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tvckerwash · 2 months

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all this buzz about "canon grimmons!!!" is giving me war flashbacks to pre s15 when joe or jason said they were going to make grimmons canon in s15 and then never delivered...

#grimmons stans I'm begging u pls do not fall for the exact same queerbaiting scam that happened 5+ years ago #especially when the leaked scripts are being referred to as fanfic by the guy who wrote them #who also happens to be the guy who contributed to the most hated seasons of rvb ever #rvb #red vs blue #mine #not t/oaru

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goatboard · 2 years

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THEY TRYING TO SCAM ME FOR GAYS

#kitxt #GAY SCAM #finally queerbait

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verminviscount · 1 year

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Yeah but your a trustworthy younad you can smuggle as much drugs as you want ^_^

aww thanks clings <3

#yknow if you ever need an accomplice in your queerbaiting endeavors #im your guy. we can crime and scam together itd be great

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iero · 9 months

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frank iero is a greedy loser trash as is entire mcr where's that album huh lmao people keep saying i'm wrong about the tour being nostalgia tour to get money out of fans and keep their hopes up but looks like i'm right yall wring cuz where's that album at gerard is busy getting fucked by racist wife and queerbaiting frank is busy scamming fans and being homophobic mikey is busy going to church ray who the hell knows judging people

i was so wrong for some many years when i thought mcr r gr8 bert was right all along lol

#answered #Anonymous #It is 4:30 in the morning y'all... Please...

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animentality · 2 months

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I'm sorry.

I'm just laughing over like... overwatch fans being mad at me for saying their game isn't that fucking great at queer rep.

it has TWO LGBT characters who were openly LGBT as SOON AS THEY WERE RELEASED.

that's fucking Lifeweaver, added to the game in 2023, and Venture-

a fucking nonbinary character who ISNT in the game yet.

do you understand why this is laughable?

overwatch has been around for 8 fucking years and it took a fucking sequel to force them to reveal characters were queer from the get go.

for the past 8 years, they've been queerbaiting mercy and pharah, while hocking how canon gency is, they have been teasing roadhog and junkrat, barely, and I guess.

if you MUST defend blizzard.

you can say well it's ok they did reveal tracer was a lesbian on Twitter and then they admitted soldier 76 was gay literally 3 years after he was released, and then they made pharah a lesbian and baptiste bisexual- literally 7 years after pharah was released and 4 years after Baptiste was.

yeah.

so progressive revealing that in random comics and lore bits that barely show up in game, if they ever do. and I haven't played overwatch in a while, because I have a high degree of respect for myself, but from what I fucking remember, soldier doesn't say shit about his boyfriend, if he even has one, tracer only makes a reference or two to Emily, who might as well be her sister with how mild it was.

and I vaguely recall Baptiste flirting with ana. and pharah as far as I know has never ever said anything about all the hot chicks she dates on the side.

and that's it.

that's your amazing queer rep.

you have two queer characters from the start who were not retroactively made gay, and one hasn't even been released yet.

good work, blizzard.

so revolutionary.

y'all know blizzard is an American company and gay marriage has been legal in the US since 2015?

whereas apex legends literally started OFF in 2019 openly stating hey this character is trans and this one is nonbinary and this one is gay and this one is a lesbian and these TWO literally hit on men and women- oh also the pansexual and nb PLAYABLE CHARACTERS are dating and they flirt and dote on each other in game-

but I'm getting flak from you weirdo blizzard fans who for some reason think blizzard is worth your devotion?

even if it was good at queer rep, I am not sure if fucking blizzard and OVERWATCH 2, one of the biggest monetary scams in all of gaming are the hills you want to die on.

but at least you'll be dead.

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goongiveusnothing · 10 months

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Did you hear Zayn’s interview? He pretty much confirmed Harry is a fucking liar and a gaslighter. He foiled old man queerbaiter’s solo plans. That’s why he haaates Zayn so much because he stole the spotlight on getting to be the first one to go solo. Harry was stringing the others along about the “break” until he secured the bag with the Azoffs. The others albeit trusted Harry reluctantly but Zayn knew better.

