn’t on the monsters just going around killing people. It’s about a family and what parents will do for their children. People like to say there’s a ton of plot holes, but if you actually think about them for more than five seconds, you’ll see there’s really nothing to pick apart because their decisions all make sense in the end.

My only question is about the cochlear device the daughter (Regan) uses. Was the dad (Lee) trying to make a new cochlear implant? Did Regan already have the internal component implanted in her cochlea? Had she been using one since before the monsters came? Did it break earlier because of the monsters’ connection with electromagnetic waves? Because if not...CIs don’t really work like that. I’m just confused about that situation. But that’s kind of nitpicky when this movie is still amazing. Even if you hate horror movies, I’d highly suggest it simply because of how creative its production is. 9/10

Mary Poppins Returns: It’s exactly what it sounds like...Mary Poppins returns to help the now adult children of the Banks family with the help of Lin Manuel Miranda. It’s fun, but it definitely goes on too long. Though I appreciate Emily Blunt putting her own spin on the character. Odds are if you like the original, you’ll probably like this too. 8/10

Fantastic Beasts- The Crimes of Grindelwald: The second movie in the Harry Potter prequel-verse, where Grindelwald basically becomes wizard Hitler and Newt is more concerned with winning Tina back then saving the world. Okay...this movie is not great. Structurally it’s a mess, the fun is being sucked out of the wizarding world, the characters make decisions that don’t align with previous behavior and make no logical sense, and there really is just the bare bones of a plot. There are also several characters that don’t need to be there and are just thrown in for fanservice (for now anyway). I found myself constantly saying how things don’t work like that and asking why things are happening. But even so, there are still good things about it. Visually it’s...fantastic. Jude Law makes a good young Dumbledore, and even Johnny Depp embodies what I always imagined Grindelwald at the height of his power would be like...I just wish it wasn’t Johnny Depp. I also wish it had more humor, because what was there was funny. It’s really just a transition film, which proves this franchise should never have been five movies, and Rowling should have focused on a Marauders era series or on young Dumbledore and Grindelwald. You just have to form your own opinion. 6.5/10

Maquia- When the Promised Flower Blooms: An immortal girl becomes a teen mom to an orphaned baby after her clan is killed. It’s basically a high fantasy version of Wolf Children. I honestly don’t know what to think about this movie. It does the family relationships so well and really drives home what it means to be a parent. However, its setting really throws me out of the movie because it tries to focus so much on the politics and background of this world without really succeeding. And because it is about a baby growing up, the pacing is so fast it will give you whiplash. But it is beautifully filmed and animated, and I would have bawled my eyes out at the ending if I wasn’t so distracted by how much I didn’t like the other characters and things that were happening at the castle. So...yeah, it’s a well animated, hard hitting movie that will probably mean more to parents overall. I just wish it was a TV series or a trilogy or something other than a two hour film. 7.5/10

Free Solo: A National Geographic documentary covering Alex Honnold, a man who is attempting to climb up the 900 meter side of El Capitan at Yosemite national park...without ropes or safety equipment. Yes, this is an incredible feat and the actual climbing portions are gripping and super intense. But personally, I found who Alex is as a person much more fascinating...and not necessarily in a positive way. Honestly, he can be a jerk. This sounds horrible to say considering he’s a real person and he’s doing something amazing, but seriously watch this movie and tell me this man is not one step away from being a sociopath. It’s completely understandable why he thinks the way he thinks, but it’s not exactly healthy for the other people in his life. I would be just as interested to see a two hour therapy session with him as I was with his climbing. Anyway, if you love gorgeous scenery and butt-clenching thrills with a side of psychologically interesting perspectives, watch this on the biggest screen possible. 8/10

The Matrix: REALITY IS AN ILLUSION, THE UNIVERSE IS A HOLOGRAM, BUY GOLD BYE

Yeah I’d never seen The Matrix, but I really didn’t expect it to be EXACTLY like the Oto arc in Tsubasa Chronicles. It’s too long, Neo’s an incredibly flat protagonist (but I feel like that’s on purpose to serve some sort of self-insert fantasy), and it seems like a YA dystopian fantasy series from 2013...but in an endearing sort of way. And hey it’s got a lot of cool slow motion fighting and neat body horror if you’re into that sort of thing. 7/10

Books!

Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman: What happens when California literally just runs out of water one day? A group of teens go on an apocalyptic field trip to find some of course! I’ve only read one other Neal Shusterman series before, but I’m sensing a pattern of how well Shusterman can propose a theoretical question and then build an entire world around it. And this duo knows how to cover as many bases as possible because every time I ask a question about how something world work, the authors answer it almost immediately. This is a great story with very well written characters, and it even has a small hilarious twist in the end that makes you completely rethink everything about one of the characters. Most importantly it doesn’t follow the Scythe series’ formula of terribly written romance. However...it’s definitely a major bummer. It’s very interesting to think about, and it’s a roller coaster of a story...but the roller coaster only goes down and makes you want to scream all the time. If you like books that make you question human behavior and society, definitely check it out, but get ready to start hoarding all the water you own. 8/10

Jackass!: Okay this one’s a manga, but I’m still counting it. Honestly I don’t even know how to describe the plot...there’s two boys...there’s pantyhose...there’s a fun side character who is openly gay and doesn’t take shit from anyone...there’s introspection about how to deal with developing feelings and realizing you care about someone. It has the most awkward premise ever, but it’s unfairly good I promise. The less you know going in the better. 8.5/10

TV Shows!

The Umbrella Academy: A family of seven children with super powers who were “adopted” by an eccentric billionaire become child superheroes. So naturally, they all grow into jaded adults who are now tasked with saving the world from the inevitable apocalypse. And it’s...amazing. Like, this should be the new Stranger Things amazing. It’s a Netflix original based off the Dark Horse comic series, and it has one of the most binge worthy plots I’ve ever seen. It is capable of pulling off some very weird things because it just leans into it. The setting and aesthetic is very similar to A Series of Unfortunate Events where different time periods seem to collide, and it works pretty well. It has (mostly) likable characters, interesting and/or empathetic villains, great use of music and editing, and Emmy worthy performances. The only thing I don’t like (aside from them killing off a perfectly interesting character for no reason at the beginning of the show) is the romantic relationship between two of the siblings. Because naturally they had to put a romance in it, and it just sort of conforms to the idea of “adopted siblings aren’t related so it’s not weird.” But even they have some great scenes together so I can’t be too annoyed. It’s amazing. Please watch it. 10/10

Ducktales (2017): The reboot of Ducktales, in which the three nephews of Donald Duck go on mysterious adventures with their obscenely wealthy uncle. I’m pretty sure we all know this as the cartoon where Scrooge McDuck swims in his giant pool of money. It took me a long time to get to, but I like it! Webby is an amazing character, and even though the boys can be annoying, at least they all have their own personalities. I just wish Launchpad was a little less...stereotypically clueless. I’ve never seen the original series, so I can’t compare them, but I’d recommend it for everyone who likes Gravity Falls style mysteries and satisfying story arcs. 8.5/10

Carmen Sandiego (2019): The Netflix original animated series that focuses on a master thief who travels the world stealing important artifacts before an evil organization can get to them first...AND HOLY CRAP WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS!? I don’t know anything about the original Carmen Sandiego franchise, but dang this revamp is awesome. Carmen is a great character who banters enough to be a Marvel protagonist, there’s unique animation, some mystery, and its own twists. The side characters may not be for everyone, but I like them...well, most of them. Apparently the purpose of the original franchise was to be educational, so they do sound like they’re reading the Wikipedia page for every new place they visit in the beginning of each episode, but at least the cultural things they mention always come back into play later. If you liked the new She-Ra or shows with great heroines, PLEASE WATCH IT! 9/10

Queer Eye (season 3): The third season of the ridiculous makeover show where five fabulous gay men rocket into people’s lives to boost their self confidence and keep them from living in filth. I hate that I love this show so much. I don’t like things that try to be overly emotional, but dang it, this show will just make you feel happy...and then sad...and then happy again. 10/10

Honorable Mentions

THE LAST SEASON OF STAR VS THE FORCES OF EVIL IS AIRING! Stop sleeping on this gem people!

Netflix finally released the rest of Arrested Development season 5

I started watching Yu Yu Hakusho because it’s a classic and the dub is hilarious.

I also started watching The Librarians. It’s...something that’s for sure.

And I’m currently reading Reign the Earth which is basically Avatar the Last Airbender set all in the desert.

#bohemian rhapsody #the matrix #free solo #maquia: when the promised flower blooms #fantastic beasts #the crimes of grindelwald #mary poppins returns #a quiet place #ralph breaks the internet #how to train your dragon #the hidden world #dry #jackass manga #queer eye #ducktales #the umbrella academy #media madness #long post #carmen sandiego

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boojersey · 6 years ago

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VIC DO ALL THE ASKS BC I LOVE U AND WANT U TO HAVE FUN

*SWEATS* AYE AYE CAPN

cw for like some common lgbt+ topics such as dysphoria violence discrimination etc just. tread carefully if u get triggered easily by bad lgbt experiences

What do you identify as and what are your pronouns? -im a gay trans man and my pronouns are he/him but they/them is also acceptable!

