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i see nothing but the truth here so, sharks are better then some politicians
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#sharks#lgbtq#pride#funni shak say gay rights#You should also say gay rights#Your valid#is this a shitpost?
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Just in general I think trying to look to pre-late modern period history for validation of LGBT+ identities is an absolutely useless venture. Every single underlying human experience defined through the lens and framework of LGBT identity has always existed, but it's impossible to pin down Exactly who and what a figure might have been if they existed in this contemporary context and decided to self identify via these labels.
It's also a wildly reductive lens that flattens the complexity and variety of how sex and gender has been constructed across time in different cultures, how sexual norms have varied, etc. This is not a constructive approach to learn about history and you're never going to be able to fit historical figures neatly into little identity categories.
#I think people really really really need to get it through their heads that LGBT+ identities exist largely as an interaction with#mostly western gender norms and VERY specifically in our contemporary context and these labels do not objectively describe#innate underlying qualities neatly applicable to and distinctly separated in all contexts#Like there have always been men attracted to/who have sex with the people defined as men in their culture but that description#is not Always going to neatly match up to how you conceptualize 'being gay'#Or like. WRT the 'I will sodomize and facefuck you' poem. I saw people just absolutely WILDLY missing the point of it#at its face value of a man describing engaging in sex acts with other men and it's like. the message here is 'you are accusing me#of effeminacy and I am rhetorically threatening to exert my masculine dominance over you via penetrative rape to show you#who the real effeminate man is'. Like most people clearly at least got the message that it's intended to be insulting but like#it's not just that. It is straight up Normative Roman Masculinity (albeit notably aggro) and is not implying actual interest in sex#with men in a recognizably 'gay' sense#See also most arguments over 'was this '''woman who disguised herself as a man''' a trans man/lesbian/cishet woman escaping misogyny'#like YOU WILL NEVER FUCKING KNOW. JUST REFER TO THIS PERSON HOW THEY WANTED TO BE REFERRED TO AND STOP ARGUING#I think there's a very understandable drive to look to history to say 'see? we've always been here' but the mistake is trying to do that#for SPECIFIC identities defined in HIGHLY SPECIFIC AND CLEARLY SEPARATED ways.#Rather than as proof that yeah the western cis/heteronormative conceptualization of what sexuality/gender is and should be has#never been right and people who diverge from this (and from other cultural gender/sexual norms) have always existed
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"you want me to fall for you?"
#wandee goodday#wandee goodday ep12#kaoblue#bluekao#drake laedeke#title kirati#thai bl#bl drama#the couple i neither expected nor knew i needed#they should have gotten together in only friends as well just saying#cute đĽş:(#also mr. kanaphan you better watch ur BL throne bc my mans title be coming in hot collecting his men left right n center#good for him!!!#so happy for him#hes everywhere where its gay jkghfd
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I LOVE THEM SO MUCH OMG đĽşđđ
#rajbow#raj x bowie#td 2023#total drama#td bowie#td raj#lil bit obsessed with them!!!#not only the first canon gay couple of the show#but also the first healthy one /j IM JOKING ITS A JOKE I now theres like a few but you get what Im saying? Yeah#second season dont mess them up challenge đ¤đ¤đ¤ (Impossible)#anyways I want to draw them more cuz I want to see more of them and sometimes you gotta do that yourself#well see though since Im busy but ye!#also I think I messed up Raj arm? I had the worst time getting his proportions right dear goodness :')#its a sign I should practice drawing them more fs!#rajbow fanart
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I think my favorite zukaang moments are the ones that are so zukaang they confuse zukaangers
#zukaang#the pilot episode#zuko saying aang should sit in his lap in another translation#them literally holding hands in republic city#them dancing in rainbow fire with gay dragons that form a heart#the moments that are so zukaang that zukaangers start questioning themselves because like#zukaang wasnt canon right?#pretty sure i ship a non canon ship#why do these things exist#what were the creators thinking#how did this slide#as a zukaanger it feels like being told you won something you didnt know you were entered for#like yay?#but also what?#who decided this?#atla
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I keep getting messages from people saying they wish they could get certain Pride Angels designs but don't feel comfortable doing so if it's not their flag. Personally this has never been an issue for me and I get any design regardless of flag if it looks cool. But I'm wondering if I'm in the minority here! Let me know in the poll.