This makes me laugh at the fans who kept telling other fans to believe in Harry like he’s Jesus Christ or something because he was going to save the others from Syco and that’s why he would go on so many solo meetings with the Azoffs and Sony execs. The geniuses still couldn’t figure out that it was his plan all along to ditch Liam, Louis, and Niall. Not even when he cried and was all boohoo, he’s so grateful. He was bitching that he could now sing all the words of the entire song. He was being oppressed because giving Niall or Louis 3 words of a line was too much for his ego. 👀 🥴

the larries have essentially created harry's entire narrative and mythology.

the nice guy trying to save the band. the nice guy who couldn't hang out with the others because he was forced. the nice guy forced to date all these women and be perceived as a total fuckboy to help louis and the others. even now they act like he's oppressed for scheduling millions of tours and charging the fans thousands for it with his shitty ugly merch and products, when it's all his choice to milk them dry.

but with the larries creating his queer legacy and his non toxic masculinity idea of himself projected by them, he's been protected for years. the fans refused to believe he was ditching the band for years until he did. they claimed none of the band were signed with their labels and were all "independent" which was bullshit, to help protect harry.

all along he's been scamming them all, manipulating everyone and just trying to scheme his way into being a superstar. karma is justified in snatching off his hair follicles and giving him the face of a grandpa and the acting ability of his iCarly debut.

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buck-yyyy · 2 years

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oh man i- can we talk about this summer for a second?

- end of may, we get volume one. (this is when i joined the fandom!!)

- beginning of june, noah starts going absolutely wild with byler

- stranger things social media accounts start to post about byler

- advent calendar created

- loads of hype for byler in volume two

- volume two comes out july first. everyone is heartbroken and angry. queerbaiting accusations.

- hope slowly starts to build back up. we get conventions, theories, etc etc

- WILL BYERS CONFIRMED AS GAY BY NOAH SCHNAPP

- natalia dyer reveals that she and the rest of the fruity four ship ronance and have a group chat dedicated to talking about it (still not over that btw)

- i think this is also around the time that cara revealed she reads joyce x karen stuff on tumblr

- 8flix happens. we find out we’re getting a bunch of scripts.

- brett fucking gelman comes out as a byler supporter

- dear billy is released. we all collectively lose our shit over the lack of mike’s POV

- oh my god, the girl who plays chrissy (grace van dien) has a tumblr and talked about byler

- we find out when we’re getting the papa script

- papa script is delayed to august fifth.

- august fifth through seventh happens. no further explanation needed.

- we’re chilling with the script, analyzing everything possible.

- oh fuck, the script might not be real

- either the stranger writers destroyed a man’s reputation so that we didn’t find out mike wheeler kisses boys or a lot of people got scammed

- hm, wait, maybe nick was also scammed and his source was the one that made it all up?

- things finally start to cool down a bit. it’s now been three days since we’ve gotten anything new. we’re recovering.

- sock anon.

- @bowlcutbyers is getting married to the sock anon.

like jesus fucking christ, this is all in the span of a little more than two months- we’re all in a constant state of WHAT IS GOING ON

#stranger things #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #sock anon

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choices-binglebonkus · 1 year

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Choices Diamond Ads

-The most delicious looking food known to humanity

-Chick-fil-a 🤢🤢🤢

-Evony (this ad played so many times I can still repeat the whole thing word-for-word 💀)

-“wE hAvE tO rEnOvAtE tHiS pLaCe!”

-Merge Mansion

-Ads where some woman takes her baby and fends for herself in a frozen shack (then bursts into tears at the end when the person playing the ad makes all the wrong choices)

-Ad for other visual novels app with endless queerbaiting

-That one Adventure Communist ad that was glitchy as fuck and never actually gave you any diamonds for watching it

-Royal Match ad where the dude always dies at the end because the player once again makes ridiculous choices

-Insert other ad that claims to show actual gameplay in the ad but is just another one of those generic games that lies about its content

-That one ad where the lady was like “you can win real money playing this game! I’m talking 2 million dollars a week!”

-Obvious weight loss scams

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deanismysavior · 2 years

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What if the scripts are not legit and it's a scam? The guy was basically queerbaiting earlier with those tweets. He's found a "gold mine" with the byler fandom.

Nick Runyeard has been running 8flix for way longer than the Byler fandom has been around. It's a source that is legitimized by Cornell. Not to mention, Nick has legitimately written and produced for Arrested Development, which is a show that in later seasons was picked up by Netflix. He is one guy running a database of 10s of thousands of scripts as a passion project. I promise you, he's not attempting to dupe us, he is just overwhelmed by the passion of our fandom and has expressed that he plans to reply to each email he gets individually. Y'all need to chill out on him.