How did you discover your sexuality, tell your story?-oh wow i originally thought i was a lesbian because i didnt even know what transgender was i just thought wishing i was a man meant i was butch and then i met my friend donnie in eighth grade who told me he was trans and it was kinda a huge slap in the face but with a sack of gay bricks? and i found out i dont like women through actually having sex with cis women and finally realizing it. really wasnt for me so now im just a gay man as opposed to queer as an umbrella term but i periodically refer to myself as such

Have you experienced being misgendered? What happened and how did you overcome it?-oh yea i literally was misgendered today i just kinda brush it off but it can be hard sometimes especially when people know im trans and do it

Who was the first person you told, how did they react?-i first told donnie about my gender, it was a thing where i went to bed the night i met him and was like .. wait holy fuck and then the next day i was like BRO HOLY FUCK but sexuality? i dont really know???? it was so long ago it was honestly probably my group of friends on kik that i had in 2013 (u were included in that mister!!!!)

Describe what it was like coming out, what did you feel?-im not actually fully out but the first time someone who was an adult knew about my trans-ness was what really set in for me the fact that i could come out one day; my friends mom referred to me as seance (and like. obviously she respected my gender she has a trans kid) but it was just super jarring bc no adult had known yet abt my identity in any way and as a result i was rlly glad it was nighttime in that car bc i cried almost immediately; the first time i came out on my Own was to my cousin and he laughed in my face so that was pretty damn awful and its kinda funny cuz the bastard is bi so u would think hed have been accepting but n0pe!

If you’re out, how did your parents/guardians/friends react?-im out to my friends now ! and the reception was generally positive bc i think i do an ok job at picking ppl to be around in terms of morals so there was little bad reception

What is one question you hate people asking about your sexuality?-i hate when ppl ask if im gay as in for men or gay as in for women because im trans, i am a man so when i say im gay i feel like that should be easy enough to put 2 and 2 together but when they ask that i feel as if they still view me as a woman

Describe the style of clothing that you most often wear.-emo of the gods themselves it is absolute scene and emo vomit and i love it; its seriously hard for me to wear dresses and skirts without dysphoria and just general discomfort but i own a couple anyway bc theyre cute i just. never wear them

Who are your favourite lgbt+ ships?-my main thing at the moment is gerard/frank/grant morrison bc i love poly fics very dearly and gerard/bert because bert mccracken deserved better than gerawrds internalized homophobia lol

What does makeup mean to you? Do you wear any?-makeup to me is an androgynous thing so i wear eyeshadow a lot and lipstick sometimes, eyeshadow is easier on my eyes than eyeliner bc im allergic to a lot of makeup thats on the heavier side so if i put on eyeliner my eyes will water and burn throughout the day but with eyeshadow im mostly ok; other opinion is that makeup on Anyone can be sexy as hell if they do it for fun and wear literally what they truly want and not just what they think is accepted or what they Should wear

Do you experience dysphoria? If so, how does that affect you?-oh yeah my dysphoria is pretty debilitating if im gonna be honest; i used to have very little problems with it because my hold on reality was loose at best (before i was medicated to clarify) but now that i am almost completely Here my dysphoria is pretty bad and even just like. the knowledge that i have breasts is pretty awful; a few weeks ago i put on an outfit that i have to wear a victorias secret bra to fit properly in and just one look in the mirror had me sobbing and i had to change my clothes before i could leave the house and i havent worn a bra since because just the thought of showing off my chest makes this stark fuckin dread shoot through my veins but i also have dysphoria in regards to my voice that i discussed at my last trans therapy group meeting actually ; my voice has a tendency to bounce around my octave range so sometimes ill be like. excited then hear what i sound like. and ruin it for myself immediately u kno? im not even gonna talk about my dicksphoria bc thats just. awful.

What is the stupidest thing you’ve heard said about the lgbt+ community?-ohhhhhhhh my god u know what? ive heard..so much .. that im gonna instead take this opportunity to mention my mother genuinely thinks dnd is satanic

What’s your favourite thing about the lgbt+ community?-the fact that were so strong. we are so fucking strong we deal with violence and opposition constantly and at staggering rates yet we stay strong and we continue loving through all of it, whether its in dark corners in secret or loudly in the streets we continue loving and do so with all of our beings because we know its our own truth and well gladly go to hell if it means we got to love on earth (not that everyone believes in hell or the idea that us gays go to hell but my point stands)

What’s your least favourite thing about the lgbt+ community?-we have this audacity to create divide (to the fault of mostly cis white gay men thank u very much) when what we need to do is love each other because we are different but at the end of the day we all need to remain in tandem and as a family or we will never get to where we need to in terms of acceptance and that means being uplifting and protecting our trans sisters of color, our disabled lgbt members, our autistic lgbt members, our anything past cis white gay man because we all need recognition, we all need love, and to exclude any letters of lgbt is to tear ourselves down and set ourselves on fire

Have you ever been to your cities pride event? Why or why not?-no :((( no one would drive me in the past and i dont think ill have a way to get there this year either

