It's interesting that they never whine about women becoming men...
Rowling's keystone diatribe that cemented her status as a major figure in TERF politics was almost entirely about women becoming men. This keystone book:
which forms the cornerstone of modern TERF theory and political action re: trans 'indoctrination' of children is entirely about women becoming men. Trans men aren't being ignored by transphobes. They're being ignored by their supposed allies.
Been thinking about why the argument that OFMD is inherently a bad show because it's based on historical slaveowners so often feels disingenuous to me as a person of color.
HUGE disclaimer up front: if you don't wanna fuck with the show because of that premise right out the gate, that's 100% valid and I completely get that. I'm not talking about that. What I'm specifically talking about is White fandom people in particular who argue that OFMD must be "problematic" because of this, especially when they say this as some kind of virtue-signalling trying to win points in fandom wars, stuff like that.
My big thing is that the resemblance the characters in OFMD have to their real-world namesakes begins and ends with having the same name. The show feels more to me like it's playing with the vague myths around these names, not the people themselves. Can you make an argument that they should have come up with original characters instead? Sure, but let's be honest, even people who study the irl counterparts have very little knowledge of their actual lives, and the average person has all but none. To add to that, this show has absolutely zero interest in historical accuracy; the moment they cast a Jewish-Polynesian man as Blackbeard that became obvious. No one is saying the real-life Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet were good people, least of all the show itself; the point is that OFMD's versions are basically original characters already.
It always feels like an incredibly disingenuous claim to parallel the show to Hamilton, because Hamilton both did care about historical accuracy and also brought up the slave trade. Hamilton is uncomfortable for so many poc because it writes poc into the story of otherwise very faithfully portrayed racists, colonizers, and slaveowners and just handwaves the racism. In OFMD, racism exists, but the stance is always explicitly anti-racist and anti-colonialist in a way that is just so fun to see (whom among us has not wished to skin a racist with a snail fork?).
The other thing that sticks for me is...there's an appropriate amount of slavery I want to see in my romcoms, and that amount is none. I am so sick of historical fiction where Black characters are only there for trauma porn about the horrors of the slave trade. You can make a legitimate argument that OFMD is handwavey about the slave trade, but I'd argue that including discussion of the slave trade is something that should be done with such incredible care that it would leave us with a show that can't really be a comedy at all anymore. OFMD's characters of color are allowed to be nuanced, complex characters with their own emotions, and it's incredibly refreshing to see, and I'd much rather have that than yet another historical fiction show where the only characters of color are only there to make White audiences feel virtuous about how sad they feel for them.
In conclusion, I guess: every yt person who makes this argument to win points in a fandom war owes me and every other fan of color a million dollars
whenever an attractive youtube cis woman does something fucked up i just sigh because i know people are gonna be insanely misogynist about it instead of normal
#im reblogging bc i agree with the general sentiment but prev what did ssniperwolf do
she livestreamed to her 5mil instagram followers the front of jacksfilms house because he's been fairly criticizing her very low effort content
whenever an attractive youtube cis woman does something fucked up i just sigh because i know people are gonna be insanely misogynist about it instead of normal
#im reblogging bc i agree with the general sentiment but prev what did ssniperwolf do
she livestreamed to her 5mil instagram followers the front of jacksfilms house because he's been fairly criticizing her very low effort content
How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.
Oh snap!
As an engineer, this makes me happy.
If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…
easy peasy
watching this while listening to a clock ticking
is the best decision i have ever made
It's midnight, I made a Phineas and Ferb quiz, and now I'm going to bed. Goodnight I love y'all
A tragedy in two parts
Everyone taking this quiz, getting Buford, and going "No I don't want that answer," and then retaking the quiz to get the answer you DO want - I hate to break it to you, but that is a very Buford thing to do.
Really happy to see this at my local library
OOOOH. *happy YA librarian dance*
I want this in every library, everywhere. After all, some kids won’t even google this stuff because they don’t want parents/siblings checking their browser history.
This is really awesome. And if you’re not familiar with how the Dewey Decimal system works - the numbers subject-based, which means these numbers are applicable in EVERY library. So if you see something you want to research on this list - look for those same numbers in any of your local libraries.
This is wonderful.
Reblogging to possibly save a life
For the record, this is not just shitty for anyone who needs wheels to get around.
This would be HELL for my cane.
I don't use forearm crutches, but I suspect it would also be hell for that type of mobility device.
Same for walkers.
Same for anyone with limited vision.
Almost every single instance of hostile architecture meant to gentrify a place or keep out "undesirables" ends up hurting disabled folks too.
And that's intentional. Because disabled folks absolutely fall under the "needs extra time/care", unless the companies can get away with it
Wtf is the problem with skateboards to begin with
Skateboards let people have fun outside without spending money (except occasionally on upgrading the board). Oh, and some people just hate teens congregating for any reason.
Adults complain that "kids never go outside nowadays", meanwhile the reason is because adults would harass them whenever they do.
ALTThanks to a follower of mine pointing it out it was discovered/shown that those latticeworks are actually for water retention placed in key parts of the park, Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City. They are not meant as walkways and as can be shown in the above picture there are clearly accessible pathways which are the actual paths.
While hostile architecture is always very much a thing to be on the lookout for, sadly sometimes we just gotta remember the ancient texts:
ALTReblogging because I'm fairly certain I blogged this previously and the new info ABSOLUTELY needs to be shared! We really need MORE architecture like this in concrete jungles to help allow water to return to the ground instead of into the sewer system.
The utter relief when you see something inaccurate and you’re scrolling going no…no! And then just when you’re about to have to resign yourself to writing a response or pretending you never saw this you see it’s already been handled.
Having an abusive parent is kinda funny in retrospect like mommy why do you have beef with me im 4 i love you
Haters (my dad) can't stand to see a bad bitch (me, nine years old) winning ("drawing too loud")
How do you draw too loud?
Well you see the thing is that child abuse is inherently irrational