#pride angels#poll#no right or wrong answer here just curiosity#it does make me a little sad to think people are missing out on things they want#but I understand if they are more particular about the flags they rep than I am#I feel like it's like a straight person wearing rainbow in solidarity#and the angels on their own are their flag identities as well as representing them#so you can also think of it like you are adopting and caring for a little gay angel creature#as opposed to getting a symbol that represents *you*#if that make sense LOL#it's easy for me to say that since they're my OCs#they are all my creatures to care for#also...if it feels forbidden to wear a design if it's not your flag#should it also be forbidden for a creator not of that identity#to make merch for it? Or maybe that's different
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suicide cw
look i have been in this area before mentally. it sucks and i wouldnât wish this on anyone. but, and this is going to sound callous, but i donât feel any sympathy for james somerton. even if i hope heâs like. not dead. But thats all the amount of goodwill im willing to give him. The more i think about this really, the more angry i am.Â
ngl this entire situation is another example of how white people weaponize their mental illness to avoid consequences. Im seeing it in real time.
this man has a continuous habit of using self-harm as a get-out-of-jail-for-free card. in both of his apologies, he has worded his supposed attempts in ways that were clearly meant to guilt people who displayed his plagiarism and overall horrendous history of racism and misogyny. i say supposed because, while iâm not saying those are lies and this would he such a fucked up thing to lie about that i donât want to think he has, unfortunately, itâs been proven again and again that his word canât be trusted, as heâs known to lie to try get out of consequences. Hes a proven liar. him lying about this is actually the best case scenario, because no one should go through this entire situation, wouldnt wish this on anyone, but you can only do this so often before people stop sympathizing with you. is this callous? Yeah, but like. Iâm actually fucking angry he cant straight up take no as an answer. that this is how he reacts realizing he cant be one of the Cool Kidzâ˘ď¸ on youtube anymore. he acts like he DESERVES a career, like its not a privilege hes lost due to his own actions.
He lied about apologizing and forgiving people, he lied about giving the money to hbomberguy to give to ppl he ripped off (yknow, instead of doing it himself), he lied about the jessie gender situation and rewrote the narrative to make it so he isnt the bad guy, and hes the victim all along actually!
you canât tell me that supposed last message of his isnât meant to be a 13 reasons why esq attempt to deflect the blame âlook iâm going to kill myself and itâs all YOUR PEOPLES FAULT for not letting me achieve my DREAM of being filmmaker IN PEACE!!! I just wanted Nickâs (the guy who I have thrown under the bus again and again) portfolio up!! Im just being a good friend dont you all FEEL BADâ he refuses to take ANY ACCOUNTABILITY of any of his actions and he IS STILL trying to shove the blame over to other people again.
itâs also pretty ironic people are like âuhhh well hbomberâs fans harassed him!!!â like hbomber outright told people NOT to HARASS JAMES!!! ALSO acting as if james doesnât have a very real documented history of STRAIGHT UP sending his fans to harass and threaten smaller creators, more notably women, trans, and bipoc creators. especially after heâs stolen typically very personal anecdotes so he could profit from them. so why can he do it but the second people are like âhey this guys an actual piece of shit.â and he canât handle it suddenly people are trying to white knight his shit? like no he doesnât get that. he doesnât get that at all just because he couldnât handle the consequences of his actions.Â
what? were supposed to stay quiet about a man profiting off of other minorities because he wanted to be the spokesman for all gay people? people tried to solve this on a smaller, more private scales for YEARS and he kept doing it. it was clear that the giant public video was the ONLY way to get people to notice. HE WOULDVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH STEALING 87 FUCKING THOUSANDS WORTH OF DOLLARS. HE CANT HANDLE THE FACT HE CANT GET AWAY WITH IT.Â
am i supposed to feel bad for the guy who basically threatened a trans woman with the police? i donât care what anyone says, itâs so fucking obvious that he threatened jessie by implying he was getting the police involved in their conflict. what am i supposed to act like that didnât happen? are we supposed to pretend like he didnât glorify naziâs and outright said that gay people made up a good chunk of the nazis? That he didnt say america joined ww2 bc they were jealous of the NAZIS. WHAT WOULD POSSESS YOU TO FUCKING SAY THAT. but then? He gives women (not even women most of the time, he misgenders nonbinary ppl constantly) shit for writing mlm. are we supposed to act like he doesnât straight-up sees himself superior and better than people of color and steals their works to put himself on a pedestal? Are we supposed to act like he didnt spit on our elders by saying âonly the boring gays survived aidsâ like man! Fuck you! He BLANTANTLY MAKES UP HISTORY TO PUT HIMSELF ON A PEDESTAL!! HE ACTIVELY TRIED TO REWRITE LGBT HISTORY TO SUIT HIS FUCKED UP NARRATIVES!
