#like do you even hear yourselves

[captain-kit-adventuress]

It's also super levelled at fat women in particular. (Other than "lose weight" rhetoric, which fucking needs to die yesterday.)

Except.

Fat women (and fat men! But this is about women specifically) are forcibly degendered by others, to the point that I have heard many stories about fat women who can't even connect in any way to a feminine-based gender, even if they want to. Like, I can't tell how many times I've heard, "Oh, agender was the only thing that made sense to me, as a fat woman I was degendered so often I couldn't see myself as anything else."

It's my own experience. And I actually try really hard to wear clothing that is visibly feminine, insofar as I like the styles. (I'm not one for a lot of ruffles lol.) So to be told "Oh, just go shop in the men's section" like it's not still forcibly degendering me is just sending me right back to the same shit I've tried so hard to leave behind, because I am reclaiming my status.

Fat women don't owe anyone an "aesthetically correct" body to be gendered correctly. And we certainly deserve better than being correctly gendered but only in a way that's used to hurt us ("You throw like a girl!" and "I thought women were supposed to be dainty?!" come immediately to mind).

i hate when someone says "clothes marketed to women are less practical/don't have pockets/are too revealing in general" and everyone just tells them to buy clothes from the men's section bc like don't you think women deserve to have wearable clothing made for us. also some of us have body types that make shopping in the men's section impractical AND some of us may want to wear things with aesthetic attributes that you can't find in the men's section but still want to be comfortable and not have our clothes disintegrate after three washes

[theinfinitedivides]

Sam is the co-lead of the series, per Rolin, Mark, and all the actors, and after Jacob, he's the one critics mention the most (the whole cast is super acclaimed obviously, but in terms of who gets singled out). The whole cast is great, but it's not racism for them to prioritize their two lead male actors (and Sam is still the co-lead even if he had less screentime this year, just like they still kept Jacob and Sam together in interviews because they are the leads, and they will next year too when Sam is the lead and Jacob is the co-lead). If IWTV were a show like Succession or GOT or whatever, they could push more actors. But people are expecting them to push Assad for nominations when realistically, Jacob and Sam are the only ones who remotely have a shot in their categories, as great as the whole cast is. This isn't about everyone getting a turn, it's about who the show's leads and most prominent actors are.

see now i had to pause GNX to respond to this tell me how i knew somebody was going to act up in my inbox, smh. anon. sit with me for a bit. i have been here since the first time AMC had a chance to put up Assad for consideration for several supporting noms and did not. i rode that wave i saw the backlash among those of us who were wise enough to see what was happening and the way we were dogpilled on by folks who claimed we were making everything about Assad. then ofc round two happened and they skipped Jacob and Delainey and the same folks who were talking shit suddenly started crying foul when it's been foul but uh. that's a convo that i've beaten till it died i ain't going back there.

the point of my post (that you seemed to have missed) was not that they shouldn't have put their two lead actors forward for consideration. it is the constant deliberate neglect of submitting Assad's name in anything (followed closely by Delainey) while continuing to use his scenes and breakout performance in s2 to promote the show. if you care about your white co-lead's performance then you use the fucking promo from the fucking eps that he's in for a significant amount of time. you do not cop the hard work of your cast of color to hopefully get awards and then not give them the time of day to submit them for a little something. 2x5 was Jacob and Assad (& Luke)'s ep and we know this. 2x8 was Jacob and Assad (& Delainey bc iirc this is the wrap-up to the trial, unless i'm wrong and we didn't get any of her screentime after 2x7)'s ep and we know this. they wanted tangible Sam screentime they should have offered up 2x7 where the bulk of the trial (and by extension Lestat) actually is. it's like if i as a fellow student take time out of my day and volunteer to tutor you and you turn the final result in as yours and don't even acknowledge that i fucking led you through how many study sessions. it's that one kid doing the group project for the rest of y'all and then y'all get credit for shit you didn't do bc it full well was not a team effort. before s2 aired Assad was on buildings and promo content and interviews and then it dropped just as the genocidal acts in Gaza started ramping up and it wasn't fashionable anymore to let an obviously Islamic coded name get into print as one of the stars of the show—notice how they went dead silent? notice how most critics reviews always mention Sam (Dreamstat) over Assad (Armand) or Delainey (Claudia) or even Jacob (THEE titular vamp)? we know what it's giving and honestly if you don't i think you need to sit with that shit for a little bit

[rigginsstreet]

stranger things fandom never heard the phrase "every saint has a past and every sinner has a future" and it shows

[das-ende-des-anfangs]

You cannot frame comptop as a universal transfem experience without erasing and taking agency away from transfem tops. Implying that I only top my partners because I've undergone transmisogynistic brainwashing is deeply fucking insulting, and it needs to STOP.