#byler #byler endgame #byler nation #ask #nick from 8flix #nick from 8flix my hero #bylerpocalypse #byler script #papa script #stranger things #st

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ilikebooksmoviesseriesandanime · 2 years

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I'm not moving on for these. I WILL NOT FORGET

I don't care if these shows are entirely different in timeline, setting, and story, but these ships are VICTIMS, and so are all of us, of this continous queerbaiting of this company and writers of these shows 🙄😠

#byler #stranger things season 4 #stranger things #st4 spoilers #voltron legendary defender #klance #is this queerbaiting? a scam?#queerbaiting SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED #they're homophobic for doing these ships dirty

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ladymelisande · 11 months

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What do you think of these people who think that the background of the good omens leak is some kind of "joke" / not real and there's no way the real characters are doing that. That it's just a scam, a queerbait. Personally, I hope it's really the characters. Otherwise, because it'll break my heart, and then to shut up the haters.

Same anon as for the post about the Good Omens leak. I heard that in addition Gaiman said "what you think you saw". Realistically, it actually sounds like a statement that it's not the characters. I will really find it horrible to play with the fans of the ship like that...

I think y'all are being played by the fear morgering, bitter arseholes that have been using this leak as an opportunity to make everyone as miserable as they are. Do you guys realise that many of these pricks don't even watch the show? They are just here to be haters because they think Neil is like their pathetic CW showrunners.

#may answers #good omens spoilers #good omens leak

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tiggyloo · 1 year

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"if you're not lesbian/sapphic then don't call seamoon queerbait" that's literally what it is though. It's what all the gay shit in cookie run is. Devsisters is a Korean company with Korean views and values, as we've seen time and time again, even with just this most recent Ovenbreak update. And Korea is not LGBT friendly.

It's queerbait. It's to trick you into being loyal to their company through a mask of representation and to scam you out of your money, like how they used Sea Fairy and Moonlight to promote that crescent moon decor in the recent Kingdom pass. They're doing it for your money. Get that through your skulls.

#phoebe be quiet #cookie run #it's not rainbow capitalism either it's just blatant bait

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icharchivist · 1 year

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"Cecil isn't a tumblr sexyman" whom the fuck is Cecil? An herb??

ANON.

ANON??????????????

IS THAT A JOKE 😭😭😭

I guess only the 2013 tumblrinas (gn) know properly who Cecil is.

Cecil is the protagonist and narrator of Welcome To Night Vale, a surreal horror podcast (perhaps THE surreal horror podcast that kickstarted the trend you see those days like tma and stuff). (go listen to the Pilot, though huge warning for unreality stuff if that's a problem with you)

The show is set up to be a radio show set in Night Vale, a city where weird things happen all the time except that for the narrator, all of this is normal. Yeah of course a 5 headed dragon is running for mayor against the faceless woman who secretly lives in your house. Of course no one is supposed to go to the Dog Park. Of course everyone must give their offering to the Mighty Glow Cloud. Of course there's a ghost cat in the bathroom floating and having kittens, isn't she adorable.

One of the extremely refreshing thing about this podcast, especially in 2013, where tumblr was mostly obsessed with queerbaiting shows, is the fact that in the very first episode, Cecil meets Carlos the scientist, and immediately falls in love with him. Meaning there's a lot of episodes going "the eldritch monster camping on the highway once again committed some new incidents and people died. but that's not important. DID YOU SEE CARLOS'S HAIR? ISNT HE DREAMY?" (and they went on dates and eventually got married).

And the thing with Cecil, outside from his dreamy voice, his gay crush, and the beautiful existential sentences he could spur sometimes (“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present” is one of my fav quotes), is that he was just a voice. There never was a single canon design about him.

So everyone could make their own Cecil. Everyone had their own version of him in mind, though we all somehow agreed on him wearing Night Vale's purple, and you would often see tattoos of eyes and tentacles on him (or that pushed with literally showing them off outside of his skin).

in the early 2010s on this website you couldn't go ANYWHERE without knowing about Cecil. Everyone was talking about him. Anyone who has been on this website for about ten years would talk to you fondly about their friend Cecil Palmer from the radio show.

We're discussing Tumblr sexymen. if you think tumblr sexymen just means a man tumblr finds sexy (even though it's weird), you're dead wrong. And Cecil had earned his place because HE was THE Blorbo.

