Ruining everyone you love forever.
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More Margaret Cho!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/margaret-cho-wants-celebrities-to-shatter-the-glass-closet
Apparently homophobia is the responsibility of people who aren’t in a secure place to come out, and outing people without their consent is righteous and noble. Or something.
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Yunel Escobar writes "You Are A Faggot" in Spanish on his face for a game Because professional athletes can be assholes too!
[tw: slurs]
Yunel Escobar, a player for the Toronto Blue Jays, thought it would be a good idea to write “you are a faggot” on his face in Spanish right before a game. He responded to the uproar by using every single possible shitty excuse he could think of, from blaming the queer community for “misinterpreting” his actions, to stating “I don’t have anything against homosexuals. I have friends that are gay.”
He was suspended for three games, and his salary for the three games were donated to You Can Play and GLAAD. -
Child, please have a stadium of seats.
I saw this coming at LEAST a year ago.
#DoubleAgent #WaitTilTheCopsCome #BitchGoneBeGone
No.
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Clearly folks need a guide or something for when this happens, because the amount of bullshit that spawns from it each time is sickening.
Oh no! A celebrity you like has fucked up! They have said something bigoted! What ever shall you do?!
Step one: Acknowledgement.
- Acknowledge that they are not perfect. But them being only human is not an excuse. They need to apologize sincerely for their fuckup, and not be treated as infallible gods just because you like/are attracted to them.
what does this mean? It means not attacking threads where people are talking about that fuckup, or expressing their feelings about said fuckup. It means holding them accountable, and not dismissing the fucked up thing they said/did just because you like them.Step two: Accountability.- Has your celeb apologized sincerely? Just saying “GAWD I’M SO SORRY I OFFENDED THE PC POLICE” doesn’t count as a real apology, and in fact removes said celeb’s accountability for their mistake, by placing the blame for their bigoted remark on the people it targets, instead of on themselves for making the comment in the first place.
- If your celeb HAS INDEED apologized sincerely, so what? No one is required to forgive them, and kiss the ground they walk on. If your celeb has fucked up, people (especially the people it affects) are allowed to recall the event in question, and criticize the celeb for making said comment, even if they apologized afterward.
what does this mean? It means that people recalling bigoted things said by a celebrity you like and having negative feelings about them because of it is valid. And you are not allowed to whine and complain about it just because “BUT THEY’RE SO HAWT”. Are you five? No one is preventing you from liking them, however, valid concerns or criticisms aren’t the fires of hell. Deal with it.
Step three: Do not whine.
- Stop whining because people are angry that someone you like did something fucked up. You’re not five years old, you should be able to understand that not everyone is able to blindly hero worship the celebs you like. We are all different people, and we’re not going to be able to up and forget things that added to the already numerous amount of bullshit the rest of us have to deal with. Just because your “Asian friend” wasn’t offended by a racist joke doesn’t mean that every other Asian PoC now has to forgive them by default. And if you’re citing your friend’s opinion as though it somehow validates racist behavior, you need to sit in a corner by yourself until you stop being a fuckhead.
- it is not “hating” on the celeb you love to talk about past mistakes they made.
- Lastly, no one wants to hear how disappointed YOU as a fan are that they made the mistake. Don’t enter threads talking about their bigoted/oppressive behavior to whine about how it affects you (especially if it doesn’t.)
what does this mean? It means making posts whining about how hurt you are that people are “hating” on So-and-so is inappropriate, because legitimate criticisms of bigoted behavior are not hate. And if you’re seeing it that way, then perhaps a step back is in order, because your personal feelings don’t make it okay for you to attempt to silence valid complaints about a famous person.Step four: It’s not about you.
- After the fuckup, it is not appropriate to bring up other good things this celeb has done as a counter argument as to ‘why this isn’t so bad’. If you are not in the group affected by the fuckup, it is not up to you to determine how bad it actually was. Just because So-and-so saves puppies in their spare time doesn’t make their racist comment any less fucked up. Clearly the puppies didn’t stop them from saying it, so how is their existence relevant to the conversation?
- Someone disliking a celeb you like is not a personal affront. It’s not your job to insult them because “oh come on that was so long ago”, especially if no apology was made, or if further fuckups ensued.
