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@culturalmisrepresentation
New rule: ur not aloud to be a goth if youre transphobic
Additional rule: being transphobic is not punk rock
also note: transphobia isn’t metal either
You can’t be counter culture while beholden to the toxic prejudices of the dominant culture that’s not how it works.
so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.
This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.
And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.
Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.
Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.
Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.
My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).
But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.
So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?
Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.
In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.
And they flinch every time.
Spread this around; remind the world that for every Nazi, there’s an entire train full of sensible people capable of basic moral behaviour.
Remember, hand sanitizer removes sharpie, and good hearted people remove hate
thinkin about the conspiracy theory that sc*oter braun derailed victoria justice’s career to boost ariana’s, and the way kesha and jojo were unable to release albums for literal years because of men in the industry and if we look outside the music industry the way megan fox’s career was destroyed because she spoke up against a powerful man, or how winona ryder’s career never really recovered because she was no longer desirable to men and just countless other talented women ruined by men with too much power that shit hurts man and for every man who does this there’s dozens of men and women staying silent about it on the sidelines and it just has to stop
Lesbians still making posts about how bad it is for bi women to use butch/femme: We know! We heard u! We’re trying to make our own terms and have them used widespread but we need to get the WORD out for them to be commonplace and that’s hard when literally nobody but bis reblog posts talking about bisexuals lol! It’s not like we all follow each other. At this point the only people trying to take ur terms from you are lesphobes or young bi girls who straight up don’t realize they aren’t generic wlw terms because they haven’t learned the history bc literally no one is out here trying to include and teach bisexual kids shit about their gay lineage, everyone’s too busy trying to push it under the rug.
bi equivalent of femme: doe bi equivalent of butch: stag
There are more for nb bis and such you can look into but there’s the basics! Look I’ve even designed flags you can find if you scroll through this tag! (i didnt come up with the terms)
So was no one going to tell me- as a bisexual- that we had our own terms that are like Butch and Femme. Or was I supposed to find that out though this post??
I seriously don’t know enough about my own sexuality.
Wait…what?!
PSA for all the Bi. Y’all people out here spreading education.
PSA for my bi sisters and brothers.
Since OP’s links don’t work:
Image One:
Doe: Feminine bi girl
Stag: Masculine bi girl
Tomcat: Androgynous bi girl
Image Two:
Mage: Feminine bi boy
Knight: Masculine bi boy
Druid: Androgynous bi boy
Image Three:
Dove: Feminine nb bi
Crow: Masculine nb bi
Pigeon: Androgynous nb bi
dont mean to impose but does anyone know the terms for pan people? i know a pan girl who uses butch and i feel i should correct her but idk if we have one??
You should absolutely NOT correct any wlw for using butch and femme.
Butch and femme are NOT lesbian-only terms, they are not even WOMEN-only terms.
https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/185533845186/ok-so-i-like-boys-and-i-might-be-a-trans-dude-but
https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/171936201311/hey-not-to-be-rude-but-i-noticed-it-said-that
https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/173899382096/hey-im-a-bi-person-who-has-mostly-left-the
The idea that butch and femme are ‘only for lesbians’ is more TERF nonsense trying to drive further wedges between lesbians and bi/pan/ply/omnisexual people, not to mention the LONG history of the terms being used in the ball community by gay men and trans women, ESPECIALLY QTPOC.
I have to agree with @vaspider. Historically, butch and femme have been used by any wlw/nonbinary/queer women. It isn’t lesbophobic to use them, and you shouldn’t let the fact that the replacement terms are cute distract you from the current radical issues within the LGBTQ+ and especially wlw communities.
The terms above are rarely ever seen, and it’s a growing issue that LGBTQ+ teens come to tumblr and are dissuaded from using their own identities and coerced into thinking similarly to TERFs.
Tumblr has a culture of extreme sensitivity and shame hosting thousands of teens and adults that come here to explore themsleves freely and find communities unavailable to them in person, and many people are subsequently shamed out of spaces before they have the information and skills to combat radicals and and actual phobes. Not everyone can spot the difference yet between cries of “I’m here and I need visibility, respect, and support,” and the reverse, the shouts of “Pay attention, I’m more important, value me!” Language used to protect the LGBTQ+ community is turned on its head and shaped into TERF and radical propaganda that resonates with young teens because it sounds right, it sounds politically correct, and nobody wants to step on any toes.
The very first opening claim from OP screams just that: I hear you and I want to accommodate your needs. Some needs shouldn’t be met. They aren’t needs, they’re rallies for segregation within the queer/LGBT community and we need to stop propagating them.
This post isn’t cute. You can use any of the terms above that you like, and you absolutely can use butch and/or femme.