On another note for you to understand exactly what it means on tumblr, you heard of Dashcon? Everyone's heard of Dashcon. Many people weren't here when Dashcon happened. I was here. One of the scam the people of Dashcon ran in order to get people from tumblr to come was to invite the wtnv's cast. However, last minute, they didn't pay them, and the condition of hosting were deplorable (the nearby hotel was stacked, and the organizator of the con didn't even pay the con's site at all, which means they locked all the teenagers who had came into the lobby to ask them to pay for the fees of the con's rent. Do you even realize how insane that is). So the wtnv crew didn't come.

But it was literally THE thing that represented tumblr enough that it ended up wrapped in this horrible scam. It was the moment. The thing that truly defined the early 10s on this website.

Of course you might think he's not a proper sexyman for tumblr (tbh i think Sans and the Once-ler are the real sexymen of this website) but Cecil has been the embodiment of the early 10s culture of this website. (and personally i think it'd be somewhat very vindicative of the website to have him become the sexyman this time).

Somehow... the way history gets lost in here i swear.

#tbh i think people are just. completely unaware of how the early 10s were on this website #it was widely different in term of how we interreacted with one another #i don't mean it in like 'it was better before' it just was different #i always get a grip when i see ppl talk about 'the new once-ler' or 'the new superwholock'#and everytime all they mean is 'this chara is popular' or 'those three saga are popular at the same time'#this is not what those were. god the early 10s were weird.#anyway. we put respect to Cecil's name in this house thank you.#ichareply #anonymous #unreality #unreality cw #sorry making sure but this show might be extremely unreality indulcing so be careful

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thetreetopinn · 1 year

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When the queer leftist atheist goes to a conservative thanksgiving

I am very tired.

It has been a very long day.

Mostly because I spent the last 48 hours helping my mother with 90% of all of the preparations for Thanksgiving--prepping something like ten items for everyone to eat--as well as clean up, organizing, table-setting, 5-year-old wrangling, etc.

But I am also very tired because of my brother-in-law.

See, they say something you should never talk about at Thanksgiving is politics, and fucking hell let me tell you what--I know that all too well. I'm the black sheep of the family when it comes to my politics. I have learned well to not say SHIT if I can help it. I will end up getting dog-piled on.

So yeah, keep my mouth shut, don't start nothin', won't be nothin'.

And then my brother-in-law looks me dead in the eye and asks me "Hey, do you have any bitcoin?"

That was how it started.

I replied with "No, I stay as far away from anything crypto-related as I possibly can."

He wanted to talk about his favorite sports personalities getting shafted by the crypto-crash and thought I'd be sympathetic.

I am not. Not in the slightest.

"They knew what they were getting into when they bought into an unregulated financial speculation instrument. It is a scam. Nothing more, nothing less. They're trying to speedrun every financial crisis that has happened since the great depression, and it looks like they succeeded."

He promptly shut up.

Preparations continue, discussions are had, there's a video that he and my sister are confused about because their kid is way into it, and they're not doing the picosecond of googling to find out what it is, so I do the hard work for them, find out it's inappropriate for someone so little, and they ban him from watching it. Brother-in-law starts going off on a mini-rant about media:

"It's gotten so bad you don't know who to trust, not even Disney, they're trying to brainwash kids."

I want to jump in. Oh fuck do I want to jump in so god damned badly. Holy shit do I want to just clap back with "Oh yeah? Brainwashing them how? EXACTLY? Is it be an even more ardent and fanatical devotee of the mouse so they will be excited to consume more product? Then yes, I agree. If you say the world 'woke' at all, then no, because Disney is absolutely not work. They axe shit all the time because it's "too woke" and queerbait constantly."

But I don't. I don't give him the rundown of what happened with the now deposed CEO who elected to not advertise the children's animated film that has an openly gay lead character so it would fail and use that as justification to axe more queer stories. I keep my fucking mouth shut.

We do the usual prayer around the table--as an atheist, I'm surprised I don't burst into flames--and while we're eating... my brother-in-law starts asking me about Mars.

"Do you think we'll ever get to Mars?"

Now... I know EXACTLY where this is going. I know PRECISELY who he wants to talk about. I know SPECIFICALLY where he wants to drive the subject... but I don't let him.

See, I'm a fucking space nerd and I can talk CIRCLES around the subject he wants to bullseye without ever straying into that maelstrom. Yes I know I'm mixing my metaphors. I don't care.

We have a legitimately decent discussion about the difficulties of spaceflight and traveling to another world and how NASA has provided so much spin-off technology and the actual benefits of having a human space flight program... even though he's trying--TRYING HIS DAMNEDEST--to bait me into something more provocative, whether he means it intentionally or not.

