why are transactivists so hostile about drop the t? it’s good for us all. we can focus on our issues, and you can focus on yours. plus you don’t have to deal with us nasty lesbian “terfs” in your community c; it’s a win-win.

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why are transactivists so hostile about drop the t? it’s good for us all. we can focus on our issues, and you can focus on yours. plus you don’t have to deal with us nasty lesbian “terfs” in your community c; it’s a win-win.
why are transactivists so hostile about drop the t? it’s good for us all. we can focus on our issues, and you can focus on yours. plus you don’t have to deal with us nasty lesbian “terfs” in your community c; it’s a win-win.
i'm sooo in awe because of dan and phil, they are in unique situation almost from the beginning and thay still are on top of the things, they still make money, they are still staying out of the drama, they stayed friends against all the strain - i would like to be as clever.
i would like to know how they are doing that, making relevant videos, interacting with people, knowing what phandom is up to, explaining their families what it is exactely their doing, like wow, it looks like full-time job, not hobby.
i would like to watch documentary about their phenomenon, but they are real people and that will never happen, but still. i'm so curious and it is sometimes making me forget it's not tv series and there is no explanation waiting.
This is beautiful and heart breaking
My gay heart
I don’t think straight people even understand we have this fear
What is it with this culture that’s promoted on Tumblr where severing entire relationships with people is the first and expected reaction to adversity? Based on the Tumblr mentality, severing relationships has become such a common action that you almost have to sign a fucking pre-nup just to have a single friend. What kind of dogmatic bullshit is that? How many of you are honestly willing to destroy a relationship with your parents or siblings when they demonstrate problematic behaviors? Are good relationships so plentiful in the world that we can all afford to just annihilate them when the other person demonstrates poor judgement? Fuck no they’re not. Having a few quality relationships is a rare state of affairs, and I’ll be damned if I don’t invest some time and energy into those people to get them to understand the error in their thinking. No wonder everyone is so chronically lonely and disappointed. How can you possibly have any fulfilling relationships when you’re that eager to vilify people?
Curve @danielhowell and jellyfish, Please reblog it, I want Dan to notice it
Queerbaiting
Alright. So someone made a thread on Twitter talking about “Why Dan and Phil are problematic” and one thing they mentioned was (wait for it): queerbaiting.
Now, this pissed me off so I’m here to talk about why Dan and Phil don’t queerbait.
(This is gonna be a long ass post so go under the cut to see)
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ok but imagine being like 13-14 on this site and trying to figure out your sexuality/gender identity when you fuckin people have 6 million microsexualities that are just “internalised homophobia” and demonise the idea of Maybe Just Being Gay becuase it’s not ~ radical ~ enough and the ace community pushing the Never Question Why You’re Afraid To Have Sex And Love, You’re Just Ace! narrative at, say, dysphoric trans people or gay/bi people with internalised homophobia or even just. people who are like 13 and dont have sexual thoughts yet because that’s! normal! this site is hell for questioning people honestly
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My aesthetic is them giving actual advice.
after that new vid this is how i imagine @danielhowell’s university “laundry days” went
honestly i can only imagine dan taking a cab to phil’s apartment at 2-4 in the morning in order to do laundry, just let the poor man sleep dan!
pewdiepie drama
i am genuinly curious, are there people who were personally hurt by what he said, like hurt not angry or disgusted. are they even watching pewds? because the people who defend him are not insane - there is really unproportional backlash - and this fucking idiot (because it was idiotic slip up) is just not hateful person, for christ sake. just go, watch him for research sake. check for yourself ‘how racist’ he is. because man, there may wait surprise for you.
DISGUSTING
ugh dan and phil getting paid for their videos….it’s almost like….they’re adults and that’s what they do for a living
Controversial Opinion:
There are times when I have a very real sadness for Dan.
You can tell that intuition and communication are two of his natural strong-suits and passions, and those two qualities often work together to create influential people. Since Dan is already an influential figure, those two characteristics could launch him into having a greater impact in the online world than he currently has. But I truly feel bad for him because he is so established in a certain type of demographic that he can’t speculate freely about the world or speak openly about his opinions for fear that he will lose everything if they are divergent from his fandom’s worldview. I hate that the current social climate is this ready to vilify the hell out of people. Because of this, we don’t get to see authentic insight from Dan on anything whatsoever unless he happens to be making a positive commentary on an extremely broad and mainstream issue. I have seen glimpses of actual, organic thoughts coming through in his more carefree moments, but he quickly throws disclaimers on them if they’re too risky. (IE: when he tags “Joking…” on a comment he’s just made or feigns mock defensiveness when he says something ambiguous.) If he’s on his guard (which is usually his baseline), he just dodges everything. I’m not sure if anybody else has noticed this, and there’s a real possibility that I’m the only one who feels this way. But what I’m trying to say is that Dan seems to be a highly communicative and observational person, and I know I would feel utterly miserable if I couldn’t exercise those qualities out of fear of damage to my entire livelihood. That’s called a trap. Dan is probably an extremely insightful person, and I’ll never get to hear him say anything real.
In the meantime, we can hear more about The Sims and album releases.
(And I’m very sorry for it.)
Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world
- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’
- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction
- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour
- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’
- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc
- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from
- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant
- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white
- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’
- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired
This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American.
This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.
Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.
And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?
(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)
(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)
(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)
(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)
They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.
So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.
Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!
…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.
But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.
For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).
It’s worth understanding that
1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.
2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.
I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.
I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.
Being white is not that cut and dry over here.
And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.
READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN
Very true.
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