I was checking out at Walmart, and as I was reaching for my bags I said, “Happy Holidays!” And the cashier leaned in like she was sharing a secret and said “Merry Christmas.” So I smiled politely and said, “Blessed Yule!” And the look that spread across her face, you would have thought I’d literally stolen Christmas from her.
If you’re going to make a point of wishing me a happy whatever-you-celebrate, I’m going to make a point of wishing you a happy whatever-I-celebrate, and if you think that’s wrong you should consider getting “hypocrite” tattooed across your forehead.
It’s that time of year again
A post I made has officially become an “it’s that time of year again” post and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t honored
As a matter of fact, because it is November, here’s a friendly reminder that the “Christmas controversy” was a huge non problem made up by right winged conservative walnuts to convince people that their religious freedoms are under attacked. In actuality, saying “happy holidays” just reminds us that this place isn’t a fucking theocracy, and that non Christians still fucking exist here. And that there are several other holidays around the same time as Xmas. (Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Yuletide, etc.) It doesn’t breach your freedoms, as the government is not favoring any religion over your own.Shit, if anything…non of them are being held higher than the other, since you’re grouped under one broad “Happy Holidays”. Hell, Xmas ain’t even Christian…it was actually outlawed by puritans in America, wasn’t popularized until the 1800s in America, and was only adopted as a way to dominate over pre-existing pagan holidays in Europe.
There is no war on Christianity or Christmas. Christmas was never a Christian holiday, and America was founded as a secular nation in terms of things like religion and etc. Enjoy your fuckin’ holiday…and try to coexist with people and not dominate over them, no matter how fucking large of a christian population America is….the end
why do you guys run to the rescue of fictional characters who are not real and thus cannot be hurt or upset by tumblr posts. Please be normal. you do not need to defend pearl steven universe
hi as pride month draws near for june reminder that cishet aces/aros are not LGBT and don’t belong in our spaces
And like, just a reminder that people like op are the people I don’t want to share my spaces with.
Every time I see an exclusionist on here and I click their profile they’re like 17 or 19 or maybe 21 at best.
And that’s fair- it’s not like people that age can’t have opinions or be right, they’re people.
But when I think about how long it took me to work out my own damn sexuality, gender, and all that crap, and how gently I stepped once I realised I was queer, and how much listening to people I did to see who the hell was out there…how much I am STILL learning about people who have different experiences…
…it feels really odd to see people this young being so secure in their belief of who should be excluded from the community.
Not how to support and include, to help and support, but how to exclude.
Like…being confident in your own sexuality at 19? Fuck yeah, good for you, I’m happy you had a better chance and an earlier start than I did.
But… telling other people they’re not queer enough to be in ‘your’ space?
Your space? Not mine anymore? Huh.
I’m over here at 35 still listening and learning and trying to understand everyone’s perspectives, discovering that sexuality is even more complex and nuanced than I know…and all these people barely out of their teens are talking like they know everything there is to know about being LGBT, ever. Like it’s all been written down, stamped, sealed, confirmed by some Authority.
Mmmm. No. Just… have an ounce of humility. Try gaining some perspective, please.
You haven’t lived long enough to even really listen to real life aces, to really think about what LGBT means. I don’t mean this as an ageist insult, I just really think that this kind of shit deserves TIME- hell I know it deserves time and thought because I am STILL unlearning bad assumptions and behaviours, and STILL meeting people who define themselves outside of the frame that I was once taught meant ‘LGBT’.
And you, a teen raised in a world that’s still pretty fucking homophobic and doesn’t recognise half of what the LGBT community itself has taken years to acknowledge, you think you know it all?
Because you’re online?
While you’re here, read some posts where ace people talk about how they’re treated. Forget semantics for a while: read the experiences.
I’m online too, I have been for some time. Doesn’t make me right, but experience is of some value. Experience in listening to queer people who aren’t quite like me, that is, in trying to understand how I am similar, instead of trying to figure out how they do not belong. In how people rework things, figure out how they can be less harmful, more inclusive, more representative of all those who are marginalised.
See, Q is queer but also often Questioning. It’s still important to let people be Questioning, there is an astounding amount of queerphobia in the world and we are NOT done working out the labels. We may never be.
Not so long ago, the T in lgbt was under question. Bisexuals are still being excluded.
So I’m being told I don’t matter by people who weren’t even born yet when I realised I wasn’t straight. They’re skipping right over all the reflection and going straight to self-affirmation by exclusion.
Which, again- if you are born into a world where you never have to question your identity, oh good grief I hope that’s real for everyone some day.
But we’re not there yet, yanno? And I resent being told that after all these years of soul-searching and careful, very careful questioning of whether I belong and how I can be a good member of the community, people arrive so 100% certain of their claim to being LGBT that the first thing they do is try to kick others out.
tl;dr I was here first and I’m not amused.
My general feeling when These Kids start yelling about who does or doesn’t Belong in the collection of the broken, hurt and strange that is the queer community:
Pride month is an especially shitty time to tell queer people that they’re not queer enough and that they’re not welcome.
if deadpool gets a bf in the sequel i want someone to say “wait… i thought you were straight!!” and deadpool’s just like “hoo boy, someone obviously hasn’t read my comics” while staring at the camera
He’s literally straight, there is no canon piece of him having serious sexual relations with a man, he has always been on about “boobs” and has only ever had female partners. You’re right, someone hasn’t been reading the comics, but it was obviously you.
Someone has obviously only read one or two fucking comics and hasn’t read the ones where he has flirted with thor, spiderman, and most of the fucking avengers. Someone has also ignored direct statements from writers, ignored the fact that the director said he was pansexual, and the fact that Ryan Reynolds has said he would like deadpool to have a boyfriend in a future movie. What we have here is a fake geek boy.
In the video game he has a line where he littlerally says “i have dude up my ass, but not in the fun way” there is no universe where deadpool is fucking straight
fandom as a whole is migrating away from a mutual appreciation of a story and towards an endless cycle of nitpicking and discourse and frankly that’s just Exhausting
Its just an endless stream of “you’re doing it wrong”. You’re reading this wrong, you’re appreciating this character wrong, you’re appreciating this character too much, you’re not appreciating this character enough, its not enough that I don’t like this pairing but it’s wrong to like it, you’re enjoying this wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Time to say it again: you can dislike or hate soukoku all you want but you owe me $20 if you say it’s because it’s abusive/unhealthy/they actually hate each other because saying that whether you ship it or not is a mischaracterization of their relationship and ignores canon character and relationship development and I don’t want to have to write 1000 word meta about why
you shit stop scrolling and read this, this is important, you need to know this for ur finals.
SquireofGotham 