Lesbian? Butch and femme.
Bi? Butch and femme.
Trans? Butch and femme.
Nonbinary? Pan? Demi? Aroace? Butch and femme, butch and femme, butch and femme, butch and femme.
Use them, it’s okay, they’re yours too.
Can i also add that its pissing me off to see people trying to clame druid is a term for an androgynous Bi boy like thats really not okay we still exist you can’t just take our name seriously what the fuck
Yeah that wasn’t really for me to speak on but wow.
We don’t need new terms, we have every right to the terms that exist.
“Nina Cried Power is a protest song. It’s about crediting the spirit and bravery of people whose voices have made impact on our world and put their work and lives often on the line for Civil Rights.”
Each of the people in the video are activists. Learn more about them here.
I try to keep my nose out of shit like this but today. man. today I encountered something that really ticked me off.
today I met a professor who does queer studies. she told me that her teenage gay son yelled at her recently for using the word “queer” in describing her discipline and demanded to know how the university “could get away with calling it that.”
so of course she’s baffled right, and asks him where on earth this is coming from. and he told her he read it on Tumblr.
listen if you don’t want to be called queer and don’t want to be lumped in with folks who comprise the queer community, that’s fine. that’s totally fine. it is 100% okay. people are allowed to have complicated histories with that word. it’s a fraught signifier. it’s a mess and it’s allowed to be.
what’s not cool is telling young LGBTQ+ people that queer is a slur in all contexts because now you are stripping away not just the language that we use to describe ourselves but also the language that creates the discipline that lets us study our own lives and our cultures. Queer studies has been a part of American academe since the 1970s (possibly earlier, depending on who you ask). “Queer” has been a functioning and largely unproblematic signifier in American academe since ten years before the AIDS crisis. If you don’t at least know that much, you have absolutely no business trying to educate LGBTQ+ youth about queer history.
Trying to censor the word queer from our collective cultural lexicon is 1) impossible. it’s here now. and 2) an erasure of our lineage of scholarship. I could spend all day lobbing criticisms at American academic culture and I do, but queers created space for ourselves in academe. We built a queer world inside the tower that tried its best to keep us out and now we have a place here.
I am a queer person and I am a queer scholar. You use whatever words you want to signify who you are and how you live your life and how you love your loves. You won’t hear a peep of criticism from me. All I’m asking is that you do me and mine the courtesy of leaving our collective body of text very much the fuck alone.
Look let me rephrase this because some of y’all in the notes and certainly everyone in my inbox aren’t getting what I’m trying so say.
“Queer” is a complicated word (I call it a signifier, usually) and there is no easy way of discussing the ethical implications of its usage. Claiming that queer is an umbrella term that’s fine to use in all contexts is irresponsible. Claiming that queer is a slur in all contexts is irresponsible. We all owe it to each other to be conscious of these complexities.
One context where queer is *not* deployed as a slur, and has not been historically, is in an academic context, ie queer studies and queer theory. Telling LGBTQ+ youth that queer is a slur *in those contexts* cuts off their access to a field of study that is *committed* to documenting and sharing the lives and knowledge of *anyone* who feels like they belong in that alphabet soup of marginalized identities. Regardless of how we feel about that word and regardless of our personal histories with it, we owe it to young LGBTQ+ people to give them enough information to make their own choices about how they relate to that signifier. They do not HAVE to be tormented by that word. They DESERVE to try and pursue a future without that trauma.
Queers in academe have finally found a place where we can say who we are in our own terms, where we can be the authors of our own collective histories. Why are some of you so determined to take that away from the next generation of LGBTQ+ scholars before they even have a *chance* to make their own decisions?
“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye
Happy Pride 2019!
i literally cannot decide if this is negative propaganda or not lol
LADY GAGA FUCKING SNAPPED.
THANK YOU. Drag that lawyer straight to hell.
and that’s The Mood ®️
“would step over my corpse for a tax break” is pretty much the definition of the republican party at this point
People ask me why I don’t respect fiscal republicans and this right here is why. If your desire to get a fucking tax break supersedes someone’s right to fucking live, I think you’re an asshole.
ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾
This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.
the sheer amount of Fucks Not Given in these photos is creating a Black Hole Of Ungiven Fucks, sucking in all the bullshit over the Fuck You event horizon and trapping it so the bullshit can’t escape. It’s gorgeous.
Zendaya on whether ignorance is truly bliss
Amber Says What: Serena WIlliams
Woke Giant, retro political art for third century America
Over at Woke Giant you’ll find some seriously cool, retro-styled “political art for third century America.” Don’t miss the downloadable protest signs!
https://boingboing.net/2018/08/16/woke-giant-retro-political-ar.html