He sees he's not gonna get me this time and the discussion dies down.

Hours later, we're watching a movie, the credits roll, and I swear to you... completely unprovoked, not even mentioned anywhere in the film, nothing. Completely and utterly out of the blue:

"What are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson?"

Okay, sit down boo... we gonna have a FUCKIN' CHAT 'cause I got thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

You wanna go there? Let's go there. There is no FUCKING way he didn't know that was going to cause a problem. Peterson is too polarizing a figure. So I lay it on him as politely and gently as I can.

"I don't like him. He pushes a lot of wrong-headed ideology. He is a liar and a charlatan who has messianic thinking."

Hooo boy... turns out my brother-in-law is a Jordan Peterson stan.

Fucking great.

He starts in on the bullshit about making misgendering someone a crime you can be imprisoned for. I rebut with "no it's not, that's a lie"

He comes back with "I don't know where you get your information from" and "Just look it up, get out your phone and look up Jordan Peterson C-16"

So I fucking do, right there, in front of him.

In less than 30 fucking seconds, I find a legitimately credible source that says "No, Peterson is full of shit, it's not a crime, you can't be sent to jail for using the wrong pronouns" and I say "So he lied... like a liar."

And of course... because it runs counter to the narrative he wants to believe, he laughs derisively and dismisses me. I counter with "oh by the way, if you wanna come at me with that guy who was held in contempt for misgendering his child? That didn't happen either. He was held in contempt because the judge explicitly said to not discuss the matter of the court case in public, and he went and did that... even tried to raise money off of it. The judge slapped him with 'you were told explicitly not to do that, and you went and did it anyway"

Brother-in-law's response...

"Ah."

Just... fucking hell.

To my sister's credit, she saw where this was going the MINUTE he said the name "Jordan Peterson" and started packing everything up to haul the family home. She knew her husband was baiting me, she knew he was doing it all fucking day, and he finally got me to take that bait.

They left, and it was just me and my parents.

I apologized to them for getting argumentative, but it's something that's deeply important to me, to fight back against those false narratives that have gotten people killed--RECENTLY.

There was a... 'discussion' to be had, and my parents trotted out the same, tired centrist talking points "How do we get back to where we can just have a normal, civilized conversation and respect each other even if we disagree?"

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN RESPECT

PUSHING THE DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING MISINFORMATION PETERSON AND HIS ILK PUSH ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE GETS THEM--AND QUEER PEOPLE IN GENERAL--KILLED. YOU DO NOT POLITELY ARGUE WITH THAT.

You try to gently educate if you can. You provide documentation and sources and evidence if possible. But you do. not. DEBATE. This is not a discussion.

My dad whips out this "When I was your age or younger I too had a lot of really strong opinions. I felt like my opinion was the most important one and everyone should agree with me."

And I stomped down HARD on that shit:

"I'm sorry... is that what you think of me? Do you really think I believe my opinion is the most important one? If that's what you genuinely think then we need to have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT discussion."

It took me 30 god damn minutes to get both my mom and my dad to come around to the simple idea of "this isn't just a difference of opinion, this is pushing back against dangerous misinformation that gets people killed" and even then... they clearly didn't fully get where I was coming from.

My mom brought up "well I hear all this hateful stuff from the LGBTQIA+ whatever community"

"What hateful stuff, specifically? I wanna address it."

"Well... all this... you know... they force little kids to have surgery-"

"That doesn't happen. That is a lie. No doctor will perform gender affirming surgery on anyone under 18. And HRT, they will not provide that if you're 12 or younger. If you're talking about puberty blockers, those are completely safe and reversible--even though getting them is extremely difficult. You can't just go to the doctor and ask for them and boom... your child suddenly has HRT and new genitals. It takes YEARS sometimes just to take the first step--EVEN FOR ADULTS."

"Then why do politicians keep saying it?"

"They lie. They lie to keep you afraid. To keep you hating the 'right' kind of people. To keep you whipped up and voting for them. That's why."

Mom didn't like that. I don't know if she accepted it or not.

When I asked her point blank "Do you think gay and trans people should be allowed to exist with the same rights as straight and cis people?" she DID say that she does think they should.... so... at least her heart is in the right place I guess.

I didn't hear an answer from my dad on the point.

But they really REALLY wanted to make it sound like it was MY fault for rising to my brother-in-law's bait. Motherfucker was TRYING, and god damn did he fucking succeed.