yes this sucks ! no one deserves this but no one should be making him a martyr. Thats what he fucking WANTS! He wants to be immortalized as a victim!! (again, supposedly, it was reported hes alive but its not confirmed).
The shit he got isnt near the amount of fucking callous behavior hes done again and again. Again, to drill this point, EVEN IF HE DIDNT CALL THE POLICE HE THREATENED A TRANS WOMAN INTO THINKING HE DID!!! The fact he tried to use a head injury to justify years of the outright ghoulish shit fucking astounds me. Why the fuck did anyone in his life thought it was a good idea to let him TRY to come back. in the end, he had options. he didnât need to try to make a comeback. HE DIDNT NEED TO FUCKING LIE OR IGNORE THE SHIT HE WAS CALLED OUT ON the reality is, he wanted to come back thinking he could shove it under the rug, was told that no dude, youâre not allowed to be a youtuber anymore. youâre done. you need to move on and went full nuclear. itâs not on anyoneâs hands but his own. HES BEEN DOING THIS TO HIMSELF!! But nah man we cant call his shit out bc hell may or may not kill himself. Fuck the other minorities who have the same issues but worse and sometimes BECAUSE of him. This is going to SUCKKKK so bad when other ppl, specifically white gays, are going to weaponize this shit to get away with their stuff.
#warning: do not read this post if you want me to be nice to james somerton. i am extremely mean in this post.#before anyone accuses me of shit i legit never contacted him myself or anyone involved. i am someone who witnessed this behavior repeatedly#again. i hope hes alive and well. the fact is him lying about this WOULD BE THE IDEAL SITUATION. BC NO ONE SHOULD GO THROUGH THAT. but.#he HAS to forever be the victim in his eyes. attempting doesnt automatically mean youre free of sin.#its just terrible to see that regardless whether or not he did do it#its very clear his attempts to run away from his consequences are working on some people#we need to acknowledge that if your shitty ex friend can weaponize a threat to kill themselves#so can this internet person after being called out for horrendous shit#like what was the alterative? what were people supposed to fucking do? be nice about it?#yeah as if poc and trans women arent historically given shit for being 'too mean' about wanting justice.#this isnt just the plagiarism this is the fact a white dude has been parading himself as THE speaker for the gays(tm) but has been using hi#gayness to shield himself from his misogyny racism transphobia and antisemitism#its very clear regardless this means that ppl r going to side with him and then give him benefit of doubt#if you cant handle the heat stay out of the fucking kitchen dude. this is the consequences of your fucking actions.#hes a disgusting person who cant handle being told no so hes going to drag everyone down with him#like. idk this entire situation is frustrating to me.#its also frustrating ppl trying to be moral abt it like 'see! i knew this was bad all along!' no you didnt. shut it.#for the record im like mainly talking abt twit watching those spineless uwu cutesy ppl basically saying hes done noting wrong#oh and also alt righters who are clearly weaponinizing this where u know they wouldnt give a shit if a right ytber did this.#james somerton#idk might delete this later its just. ugh...
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Hate to be that person, but Iâm surprised nobody talks about them
#Iâm not saying theyâre gay#but all of their pictures and videos together sure are#ladies this is not straight behavior#you should see their videos together#Shawnee also converted to Christianity and became conservative right after they stopped working together#amanda young#shawnee smith#missi pile#pile and smith
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it's kind of like insanely isolating that literally every aspec or "ace & aro" space I've found has been in actuality, solely for aces. perhaps arospec aces or aroaces who entirely prioritize their asexuality could also find company there, but even as an aromantic person who is also asexual, they're really not intended for me. so I can only imagine how isolating it must be if you're aromantic and allosexual
#I went to this aspec club on campus last fallâ and cliquiness asideâ they were literally talking about dating in there. like one guy was all#''I've been talking to this girl.... you think I should get her number?'' yada yada yada#like ok I guess this is just for asexuals then.#I can put up with hearing vague romance talk in other situations but in an allegedly 'aro and ace' club? nah fam#alsoâ the first time I went (I gave up after the second meeting lol)â we went around and introduced ourselves and then you could say what#kind of aspec you were if you wanted to#and everyone was saying asexualâ with maybe 4 or 5 aroacesâ and then when it got to me I said ''aromanticâ probably asexual'' and they just#all looked at me weird#maybe I imagined that. I'm bad at reading expressions#but cmon. imagine if I'd said aro straight or aro gay or smth#anyway I really do not like how the aspec community as a whole prioritizes asexuality over aromanticism#partially it's likely bc asexual used to mean aroace before the SAM was a thing#but I think its also bc people can imagine going without sex in a relationship (although they may conflate it with celibacy) (and not to say#people treat alloaces well at all lol)#(but the idea of someone eschewing romance entirelyâ whether they (want to) have sex or notâ is still widely horrifying or confusing or#scary to many people. including other queer people and including asexual people#)#I'd make my tag rant into an actual post if I was sure I could word it right lol#aro#aromantic#aroallo#aroace#non sam aro#o.
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Genuinely just made my throat sore with the shriek I let out
#THEM. AND RIGHT AFTER OBI IS ARRESTED AND SAYS TO GET WORD TO HINAWA??? NOT COMPANY 8 BUT HINAWA???#obi has been sooo down bad from the start.#captain and lieutenant is basically married as far as obi is concerned#heâs like well. now that we are together until death do we part maybe i should know if you have a family or partner. also are you gay.#please know its very okay with me if youâre gay.#goddddddddd#fire force#fire force ch177#fire force v20#enen no shouboutai#enen no shouboutai ch177#moss does books#ecdysing#takehisa hinawa#akitaru obi
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"She's so charmin', y'know! She's just so--"
#critical role#imogearne#imogen x fearne#ygifs#IMOGEN GETTIN LOST FOR A SECOND IN FEARNE'S GAYZE AND SHE STARTS STAMMERING Iiiiiiii#fearne making imogen blush but imogen JUMPS on the FIRST distraction from that is SOOO good 2 me it's like ooook#she literally literally immediately is like ANYWAY and it's SO good y'all just had a moment and you literally are like UH SO WHATD YOU SAY#I just want to chew on it I just want to study it I just want to take out a mortgage with it and really have holiday card memories with it#you have a 6ft faun you keep reminding everyone is hot leaning towards you teasing you to choose between her and you what - don't lose it?ok#being able to fluster even stressed out imogen like that power trip alone I hope she starts to chase that feeling#the FOREVER GONDOLA RIDES is what I'll title the fic of fearne constantly flirting with imogen just to try to fluster her#and imogen's just like I don't think I should be alone with fearne and everyone's like all right makes sense#and sheâs beetred cos she wanted them to ASK WHY so she could try to have a dialogue about Thinking? Fearne is Flirting#but she's like that with everyone!!!!! and they all are like yeah that's true and imogen just is like  . of course ! ! ! and they squint#like you knew this why do you seem disappointed all of a sudden and imogen vax-es out of the room#it's NOT that she LIKES her LIKE THAT it's NOTHIN I'm watching it cos it's like this is happening while also not happening pretty gay
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wish i could have a highschool romance. this is unfair wheres my boyfriend :(
#for context#im a minor#so like#i want a boyfriend right now while im in high school to have a high school romance with#mlm yearning#mlm sfw#nblm thoughts#gay yearning#mlm thoughts#listen i just#love boys#so much#want boyfriend :(#my irl bffs (one of which is also on here) already have to listen to me ramble about this too many hours a day#so now im posting it here too#sorry to my irl friend on here if you see this well im sure you already expect me to say things like this#so you should be used to it by now lmao#mlm t4t#t4t mlm
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Breaking my hiatus briefly to say this:
Itâs really unfortunate how the âkill menâ and âsterilize menâ and âimprison menâ discourse got turned into âmen are oppressed for being menâ byâ wellâ white people, predominantly men. Because there should have been a mainstream conversation about how this rhetoric is most frequently leveraged at racially marginalized men by white men and women.