Who is your favourite lgbt+ Icon/Advocate/Celebrity?-brian molko! my bisexual, androgynistically-inclined father who birthed me at the tender age of 16 when i found placebo

Have you been in a relationship and how did you meet?-ya theres been a few and i dont rlly like to talk abt my relationships with anyone unless theyre online relationships so im just gonna leave it at that

What is your favourite lgbt+ book?-pantomime by laura lam! its one of if not my favorite book to this day

Have you ever faced discrimination? What happened?-y a every damn day bitch ! example is when i was deadnamed by my psychiatrist while she knows full well what my name is the other day; another is the countless times i get called a lesbian ???? and when strict lesbians ask me out i get a very bad taste in my mouth (i understand full well that sexuality is fluid, these are lesbians that spit the ‘penis is gross blegh’ rhetoric)

Your Favorite lgbt+ movie or show?-uh im just gonna say preacher bc its my favorite show altogether n cass is bi/pan/something similar

Who are some of your favourite lgbt+ bloggers?-@ble3dmagic is my boyfriend in crime (not rlly thats a joke) and @musicalsense is my sunburnt Brother

Which lgbt+ slur do you want to reclaim?-queer! i also use f*ggot a lot when talking about myself and my friends that are ok with it

Have you ever gone to a gay bar, or a drag show, how was it?-i went to a drag show and it was so amazing and one of the first times i felt accepted in my own community that i cried

How do you self-identify your gender, and what does that mean to you?-well i identify as a man with no leaning towards womanhood or nonbinaryhood in any way, its just . man . but in terms of Expression i am quite androgynous bc i can rlly appreciate femininity (NOT the same as womanhood) and being a man to me means just that ive always wanted to grow up with that “gender role” like i always wish i was raised as a stereotypical parent would raise a son and ive always been more interested in stereotypically masculine things and people since i can even remember and i feel like puberty was just this unpreventable spiral into something i didnt want. i didnt want it at all . this is tmi but when i got my first period i cried my eyes out bc the idea of being called a Woman repulsed me so much and since i didnt even know that being trans was a concept i was just this scared puppy full of confusion and fear aimed at myself because all the stuff i heard i was supposed to be proud of the change but i wasnt i was so ashamed of it and the idea of being called a woman made me sick to my stomach and i just wish i could go back in time and hold myself and tell me itll be alright

Are you interested in having children? Why or why not?-absoLutely not i hate kids (and by that i mean i hate being around them and the culture that surrounds having children; i do not treat kids like shit and i do not act like hating children is a personality trait; i get migraines and usually the second a child starts screaming or crying i am on the floor of my brain writhing in dire pain and i have absolutely no desire to support another human life when frankly i cant even support myself; its also just not a lifestyle i want to live)

What identity advice would you give your younger self?-god so fucking much. so fucking much. so many things i wish i could say to myself

What do you think of gender roles in relationships?-i think if someone wants to adhere to them then hell yea go ahead just dont expect others to do it or try to tell other people its a Norm or something; theyre for the most part christian in nature so i dont have any desire to follow them myself, i want a relationship (if any) thats more of a coexistence if that makes sense, like. roommates plus dick

Anything else you want to share about your experience with gender?-i always used to anxiously chew on the idea that my chest dysphoria is just me holding disdain for the shape and size of my breasts but let me tell you. the second i put on my binder for the first time i immediately started crying because i was so overwhelmed by the fact that i was looking at something one step closer to myself and i know full well i am never going to have that doubt again. this week has been exponentially cathartic and therapeutic for me

What is something you wish people know about being lgbt+?-i want the cisheteros to know that nothing they learn about us is new. everything about us has been around for so so long but has been silenced and erased to the point where a lot of us dont even know many things about our rich and beautiful history

Why are proud to be lgbt+?-honestly? its hard for me to not just straight up say im not proud of my identity. its taken me years to stamp down the plain grieving toward my identity and wishing i could have the easier path but frankly? the fact that i am choosing this path of hardship and hell on earth just to be who i truly am i think speaks volumes of my pride in my identity at this point; further back in my archive by a few years my posts are littered with sentiments of bitterness wherein i stated that i hate being trans and not just cis but i like to think ive finished hating myself for my identity. i like to think im proud now. to ask me why is to ask too much of me, all i know now is that i am proud and thats enough for me right now.

#LONG POST #KAY I LOVE U BUT HOLY SHIT MY FOLLOWERS ARE GONNA GET MOTION SICKNESS FROM SCROLLING PAST THIS AT LIGHTNING SPEED #saltwaterfox

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WHY does the android app gotta suck so much, when i click the faq link it just like refreshes the page,,,, this happens with all links in bios on the andoird app :[

NNNN lovin this broke ass app.

I’mma go ahead and paste the FAQ just under the cut, hopefully you should be able to read it now :’))

(FAQ is written by Mod Joker)

“Are requests open?”

