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not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

okay. how do I put this. if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, you will find yourself not liking most of the people you meet because you'll be looking for any excuse to write them off as unbearable losers. I know this is hard to hear but sometimes the problem is you.

You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

now we have to have a tv movie where doctor billie piper is gunned down and promptly killed by the american healthcare system, only for her to regenerate into slutty paul mcgann again.

they should make it illegal to end your story with an epilogue where your main female character is suddenly randomly married and has children when she's never once expressed a desire for this previously

people in the notes of this post being like "oh well it makes sense in canon why she would change her mind about wanting to start a family after the events of the conflict are over, there's a reason for it, let her have her happy ending." okay but fictional characters are not real people, they do not make these choices, their writers do. and those choices are not ideologically neutral, they stem from somewhere. and that place is misogyny in the cases where an author decides that becoming a wife and mother is The ideal happy ending for a woman. that's what the post is about, not a complaint that it's ooc or whatever (though it is often that too)

Doctor who showrunners be like “writing a good story to secure the show’s continued existence? That pales in comparison to my strategy. Stuntcasting Billie piper” and then not even secure the show’s continued existence.

I’m just thinking about how Golden Girls is Carol’s favorite show. Golden Girls never spoke badly about gay people. In fact they had multiple episodes where they had gay characters both lesbians and gay men who were talked about positively for the entire episode. It was one of the very first American shows to show a lesbian character in a positive light. Of course it’s Carol’s favorite shows. Raised in a violently homophobic household and existing in a time where so many other shows on TV at the probably made gay people the butt of the joke if they even existed at all. Of course she clung to the one show that told her she was okay and perfect as she was