It is so, so, so transparent what these phrases really mean when theyâre added to posts calling marginalized racial or ethnic groups âgenetic trash.â And Iâve seen black and brown women point this out, only to be called âsex traitorsâ or be told they hate women and have internalized misogyny for âsiding with the oppressor.â Black and brown women canât point out âhey, arguing that men should be forcibly sterilized is eugenics and that scares me as someone who comes from a community that has been victimized by eugenics��� without people coming out of the woodwork to tell them that theyâre setting back feminism.
âMen should be lined up against a wall and shot.â And you think the person whoâll be targeted is your creepy uncle? Not black drag queens or Jewish doctors or immigrants? Whoâs pulling the trigger? White men? Likely. Theyâre already trigger happy.
âMen should all be in prison as a precaution.â And you think that the prison industrial complex will target predators, who are predominately cis het white men in positions of authorityâ a group it notoriously fails to âhold accountableââ instead of the poor black men it currently targets? We have done little to dismantle a system that is designed to imprison black men and women for their labor.
âMen should be forced to get sterilized as a precaution against unwanted pregnancy.â And you think that the men who will be forcibly targeted areâ who?â Republican politicians? Not the men who have faced forced sterilization for the furtherance of white supremacy? You think such a campaign wonât disproportionatelyâ or even exclusivelyâ target black and brown men? You think they wonât be targeting gay men? You think that black women agree with you? You think their biggest fear is an unwanted pregnancy rather than the fact they donât have the privilege of safely and healthily giving birth to their wanted babies because the medical system kills black mothers?
None of yâall people treat white men in positions of authority with the same rancid energy as black and brown women who disagree with you. I see yâall out here retweeting Matt Walsh or quoting Jordan Peterson with quotes like, âthank you đ. so refreshing to see men who understand real womenâs issues and the differences between men and women!â But the moment a black feminist breathes in criticism of a pro-ethnic cleansing post, you perfectly demonstrate why white people should not be involved in âslur reclamationâ discourse.
#*you and *yâall in the third person#tyvm#this may have been inspired by my sister saying that men should be forcibly sterilized#in the presence of my best friendâ a black gay man#and her saying âyou wouldnât understandâ when he replied âhey. that kind of rhetoric isnât actually helpfulâŚâ#and that was all in response to a convo b/t me ân him about marriage equality#and mentioning that debtors are also prevented from enjoying the rights and privileges of marriage#we got a lot of friends. predominately poor poc. who are having kids and living with their s/o#but not getting married due to issues of combined debt#and she took issue with unmarried men having kids- âmen should be sterilized to prevent this sort of thingâ đ#and none of this is even touching on the misogyny of that world view
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just got a dm abt one of my posts and y'all please don't try and show the hermits (or any minecraft youtuber or content creator for that matter) my posts, i'm uncomfortable with it and don't want any of my posts shown to a cc. if they stumble upon it naturally that's unfortunate but i can live with it since i do maintag a lot (something i REALLY need to stop doing tbh i already know i need to make a tagging system just for my blog that wont clog results) but going out of ur way to show a cc is entirely different and something i am not comfortable with.
