Tag: homophobia

vocifersaurus:

garrettauthor:

garrettauthor:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

wintergrey:

garrettbrobinson:

I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

This is me, going to check out Legendary Books now…

Publisher: We think that the way the fantasy genre treats women is problematic so we’re going to try and do better

A Fool: If you don’t like it why don’t you make your own!

Publisher: That

That is literally what we just said we are doing

GUESS WHO’S BACK, BIGOTED FUCKWADS?

BOY it feels good to be back in this particular saddle!

AHAHAHAHAHA we have a winner for today!

That last one though

Cis men, both men of color and white men, seem to be the ones most keenly aware of how bad call-out culture is for our world. So eager to educate us all. Which seems strangely aligned with the fact that they are often the ones being called out.
I can say this. Calling people out is uncomfortable. It isn’t something that should be taken lightly. It does not bring me joy. I don’t think it is a solution for everything, but I do think that is is a perfectly rational, logical response to a culture that is still more likely to call a woman a whore than a man a rapist.

It isn’t call-out culture that is toxic. – Ashley Fairbanks – Medium (via brutereason)

yesbothways:

fuckyeskaramel:

whoops

Is there a direct correlation between tired and homophobic?  No.  

Is there a direct correlation between tired and not straight?  Yes.  

For my anons on this – read the above, please.  

They might be tired from one day of it – but we have to deal with it our entire lives.  

It’s exhausting to have one point – calling out the celeb who did the mocking – turn into the ‘shippers’ (wow) being the problem for calling it out in the first place. It starts with their bad manners – to being about ‘our’ bad manners (or, you know, the problem shippers).  I want to say ‘not all queers!’ but you know how that goes.  We all get tarred and feathered with the same brush.  Sound familiar?

It always circles back to us and how our feelings, issues, opinions – us – become invalid in the public eye.  We have to be the bigger people – not them.  

They’re exhausted?  Welcome aboard.  

It’s their table and we’re always reminded that we’re not really welcome – unless, you know, we behave how they like.  And not too many of us at one time.  Send the Designated Queer.  

Anyone up for it?  

dealanexmachina:

officersdva:

dc-vertigo-squad:

mobsterlena:

Y’all I’m pissed

Is there proof or confirmation she has been “pushed off”? Or is this just over reacting and fan speculation?

ali adler is missing from the credits in the cw’s official synopsis for season 3 of supergirl. seeing that she co-created the show and has been an executive producer for the first 2 seasons and now she’s suddenly not an executive producer or any sort of producer on the show it seems, yeah. it’s legit. she hasn’t made a statement about it on twitter from what i’ve seen, but if this was a mistake, the cw would have fixed it by now since the synopsis has been out a few days now.

So, a couple things to add, because I have been tracking this since March for my S2 writer/director/producer diversity report card (S1 can be found here), and I have been wondering for a while why Ali stopped doing anything to do with Supergirl since 2×09.

Real quick: There are 3 basic levels to pay attention to in this conversation: co-creator, executive producer, co-executive producer. 

  • The three people with co-creator designation are Ali, Greg and Andrew. You’ll note on imdb, they’re the names listed as “developed” for the writing credits. 
  • Since Greg has so many shows, though, he also brought on Sarah Schecter to be a fourth executive producer. These are your defacto showrunners. While Greg oversees the overall Arrowverse stuff,  the three of them were taking care of SG specific big picture stuff. However Sarah left after 2×06 to act as showrunner for Riverdale, and Robert Rovner took over as executive producer. So please note, it went from 2:2 in S1 to 3:1 in S2 for male vs female exec producers.
  • Co-executive producers help run the day to day stories and manage the nuts and bolts. As far as creative decisions, they usually get more say than staff writers but not as much as the showrunners. For S1, you had Yahlin Chang (19 eps) and Larry Teng (7eps) co-exec producing. For S2, you had Larry Teng (6) and Jessica Queller (13 eps).

    (source)

So when you look at the media, your talking heads should be the showrunners. That’s why Sarah Schecter went to Comic Con. That wasn’t a red flag for Ali not to be there, because Andrew wasn’t there either, but it was kinda curious that a lot of the written media and interviews was with Andrew and ONLY Andrew. However, Ali was the talking head for all the Supergirl Inside videos (eps 1-9), so you can see the division of labor there, and it didn’t grab my attention yet.

1) The first really big red flag, however, was Paleyfest’s announcement on February 8. Melissa was the only one listed for Supergirl. The other shows also took some time listing the actors, but for the producing side, virtually every other DCTV showrunner was present. Wendy Mercile, Mark Guggenheim for Arrow, Klemmer for Legends, Helbing brothers and Kreisberg for Flash.  Where was Ali? Flag #1.

