#performative allyship

[icedsodapop]

Sabrina Carpenter basically singled out a fan doing a Zaghrouta (an Arabic cheer) during her coachella performance. Even after the fan explained to her that this specific form of cheering is part of her culture, Sabrina proceeds to tell the fan that she doesn't like it:

Source: Instagram

Must be hard being a fan of a white person. They just disappoint you in the end.

Here's Sabrina's fuckass apology:

[rjalker]

If you as a cis person have nonbinary and other trans characters, it is your gods damned duty to fucking correct other cis people when they misgender your characters.

You are choosing to claim you're representing us. You better be fucking prepared to actually do that by doing the bare minimum to actually stand up for us. Do not let people fucking misgender your characters.

And if you won't even correct that, when real nonbinary and other trans aren't in the room with you, how the fuck can we be expected to trust that you'll put in the effort to defend us when push really comes to shove???

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

Seeing White Leftists and so-called supposed "ActiviSTS " and so-called " Woke" Progressives " Allies " praise and support the Ayatollah and other horrible and terrible dictators will always be mind-boggling to me.

Like, do these fools realize that the Iranian regime is a full theocratic authoritarian dictatorship and are definitely *NOT* the good guys.

What's the fuck is it with these supposed Leftists kissing the ass and loving and supporting the absolute worst scumbags, terrorists groups, dictators, and regimes just because they so happen to be Anti-American and Anti-West.

Like, do these radicalized brainwashed idiots realize that if they were anywhere near these tyrants in any kind of way, be it the Ayatollah or Hamas or the Taliban or Putin and any other horrible authoritarian leader & such, is that these people wouldn't dare hesitate to kill you and your whole family and everything else you care about.

Have any of these so-called Leftists forgotten about what Iranian women have to deal with daily because of this horrid regime? Or do their massive hatred of Israelis /Jewish people make them blind towards it.

I swear these people countine to showcase how deeply morally bankrupt and fake their activism also allyship really is.

[intersexcat-tboy]

I'm tired of pretending pronoun circles are a transmisogynistic phenomena specifically. Do you genuinely believe other trans people do not face the same annoying bullshit from performative allies?

[necbromancerrrr]

people only say that they are for something only when its something that they can romantize and it pisse's me off.

you guys swear that cringe culture is dead but when its anything BUT sparkledogs uwu xD animation suddenly its revived.

you guys LOVE weird kids until the kid is a social outcast and not a scenecore 13 yr old who loves "fandom culture".

yeah you're all for mental health but when its someone with a cluster B personality disorder suddenly they're evil and they should die.

you sure LOOOOOOVE it when neurodivergent people share their special interests/hyperfixations but the second it deviates from trains,tally hall or some batshit popular roblox game all hell breaks loose.

oh yeah, you're anti censorship but when it comes to censorship in oppressed countries and not your precious fanfics you dissappear like smoke.

[eepwtf]

little rant from me because…yeah i’m just so done.

people love to posture about how “problematic” unconventional kinks or transgressive films are, as if their moral backbone hardens the second something stops flattering them. they clutch their pearls, roll out the same recycled language about taste and decency and representation, and pretend they’re doing activism when really they’re just reacting to discomfort. because the line is never about harm. it’s about aesthetics. it’s about whether the bodies on screen are legible, pretty, consumable enough to reassure them that desire is still safe, still marketable, still aligned with whatever instagram-friendly version of queerness they’ve decided counts.

meanwhile, those same people are perfectly happy going feral over two conventionally attractive men hooking up in a glossy, palatable narrative. suddenly it’s “groundbreaking,” suddenly it’s “visibility,” suddenly it’s okay to be loud and horny and obsessive—because the desire being depicted flatters them. because it’s clean. because it doesn’t ask them to sit with ugliness, power imbalance, obsession, or the fact that desire is often asymmetrical, humiliating, or just plain weird. heated rivalry gets a free pass because it reassures the audience that queerness can still be aspirational, still fit neatly into fantasy without threatening anyone’s sense of taste.

but oohhh the second something like pillion shows up—something messier, stranger, less cosmetically “pleasing”—people start acting like they’ve been personally attacked. not because it’s unethical, but because one of the actors doesn’t align with their internal casting couch of who is “allowed” to be desired. that’s the real offense. an unconventionally attractive body daring to be central, erotic, wanted. a narrative that doesn’t apologize for its power dynamics or sand down its edges so it can be sold as wholesome. and suddenly all that allyship evaporates. suddenly it’s “exploitative,” “disturbing,” “why would anyone want to see this?”

if your support for queer stories collapses the moment desire stops being flattering—or stops centering bodies you personally want to look at—you’re not an ally. you’re a consumer with conditions. you don’t support queerness; you support a very specific, sanitized version of it that never asks you to confront how desire actually works. because real desire isn’t always pretty.

[hilacopter]

"oh no guys be careful right-wing nazis are using the palestinian cause to try and make us antisemitic!!! I know they're very convincing and it's so so hard to see what's nazi propaganda and what's not, but we don't want to prove the jews- I mean evil zionazis right when they say we're being antisemitic right? remember, it's not enough that antisemitism is bad on it's own but that it's harming our cause specifically. unfortunately soooo many jews will call everything antisemitic these days so looks like we'll have to trust our instincts to determine what counts as antisemitism. remember guys antisemitism in the movement is so horrible because it drives away the good jews™ and we don't have any obligation to protect half of the world's jewish population from it. those evil colonizer babykillers, they should have all rot in the concentration camps. remember to send love to your jewish mutuals!!! punch a nazi!!! 🔯💓❤️✡️💖🕎💗✡️❤️💓🕎✡️💞"

[mangetoutschangertous]

Empty Netters = performative allyship x D'Angelo livestream

D'Angelo is so much more qualified than my own a** to speak to pop-cultural über-capitalist moments in time (commentary starts 30 mins in):

heated rivalry podcasters exposed for hating heated rivalry

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