This actually explains a lot. Everyone who’s raved about Frozen should read this.
Interesting look at “Frozen” and some of its themes and how it portrays them.
“I don’t want Frozen to be good enough. I’ve spent more than enough words explaining why I think it spits in the face of what we should be thinking of as feminism, and how, like a schoolyard bully, it ennobles itself by mocking its predecessors. I don’t want to think that, when I perhaps have daughters some day, this is what I will be able to take them to see; still less do I want to think that the older, more progressive features will have been deemed irrelevant in favour of the new, Frozen-style model. I applaud the attempt to broaden the range of multi-faceted female characters in animation; I appreciate the intent of having two women in prominent roles instead of the usual one, but I want to see better. And the more effusive praise we heap on a movie that shouldn’t even be good enough, the less likely it is that better will ever happen.”
Started reading it thinking it would be a “Social justice” allegate (and prepared to rage against it) and then it became a list of all the reasons Frozen is just another average Disney movie and not even better than the previous ones. Actually I enjoyed the defense of the classical ones and very specially the prince as a bonus prize thing. An awesome reading. Enjoyed it very very much!
This is a good look at how I felt about the film, my personal rage about character design, cultural appropriation and whitewashing aside. Definitely an interesting read!
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I will keep the tumblr app for a while because of this:
Who wants this url? Url for sale; i mean free. Take it message me this url is for the taking.
Now i will proceed to only check tumblr for messages about this url only every now and then.
girl scouts are letting in trans* girls and letting girls replace God with whatever they want in the pledge, also they use cookie income to support abortion and LGBT agendas
boy scouts are just now allowing gays in, officially in january, but gay leaders are still banned and they’re talking about segregation on camping trips, with gays and straights in different tents. also they still ban atheists,
girl scouts: 10000 boy scouts: 0
Wario, I recently lost a friend because they thought that my saying "bullying is wrong regardless of sexual identity/preference" instead of "it's wrong to bully LGBTQ+" was somehow problematic. Did I actually say something wrong, or are they being a bit too exclusionary in what they consider acceptable social justice?
Was the intent of what you said meant to be “Dont bully anyone, including straight people”? Have you said or reblogged any posts like that in the past? Because from that specific wording, it definitely sounds like that’s what you meant.
WAH, consider it this way: LGBTQIA people are bullied all the time, constantly for their sexual orientation when they’re perceived to not be straight and cis. Queer folk are out there being attacked, harassed, abused, left homeless, and killed. That does not happen to straight cis people specifically for the reason of being straight and cis.
The worst straight cis people get is a few jokes at their expense on a social media website. Maybe they say something really ignorant or bigoted and get a few angry (for good reason) responses. This does not constitute bullying.
So saying “Don’t bully straight people either” is at best, essentially meaningless, and at worst (and it’s usually for worse), leads down the whole “heterophobia/cisphobia is REAL” road. Saying “don’t bully straight people either” is comparing the violence LGBTQIA people experience to someone making a harmless joke about straight people being like fruit flies. It’s derailing an important discussion about how LGBTQIA people are unsafe in the world we live in. Straight cis people need to just get over it.
Bullying is a cycle and ongoing pattern of abuse mainly carried out through harassment, using emotional, psychological, and even physical forms of violence. Too many people have appropriated the word bullying to refer to isolated instances of being insulted or even threatened.
Yes, even if you do get one death threat, that’s still not bullying. Bullying is a cycle and pattern of abuse. It needs to be ongoing for it to be considered bullying.
The effects of bullying are psychological and emotional traumas. It can even lead to the development of anxiety disorders and even PTSD.
This is the reason why people claiming single instances of attacks as bullying to be misappropriation and even ableist. It is equating a cycle of abuse that can lead to mental illnesses to a single “Haha you’re ugly, cis”.
Another thing to keep in mind is that LGBTQIA isn’t the only system of oppression bullies use as an arsenal of weapons against their victims. They can also rely on racism, misogyny, classicism, and ableism. And victims of bullying often find that bullies do not withhold from using more than one whenever they can. This is where people who belong to more than one marginalized group can find themselves under a barrage of different missiles, all with the intent of ruining their minds and physical well being.
The importance in understanding the difference between bullying and simply experiencing hurt feelings, along with the reality that it often rides on the backs on whatever form of marginalization and oppression it can find, is that it can affect and distort the message you want to convey.
You have to be aware of these issues so you can properly tailor your words to avoid accidentally trivializing the experiences of victims of bullying. I think what your problem is, anon, is that within the context you made that statement that statement trivialized the experiences LGBTQIA victims of bullying suffer. Perhaps a better way to communicate your intended message was to say “Bullying is wrong. No one deserves to be victims of ongoing pattern of abuse. ” If it was within a conversation about victims of bullying who became targets for being LGBTQIA, then the appropriate response to that is along the lines of “It is terrible that LGBTQIA people are so constantly targeted by bullies. It is not fair to abuse people just because they are not cis and straight”. To try to say “But LGBTQIA people are not the only possible victims of bullying” can be derailing the point of the argument, which is just plain rude and malicious.
Let’s put it this way if I started a conversation on my experiences of being bullied for ableist reasons, I would wish to have someone jump in and say “But abled people can get bullied too”. I know that, but rarely if ever anyone talks about the bullying that many people suffer for being physically/mentally differently abled/disabled or for being ill. And I wouldn’t take kindly to someone trying to derail and conversation that so rarely ever happens but needs to still needs to be had because disabled/differently abled people deserve to speak out and be heard as well.
See, there’s a time and place to make anti-bullying statements. You have to make sure that within the context that it happens, you do not derail and ultimately silence the voices of victims of bullying.
[Image: Wario smiling proudly at the extremely insightful, well-spoken, and thoughtful response]
all of this plus the commentary — appropriating ‘bullying’ when you get your privileged feelings hurt is one of my pet peeves. i have this crap thrown at me constantly whenever i post frustrations about lbgtqia+ issues. bullying is not one isolated incident of ‘shut the fuck up straightie’.
“Don’t die, i mean like, how else am I going to have a cool blog????????”
Do you have any idea how this sounds?
‘I need you’ wow. This is not how you send someone who is suicidal a message… But I guess I can’t be picky, right? I can already hear the “they tried to show you that they care!!!” and various other messages..
Look you probably mean well but its just not that …tactful? because you make it sound like im just my blog or smth
“Dont feel like killing yourself because I wanna continue laughing about your blog”
You really think i care about my blog right now?
Nvm pretend i didnt say anything, anything at all
Last post of tonight if not ever, idk: im not going to tsunacon. Sorry. I dont feel like it i dont feel like any kind of con i dont want to i dont have money and i dont see why i should go at all.
In other news Shakespeare has risen from the dead and announced that he regrets the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. He now believes that Romeo and Mercutio should have married.
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