Comptop absolutely is a real thing, but it only applies when the person in question IS NOT A TOP.

TRANSFEM TOPS EXIST!!! And we top because WE LOVE TOPPING. Don't universalize your personal struggles to everyone who shares an identity group with you, I am literally begging you

[cadybear420]

COP 3 really bringing out the worst of the "female coded MCs" takes on Choices Reddit. Lord please yeet me into Mount Atropo.

[silangangsinaya]

wait you guys actually think

Caitlyn is justified in trying to shoot Jinx in front of a child, and to aim and fire at Vi who has been trying to support her through her grief and even agreed to become the one thing she hated most despite the fact that she's been abused in prison for seven years, and also imposing martial law on an already impoverished, polluted, neglected, and brutalized region of people who just happened to be born a bridge across from her home...

I thought it was just a joke...

[comradecowplant]

I believe Kamala- despite every word she has ever spoken on the matters- is actually deeply pro-Palestine, pro-trans & overall a progressive hero, because I understand that when democrats say repugnant reactionary things while campaigning they are actually lying! which is good & normal for so-called democratic elections!!!!! if you listen to the gnomes who live inside my walls you'll understand her real values, which she'll totally pinky promise act upon once you reward her lies & elect her! you dumb third party voters would understand this if u payed attention in civics class 💅💅💅

[koomaqu]

I'm so freaking tired of female beauty standards and the UTTER IDIOCY of people who have the audacity to leave comments under body positivity content that are along the lines of "omg this is disgusting, I could never... But you do you!" like it's a fucking compliment and not absolutely deranged. You're all fucking sick in the head, imposing artificial standards onto others with such viciousness, yet seemingly oblivious to the active harm you're doing.

Interestingly, I've seen the same thing happen in the barefoot shoes discourse, in regards to how natural feet look like. It's shocking how many people are there spamming vomit emojis and confidently saying they'd pick deformed feet over "disgusting" natural feet ????? After seeing that I have no words. If some people consciously deform their body parts because they deem the natural state this unbearably disgusting, there's no hope for accepting body hair. It's genuinely sickening.

[wingsofhcpe]

Every few years the tumblr queer community decides that we clearly don't have enough problems as is with real bigots, and they pick a sub-category of other queer people to convince us that "actually these are the True Oppressors, Guys, I Promise, they're too loud and privileged and stealing our rights as we speak!" while also mostly using recycled terf rhetoric but Woke This Time to support these accusations. At some point it was bi people (especially bi sapphics), then ace and aro people. Now it seems it's the turn of trans men & transmasc people in general.

And of course, if you as a member of the targeted demographic try to speak up, you're labelled as proof of the accusations. "See? They're loud and annoying and are oppressing us by not letting us target them, instead of shutting up and taking it like good little victims!".

And I, for one, I'm not having it.

[ultimaid]

as someone who works in the mental health field. the way some of you talk about mentally ill elderly people is absolutely atrocious and i’m going to need you to start seeing the elderly as human. that will be you one day and you’re going to wish younger folks had more compassion.

[pa-pa-plasma]

do you see what I mean or do I have to make it even clearer

[leslieseveride]

i genuinely wish the worst upon EVERYONE who bullied anna cathcart for her crooked teeth (which i personally thought were so adorable!) and are now complaining about her veneers. you're all a bunch of fucking soulless vultures bullying her for her appearance during season 1 of xo, kitty, and for continuing to do so even after she had the procedure done. will nothing ever be enough for you people??

[gingerswagfreckles]

God I really didn't think Trump getting elected would lead to another renaissance of "won't somebody PLEASE think of the men???" posts but here we are!!

[im-still-a-robot]

Terrible opinions in the vc tonight 😔

[twinsarekeepers]

Reading some of the critiques of pjotv and now I know why y’all are on tumblr and not in the writer’s room 💀💀

[flying-cat]

why are trump supporters all Like That