We get this ask a lot. And while I don’t mind answering, it does get a lilll annoying sometimes since we’re essentially repeating ourselves constantly. Before you ask, please check our ask box! It will ALWAYS give our request status!

From now on if we receive requests when they’re closed, we’re going to delete the message entirely. You’re free to ask again when they’re open, but we need breaks!

“Can allistic/neurotypical people follow?”

Yes! So long as you’re respectful of stimming and understand it’s not an aesthetic or something to make fun of.

“It says there’s two mods, but I only really see Mod Joker post.”

There is! But Mod Boo is rather, well, shy. We both are, tbh. I’ve just gotten used to talking a lot on this blog. And to tell ya the truth I invited her to mod this with me because she considered making a blog but wasn’t sure how she’d do it, and was worried she’d be too awkward/quiet. But she actually tends to see your messages a lot! She just tends to let me handle things. But if you ever wanna talk to her, just say the message is specifically for her and I’m sure she’ll get back to you. She’s very friendly and tbh one of the best people to talk to!!

“How do you make gifs?”

I use the same method stimmybby uses! His tutorial’s right here!

“How do you make banners?”

I use photoshop and for backgrounds (depending on what type of background), I use paint tool SAI. I made a tutorial on how I do it here!

“Can we use your banners for posts that aren’t stim related?”

Absolutely! So long as credit is given and you’re not in our dni, then use it as you like! Discourse posts, art, vent posts, promo posts, whatever floats your boat!

“Can I use your gif/s?”

As long as there’s credit to us for the gif/s and you don’t apply to our dni, you’re free to!

“How can I credit you?”

There’s a few ways! Such as

- Including the credit in the post and/or under the cut (this is the best way people can access the original post and see the credit!

- Include the credit in the post’s captions

- Include the credit in the tags

- Include a link in the post to another post that has the credits in it

- Saying you got the gif/s from us in the post

“What are bad/wrong ways to ”“credit”“ you?”

- Saying “I don’t own these gifs”

- Saying “credit to the original owner(s)/gifmaker(s)

- Straight up not saying you took these gifs from people/including in no credits

- Claiming the gif/s are yours/you made them

If I see any of these I WILL publicly call you out on it and you WILL be blocked immediately thereafter. That block will not be lifted.

“What does REG mean?”

Reactionary Exclusionary Gatekeeper. Meaning people who try to exclude certain queer people from queer spaces. Such a biphobes, transphobes, aphobes, panphobes, and so on.

“What does TERF mean?”

Trans/Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Meaning radfems who are transphobic and are violent towards trans people (especially trans women).

“What does SWERF mean?”

Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist. They’re radfems who try to exclude sex worker from their feminism and often treat women attracted to men as less worthy.

“What’s the ADT community?”

ADT stands for “Actually Dysphoric Trans/Transgender” and was created by transmedicalists/truscum to break off from the trans community. It’s an insult to the trans community, an insult to the creator of the transgender pride flag (it’s removed the white that was there for people who ID as non-binary/outside the gender binary), and is there purely to start drama and create rifts in a community that’s already got enough enemies for simply existing in a transphobic world

“He/Him lesbians don’t exist/they’re transphobic towards trans men”

As a trans man who doesn’t think the world revolves around me and who understands that what lesbians decide to do it literally none of my goddamn business: get the fuck over yourself you whiny pissbaby

“What do you mean by people in the true crime community?”

People who sexualize, romanticize, excuse, and/or support serial killers and their actions/crimes. This doesn’t include people who are INTERESTED in the topic of crimes, serial killers, etc but acknowledging how these people are disgusting and their actions are unforgivable.

“Why are you anti-cgl?”

Cause we hate pedophiles and are decent human beings.

“You’re bigoted to kinksters just like homophobes are bigoted to gay people!”

I hate to break it to ya bud but I’m proudly kinkphobic and you’re a giant homophobe!!

“I’m a SFW cgl(re)/littlespace blog so I’m following/interacting uwu”

No the fuck you aren’t!! You’re a kink blog, there’s no such thing as a “sfw kink” even if you’re remaining two braincells are too busy fighting over the last pacifier to tell you some fuckin common sense. Your ass is getting blocked and I’ll also be using your blog to take a look at the people you interact and block them too just for safe measure! Eat a cactus, fuck nugget

“You hate lesbians if you hate TERFs”

You owe every lesbian an apology for assuming they’re all mysogynistic, LGBT+phobic pieces of horseshit like you are. Eat a dick.

“aces/aros aren’t LGBT uwu”

Wow… that’s so wrong Alexa play Fuck You by Lily Allen

“Me/Someone I know/(insert user/s) has been blocked. Why?”

There can be a number of reasons why you’re blocked, and I’m not afraid to block people as I want this place comfortable and safe for the mods and followers. So there’s several reasons as to why.

