Zombie Elmyra

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”

And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know Transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

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So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

Jason Mantzoukas was cast as Dionysus in the hit Disney PJO adaptation. For those not familiar, Dionysus is one of the most beloved blorbos of Classics Tumblr™. His cult following among the "Greeks" and greekboos is to the point where they hold biannual witchhunts for artists who draw Dionysus as anything other than buff and pale white.

And yet not once has any of these diehard Dionysus fans celebrated the casting of Mantzoukas. I have yet to see fanart of him. There are no lust fueled readerxDionysus text posts. Nothing.

Even if…

• You tend to present toward your assigned gender just because it’s easier that way

• You don’t always feel like or think it’s worth it to correct people who misgender you

• You aren’t out to your closest family, friends, and/or S.O(s)

• Sometimes you are perfectly comfortable presenting in line with your assigned gender

• You don’t feel dysphoria everyday

• You didn’t start to notice/acknowledge your trans identity until later in life

• You aren’t ready to use the bathroom where YOU feel most comfortable

• You pass as cis and you’re okay with that

• You aren’t binary trans

• You are still working to discover who you truly are