#ffs ppl

Buffy is far from boring. She’s dynamic, ever changing, lively, interesting - even if she annoys me sometimes, and is a bit hypocritical. I’ve called Buffy a hypocrite many times, so I may sound like a hypocrite myself for saying this, but aren’t we all a little hypocritical? And Buffy’s hypocrisy is nothing compared to Cordelia’s. 

More importantly though, how dare you call Cordelia, or any woman (fictional or real), a whore? Since Cordelia is not a sex worker, what does being a whore even mean? That you dislike her? That she has too much sex even though she barely has any? (Not that it would matter if she did.) That she’s rude and mean? Have you ever called Spike a whore? Does Cordelia show too much skin? Do you have an issue with seeing bare human legs? Does Cordelia’s interest in dating upset you? Because she wants to have a boyfriend like everyone else, or to be less lonely? Does Cordelia’s arrogance bother you? Have you ever called Angelus a whore? 

“Whore” is just another way of saying “I hate women”. It’s used so often against women that it doesn’t even have any meaning. And 9/10 times it’s used to judge women for things men are allowed to do freely - or for things like wearing a lot of makeup, revealing clothes, etc. because heaven forbid people wear and do what they want with their bodies without any harm to others!

She compared it to being in a dollhouse, people moving her around where they want her, making up their own storylines to fit their world better, or to fit their opinion of her better.  Make her more of who they think she is.  I think that goes for the media as well as the fans.   

From my own perspective, because I don’t know how it feels from Taylor’s, I feel like there are different kinds of shipping.  I personally don’t think there is anything wrong with harmless shipping.  It happens across every kind of media.  Books, movies, music, blogs like.,,,,,,,,,,,,literally everything.  People are always going to find the thought of two people being together interesting.  

It gets a bit messier when it involves real people.  This probably sounds like bullshit coming from me but I don’t really actively ship Harry and Taylor.  I obviously love the songs they’ve written about each other, but I also understand that they dated 7 years ago and are not currently pining over the other.  I try not to ship real people at all because it’s a slippery slope and it can become invasive and consuming.  Which we can easily see in this fandom, and the 1D fandom.  

It’s so important to remember that Taylor is a real person with real relationships and it’s not an act she’s putting on and performing for us.  With the media, referenced in the beginning of the rep tour, it was a constant “why’s she doing that when she used to do this, why is she hiding, why is she keeping her relationship so secretive this time?”  With some of her fans it’s calling Joe by something other than his name because they don’t like him.  It’s saying that Taylor and Karlie have been secretly dating for 5 years?????????????  It’s replaying blurry videos over and over trying to convince people that something might be happening.  It’s refusing to acknowledge her current relationship because you like her old relationship better.  It’s disrespectful and creepy and weird.  

*insert that pic of the guy smoking a cigarette and looking tired*

It’s detrimental to neurotypicals, you say? 

The non-ableist response is “then they should stop using it”, not “then we should ban them and keep them from kids who need them”. 

That’s like banning prescription glasses for everyone because it’s harmful to the vision of kids with 20-20 vision, without any regard for the impact on the health, well-being, and quality of education it would have on people who need glasses.

That's like blaming prescription glasses for making the vision of kids with 20/20 vision blurry. 

but i don't know man, every time the IRS comes out with an internal audit, im like who let these chucklefucks in charge?

"the taxpayer didn't use the exact language we got in our training scenario so we violated the law"