richardandlee(.)tumblr(.)com/post/72269324904/just-some-thoughts-about-the-last-couple-of-days - Ask and you shall receive! This isn't the only hilarious rant on here but it's the big one. Also, forever laughing at straight girls who think that people in the public sphere can just come out whenever and suffer no consequences whatsoever (even though Lee Pace has kind of been a glass closeted, out-but-not-out guy for a while now)
Sorry for not answering this sooner! I think I internalized my horror and put it off until I had enough personal nervous system capacity to head shake appropriately at that post. Here’s it clickable: http://richardandlee.tumblr.com/post/72269324904/just-some-thoughts-about-the-last-couple-of-days
Here are some highlights:
Call me cynical but I am wary of “do-gooders” who have taken upon themselves the responsibility to tell other people that Richard and Lee’s sexuality is not a proper topic for discussion or that merely talking about it will damage both of their careers or who even demand that certain photos (which are already all over the internet) are deleted from blogs because of “privacy” or “respect” issues. I am wary because it’s ultimately a tactic to negate and shutdown the discourse. It’s a tactic that’s employed by racists and misogynists as well. To feign the “high road” by pretending that we, as a society, are somehow magically beyond racism, misogyny and yes, homophobia, is a way for people to fast-forward through uncomfortable truths about themselves.
The buzzwords of course. Call me a peasant, but I think it’s more homophobic to turn real human beings into your ship merely because OMGGAYYY and you see them spend time together in scant photographs.
Or quite specifically, at those of us who have merely contained our Richlee urges to our own blogs with accurate tagging so people are not inadvertently exposed to our “debauchery.”
I like how debauchery is in quotes. As if they’re not creepy freaks who’ve turned real people into their dildo material.
I realize that to be a fanatic is to be absolute in your convictions but I have to say that I’m rather surprised that there are still some people who – even when faced with these latest photos of Lee and Richard together with family – are still convinced that there is 0% chance that they are something more than friends. Not even a sliver of a doubt which leads me to believe that there may be something deeper and less tolerant going on; a worldview that has nothing to do with Tumblr or even with Richard or Lee.
YOU DON’T MINDLESSLY POLICE THE RELATIONSHIP STATUS OF STRANGERS? HOMOPHOBE.
That is one of the most noxious of these posts I’ve ever seen. The self-righteousness is overwhelming. So far I haven’t seen the intersection of social justice with real life people shipping, mostly because Larry fans aren’t usually well-versed in critical theory and Butlerian gender performativity, but now I have with that diarrhetic nightmare of an essay. That person doesn’t seem well-versed n much of anything, mind you, other than mindlessly shooting off sj buzzwords at naysayers of her personal wank material - in this case real fucking people - but it’s a slightly higher grade of insanity. I didn’t know the celebrity shippers could actually churn something like that out.
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