no hate to the person at all but even if i wasn't a little silly and weird with it sometimes i wouldn't be comfortable with it, i want my blog to be a purely fandom only space with none of the creators involved <3 please respect this
#which is imo how a fandom space should be#i'm old fashioned and it breaks the fandom etiquette rules i stand by#i ship and stuff and absolutely NO cc needs to be subjected to that please and thank you even if it's a non-ship post#not saying hermits and others cant hang out and interact if they wish hell no but like....#if you as any person with a following willingly go into a fandom space you have to expect to see some things you find weird#doesn't even necessarily mean ship just stuff the cc finds weird :v idk im not phrasing this right but like#the rule with shipping around any sort of media has been to keep it away and not show the creators anything !!! and thats fallen out#of practice the past few years with ppl getting more and more comfortable demanding boundaries and personal info from creators#which isn't right imo bc its like you're trying to see how much you can get away with. u want a guide on how to interact and social skills#which is... huh??? just be polite and keep anything weird away from them like what we were doing#some folks nowadays need âpermissionâ to ship stuff even from SHOWS and shit with no real people and its like wow... huh....#u need it to be canon?? u need everything told to u by the show?? wheres the imagination. the spirit.#the making of everything so far removed from what it once was#like that guy that played nick from heartstopper that had to be outed to play a gay guy. like#idk im so sick of the boundary fandom ppl in mcyt 'what if they saw and made it uncomfortable!! im going to show them!!!!'#you are making them MUCH more uncomfortable than i am by GOING INTO THEIR FACE AND DEMANDING THEY LOOK AT IT!!#AND DEMANDING BOUNDARIES N SHIT... CRAZY.... idk the hermits especially its weird to me bc clearly they understand fandom etiquette#and the dynamic im talking about. most of them understand that by going into fandom spaces they will see things they dont like#which is why a lot of them only like fanart and answer questions asked by fans. even on tumblr !!! where the weird ppl are!!!#they also all seem to understand they are playing characters (citing joel cleo and grian as examples) for their audiences#which is. smth the audience itself doesnt understand most of the time anymore. oh my god they all died in real life in hermitcraft season 8#idk hermitblr used to be a lot more okay with hermitshipping n then a bunch of ppl from other fandoms moved in and its all more negative#and makes me sad. idk...#i never meant for this blog to gain almost 500 followers i just wanted to make silly little ship posts and now im scared to#bc ive gotten hate and its.... bwugh.... tempted to remake blogs and make one thats very clearly just for me and a few weirdos#whatever i went off on a tangent in the tags as usual just pls dont show creators my posts even non-ship ones for this reason#jamies bad posts#talking in tags#serious posts#<- ig??? idk
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i've been ruminating a lot on it because i think i'm bad at putting my thoughts into words but i need y'all to understand that while there are absolutely a lot of Not Good Things about the finals being held in saudi arabia for three years...the way people seem to treat is as morally black and white is shortsighted and unhelpful.
realistically the players traveling there will be protected. it may be uncomfortable, it's certainly not ideal, but they will travel there for a few weeks, play their tennis, then leave. there are a lot of women, a lot of queer people who actually live in saudi arabia who cannot just leave, who are actually subjected to laws and social climates...and to me it just seems very disrespectful to that actual lived experience, for everybody to sort of turn their noses up and get on their high horses. of course, if the players wish to opt out, that is their choice, but that is their choice to make. that's their judgement. not ours.
and then, what about a tournament like miami? florida is literally experiencing one of the worst active regressions that i've seen in the us (granted i'm young). things like critical race theory and lgbtq+ ed are being removed from curriculums, rights for trans youth, trans healthcare, etc. are going backwards. abortion rights? gun violence? and yes i know that the laws and climate in saudi arabia are different gravy, i understand that, but my point is, no one would ever DREAM of arguing against hosting a tournament in miami despite all of these issues. and we can extend this to a lot of other tournaments! i mean, all the outrage about fifa hosting a world cup in qatar, but we don't have any of these sentiments about doha? i've seen other people bring up that the finals were hosted in singapore when gay marriage was still illegal there. we've already talked about italy's fascist prime minister. and i could go on and on and on about the war crimes of countries like the us or the uk - is the us not participating actively in genocide right now? where is the standard? if you argue against hosting the finals in saudi arabia for the reason of human rights, to me it seems you have to uphold that standard for the location you do land on. and i can guarantee, you will not find a single country in the world with clean hands.
i want to be clear i am not arguing that hosting the finals in saudi arabia is a good thing, especially for three years, especially because it's definitely going there because of money, and not for any of the "good" reasons i think some people want us to believe about "improving the region" (which is very weirdly white savior-esque anyway). i don't really have an official "conclusion" to this discussion.
