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happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgender identities we aren't even aware of

What if Grace made a lopsided crochet Rocky and cuddled it every night.

What if Rocky couldn’t stop making xenonite puppets of his alien friend.

I see people saying “He needs to address the hurt he’s caused” but what did Hudson do specifically?

Someone drew a disgusting and hateful symbol on him. Then someone took a picture and posted it.

He didn’t draw it. He didn’t post the pic. The TMZ statement said he didn’t know what was being drawn on him.

So, where is he at fault in this situation? What exactly should he be apologizing for? Or what does he “need to be held accountable for”- being around terrible people as a teenager?

I see people saying “He needs to address the hurt he’s caused” but what did Hudson do specifically?

Someone drew a disgusting and hateful symbol on him. Then someone took a picture and posted it.

He didn’t draw it. He didn’t post the pic. The TMZ statement said he didn’t know what was being drawn on him.

So, where is he at fault in this situation? What exactly should he be apologizing for? Or what does he “need to be held accountable for”- being around terrible people as a teenager?

first, these people have to be deep-diving night after night after night to drag this stuff back up. then they get on twitter and go “good, finally, hope this ends him,” which is such a bizarre level of investment in a stranger’s life. these aren’t things he ever shared publicly. they’re photos pulled from other people’s posts, loosely connected to him, from more than a decade ago

but what actually gets under my skin is that he’s a man of color. frankly, that’s half the reason this witch hunt exists in the first place. the internet will bend over backwards for white actors and then suddenly discover a passion for accountability when it’s a man of color people have gotten too attached to

but also he isn't just a man of color now—he was a man of color growing up in a small town full of WHITE white people. everybody always thinks “oh, polite little canada." no. it is not like that. genuinely bigoted people. anyone who grew up as the minority kid in a town like that knows exactly what i’m talking about.

people don’t understand what it’s like when you’re surrounded by people who constantly do weird, degrading, or outright awful things to you and around you, and your survival strategy becomes rolling with it because fitting in is already hard enough. you don’t necessarily participate, but you don’t always push back either, because you’re already the one on unstable ground. you cannot afford to be the person who rocks the boat!!

and what’s striking to me is that in every single one of these dipshit posts, the constant isn’t him. it’s the people around him. every photo has the same dynamic: a crowd of people turning him into the class clown at the center of the joke while they laugh. and sometimes when you’re fifteen and outnumbered, you just take it, what a fucking crime