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in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

“But he’s being cocky, that’s what led to his well-deserved downfall” everyone in this series is cocky. You are hardly a DB character if you aren't. Unfortunately, the series goes back and forth on its message behind this. Vegeta, being the prime example of the narrative deciding whether he is punished for his arrogance, or rewarded

Yamcha on the other hand, only really displays his sense of self-confidence to build up his comrades’ morale. He also wants to give them a chance to analyze their opponents and save their energy. If he fails they at least know what they are up against.

They might be adults now, and he recognizes that Goku is stronger than him, but that doesn’t stop Yamcha from fulfilling his duties as the Turtle School’s Big Brother.

You also can’t really call it a case of “overconfidence” or “cockiness” when Yamcha literally had a premonition things were going to go very wrong for them. He’d rather Krillin not take the fall