im da bes

itty bitty boys

Mississippi boys

inner city boys

I like the pretty boys with the bow tie

Get your nails did, let it blow dry

I like a big beard, 

I like a clean face

I don’t discriminate, come and get a taste

From the playboys 

to the gay boys

Go and slay, boys, you my fave boys

please compare the lyrics of same love by macklemore and you need to calm down by taylor swift and then ask again why so many people are upset about the latter

compare macklemore trying (albeit a bit clumsily at times) trying to put himself in the shoes of gay people in order to draw attention to how lgbt people are treated…

…to taylor swift comparing mean tweets about her and people calling her a snake to homophobia

compare macklemore describing institutional oppression and specifically about how entities like the church treat lgbt people…

…to the only two lines in you need to calm down that explicitly mention gay people being a pun on glaad and “cause shade never made anybody less gay”

compare macklemore’s message of same love being that the fact that he isnt gay is irrelevant to his support of gay people, because love is the same, emphasized by the fact that he has a lesbian (mary lambert) sing about her love towards a woman in the chorus…

…to taylor swift using the pronoun “we” like she is in the same crowd as lgbt people right after invalidating and downplaying the systematic oppression and subjugation we face by putting it on the same level as internet hate she receives

i’m mad because “you need to calm down” is shallow. its flimsy allyship. i will not support her for just for “trying” when it seems like she hardly tried at all.

straight allies can do better. straight allies HAVE done better. “same love” was released SEVEN YEARS AGO. 

SEVEN YEARS AGO macklemore used his status as one of the hottest names in music at the time, from massive hits like thrift shop and can’t hold us, to put a song on the RADIO that featured a lesbian explicitly singing about loving women and included the lines “not crying on sundays” and “a world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are” and “no freedom til we’re equal damn right i support it” and a bunch of others that were poetic and meaningful and ACTUALLY ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA