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im too tired to type this all again but yeah thats whats happening rn

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

emeraldspiral

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice

dragon-in-a-fez

if you want to see how fast something can change from a "right" to a "privilege" in people's minds, try suggesting it should be extended to children, immigrants, and prisoners

anarchistmemedistro

deadsetagainst

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

amvs

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

deadsetagainst

WHAT

amvs

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

rosetintmyworld84

I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

habbadax

We're just gonna reinvent Victorian England again and again and again forever, huh. We gotta start burning them on pyres I think.

friendlyfrankenstein

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

retroactivebakeries

kiradical

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

mousidy

Sorry but I’m exclusively attracted to afab people. I wasn’t sent to conversion therapy twice as a teenager only to have people on the internet guilt me into trying to like people assigned male just like the Mormon counselors wanted. I will always advocate for trans rights but this kind of rhetoric will only hurt you. You cannot guilt or coerce people into sleeping with you or rather, you can, but you should’t.

I've been wanting to unpack this particular terf argument for a while but I'm not even sure what I wrote that you could be responding to here. yes it's bioessentialist to see trans women as our assigned sex before what we actually are, but that fact alone does not obligate you to sleep with anyone

it would be fatphobic to announce that you don't want to sleep with fat women, and someone simply calling that out alone would not constitute pressuring you to sleep with anyone you didn't want to

it's not carte blanche to announce all the minorities you don't want to sleep with and aren't attracted to

mousidy

also I promise you there are quite a lot of trans men who do not want to be told how attracted to their "afabness" you are. your obsession with people's government sex assignments is gross. spare us your essentialism and just don't fuck people you don't want to fuck it's that simple

mousidy

the fact that some trans men call themselves lesbians is not a blank check for you to reduce them all to their agabs. it's disgusting. stop

butcherrypie

This is even more fucking stupid because until someone tells you, *you don't know*

Nobody can be exclusively attracted to afab people because YOU DON'T KNOW. You can't, not for sure.

What actually happens is they're attracted to someone and then if they find out they're transfeminine they get that instant gut reaction of "Ew fuck a tranny". That's why it's not a preference, it's a manifestation of bigotry.

byjove

I can’t remember if I told you guys this but my grandpa paid a guy to put up a rock retaining wall in the backyard when my grandparents moved into their house in 1966. They live at the bottom of a mountain. The wall finally collapsed this year and my grandfather with dementia was PISSED OFFFFFF and he wanted so badly to call the guy who did it and chew him out for doing a bad job. My grandma is trying to explain that the wall lasted 60 years and the guy who did the work is probably dead and it TURNS OUT HE IS STILL ALIVE. Now we’re worried grandpa is going to get through to him (small town) and we’re going to see two 85 year old men come to blows over a rock wall that has been there since the mid-60s. My grandpa is a scrapper, he’s been to jail over a bar fight, the possibility that he WOULD fight this guy is high.

To top it off? The stone mason is the only person in town with one arm so grandpa would definitely recognize him if he saw him. If that is your grandpa, please protect him from my grandpa.

quasi-normalcy

Thinking about how much the revival of mainstream public gutter racism in North America relied on the fact that, even back when "racism is bad" was unassailable Common Sense, there was still an exception made for Muslims. You could be bigoted against them and still be welcome in elite circles.

"Oh but Muslims aren't a race!" Yeah, but you're eliding an entire religion with it's most fundamentalist version.

And then you're eliding all Arabs and Iranians and Pakistanis and such with being "Muslim"

And then you're eliding everyone who looks kind of brown with being "Arab" (remember that this was the line of attack against Obama, and was how Trump became a cult figure on the US right)

And then they just keep bootstrapping this up to fascism and genocide because, for my entire life as a politically aware individual, even when we "all" agreed that racism was bad, there were exceptions.

quasi-normalcy

Anyway the lesson here is that if you talk about universal human rights and you make an exception for anyone (say, for example, a captive population in the Middle East who should be expected to endure permanent military occupation because "they're all a bunch of bloodthirsty Jihadists who don't value human life"), you make an exception for everyone, including yourself.

neovagi

Apparently, expecting trans men to understand transmisogyny is "treating them the way cis men treat women".

Fascinating how once again, we are being compared to cis men. I really do not believe that any of these people see us as women.

hanginlikea

wokely: i still think “biological sex” is a real think but now i say “afab” and “amab” when i mean male and female. because a doctor looking at a baby’s genitals and going “that’s enough of a penis for me!” determines your Real and True Essence for the rest of your life

demilypyro

shoutout to that bit in of the devil ep 1 where you can just present your gun and Morgan is like "I'm not gonna pull out a gun in court...... would be funny though"