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A quick bit of Equal Marriage research.
Right, I have around 600 followers, odds are that some of you are opposed to gay people getting married. But,...
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Eat that pussy and be grateful. There’s starving nice guys in fedoras who don’t have any.
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This is a brief chronology of the current...
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Somebody told a real life woman that her skin was too brown to play an imaginary creature. That basically in the whole fictional world of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, where you have dragons and trolls and talking trees, where you draw the line, where imagination is capped out, no more room, is for a brown hobbit.
Like firery eyeball thing, no problem but don’t even try to imagine a Samoan elf. That shit will blow your mind.
Wyatt Cenac [x] (via monkeysnowballfight)
This is something that I’ve wanted to do with Black Mask & Pale Rider. Put in more diversity into a fantasy setting. I have a plot organized which would end up being a huge arc that crosses over between Earth and the elven home world. The story on Earth would follow Shani and Pania joined by a North West Mounted Police constable and a Metis journeyman (basically an adventurer) as they search for Pania’s younger sister. On their home world, the story would stretch from the nation of Brytalonia and pick up characters along the way to fight against a great evil.
The diversity would come in the form of the characters. Frigg Elva Xanthe, adopted daughter of Heinrich and Hildegaar Xanthe and sister to Avalona. A black elven woman born of the eastern Muhareen elves. Then there’s the queen of Semerkhet who leads her army to join the fight. The Judan elves who march across the desert. The Muhareen join the battle with the Riders of the Muhareen. Which is revealed they don’t ride horses, they ride dragons.
There would be Arabic representations, black representations, and even Native American representations because on Earth, where Pania’s younger sister was taken, it’s the members of Chief Whitecap’s tribe who find her and give her shelter.
It would be cool to see a movie like that. And there shouldn’t be anybody who’s claiming “historical inaccuracies” because we’re talking about elves and pixies and dragons. There is only one historical accuracy that would need to be followed faithfully, because the time when Shani and Pania arrive on Earth is 1885, during the Riel Rebellion in the Saskatchewan territory.
I’ve done a little bit of research and I’ve found that every culture and race on Earth has their own equivalent to elves and pixies and dragons. From African cultures to Native American cultures to Middle Eastern and Asian. There is no reason why fantasy characters such as elves have to be white.
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We do not publish “reverse discrimination” stories. ”Reverse discrimination” stories are single issue stories that follow a predictable premise: what if [privileged real life group] was actually discriminated against/oppressed/un-privileged?
Examples: what if most of society was gay, and straight people were the discriminated minority? What if most male babies were killed and men were kept just for breeding? What if everyone was intersex, and cis-sexual people were considered “freaks”? Etc.
Not only are these “single issue” stories about discrimination (usually by authors with no real life experience with the forms of discrimination described, it’s just made up), these stories do not further our mission of promoting the inclusion and representation of real life minorities in spec fic. In fact, these stories do exact the opposite — they pretend that privileged, majority authors can understand and write about the dis-privileged/minority/oppressed perspective if they just turn the tables in a simplistic, linear thought experiment.
These stories also often frame the real-life oppressed people as the new oppressors: violent, insensitive, bigoted, etc. We believe the spec fic world does not need more “Poor oppressed men! Poor oppressed straight people! etc.” stories. These stories only marginalize already marginalized people even more. Please let minority/dis-privileged authors speak for themselves.
excerpt from the submission guidelines for Expanded Horizons, a magazine that has the goal of expanding diversity in speculative fiction.
The editor of the magazine writes:
“I’ve been REGULARLY getting plots pretty much like this in the Expanded Horizons slush pile for the four years we’ve been running the magazine. They’re standard fare, even though we have several explicit guidelines telling writers not to send them…which is less a “guideline” and more of a “no really, don’t send us this crap” rule…
“These stories are a dime a dozen. I’ve seen it with LGBT issues, with racial issues, with gender issues, and with other axes of identity. The concept is not new, not creative, not original, not fresh, and not clever. For any axis of real-world privilege, there are sci fi authors (and would-be authors) who think they are so clever for making themselves (as real-world privileged people) the “new oppressed people, oh woe is us!”
“…The sad truth is that this is the status quo of the slush pile, even for a magazine that explicitly demands that these stories not be sent to it. Usually, in my opinion, the authors are not explicitly setting out to be -ist, but they really misunderstand very basic things about How Oppression Works, and it shows, and it hurts.”
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This is a new ad circulating in Canada from a conservative group, warning people not to “confuse” children about their gender identity. Oh, dear. More.
