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#great now the grimes blog is gonna preach to us
grimespostarchive · 2 years
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she just tweeted this, and it gives me a chance to discuss smth abt grimes ive thought abt for a while. with all the legitimate criticism that she gets for things she says and does there are ppl who seem to use those things as an excuse to hate everything she does. even things that aren't related to e***, they relentlessly hate her for it. for example, on an old tumblr post of hers, the one about her wanting elven hair, i found someone in the notes said that they would've suicide baited her if they found it when she posted it. for a post abt hair.
grimes was never meant to be 'mainstream' famous. i don't think they understand her (or try to). and not because she's 2deep4them but because she's 'weird,' and the wider mainstream public is vicious and cruel to people that are weird. no grace is extended for the weird people that are Bad Kind of Weird. even well-liked figures like Björk still received/receive massive amounts of shit for being Weird. so when someone more controversial like grimes is Weird, ppl go throttle to say the most vile things they can think of.
and not being the "right kind of neurodivergent" is similar to being Bad Weird. i thought, would grimes confirming she is autistic/neurodivergent make people more lenient or understanding of her? maybe some might. but it shouldn't have to be that way, right? you shouldn't stop bullying someone for being weird because they might be autistic, you shouldn't bully someone for being weird because that's a shitty, cruel thing to do.
idk. it frustrates me, for reasons that go way beyond grimes. thank you for letting me get on the soapbox and say that i think the world should be kinder to weird people. even the ones you don't like.
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