"tumblypoos"

hello and welcome to ihatejohngreen, where we really hate john green! here, we actually believe in accountability, so feel free to come to us if something feels off. asks and submissions are both open. your hate mail is not hurtful, but hilarious.

[ihatejohngreen]

John green is like gefiltah fish, gross, sad, floppy, and hated by most Jewish people (it's like this disgusting grainy fish that you eat at Passover that makes me Wish For Death)

except there’s still plenty of jewish people that passionately love gefilte fish and always want it in their house... i can’t say the same for john!

[ihatejohngreen]

We have to watch JG videos sometimes in class and it's literal hell (besides the fact that he sucks, I mean). I'm autistic and it's hard enough for me to process speech as it is, but he talks so fucking fast that I can't understand a word he says.

yeah that’s a problem. like the raw information quality in the videos seems to be fine but it’s SO inaccessible and hard to process that it becomes useless. big yikes

[ihatejohngreen]

Well he once wrote a black side character who's main contribution to the plot was references to their parents owning the USA's largest collection of black Santa Claus decorations so idek

oof da

[ihatejohngreen]

See, there's part of me that gets pissed that he writes only straight white protagonists in heteronormative bullshit, but on the other hand I approve of him doing that for damage control reasons. You know the alternative would be a shitshow.

lol yeah that’s kind of what i was implying. i wish there was more diversity in his stories. that’s not just a problem with him – that’s a larger media problem which he is only one part of. but i also really don’t wanna know what he’d do if he was any different sooo i might just pray for representation somewhere else  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ihatejohngreen]

do you have a tag to explain why you hate john?? not hating i just want to know!!

there’s no specific tag, but if you just look through the blog it should be p clear

[ihatejohngreen]

All the characters he writes about 9/10 times are white straight guys I just want one lesbian please

i would never willingly subject wlw to john green’s writing… he buries his straights he’s gonna bury our gays too

[transgarrett-moved-blog]

me: tries not to be petty john green: *posts* me:

[ihatejohngreen]

Again how many times are not gonna answer "the same damn questions"?

becaaaaaause we’ve said why we don’t like him many many times all over the blog so i don’t understand why we have to rehash it every time somebody comes to our askbox? 

[ihatejohngreen]

What has John green done to you that has made you be so full of hate towards him? Cause honestly why did you have to hate him so much when the real solution is just to ignore him...

how many times do we have to get the same damn question

[ihatejohngreen]

John Green literally takes a shit on my mental illness in a book read by impressionable teenagers who are already taught that people with BPD are all Bad and Manipulative and I'm supposed to respect HIS illness???? Nah. Doesn't work that way, my friend.

precisely. it’s not okay to shit on mental illness (esp those that are already extra stigmatized and criminalized) and then hide behind your own conditions as an excuse. 

[ihatejohngreen]

I was referring to the fact that on this blog (and many others) John green is criticized and crucified for his treatment of mental illness and the fact that he is mentally ill is often obscured/erased, I did not in any way imply that his mental illness is an excuse for any of his other behavior, and was requesting that everybody keep his situation in mind when the subject of mental illness comes up

okay but even so the way he treats other oppressed identities is really Not Okay.... and if he’s still romanticizing mental illness (which i don’t know all the details about) even though he has it that’s still hurtful to other people with mental illness especially if they’re coming from less privileged places than him. like yeah it’s important to keep it in mind but nobody has to like or accept what he does because of it. and like look at the example the one anon gave – jg’s characters made dismissive comments about bpd which is not a condition he has (iirc, he has ocd and anxiety). that’s still offensive. that’s still treating mentally ill people like trash. he doesn’t get a pass. 

[ihatejohngreen]

Well it's not like John Green's mental illness is making him be a pretentious prat, is it?

john green’s mental illness also didn’t make him trivialize cancer. it didn’t make him treat the anne frank house as a plot device for a kiss. it didn’t make him do the things we criticize him for. it’s hurtful that we’re expected to just accept those things because he’s also mentally ill. like i said, mentally ill people – especially mentally ill people who also have identities john green has offended – deserve good role models

[ihatejohngreen]

not only am i mentally ill but im physically diseased but DAMN i guess im not allowed to be offended because hey!!!! john green is also mentally ill y’all fuck me i guess

[ihatejohngreen]

Plz keep in mind that John green is mentally ill and gives me hope that I, a Mentally Ill™ can actually succeed in the world and do shit and I understand that you care nothing for his feelings or the feeling of his fans but he is literally mentally ill and deserves a place within the nd community

hey both mods are also actually mentally ill like the reason only one of us is posting is because the other is literally in treatment right now so how about you do not assume that we don’t understand mental illness??? also mentally ill people shouldn’t have to settle for role models who do offensive shit, we deserve good role models too so bye. i understand you care nothing for the feelings of any mentally ill person whose identity intersects with one of those jg has shat on who you are telling right now that we have to settle for jg just because he, too, is mentally ill.

[ihatejohngreen]

one thing that was especially painful about tfios was that stories where people with diseases can see themselves represented are already too rare. and then there’s one that’s mainstream and finally, there’s hope, but it’s a story that romanticizes illness instead of realizing people with diseases are more than just their conditions. the way john green treated cancer isn’t painful just because it’s trivializing, but because it’s the most mainstream portrayal of young people who are diseased and it projected the refusal to treat them with dignity into that mainstream and made it popular, fun, and cute. that’s what’s especially painful to me.

[ihatejohngreen]

Have you seen that one post about john green and imperialism?

i don’t think so. would you be willing to send the link? 

[ihatejohngreen]

They are just BOOKS. Books are fiction. Get over it. Its not like he did anything to you. You know sometimes you just dont like someone, welcome to the real world. *Waits for such a good come back* *but not really, just gonna go now bye* ps i dont hate you i just hate what you do

*waits for you to stop using asterisks to be cool like it’s 2009* *but not really, just gonna go now bye*