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Super Mario 64 (1996)

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

pansyfemme

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

nighttimepatrons

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

nighttimepatrons

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

hollowboobtheory

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

hollowboobtheory

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

transandrogyny--turtlebug

I hold the idea that women and (all genders) are just as capable of harm as cis men are because we are all flawed people, it's just that cis men have historically held more power and so they get away with harm more than women/ other genders. Thinking that women are less capable of harm makes me think that you don't see women as people, you know? It's the benevolent sexism stuff

frogmanash

Remember that Emmett Till died because of a white woman sicking white men on him. White women have always been complicit in the sins of their brothers, fathers, and lovers.

honeydewdrops333

what doesn’t kill you makes your nervous system more sensitive for the rest of your life

chilewithcarnage

'tumblr staff has a genuine problem with targeting trans women for deletion and the CEO knowingly harassed a trans woman off and on this site. this is grounds for transphobic discrimination' and 'there's a vocal group of people on here who the majority of them happen to be transfem that are spouting rape and pedophilia apologism and we shouldn't be holding space for these people in order to keep the queer community on tumblr safe' are two thoughts that should be able to coincide but somehow we keep losing y'all in the middle

confines

how it feels being the tortured pervert

confines

tortured pervert tuesday

partywithponies

I love vague labels that make people go "but that's confusing" or "but that could mean anything" Good. Keep guessing lol

partywithponies

"Queer doesn't actually tell me anything" who says I wanted to tell you anything. Who even are you.

livethrushit

segamascott

wetheurban

And here you are, continuing on, despite how hard it's been lately. Proud of you.

tannisroute

isn't it crazy that a woman being gender nonconforming literally just requires her to exist in her own body without making any changes whatsoever. why does the fact that i don't wear makeup and i don't shave and i don't wear a bra have to be some political act. why can't i just fucking exist