The two spirited part is… well it’s probably not valid in the context of this ad since I seriously doubt the group that put it out gives a fuck about cultural appropriation? but. yeah. that is appropriative.
Other than that,
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU AAAAAAAAND FUCK YOU.
If she is not trans*, teaching her about other gender identities will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING outside of teach her to respect people with said gender identities
And if she is trans*, teaching her about other gender identities will probably save her from a great deal of unnecessary personal angst and confusion
I just. WHY WOULD YOU BE THIS FUCKING IGNORANT.
Every time I see one of these, and it’s associated with Canada, I just hang my head in shame. We’re supposed to be better than this.
(via avatarsnowy)
Honestly guys? I am all about diversity in media. However, can’t some people just understand that parents don’t want a (well as it is in this day and age) political issue shoved in their kid’s faces? I’m not saying this is the correct line of thinking. I’m not saying that this is helpful to society. I’m not saying anyone in the GLBT community should be ashamed.
HOWEVER, when most primetime television won’t touch gay couples without a bit of drama or isn’t exactly sure if they are “totally for sure” gay, we can’t expect a kid’s show (of all things) all of a sudden to just jump the norm.
Should we be expected to break barriers with this issue - of course. However, we also need to pick our battles. I know that as a future parent I wouldn’t want something like the religion, race, or sexual and gender identity of a character being on the forefront of a children’s tv series. Am I saying this instance was that bad? No, of course I’m not. But, what if a child who hasn’t been educated or informed of the topic of homosexuality watched this? They’d be confused, I’m certain and go to their parents to ask about the issue. If it’s a family that doesn’t tolerate this type of thing, well there they go to Cartoon Network to complain.
So what I think I’m trying to positively say is, we need to pick our battles. Sure it sucks that the website took this down. But, on the positive side, we still have the series and the episode hasn’t been removed.
I’d love to see more gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, asexual, etc characters represented in media. I’d love to see their relationship status. Sadly in this day and age we aren’t going to get all of that right away. It’s a shame, but it’s life. Look at racism and sexism still ever-present in media today. However, on the same token this US VS THEM mentality is going to help matters either.
I guess I just… I don’t know. I’m sorry if this upsets anyone, but I have just a right to my opinion as anyone else does.Take care, y’all.
Hahahaha boy I want to point out a few things here because this made me angry! SO ANGRY.
1) ” Honestly guys? I am all about diversity in media. However, can’t some people just understand that parents don’t want a (well as it is in this day and age) political issue shoved in their kid’s faces?”
I didn’t realize being human with feelings was a political issue.
2) “HOWEVER, when most primetime television won’t touch gay couples without a bit of drama or isn’t exactly sure if they are “totally for sure” gay, we can’t expect a kid’s show (of all things) all of a sudden to just jump the norm.”
Uh… why not? By promoting homosexuality as a normal and not shameful thing that many kids may infact relate to, it can help alleviate the stigma in a time where absorbing information, personal growth, and development process its at its most sensitive. Thousands of other kids programs tackle on adult concepts and “very special episodes” for THIS VERY REASON.
3) “However, we also need to pick our battles.”
And this isn’t a battle we should pick because….? Because no one is dying over this? No one is being actively hated on? Or there’s no personal rights being infringed upon? How about the crimes that are escalated to an oppression of rights and hate crimes come from the mentality of the little excuses of “oh people might be UPSET, it’s not really NORMAL” you are making in this very response.
4) I know that as a future parent I wouldn’t want something like the religion, race, or sexual and gender identity of a character being on the forefront of a children’s tv series.
See point 2, with an additional note of “wow so your future kids will be allowed to watch the most boring programming in the face of the earth.” Also does such programming even exist? Oh wait, you probably mean programming that promotes the safe view of what’s considered “inoffensive”… which is basically ignoring anyone you think doesn’t fit “normal,” right? I wonder what your definitions of “normal” are, but I don’t really want to know.
5) “But, what if a child who hasn’t been educated or informed of the topic of homosexuality watched this? They’d be confused, I’m certain and go to their parents to ask about the issue.”
Oh my gosh no, a parent will actually have to talk to their kids :( :( :(
6) “I’d love to see more gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, asexual, etc characters represented in media.”
Really because I got the exact opposite impression.
7) ” Sadly in this day and age we aren’t going to get all of that right away. It’s a shame, but it’s life. Look at racism and sexism still ever-present in media today.”
And by… totally accepting this is the case and doing nothing we are going to instill change, yep. Flawless plan.
8) “I’m sorry if this upsets anyone, but I have just a right to my opinion as anyone else does.”
And I have the right to call you an idiot as my opinion.reblogging for flawless commentary