It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about you.And if your response to their fuckup is to talk about how it’s “sew mean and reverse raysist that people are even bringing it up like this”, have your mother tuck you in, because it is far past your bedtime, fetus.I forgot the fifth step:
Step five: yes, saying something bigoted makes you a bigot.
- If your celeb has said something racist: yes, they are racist. If they say something cissexist or transmisogynist: yes, they are cissexist. You liking them does not change reality. And the reality is: clearly they espouse problematic ideals, and no amount of hero worship will change that. And if people call them on their behavior, your response should not be “BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE THEM A BIGOT”. Yes it does. It absolutely does.
Not a receipt, but important for this blog.
(via hyenaboy)
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cataquacks replied to your post: im sure there was not a single PoC actor fit to…
Depp is a member of the cherokee nation soooo
Controversy arose over both the adoption and Depp’s portrayal of a Native American character,[85] as Depp was not raised in, nor has confirmable ancestry from, a Native American community, though he has said he “guesses” he may have some distantCherokee or Creek ancestry.[9] Some have wondered why he has not verified his Native American ancestry with the Cherokee or any tribe when the information is easily available.[86] His comment that if you’re Native American, “you have to think, somewhere along the line, I’m the product of some horrific rape” was believed by many Indians to be ignorant and insensitive.[87]
OH MY GOD EW
gOD AS SOMEONE WHO IS LITERALLY ALONG THE LINE THE PRODUCT OF A HORRIFIC RAPE I AM SO DISGUSTED BY JOHNNY DEPP RIGHT NOW
UGH IM ALSO BLACK CHEROKEE LIKE HONESTLY THERE ARE SO MANY CHEROKEE INDIANS WHO WOULD LOVE TO GET A JOB LIKE THAT????? LIKE??? FUCK THERE ARE NATIVE AMERICAN ACTORS IN THIS WORLD BLEGH
(via misandrwitch)
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[Note: Most likely fake]
oh my god i can’t get over this
For the love of God, would someone kick that boy’s ass?
I’ve tried to do some digging on this and I’m sure that someone just made that up.
Is this even legit or is everyone just believing everything that tumblr says?
Mod R Note: I can’t find a source on this either. I did find some people talking about this “tweet” in a thread on a website dated back to 2011. I can’t go back that far in Bieber’s twitter timeline, though. Unless someone can confirm this is real, I’m going to call fake as well.
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Wow. I didn’t think it was possible but Trump actually trumped his own idiocy with this.
Donald Trump, warning all women of the world to avoid alone time with him.
^^^
(via deliciouskaek)
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Chris Evans publicly outed his little brother in an interview.
http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2009/12/30/chris-evans-outed-bro-scott-advocate
(Mod R Note: Reminder that even though he was okay with it, it is always unacceptable to out someone without permission.)
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Oh, Darren Criss.
I knew this day would come. I knew it.
What the fuck are you even trying to say here?
Do you not understand how super anti-Black and, well, misogynist this is?
How is this a funny joke?
Why is the punchline ‘huge Black woman’?
I think you need to stfu.
omg. I’m watching the interview when he says this…
and, well, it only got worse because he is like
“this is meant as a compliment to both Filipino girls and huge Black women”
sorry, buddy, it really isn’t.
at all.
(and I’m speaking as a reasonably small, definitely Filipina, pretty girly-type girl. not at all complimented. I’m not a singer. and if i were? I still wouldn’t sound like a ‘huge Black woman’. like. don’t you get how you just dehumanized and used Amber Riley as punchline? Like. you like saying glee is a family, but apparently Amber doesn’t count. Or she does and you just hate Black people)
(via thdoctor)
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In which Stephen Fry (and Germaine Greer) makes some hideous comments about women and their sexuality.
Some choice quotes include:
- “The only women you can have sex with like that [referring to sex with strangers] wish to be paid for it.”
- “‘Sex is the price they [women] are willing to pay for a relationship”
- ” A lot of women will deny this and say, ‘Oh no, but I love sex, I love it’. But do they go around having it the way that gay men do?”
He then went on to say he was “misquoted”, and when that absolutely did not fly, pulled out the old “it was just a joke taken out of context” routine.
BONUS: Germain Greer, feminist author, responding to Stephen Fry’s comments, said: “If [Stephen Fry] thinks that women are not interested in genital encounters with total strangers, he is absolutely right.”
