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fluorite

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

jayalaw

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

avakynx

phantomrose96

Personally? I would never deny Hiromu Arakawa her right to a short bratty braided blond character in a kickass red coat

phantomrose96

Invent a look this iconic and I think you should get to use it in every series.

phantomrose96

kaban-bang

It was actually her assistants conspiring lmao

contemptible-scoundrel

[crying into elf gfs shoulder after remembering a naruto characters backstory that I read on a wiki page a decade ago] it wasnt right what happened to him, his father committed suicide, he was afraid of love, he was just starting to learn but obito died and he had to kill rin with his bare hands, its not fucking fair, he was just a fucking kid,

ELF GF: [nudging my hand towards her 25% erect penis] ninja society sounds so cruel...

toskarin

ycurve

seriously... you're going to "throw a fireball" at me from neutral? oh real fucking mature, i bet youre gonna uppercut me if i jump too

ycurve

oh you have a ground to air grab? Respect Actually

transsexual-feminism

It's interesting that talking about how transmascs are incentivized to participate in misogyny is "dividing the community" and a "CIA psyop", but them actually participating in that misogyny isn't.

mousidy

they gotta put all their eggs in the "male socialization" basket cause some trans women don't even have the body parts they fearmonger about but they still want to control them

mousidy

like at this point in the like... 10+ years trans women have been a go-to wedge issue, everyone knows how chromosomes don't necessarily determine phenotype, everyone knows bottom surgery exists, everyone knows intersex people exist, everyone knows some people don't even produce gametes at all, everyone knows we don't stop calling cis women women after a hysterectomy or sterilization

the well of bioessentialist arguments is starting to run dry cause everyone knows the facts that disprove them. so they've had to greatly exaggerate how socialization works and how immutable it is cause what the hell else are they gonna do, lol

mousidy

now excuse me while I go remove every ex-christian who had a traumatic and repressive religious upbringing from my life. gotta purge the christian socialization cause you just know they will never unlearn their superiority complex and their misogyny and transphobia and all! gotta keep myself safe!

mousidy

wait you grew up in a conversvative household??? 😨 in a red state???? 😨😨😨😨

mousidy

sorry this space is only for those born as and currently Liberal

tachyon-log

I ask Manhattan Cafe if she truly can speak with ghosts- namely, her friend, Sunday Silence. She shakes her head no. "It's an common misconception..." she mutters, parting her lips from her coffee cup. "She's an American Umamusume. She's barely JLPT N5..."

fulda-gap-express

If I'm elected as your president in 2028 I promise to bring back the Western Interior Seaway.

fulda-gap-express

North America peaked with this design and every change since has been worse.

luidilovins

grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark-deactivate

NONONONO NO. NO. DO YOU WANT ANY OF THIS FUCKING SHIT BACK?

prof-grace-aspen

Pretty babies come swim in w ater with big fish water is fine with big fish in come taste interior seaway with big fish

guerrillatech

lostbutnotforgotten

ntrider

does miss rose like mario kart? i dont know any other racing games but that...

No.

catgirl-kaiju

so this knight came to my wizard's tower one day and asked me to cast a spell that would allow him to take his beloved princess' hand in marriage. pretty typical this kind of wish, and i had just the spell. a combo of "turn person into a royal" and "transform appearance to match romantic ideal", easy. he paid handsomely for it too, so how can i says no?

turns out his princess is a lesbian and nobody knew, so when i cast the spell it made him into a beautiful princess. she asked for a refund right away and begged me (cryin', held me at swordpoint) to turn her back, but i says to her, i says, "The die has already been cast, and your fate is now sealed!" which is my way of sayin' "no refunds".

turns out, bein' a princess weren't so bad for her and she was able to take her sweet and beloved princess' hand in marriage. seems like everything worked out.

but then, surprise of my life, they both show up to my tower and my spell was undone. some dark sorcerer shithead (some kinda sketchy royal adviser who wanted to usurp the throne, a million like 'im) had removed my enchantments and turned our princess back into a knight. but she didn't want to be a man no more and asked me to redo the spell. gladly i changed her back in exchange for fuckin' up this sorcerer shmuck, (could be a threat to my business, you see) gave 'er an enchanted sword an everything. to my shock, the other princess takes the sword and vows to get this guy for me.

now i got all this guy's magic shit and good graces for life with the queens of the land, plus the best advertisement money can't buy. "yes, i am in fact That wizard from the story of the princess knight!" classic.

anyway, all that to say, no i ain't changin' yous back. you'll be mommy's pretty little maid and you'll like it.