#queerwashing

[darkpaladin]

[charliewrites99]

You know what, at this point I just want Benedict to be bisexual and Eloise to be lesbian or ace, because I want representation of course, but more so, because I want the straights to know how the whole "straightwashing" (or in this case "queerwashing") feels like. We deserve it. You can have all the other 1000 straight characters.

[rantsofabookworm]

QUEERWASHING THE DISNEY PRINCESSES PT 1

here's the new and improved fairy tales.

SLEEPING BEAUTY (lesbian): Hold on, the kiss didn't work? But he loves her... guess it's not enough. Enter the girl from the cottage next door, the one Aurora spent her whole childhood with. Upset at seeing her friend, she decides fuck it might as well try, and goes in for a kiss. Then she starts to leave, devoid of hope... only to be pulled back as Aurora plead for her to stay.

THE LITTLE MERMAID (gay): Ariel only collects stuff for her little brother, who's regularly excluded from the sisters' dances and excursions on account of not having pretty long hair and shell bras. So when she comes down telling a story of this random human man she saved from a ship, he can't help but want to go up and see for himself--and maybe fall in love while he's at it.

CINDERELLA (trans): All poor Ella wants is to be herself, but when her step sisters and mother use her as a lowly cleaning boy, there's not much she can do without outing herself to them. Until she hears about the ball with a handsome prince... the perfect opportunity to wear a sparkly dress in public for the first time.

[creepyautisticguy]

[orange-dreamzer]

is queerwashing a real thing..?

[tuttle-did-it]

image from @marzapanda

[moonstonetombstone]

wtaf

[madamehardy]

Stonewall Is Terribly Offensive, and Offensively Terrible

Director Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster movie makes a mess of history.

Yes, it’s just as bad as we all thought it would be.  Highlights from the above review:  

Danny shuns the advances of any younger man who isn’t strapping and white, particularly those of Jonny Beauchamp’s Ray/Ramona, a queer Latino street kid who has a big crush on pretty-boy Danny.

We have to literally see a black character hand Danny a brick so Danny can be the first to throw it and the first to cheer “Gay power!”

Real-life Stonewall hero Marsha P. Johnson only gets a little screen time, and is played as comic relief, flatly, by Otoja Abit. Many of the characters who don’t look and sound like Danny are rendered as jokes, silly people who need Danny’s relatively rugged masculinity to get them angry and organized.