Mom trotted out the "Whatever you wanna do in your own home, that's fine. I just don't want it in my face."

That's when I started talking about representation in media, how straight cis people are EVERYWHERE... from a queer perspective, heteronormativity is shoved in THEIR faces from every angle.

I went on to talk about the Hayes Code, which neither of them had heard about, the 'bury your gays' trope, the fact that the queer community loves Disney villains like Jafar, Ursula, Scar, etc. because of queer coding

Because "well if this is the only representation we get, then we'll take it and make it our own"

I told them about Strange World and how the former CEO tries to bury it because of his raging homophobia.

My mom was shocked... ACTUALLY SHOCKED... about the queer coding of Disney villains.

"That's wild... I never saw them like that, they were just bad guys in Disney movies to me."

"Yeah... exactly my point. You don't see it. Queer people do. And if you can only see yourself in the villain... what's that say? That tells you that's what the world sees you as."

I went on with: "Why is it that when we see a little boy and a little girl being boyfriend and girlfriend in movies and what not, it's cute and innocent, but if it's a little boy and a little boy or a little girl and a little girl, it's suddenly SEXUALLIZED!? Why isn't the little boy and the little girl seen as sexual?"

Neither mom nor dad could answer.

Eventually, it came back to: "How do we get back to having rational, civilized discussions again?"

"I don't know, but as long as a person's right to exist is up for debate, there is no civil discourse to be had. It's either you get to have rights, or you don't, and one of those is fascism."

I can see their desire to want to do the right thing, to be okay with people different than themselves... but they've just swallowed so much bullshit propaganda over the years, and they continue to. I don't know if I reached my dad. I feel like maybe I reached my mom. We don't fully agree on abortion--like, she is concerned for the life of the innocent or whatever wording she actually used, but she damn sure doesn't like the idea of the government having a say in what you can and can't do with your body.

At least we are in full agreement on that front. I tried to frame that as 'right to privacy'... but then she brought it straight back over to the vaccination card.

*LOUD, ANGRY, QUEER, LEFTIST SIGH*

"A woman's right to chose to get an abortion does not affect the life of a person she bumps into at the store. Whether or not she is vaccinated can kill that same stranger--and has killed people. I am 100% in favor of everyone having personal liberties and freedoms... but the very second your personal liberty results in someone else's death--some random person you ran into at the store or on the street... that's when it becomes something else entirely"

We also had a discussion about abortion--about when they happen the most, about why someone gets a late-term abortion, about how there are so many potential carve-outs that the government ought to allow that I just said "at that point, why do all this fucking means testing? Just give them abortion care. They're already going through enough heartbreak as it is, just let them make their choice and not be judged or criminalized for it."

There wasn't a response after that.

Dad started turning up the volume on the TV at a certain point. I think he was fucking done with me. And you know what? That's fine. I don't need his approval. I don't need his blessing. I don't even need him to fucking agree with me.

People should have the right do what they want with their own bodies. If he disagrees with that, then he's in favor of state regulated bodily control, and that's fucking fascism.

Yes, that does mean I have to be in favor of a good many things that I might disagree with--like surgically altering yourself to look like a cat... yeah, that weirds me out... but whatever, it's your body. Do what you want with it.

You wanna smoke or chew or dip or whatever? I'm not particularly fond of it, and I have some VERY strong feelings about the tobacco industry... but... it's your body. Just don't force ME to breathe your second hand smoke. I already have enough respiratory issues. It comes back to that whole personal liberties affecting another person thing.

God I'm so fucking tired.

There are so many other, better educated, better practiced, better tempered people who can handle this kind of discussion.

I hate having to be a queer elder for my own fucking family when I came to the community so late in life... especially when I have literally zero support among them.

"You just get so... so... mad."

"YEAH... BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY DYING BECAUSE OF THIS SHIT. WHY AREN'T YOU MAD!??!"

I think I may have to take a pass on meeting up with everyone for Christmas. If this is the direction it's gonna go again... I'm not sure I can handle it. My brother-in-law clearly wants to bait me into this shit and I don't have it in me to stay out of it.

I hope everyone had a better thanksgiving than this.

Love and solidarity.

Trans rights. Gay Rights. Reproductive Rights. Black Lives Matter. Land Back. All of this good stuff.

I just don't have the strength to handle all of it all of the time, and the world seems content to force me to do so more often than I'm able.

I could use a hug.

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