what i am arguing is that i think a lot of the protests against saudi arabiahosting the finals are more an example of implicit anti-arab bias and islamophobia, rather than genuine discussion. key word implicit: i don't think most people are purposefully trying to be anti-arab/islamophobic. or at least, i'd like to believe nobody is. but i also think, particularly in the west, there is already so much of this xenophobic sentiment ingrained. and this is why i think it's really really REALLY important to check ourselves when we talk about it instead of just jumping straight to the human rights conversation without a second thought.
i'll say it plainly: i don't think the finals should be held in saudi arabia. but for me, it has more to do with sportswashing, with the dangers of the way money is thrown around in sports, and because i think it's more evidence that the wta doesn't care about player welfare but rather about making a profit (what else is new). human rights are absolutely a concern of mine, but how is it fair to hold saudi arabia to a standard that we don't seem to care about for literally anybody else?
literally look at the us's ugly ugly history, past and present, and tell me why we deserve to host a tennis tournament.
#long post#idk. this is not even all my thoughts#this is long and confusing and convoluted and i'm sorry#but i need y'all to understand it's not as easy as just saying 'oh we can't host it there'#'oh the players should boycott'#it's more complicated than that#and again i'm not really arguing one way or another#i do have my own opinion but i'm not positing that as The Right Choice#i'm definitely open to a lot more discussion on it#because i know i don't have the full perspective either#but i'm tired of seeing takes talking about how 'evil' it is to host the finals there#the way that it's happened and my suspected reasons for it (money)? yeah that's fucked up!#but just the fact that it will be hosted there...hold your horses. slow your roll#saudi arabia is like. a real country with people who actually live there and experience their own regime#god forbid they get to watch some tennis#and again. i just don't think you can ever really talk about these kinds of things and not bring up#the way countries like the us ALWAYS go unchecked#also like. gay marriage wasn't legal federally in the us until 2015. so. were do we go from here
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i know this has been said 473773474833 times by the kavetham/haikaveh shippers and probably even nonshippers, but i'll say it again. I finally finished the genshin summer event and did the little after quest in sumeru and.....every time kaveh is sneaking around trying not to be noticed coming out of alhaithams house it's just such a gay vibe. he's basically screaming "I can't be caught being gay in a homophobic society!" even if that's not what the game writers are *actually* saying. that's just how it comes off and they can't make it come off any other way. with hoyo's gay history, it makes me wonder if it's on purpose and all a cover-up to have a technically different reason for it so they can get away with it lmao but we will never know.
#lee text#genshins#i can acknowledge how gay they are without liking thr ship#flashback to several kavetham/haikaveh (whatevwr their ship name is) shippers on here attacking me over not liking the ship#trying to âeducateâ me on why theyre sk gay and why i should ship it#look i didnt say they arent gay af. and these shippers dismissed my feelings completely#i think it was after that one event with the competition thing that kaveh won? idk but just they way they interacted#the way alhaitham talked to kaveh and the way kaveh responded TRIGGERED A TRAUMA RESPONSE IN ME#which made me dislike the ship and their dynamic! i didnt CARE if he was well meaning. the way he talked to kaveh#triggered a fight or flight response in me because it sounded similar to how ive been talked to and kaveh getting upset was similar to#how ive reacted to the same words. you can also argue my family cares about me like alhaitham does kaveh and its how he helps#but it doesnt mean its the kind of help we need and it doenst traumatize us lmao#so i dont get why people were so angry at me for getting triggered by this ship and disliking it for that reason#while i can still admit that they are gay af and seem to get a long a bit better after that and i can tolerate them now#since its been a while and i dont remember it enough to have a trauma response when seeing them anymore lmao#but its just annoying that shippers can be so toxic đ they care more about their fictional men ship than me. a real person. weird#not tagging the ship so i dont get more angry shippers in my notes....but they found me last time with no tags so hi. dont yell at me again!#but maybe no one will care since im putting my âanti ship propagandaâ in the tags this time and not the main post lmao#just dont read my tags so you dont get mad at me for being uncomfortable by this ship dynamic. but if youre reading this...its too late#leave me alone they arent real and i am so im more important right đ
#let me shame the shippers that dismissed my real feelings because they think their ship is more important than a real person lmao#you cant tell me im wrong when a trauma response isnt a choice and happens against your will đ#BE ASHAMED YOU NERDS#I WILL BITE YOUR KNEECAPS#sorry i just had to vent lmao
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