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trickstarbrave:

asynca:

I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have been in the queer movement for 20+ years, to have studied queer theory, to have contributed to you potentially enjoying the rights you have today because I was part of a groundswell of lobbying and direct action in the 1990s….

…to have a 15 year old who’s spent maybe 8 months being political and has never inquired about queer history anonymously message me, “EXCUSE ME QU**R IS A SLUR LMAO OMG EMBARRASSSING AN aCTUAL ADULT WHO THINKS IT’S OKAY TO USE QU**R!~!!!!”

Dude, we are a slur. Queer folks are a slur to conservative straight people. Everything we are will be used as a slur by everyone who hates us. Gay is a slur. Lesbian is a slur. People will try to use all of our words against us. Don’t fucking let them get into your head to the point at which you’re telling actual queer people not to use the words we’ve used to unite ourselves and empower ourselves for decades. 

ive taken queer studies and they tell it was a slur first reclaimed by gay and bi men in the AIDS crisis and still is something you shouldn’t call people without their permission. 

“but we use it for activism” yeah in disability activism you see us use ‘cripple’ or ‘crip’ but if you call me that ill punch you in your throat what is so hard for you guys to understand about not calling someone or classifying them under a slur without permission. slurs have political power in reclamation because they are slurs and its something that is only empowering if people want to do it and consent to it.

call it queer studies. call it queer coding. DONT call it the ‘queer community’ and DONT call people “queer folk” or “queer people” or “queer men/women/enbys”. call them what they ID as and if they are a self IDing queer person: say a queer person. but sometimes yall on this website act like you’re so afraid to say “gay man” or “lesbian” or “bisexual trans woman” so you just say “QUEER QUEER QUEER” over and over and get mad when people dont like you acting like all of those identities are exactly the same or people MIGHT NOT want you to call them something they haven’t consented to because of trauma they faced. 

komadoriwonder:

timdrakeothy:

Just a reminder that I’m still pissed that both of Dick’s main ships broke up with him because he was sexually assaulted!

Babs broke up with him because Tarantula forced a kiss on him when he was fighting her. Legit in her own words, she partly broke up with him because “he still looks surprised when a villainess plants a wet one on him” like its his fault somehow,

And Kori broke up with him because a character named Mirage shapeshifted into Kori and slept with Dick. Which, btw, is rape, because he wouldn’t have consented to sleeping with Mirage if he knew she wasn’t Kori. Mirage later laughed in his face when she told him, and Kori broke up with him for “‘cheating”’ never caring what her boyfriend was trying to explain and what he had just been put through.

I’ll be salty about this shit till the day I’m put in the ground. Neither was ever fucking resolved, either, and it doubly puts a bad taste in my mouth that Tarantula, the one that forced a kiss on him, also went on to rape him after the fiasco with Blockbuster. Which was like, also never addressed.

For all my complaints about that never being addressed in canon though, I have to wonder if it’s in character for Dick never to mention it or want resolution. After all, two girlfriends broke up with him for being assaulted. Why would he ever think it was important for him to get resolution– more than that, with his history, wouldn’t he be blamed for what happened to him?

Anyways, fuck DC.

I have a post kicking about in my drafts voicing my discomfort and utter frustration/impatience with dc’s poor handling of sexual assault in their comics…

But to summarise, my biggest issues with the way DC portrays sexual assault are probably:

1) The way they brush over any type of closure or healing for the victims (often making others such as friends or family blame the victims themselves or just ignore that the fact that they were assaulted at all);

2) The fact that the majority of sexual assault offenders are shown to be poc women (e.g. Mirage, Tarantula, Talia al Ghul, Maat in the Red Robin comics…); and

3) The fact that it has always ever been used as nothing more than a “steamy” plot point, to add some “action” and emotional angst into the mix for the main male characters. This is a terrible representation of what sexual assault is (it is not “drama”) and what the victims actually go through, and not a valid reason to include it at all.

Overall, sexual assault has always been poorly handled by DC, and they really need to get their shit together.

thisisbitti:

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war-lesbian:

when i see posts that just say something really 101 like, “trans women arent men”, with ten thousand notes all i really think is, “who are these for?” because its clearly not intended to change anyone’s mind, it’s an in-group, affirmation thing. these posts are for people who already believe their content. but when i see them, their only effect is to remind me that some people think trans women are men. i didnt want to think about that! i spend most of my days in mindless distraction trying to avoid thinking about things like that. so i do not really think these posts do any good for trans women. they are just a sort of feel-good post for everyone else to reblog and pat themselves on the back.

segadreamcastwebbrowser2point0:

glitchkid:

unclefather:

glitchkid:

jesus was a gamer

how

died in a t pose

respawned

yuumeee:

Everything by design.

I’m kind of late, but I LOVE Symmetra’s Oasis skin. (｡♥‿♥｡)

gothkankuro:

Bruce has never gotten over a damn thing in his life, and that’s A Fact

rrojasandribbons:

I had the unfortunate experience of growing up as part of an older, established Romani community in a city that had a lot of Italian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Serbian immigrants. 

I can say with utmost certainty that “cigan”, “cigani”, “ciganski”, “zingari”, and anything that remotely sounds like “tsee-gahn” coming out of a European immigrant’s mouth is a slur. 

In fact, that word coming out of anyone’s mouth is a slur. 

“Cigan” is like the older, uglier, Eastern European sister of “Gypsy”. That word is rooted directly in Romani slavery as a term that was used specifically for Romani slaves.

If you’ve ever had the lovely experience of encountering that word, it is spat at you with all of the vitriol, contempt, and dehumanizing callousness you would expect from someone who viewed you as a slave. 

And, when it’s not intentionally used to refer to you, often loudly enough so they know you hear it, it is belted out as if it were an anthem of trashiness and subordination. It is the European equivalent of “ghetto”. 

If you drive a beat up car, it’s “ciganski”.
If you have torn clothing, it’s “tsiganesc”.
If you have flashy clothing, it’s also “tsiganesc”. 
If you’re being loud, you’re “ciganski”. 
If you have bad manners, you’re “ciganski”. 

Oh, and being told you’re not “ciganski”.. you’re not like those other “cigani” they know is always a fun time. 

That word is extremely racially tinged and functions very much like the N-word does. 

Like, I don’t know where other Roma are growing up that they’ve never encountered, heard, or at least heard of these words, but I’ve heard it plenty even in the US and it is most certainly a slur.