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listen i dont know why we're pretending classism is only 'billionaires vs everybody else' and how they are the only people who benefit from their wealth but im so tired of this. i mean it SHOULD be. but thats not how the "well off" operate. people need to focus this energy on getting the "well off" to align with the poor. Because they benefit from the poor's oppression too and they think they're closer to billionaires when they will never be.

poor people dont need to be "reminded" that children of wealthy families shouldn't feel guilty about their families' wealth. the children of the wealthy and well off need to be reminded that the poor are human beings who deserve not to be exploited and treated like subhuman. that the system made them poor and keeps them poor, not bad choices or bad decisions. there's no morality in being poor. they aren't bad people and shouldn't be judged based on how much labor they produce. the well off need to fuckin put in work to dismantle classism and fight against exploitation.

Been seeing this get passed around, apparently from tiktok(?):

Nah. Fuck you extremely much.

Listen, I’m glad that Luca is a good movie and that it has so much subtext that speaks to queer people. But that’s all it is. Subtext. It is not text, and not representation.

Meanwhile, CMBYN was directed by an openly gay Italian man. It is the story of two queer Jewish men in Italy (who actually ARE queer characters, not just subtextually interpreted as such) and was based on a book by a queer Jewish Italian man who drew heavily on his own life experiences of growing up queer and Jewish in Italy. 

Meanwhile Luca is by a megacorporation and about a pair of sea monster boys who have never and will never exist, because sea monsters do not exist. 

Who knows, maybe one of the writers intended Luca to be metaphorical for queerness and just had to hyper-sanitize it to make it a Disney-Pixar film. Maybe some of the people who worked on the film are queer. And no, we aren’t entitled to know creators’ personal lives in order to decide whether or not they’re allowed to write queer stories or not.

Luca, while being an excellent film, was so far as we know not intended to be a queer story. It was intended to be a fairly standard coming-of-age story, aka Disney & Pixar’s bread and butter. Meanwhile, CMBYN is a textually queer story about two queer characters falling in love, was directed by an openly queer man, and is based on the book and life experiences of another openly queer man. 

But nah, because y’all have decided that CMBYN has a ‘problematic’ age gap (aka a completely legal pair of adults in Italy, the culture in which it takes place, having a relationship that is fully embedded in that culture) y’all have decided that you’d rather deepthroat megacorp boot rather than support ACTUAL FUCKING QUEER REPRESENTATION.

If you’d rather have sanitized subtext where you can freely impose your own sanitized, feel-good interpretations of queerness onto the text without having to wrestle with the intrinsic messiness of an actual on-screen relationship, fine. But don’t shit on the actual queer art by actual queer people that’s out there just because the mess threatens your poor little mass-consumption-generated sensibilities.

You want queer rep in your media? Try actually appreciating it and boosting it instead of shitting on it in favour of yet more family-friendly oscar-baiting Mouse content.

Turns out OP of the tiktok was also shitting on Love Simon. In fact looking through the Luca tag there are multiple posts shitting on Love Simon.

Y'all. Love Simon was directed by an openly gay man. It is based on a book written by an openly bi woman.

Furthermore, Disney is the very company that booted Love Simon’s sequel series bc despite being PG13 and dealing w/ issues that are mentioned elsewhere on Disney + (except in straight media), they decided it wasn’t “family friendly”

& let’s not even mention what Disney did to Nimona.

But nah keep going on about how the megacorp is your friend and uwu representation bae more than actual queer creators. See how that turns out for ya.