- You apply to our DNI (see BYF)

- You’re a (insert harmless children’s cartoon) critical blog (I tend to block those due to them saying LGBT+phobic things)

- You get into kin drama

- You’re an ace discourse, pan discourse, bi discourse, and/or overall REG discourse blog (this does not mean I block inherently block discourse blogs! I block the shitty ones)

- You’re a spam/porn/etc bot (if I’ve gotten this wrong, lemme know! I tend to block shady and empty blogs for this reason unless their desc/url/etc says it’s empty/weird for a reason)

- You’re a blog that frequently posts/centers around one or more of my triggers

- You’re an aesthetic blog (though I tend to soft block for them. But this is NOT an aesthetic blog and stimmy is NOT an aesthetic)

- You’re an “anyone can interact” stim blog

- You’re a stim blog that steals/doesn’t credit the gifs they use

- I feel you and I are going to argue and I’m just saving us the trouble of future unpleasant encounter/s

- You’ve been shitty to my friends or just been shitty to people in general and I’ve noticed it

HOWEVER I’ve made slip ups in the past! If you feel you don’t apply to any of these, you can contact me through my main and ask why. Sometimes I don’t always remember why I blocked somebody (sadly there’s a lot of shitheads on this site I’ve needed to block) or I’ve confused one blog for another person’s blog. Or maybe the person was more chill than I thought. Please contact me yourself rather than ask somebody else to do it though so I can get all the details! Even if I don’t lift the block, I won’t report you for block evading or anything.

“You used to be kidheart friendly and now you’re not, why’s that?”

Sadly, Raven (the creator of Kidhearts) has proven to be a bully sympathizer and feels it’s okay to compare agere to kinks/cgl and sides with regressionuncensored. She condones bullying/harassment/the sexualization of minors and I am not nor will ever be okay with that.

“But Raven sai-”

I don’t care what she says. She made it abundantly clear that she supports regressionuncensored and I don’t care that it came back to bite her in the ass. Bullies deserve no support, no sympathy, no nothing. And if you side with her than don’t come near this blog. This is agere safe and I will not allow people who support sexualizing it to interact. Kidhearts WILL be blocked on the spot, no questions asked.

“I’ve left a community on the dni list, can I follow/interact?”

Yes!

“Why are you anti-(insert thing on blacklist here)?”

Camp Camp: It’s racist + antisemitic

Dragon Maid: It’s pedophilic

Killing Stalking: It’s homophobic, ableist, sexist, perpetuates rape culture, and fetishizes abuse

Your Lie in April: It romanticizes child abuse and it literally starts off with a gross pedo joke when we meet the love interest in episode one

Split: It’s ableist

Hetalia: It’s antisemitic

Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling’s works: Actually there’s nothing inherently bad about the story. I just don’t like it. HOWEVER: I can’t stand J.K. Rowling as she’s a TERF/overall LGBT+phobe, and racist. So none of her creations will be featured here.

Sonic Boom: Nothing inherently problematic. I just can’t stand the show because it just fuckin sucks

13 Reasons Why: It romanticizes suicide and the creators refused to listen to actual mental health experts and have made the show potentially dangerous to anyone who even slightly deals with suicidal thoughts/urges

Detroit Become Human: It’s racist + antisemitic

Voltron: Legendary Defender: It queerbaits/it’s LGBT+phobic

“REG is a transphobic term”

I, Mod Joker, am trans. Try again.

“A-specs aren’t LG-”

*buzzer sound* wrong. So sad for you

“You’re not LGBT+ because you DARED disagree with me because you actually acknowledged that tumblr didn’t credit the community sweaty uwu”

We get this shit because a lot of you assume I’m ace or at the very least a-spec. And… Ya couldn’t be far from it. I’m a pan, genderfluid trans man. Even with all your gatekeeper (sorry, BULLSHIT) logic; I’d still be attracted to multiple genders and not be cis. I’m p queer. So no matter which way you slice it, I’m part of LGBT+. Die mad about it.

“You’re comparing aphobes to TERFs and SWERFs you fucking transphobe!”

Wow I didn’t realize setting boundaries meant that I viewed y'all in the EXACT same light. I’m so glad I have the lovely aphobes that have told my friends that they should kill themselves to set me straight.

Asking people not to interact doesn’t inherently mean I think they’re the EXACT same thing.

“Mod Joker is a gif-thief and reposts people’s content without properly crediting them!”

I have made this entire post explaining that’s wrong. Idrc if the post is too lengthy for you. Don’t talk shit if you don’t even have all the details.

Additionally, if you send me somethin about this in a negative light I’m IP blocking you. One strike and you’re out. If you want to believe people with false info and false accusations then that’s your baggage. Not mine.

HOWEVER if I’ve accidentally mis-credited, forgot to/messed up on crediting a person for their gif/video, or so on let me know! I’ll make mistakes, but I never do it intentionally.

