#i was gay in 2010

[julieverne]

Sasha really went ahead and said this in 2010 <2010 is in CAPS> and then served 7 season of whatever Rizzoli & Isles was.

[pinbones]

I've seen a few posts about women and pants now and many of them are very good, and not to nitpick those posts or downplay religious sexism or anything, but I have to emphasise:

Somebody who DOESN'T live in a controlling religious country/cult/family is also affected by sexism. We all know that, right? Secular parts of the first world also have opinions about how women dress, including when it comes to trousers, especially in childhood and in institutions like schools and the workplace

Me and many people my age (20s) remember being forced into skirts, punished and shamed by parents & teachers & peers & possibly then bosses about what we wear not being feminine enough, and it wasn't by deeply religious sects. Many updates to dress codes are very new and sexist views are still in place in many institutions. Normalised societal misogyny wants women (and people they want to treat as women) to dress femininely, down to what KIND of pants they're allowed to wear (compare a pink top and jeggings to mens jeans and tell me these two women are treated the same. Hating women in pantsuits is still a sexist office joke today, and even those outfits are feminine compared to male suits, which raise eyebrows when worn by women). The women I know who wear trousers regularly are literally otherwise feminine, and all wear dresses to events.

I know trousers have become much more normalised over the past few decades in secular society (yay!! the result of many many years of effort and lawbreaking) but let's not be absolute when we talk about the pants concept lol. Especially within a larger conversation about female/transmasc/intersex/transfem masculinity and social perceptions, especially in an age of rising fascism

[moonyflesh]

Scott Patterson behind the scenes of Saw lV - (2007) as “(Special Agent) Peter Strahm”.

[k-wame]

Aaron Taylor Johnson & Matthew Beard CHATROOM (2010) | dir. Hideo Nakata

[johnlockbbc]

Guys guys who else thinks it’s time for a resurrection of the Sherlock fandom I feel like we need a fourth wave who’s down

[intramoon]

Work in progress on Wednesday's teen bedroom (lots of eclectic nicknacks from her mom & NANA posters) ... 🦋

[queeringclassiclit]

Enjolras

from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

submitted by anon

[ratsdontmurder]

people really need to learn the difference between queerbait and complex queer media

[jesse-pinko]

Okay I’ve never really been more than a casual enjoyer of WWDITS and I recognize that some people definitely took shipping in the vampire comedy show too seriously as fandom is wont to do but imo even if it isn’t queerbaiting the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. Deliberately marketing your show by teasing a popular gay ship that you purposefully wrote with that subtext behind it, and then not delivering on the dynamic you set up and implying that queer fans were just being delusional and entitled and perverse by wanting these two characters to be explicitly together in the year 2024… it’s giving BBC Sherlock like there’s so much contempt here for queer fans wanting to see onscreen representation of what could have been a pretty well developed gay relationship. Maybe it’s bc I grew up w this shit being the norm but I kind of think people have the right to be pissed by getting cucked out of gay rep in goddamn 2024

[kilopascals]

PLEASE i need tokyo ghoul reanimated. i want the hype. i want the same accuracy as the fullmetal alchemist reboot. the hype for hidekane would be so unreal i just need it please

[apfelkvchen]

HAL No worries bro, there is absolutely nothing wrong

Frank 🤨🤨🤨

HAL ;)

[petr1kov]

sometimes i feel like queerbaiting is a lost art form that both peaked and was left on the 2010s. the cultural moment was such that we had shows wanting to be 'modern' and 'open-minded' enough to acknowledge that yes, gay people exist, so logically speaking our main characters could be gay and a portion of the audience would be interested in seeing it happen, but also still being homophobic enough that openly embracing and portraying any non heterosexual relationship was never even remotely considered as a real, actual possibility. and that's how we ended up with like. the guys from house and destiel and bbc sherlock etc

[deanlighful]

idk why but i find it funny when people are like

“they where actually making gay jokes about those characters because of the time. So just so you know that ship isn’t valid or doesn’t count”

I watched most of these shows when they came out. I know these shows have jokes that are suppose to be at our expense. that’s been the way media was until recently.

However they’re fictional characters. If i as a gay person read that haha gay joke as repressed gay person i’m allowed to.

Also even with the gay jokes some of these characters have queer coding. it made not have been intentional at all but it’s how i as a queer person read that character.

It’s fiction. After the writer puts it out in the world i’m allowed to interpret a story through my own lens. I should take into account who wrote it and why but i’m still allowed to see it the way i do.

i don’t know why people feel the need to pull a gotcha about our ships. Most of us are well aware

[effydotnet]

[moonys-chocolate28]

Can we please stop putting 2010 kids with gen alpha? Im 14 years old i dont wanna be associated with the brainrot generation

Like bffr i am NOT gonna be seen as the same as kids that dont even remember the pandemic.

[remembertheplunge]

Ugly Betty says NO to Prop 8 (2008)

October 31, 2008

Jim bought a life size Obama (card board cut out)—it stands by our front door.

Neighbors in the last duplex across the street put up two “No on 8” signs and an Obama sign yesterday. 

The “Yes on 8” duplex across the street pointed their sign toward our house. Actually, they have two.   And they put up a McPalin sign after we put up the life sized Obama.

Ugly Betty, her Dad and sister did a “No on 8” ad last night during Ugly Betty, aimed at Latinos. 

It ran later, too.

Diane Feinstein also has a powerful ad “it will change the constitution. It (Prop. 8) equals discrimination.”

The Yes on 8s stole Troy’s  porch light.  They put in their porch light. 

End of entry

Notes: 1/4/2025

You can see that Project 25 was already brewing with the advent of Proposition 8 and its ban on gay marriage which passed in 2008. 2008 is not that long ago. Even though Proposition 8 was later overturned and the right for gays to marry has been made a part of the California Constitution as of November 5, 2024 passage of Proposition 3, there are lots of people out there like our across the street "Yes on 8" neighbor mentioned in the above 2008 entry. They want to force us back into the dark pre Stone Wall days. In other words , they want us silenced, back in the closet and locked in forever. We have to "point our signs" back at them and say, no, we are out, proud and we are not going back. Once you see, you cannot unsee!