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easy pete you son of a bitch, there isn’t a sign on this earth that could deliver you from my fury
i never stop laughing at this fucking post
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This made me feel better today and i think sometimes you just gotta hear someone play megolovania on a microwave
Steven Universe: Eh, I don’t really feel like saying “girlfriend” or “wife”. Maybe they’re together. They have a special connection…
(gets violently shoved aside)
The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. “My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I…” “I’m texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business.” “Luz’s new GF showed her…”
Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.
These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.
Or have the lesbians be dubbed as cousins….
But anyway, I’m with Raul; can we not? Rebecca fought so we could have these characters outright say it
Right, and also the Gems almost never use gendered terms for each other–I doubt they think of themselves as “girlfriend” or “wife.” They aren’t women.
Ruby and Sapphire DID call each other “baby” and “sweetums” and “beautiful” so it wasn’t unclear. You might also note that Steven and Connie never called each other boyfriend or girlfriend. (One time Ronaldo called Connie Steven’s girlfriend but Steven didn’t use the term himself.) And Vidalia, though she’s married to a man, didn’t use “husband” when she talked about him; she said “It’s just been me and Yellowtail for a while now.” But no one’s confused about whether Vidalia’s ring and her statement confirms that relationship.
It’s interesting that when someone gets called a wife on Steven Universe, it’s usually part of a misunderstanding or a ruse, like when Greg awkwardly called Alexandrite his wife or when Andy asked Greg which Gem was “the wife.”
This wasn’t a sidestep and a lack of courage–it was a different approach to talking about relationships in a show that was developed in a political climate within which same-sex marriage wasn’t even federally legalized yet. It’d be super weird to suggest the SU Crew didn’t do enough because they didn’t tend to use those words (for ANY characters, including heterosexual ones). Furthermore, if you talk to the creators of those shows, they have been quoted multiple times crediting the trailblazing of Steven Universe for what they can now do.
Reblogging my own response post because I have some thoughts now that I’ve seen more about the original post in context
OP openly, proudly admits to NOT HAVING EVEN WATCHED STEVEN UNIVERSE. Of course they don’t actually know how the representation went down. It’s easier to follow graded charts by someone with a hate boner for the show than to gather your own info.
OP certainly has no obligation to watch SU. Nobody cares. But if you won’t watch it, why pretend you can analyze it? Just say “Oh I heard X and that made me not wanna see it and I would rather trust other people’s opinions than form my own.” Weird, but legit. Until or unless you then think you’re qualified to talk about its contents. Great way to look silly.
OP and supporters of course whine that all of our commentary on their terrible take is ~hysterical~ and aggressive and somehow makes us look bad, mockingly reframing our critique with more bad takes
OP mocks us saying “but there was a wedding episode!” Like … is your problem that the relationship isn’t explicit and ~brave~ enough because they didn’t say girlfriend? Isn’t a wedding really really explicit? Stop pretending this isn’t an example of exactly the specificity you claim the show doesn’t contain.
OP mocks us for saying “you should be grateful!” Yeah that’s not how they said it, but even when there is legitimate criticism for the show largely using non-human characters for its nonbinary and same-sex relationship rep, that criticism can’t be levied by people who don’t actually even know the show or how it presents these things. “You should be grateful for the crumbs you receive” isn’t an appropriate criticism for a show that had an INCREDIBLE selection of queer content, formed on a BEDROCK of fundamentally queer thought process throughout.
OP mocks us for “SU walked so other shows could run!” aaaaand that’s confusing because nobody watches Steven Universe and thinks “bah there just isn’t enough queerness here, it isn’t explicit enough.” You watch THAT and you see WALKING?? The difference is in what they did have to do (especially toward the beginning) to get anything resembling queerness onto the show in a way the networks would approve. It wasn’t “well we can’t do that because we’ll get fired lol.” It was literally doing it over and over and getting kicked back with bigoted notes that literally asked them to turn Ruby into a boy or to tell the story without Garnet’s relationship. The shows that are getting praised by OP literally have their showrunners specifically mentioning Rebecca Sugar, their Crew, and SU as THE reason they know a show with this content is acceptable, celebrated, and popular, and they have all been using it to prove to execs that this content is worth producing.
OP mocks “There’s nothing wrong with subtlety!” but is mistaking the very intentional choices for subtlety. There is NOTHING subtle about the queer relationships in this show. There is literally no homophobic parent watching same-sex kisses, gay weddings, and queer references and saying “oh but this is ok for my kid because they didn’t say ‘girlfriend.’” The language isn’t the metric by which we conclude that the content is what it looks like. And as I mentioned, Gem characters specifically aren’t women. That’s not an attempt to hide their queerness. It’s an expression of how Rebecca felt, as someone seen as female but who didn’t feel female. Queer nerds want gay aliens in our SF shows as well. (And it’s ironic that this person licks Lily Orchard’s ass while promoting The Owl House as authentic queer representation when none of those witches are humans either. Please note that I love The Owl House and think their rep is stellar, though–I’m just saying if you turn up your nose at Gems because they’re non-human, it’s suspicious that this doesn’t apply to explicitly nonhuman witches in The Owl House.)
OP mocks “Sugar fought and risked her job to have gay rep!” but like … I’ll just have to assume OP is as ignorant about Rebecca Sugar’s protracted, years-long battle with censorship as they are about the show itself, because this is literally what happened, and the result was that REBECCA WON. In multiple interviews Rebecca has talked about how traumatic it was to be knocked down in a personal way every time they included wholesome queer content and got told it’s INDECENT and INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, and how they kept going anyway because they felt this intentional message toward queer children constituted an emergency. It sure is weird to have a showrunner undergo great personal awfulness to try to bring this to us, have that showrunner WIN that battle and literally have that win converted into Cartoon Network policy that opened the doors for the other CN shows (I don’t mean figuratively, I mean literally, they rewrote, REWROTE policies to say anything straight characters could be depicted as doing, same-sex couples could do) … to have all that happen and then eyeroll it as an excuse from whiny SU stans.
Honestly I’m just amazed that OP would be so ignorant as to pretend SU was subtle about, hiding, obfuscating, or playfully denying the queerness of its characters for “respectability” purposes. And none of the shows being compared as “better” representation would appreciate this kind of mean-spirited, clueless asslicking. I’m glad the OP deleted their post–it belongs deleted–but it sure is boring and whiny of them to insist they deleted it because we’re all wrong and obnoxious. It’s really sad that they didn’t learn anything from this and ran to mommy to whine that people called their ignorance out as ignorance.
Not to mention it just makes OP look ignorant in general.
You realize the creators of Craig of the Creek were writers on SU, right?
You realize the shows you mention have cited Rebecca and SU for helping them be able to actually get their own rep on screen, right?
The people who work on these shows you’re “defending” certainly do not share your views and would not appreciate these snarky comparisons. The animation industry is interconnected and small and people know each other. Whenever a new show has LGBT+ rep I see SU mentioned as at least one of the things they thank for making their own rep possible.
We’re all fighting for better rep in the media and the only way we continue to do that is to work together. This nitpicking is pointless and honestly embarrassing. Stop fighting and start celebrating the progress all of these shows have created together.
Love,
A lesbian working in animation
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op of the original tweet here there are SO many examples in the replies
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