#I realized the last link was a bit outdated anyway so whatever #this should help at least!#asks #anon #Mod Joker

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njawaidofficial · 7 years ago

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TCA Highlights Karate Kid GLAAD Nielsen

With no one network presenting at the Television Critics Association press tour on Friday (August 4), the day was dedicated to an assortment of what were called “industry panels.”

What “industry panels” meant ran the gamut from a Nielsen presentation using many slides to update reporters on the changing ways Nielsen is able to measure people watching TV in 2017 to panels on LGBTQ issues organized with the help of GLAAD to an introduction for the Warner Bros. digital platform Stage 13.

The emotional conversations on the GLAAD panels were the day’s highlight, but for silly fun it was hard to beat YouTube Red bringing out William Zabka and Ralph Macchio amidst blasting music and flashing lights to go head-to-head as a tease for the upcoming streaming sequel Cobra Kai.

Really the day had no lowlights, so these are just highlights…

Show me the money. Nielsen started the day with an interesting presentation illustrating how much of today’s TV viewership takes place outside of the Live+7 Day window, suggesting many shows with huge growth in the 8-to-35 day range. This is fascinating. And true. But who’s selling ads on that 8-to-35 day window and if nobody’s selling ads on it and nobody’s making money on it, what’s the use? “From a Nielsen perspective, what we are trying to do is just empower our clients with the ability to decide whatever kind of deal that they want to make,” said Brian Fuhrer, part of Nielsen’s product leadership group. “So the 8-35 isn’t just a custom report. It’s flowing through all of the transaction systems and the files that they need to make deals. A great quote from one of our clients was ‘Do you know what? Even if I don’t necessarily change the definition of ‘currency’ yet, at last this allows me to show people what they are getting for free.’ So it starts to open it up. And I suspect that we are going to see, when you look at the additional audience out there, people starting to entertain at least a 14 day window.”

The Internet is for porn, but YouTube Red probably is not. YouTube Red’s upcoming series Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television* makes many many many jokes about how people think YouTube Red actually is a porn site or just sounds like it ought to be a porn site, but how many people out there actually make that mistake? YouTube chief Susanne Daniels isn’t exactly sure, which may be why she finds the jokes funny. Added Rawson Marshall Thurber, writer-director on Ryan Hansen, “I think that when a network has a good sense of humor about itself, then it kind of opens you up and lets you tell any jokes you want. So I was really happy about that, for sure.”

Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television* (the “*” is important) isn’t necessarily a great series, but it’s cheeky and funny and knowing about both Hollywood and crime procedurals and it manages to have a number of laughs that are really dumb, a few that are really sophisticated and joke about the Taft-Hartley Act. “Two people will laugh at a Taft-Hartley joke, but it’s literally my favorite joke in the entire pilot. So that’s what I mean, is that those sort of deep cuts, I think, when they do connect with that .3 percent of audience members make an audience love a show. It’s not that those are our only jokes. We have plenty of other jokes for all comers. But being able to a Taft-Hartley joke in a show is pretty specially, I think,” Thurber explained. Noted Hansen, who has also done a series in the past for CW Seed, “I think the best part about a new space is you get to kind of have a lot more freedom. On the typical networks and stuff, there’s a lot of people saying what you can and can’t do. So in this we get to do a lot of crazy things, like different formats, a lot of weird jokes, making fun of our own network, and all that stuff. So I think there’s just really a lot more freedom and fun to be had, and I like to have fun.”

Step One For Stage 13. Stage 13 is part of the Warner Bros. Digital Networks and their first original series, Snatchers, premiered on go90 this summer. The platform will fully debut this October with a number of new shows including Two Sentence Horror Stories. It’s a platform that many (or most) critics didn’t necessarily know about before the day of panels, but now it’s definitely on a few radars. Of the platform’s mission statement, Diana Mogollón explained, “Number one: Showcasing the very best original fresh voices out there today. And, number two: Reflecting our world in a truly multidimensional way. That is, all of us have heard of the multicultural conversation time and time again. Well, for us at Stage 13, it’s beyond that. It’s beyond race and demo. It’s about a true mind-set and about understanding what makes young audiences tick, from their lifestyles or passion points, their identities, their expressions, and allow those to be the inspiration and the unifying force to tell amazing stories in the most innovating way possible.”

Role Models. Honestly, just about every second of the two GLAAD-affiliated panels could be listed as a highlight, including a question about which lesbian, gay and bisexual characters on TV meant a lot to them growing up, which prompted both Stephanie Beatriz and Lena Waithe to immediately turn to panelist Wilson Cruz and agree, “This one.”