2) So then I started paying attention to the Supergirl Inside videos. Ali did every single Supergirl bts video for S1, all the promotional media for CBS, and all the S2 Inside interviews for S2 1-9. But 2×10 and 2×11 (Jan 30 and Feb 6, respectively), it’s Jessica and Robert. And, particularly as I was growing frustrated with the romantic focus and Mon-El issue and Alex’s lack of a real storyline in Feb and March, I noticed it kept being Jessica and Robert talking in these videos.

By the way, they’ve done all the Supergirl Inside videos for the rest of the season, except for one Inside video where it’s Melissa and David gushing about Kevin Smith at Paleyfest.  Ali, actual co-creator and showrunner, wasn’t anywhere on the BTS stuff, so her disappearance was definitely troubling.

3) The Valentine’s Day ep was a hot mess, and so I went to check out her Instagram and Twitter to see what she had to say about it- and you’ll notice, she goes from Supergirl related pics all over on her Instagram, virtually every other one and promoting the show on her Twitter to…her kids and politics. There’s a drop off in the trend, and since then she’s only ever posted about Supergirl when it’s Chyler/Alex/Floriana/Maggie/Sanvers getting nominated for GLADD or LGBTQ stuff. 

Add on the fact that now she’s not listed as the exec producer for S3 in the write up?

Yeah, it’s totally legit, and someone needs to tell us what the hell happened, because if you line up when Ali disappeared and where S2 started to really go off the rails with respect to Alex’s storyline and the show no longer being centered on Kara, it’s a perfect match.

It’s bad enough we went from 1:1 ratio to 3:1 with Sarah gone. If Ali was forced out of her own show, then you basically have all men running Supergirl at the executive producer level, which…actually explains a lot about the back half of S2.

Disturbing.

Not surprising coming from The CW – but, still, disturbing.

Have you read this, @yesbothways?

Why lgbt people are mad about Le Fou in case it wasn’t obvious

shawarma-palace:

pkmndaisuki:

non-binary-sally-bowles:

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers:

  • The first gay Disney character is literally named The Fool
  • He’s unrequitedly in love with a straight man
  • A straight man who bullies and abuses him
  • Le Fou will 99% likely NOT get a happy ending
  • He’s being played by someone known to be straight
  • His sexuality is basically a joke
  • His sexuality is likely to be the butt of a joke the entire movie
  • We already know the character will be the butt of the joke even if his sexuality itself isn’t
  • His entire role in the movie is to be evil and stupid comic relief and boost Gaston’s self-esteem 
  • He’s described as “confused” 
  • Queercoding villains and Disney go together like peanut butter and jelly 
  • Disney is patting itself on the back for all of this
  • His character description is stereotypical
  • Le Fou being gay for Gaston is already something of a cultural joke
  • He’s barely in the movie
  • He’s the only gay person in a love story, he will end up alone and evil
  • People have been saying how you could improve the story by making it gay for years and of all the ideas this is the worst possible option for picking a gay character
  • We coulda had lesbian Beast
  • Kids will have this as their first gay Disney character
  • For some kids this will be their first gay character period
  • It will be their ONLY gay Disney character
  • They chose to make a shot for shot remake of the animated movie with the most whitebread actors and the only thing they want to change up is making the evil fool gay
  • Disney could get away with any kind of lgbt character because they are a monolith yet they choose this

Translating “Le Fou” as simply “The Fool” is being too generous. Here’s a dictionary definition of Fou:

They literally took someone whose name meant that and decided that was a great character to make gay. In an era where our dear vice president believes in violent conversion therapy for our “illness”, they decide to do that. That is what upsets me the most. (Though the other parts are certainly bad too.)

Another point I’d like to add (correct me if I err here, as I’m trying to remember an article or a video I saw years ago), the late Howard Ashman, a gay man, who co-wrote the songbook for the original, envisioned Gaston as the homophobes he encountered.

I’M SO FRUSTRATED because if we all avoid this movie and don’t give it dollar bills they’ll pin it on ‘oh well we tried to be inclusive but u didn’t like it sweaty 🙂 🙂 🙂 :)’ and bitch I’m so done with this already. SO DONE. 

MAKE NOISE.

catsgrant:

catsgrant:

the lesbophobia present in television is so upsetting. like not blatant, explicit lesbophobia but the lesbophobia that makes wlw scenes so much shorter than scenes between het couples, or wlw couples getting cheek kisses or hugs or pecks on the lips at best when het couples get heated makeouts and sex scenes right off the bat. it’s transparent and i’m sick of tv creators getting away with it. 

also i’m so done with the lesbophobia that allows viewers of tv shows to call every wlw ship under the sun abusive without valid reasoning while simultaneously fawning over actually! abusive! and unhealthy! het ships! being romanticized!!!!! please take ur heads out of ur damn asses!!! open your eyes!! i’m tired!!!!!