#anti faith

[nevergonnabemuchmorethanweather]

I'm not anti Faith or anything (I actually like her) but it was stupid of her to say that everyone thanks Buffy. Up until the S3 finale, hardly anyone did (not even her own mom). But then again, it's not like Buffy to even expect to be thanked.

My feelings about Faith are almost the exact inverse of my feelings about Willow, in that I really like her about 20% of the time and can't stand her for the rest of it. It's not like the seething hatred I have for Xander and Joyce, but she's just so annoying with her never-ending self pity and her toddler level reasoning.

And of course no one was thanking Buffy, nor did anyone ever ask Faith to be more like her. Faith knew Buffy was better than her and projected that onto everyone else. Objectivity and rationality weren't exactly her strong points.

She also thought of Buffy as overly rigid and by the book, which couldn't be further from the truth but was convenient to Faith's narrative, so it didn't matter.

[whereserpentswalk]

Thing I made.

[vincentstlouis]

Happy Sunday heathens! I’m not sure of a lot of things in life but I AM sure that “Two Corinthians” has never read the Bible in his life.

[wayward-tides-collective]

anti endos thinking they're punk. lol. lmao even.

[bisexualfaggotry]

why does every anti-zionist have a jewish anti-zionist on hand as a gotcha, but the other 90% of jewish folks are just chopped liver to said anti-zionists

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

“I know what happens. We’ve all read the book and we all know what happens. The writing team will decide how they want to interpret that in their own way. But I feel like they haven’t been that faithful to the books, to be honest. A lot of the stuff that happens to Criston like seeing him fighting and the relationship with Alicent is not in the books. I just hope they do it justice.”

FABIEN FRANKEL — talking about the changes to the characters that ryan condal and sara hess made on the show.

[lovelydisgusting]

no more infighting over identity labels. i just saw a post where op listed various queer identity microlabels, sorted into two categories under "support" and "don't support". It was super silly, but also made me frustrated and sad. so here's my message to my fellow severely online queers: other queer people are not your enemy. you might think their labels are nonsense, or contradictory, or even offensive - learn to accept this. remember what you are fighting for: freedom of identity, freedom of expression, bodily autonomy, liberation from binary-hetero-patriarchy. FOR ALL! playing identity cop is utterly counterproductive to the cause.

[gay-otlc]

This is a take I've seen fairly often- that trans men & mascs only think they experience transandrophobia because they refuse to accept that what they're experiencing is misogyny.

It's also a completely ridiculous take. The fact that trans men/mascs are targeted by misogyny is a fundamental part of transandrophobia theory. Trans men/mascs, and others who regularly discuss transandrophobia, emphasize over and over again the ways in which trans men/mascs experience misogyny. For example, the idea that they are women and therefore are too stupid and brainwashed to be trusted about their genders, or the sense of entitlement to trans men/mascs' bodies (how dare you ruin your perfect breasts, how dare you transition in a way that makes you unable to carry children, how dare you not be the beautiful woman i want you to be).

In fact, the people who deny that trans men/mascs experience misogyny tend to be the same people who argue against the concept of transandrophobia. They insist that trans men receive male privilege, and in fact actually benefit from misogyny rather than suffer from it.

When trans men/mascs point the ways that they are affected by misogyny, they are accused of spreading TERF rhetoric (as though acknowledging the ways in which people who were assigned female at birth are oppressed automatically means you believe in "sex consciousness" and "afab unity" against anyone assigned male at birth"), or accused of implying that trans women aren't affected by misogyny (they absolutely are, the belief that trans men and women can't both be affected by misogyny stems from oppositional sexism)

All this to say: The people who talk about transandrophobia are well aware that trans men/mascs suffer from misogyny, and aren't denying this out of dysphoria or internalized misogyny- they aren't denying this at all. The people who deny that trans men/mascs suffer from misogyny are the people who believe transandrophobia doesn't exist.

And, transandrophobia isn't "just misogyny." Misogyny is a crucial component of transandrophobia- again, no one who talkes about transandrophobia is denying this- but not the only component.

Trans men/mascs being denied access to gynecological healthcare (that cis women are able to access) because they appear to be men, or have their gender legally changed to male isn't "just misogyny."

Trans men/mascs to losing their friends, support, and abuse and mental health resources when they come out and transition, or reach a point of being "too masculine," isn't "just misogyny".

The belief that going on testosterone will make trans men/mascs dangerous and violent, and the negative rhetoric about bottom surgery, isn't "just misogyny."

Being called a gender traitor and accused siding with the enemy and only transitioning to gain male privilege isn't "just misogyny."

Trans men/mascs being impregnated specifically as a method of forcing them to detransition isn't "just misogyny."

Choosing to use a women's bathroom (either due to safety concerns or transphobic laws) and being kicked out or assaulted for looking male isn't "just misogyny."

Trans men/mascs getting violently attacked because "if you want to be a man so bad, I'll beat you up like one" isn't "just misogyny."

People who talk about transandrophobia very much recognize that trans men/mascs experience misogyny (and are trying to get people who deny transandrophobia to recognize this as well), and there are aspects of transandrophobia that go beyond "just misogyny." Neither of these things contradict each other. In conclusion, "'transandrophobia' is just misogyny but transmascs don't want to admit it" is completely false all around, so I wish it wasn't such a commonly held belief.

[yaralulu]

[anti-terf-posts]

I feel like we've failed good-faith queer people when we have to make posts defending good-faith labels. We shouldn't have to list reasons why it's possible, you should just accept that some people use them, regardless of whether they make sense or not to you

[feminist-cult-following]

the ezra you wrote stalked five teenage girls, engaged in a sexual relationship with a minor, groomed said minor, then took that girl’s secrets and planned to write a fucking book about it. also for her to say she feels “extremely disrespected” is ridiculous.

how do you think sara shepherd felt when she saw a character she wrote to be a bad guy and a creep be turned into the show’s longest lasting love interest? how do you think she felt when she saw aria, a character she created and loved, be written to end up with the man who groomed her?

if marlene can take such big leaps from the original source material, then pll original sin should be able to do the same with no problem or complaint.

[roguish-rhubarb]

Use wisely, my lovelies.

[deepcoraldragon]

Bitzel perfectly summing it up

Like seriously, if you still follow him after everything, what is it gonna take?

[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

[whereserpentswalk]

I see queer friendly Christians the same way I see Queer friendly republicans. Members of an inherently bigoted organization, giving it a friendly face so that it's easier to excuse its bigotry.

Just like how a single republican being gay doesn't change the fact that stripping all queer people of rights is part of what the republican party is trying to accomplish; a single Christian being gay doesn't change the fact that stripping all queer people of rights is part of what the Christianity as an institution is trying to accomplish.

It's time we stopped making excuses for the church because some of them put on a progressive face. Because you can make that excuse for any institution. We can't be having "not all Christians" disclaimers when we talk about Christian bigotry for the same reason we can't be having "not everyone on the right" disclaimers when we talk about right wing bigotry.

[5iofra]

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