Maybe *don’t* bury your gays. A sharp rise in the deaths, often violent deaths, of lesbian characters on TV prompting lots of frustrated, saddened and angry writing about the trope known as “bury your gays” and left some writers claiming they don’t think in those terms. GLAAD’s director of entertainment research and analysis offered these thoughts on why it’s important to do so. ” I don’t think that they were ever coming at it from some sort of area where they just wanted to hurt people. I think that they probably just didn’t know. They didn’t know the sort of long history of this issue, and just how far it dates back to, like the Hays Code and all of this kind of history that goes into it. Because it’s not just a problem of one show and one character. It’s just everybody doing it over time, and over time, and over time adds up to this really kind of like toxic thing, that as a queer woman, if you’re watching TV, you kind of learn, ‘Okay. Well, I can’t have a happy ending. I am never going to find love. I’m not going to live a happy, long life with my partner.’ So I do think it was just that they were not aware. I think it’s amazing how the fans kind of just led this charge last year, that it got to be a big enough issue, that it started getting national coverage, and people kind of became aware of these things, and are hopefully going to do better as they start developing new shows in the future.” Added Wynonna Earp EP Emily Andras, “All I see right now on social media is kids who are seeing themselves on television get killed. And I think if you live in a small town where you’re already struggling to come out or see yourself represented, I think that can do a lot of damage. I think we can write three-dimensional LGBT characters. And I hope you do get to the point where we have enough heroes that we can have amazing gay villains and amazing everything across the board. But right now, I think there is a bit of responsibility that we need to be aware of these tropes.”

Container of humanity. The two GLAAD panels addressed first LGB representation and then transgender trends and Transparent actress Alexandra Billings explained the connection, but also separation, between the two. “You know, the ‘T’ was added later, which is why it’s at the end,” she chuckled. “We are, as we usually are, an afterthought. Happy to be included, but an afterthought nonetheless. I think the one thing we’re all have in common is that we’re all marginalized. We all come from an ostracized place in society, and we all understand each other in that particular queer container. And historically, we have all fought the same fight. So, we’ve all always been in the same place, it’s just, you know, now we’re actually labeling things. And the label, really, the LGBTQIA, is for people who do not identify that way, so then you all have some place to put us. Hopefully, one day, the initials will go away, and we can all just live in the container of humanity. That would be great.”

Not standing Pat. I’ve already seen some Twitter pushback to Jill Soloway’s comments about the Saturday Night Live sketch “It’s Pat” and it feels to me like the kind of thing where it’s important to have her whole quote out there. Soloway said, “In terms of talking about the past, I talk a lot about these kinds of triggering recovered memories about the character ‘It’s Pat’ on Saturday Night Live, which was a hateful, hateful, awful thing to do to nonbinary people, to create this character that the whole world laughed at openly, that they were invited to not only think of as a victim or a villain but an entire series of years of a sketch about the idea of pointing at a person and laughing at them because they were nonbinary. We didn’t understand that at the time, but in looking back at that, what an awful piece of antitrans propaganda that was handed out for many, many years.”

As was emphasized throughout the panel, it comes down to how you see yourself represented in the media. If you’re a cis male or female, there’s no lack of representation diversity and so positive or negative depictions, you’re able to choose which versions represent you. If you’re nonbinary and the media representation is Pat and that’s about it? That’s what you get? Those sketches wouldn’t be so funny. [If they were ever funny. My memory is of Pat only occasionally being funny.]

A different story of seeing yourself. Billings recalled a time in the mid-70s before she transitioned, sitting on the edge of her bed, miserable, with a handful of pills in her hand. “So I turned on the television, and I was watching Phil Donahue,” Billings recalled. “And there were these three beautiful, sparkly, shiny human beings, witty and funny, intelligent, and talking about all kinds of their life. And I thought, what fabulous like, they are incredible. I love these women. I love these women. I want to be these women. And then the questions from the audience were so strange. ‘What bathroom do you use?’ Do you believe we are still having that conversation? … and as the interview went, come to find out, they were all trans women. And it was at that moment that I said out loud and I know this is happening because it’s happening to you in your life and you in your life that a trans person, a young trans youth will say, which I said out loud, ‘Oh, there I am.’ I recognized immediately that that was part of my tribe. Just in my inner life, I recognized myself.”

Do better. The last word from the GLAAD panels, for this post’s purposes, goes to Laverne Cox. “[W]e have to do better because there’s so many stories that have yet to be told, so many trans folks out there who are not being represented,” She said. “The brilliance, when we get to speak up and speak out social media has been a great example of that we are brilliant. I’m just going to say it. Trans people are brilliant, and there’s just so many examples of that here on this stage and beyond. And when we have voices, when we are loud our voices are amplified because, of course, we have voices. When these voices can be amplified in media, what gifts we are to the world. I want trans folks to know and I want trans youth to know that they are gifts to the world, that they are anointed and they are called for something really beautiful and incredible.”

TCA | Television Critics Association

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