Robin Thicke is unapologetic about how rapey ‘Blurred Lines’ is, meanwhile the dude who parodied it issues a public apology for one word.
And that is just one reason why I love Weird Al.
It’s great that he’s addressed this but are we really supposed to believe that NO ONE during the extremely lengthy processes of writing a song, recording it, mastering it and animating the music video wouldn’t have brought it up?
Excuse me but how the hell is spastic even remotely insulting?
So I just recently learned that in the UK calling someone spastic means the same thing as calling someone retarded, only much worse.
If it makes people in the UK feel any better, people in the US literally do not know this (like literally no one I have ever met and/or know). Here being spastic is usually meant to mean something along the lines of acting like a hyper-active child (like running around in circles yelling just because they feel like it please be quiet for just 2 minutes type of child). NOBODY here uses it as a slur.
Since Weird Al is a US musician and the US music industry is pretty non-international, yeah actually I think its entirely possible that none of the people who worked on this song actually knew that spastic was considered an awful slur in some parts of the world.
And I’m like 99.9999% sure that Weird Al is genuinely very sorry that he was accidentally offensive.
^^^^^
I just found out it is a slur by reading this.
Tag: important
i really like the advice “write marginalized characters but don’t write about marginalization unless you experience it”
absolutely i think cis people should expand their horizons and write trans characters, but they shouldn’t write stories about being trans. likewise i think allistic / NT authors should write about autistic characters! but not stories about being autistic.
represent us. absolutely. but don’t tell our stories. let us do that.
so john green was on the colbert report talking about the fault in our stars and he said that while he was writing it he made himself cry. like his own writing was so touching that it moved him to tears. lmfao how egotistical are you
I have tried to write and made myself cry multiple times like it just means you are passionate about what you do? i mean I’m fairly sure it happens how could you not bond with your characters
why do you people make every single thing john green says into this witch hunt narrative that portrays him as the Evil Cishet White Guy who’s coming to devour us why do you feel that you have to do that
NYT’s updates say Dylann Roof is now captured.
I HATE WHEN PEOPLE ARE GROSSED OUT BY UNUSED TAMPONS. THATS LIKE BEING GROSSED OUT BY UNUSED NAPKINS, OR CLEAN SHEETS, OR CLEAN UNDERWEAR. LIKE OMG ITS NOT GOING TO HURT YOU. ITS CLEAN. TAMPONS EXIST WHY DO WOMEN HAVE TO BE EMBARRASSED OR HIDE THEM. ugh
Once I had an unopened box of tampons in plain view and my stepdad acted like that was some huge breach of social etiquette. I asked why on earth he was acting so weird about it, and he said, “Well you wouldn’t want me leaving a box of condoms lying around would you?”
Okay first of all, that you’re even implying that tampons and condoms are comparable items is fucking stupid since condoms are used for sex and tampons are used to like, you know, not bleed all the fuck over ourselves during this biological function none of us can stop. So that begs the question of why the fuck you’re sexualizing periods or items required to live hygienically during one, wherein the answer is that you believe vaginas are inherently sexual and only exist as something to stick your dick in. Because me leaving an unopened box of tampons in view is literally the same thing as leaving a stick of deodorant or a bar of fucking soap out on the counter if you’re considering them by their function. But God forbid I remind you vaginas exist in neutral everyday circumstances and that they don’t just manifest when you wanna fuck one.
Lots of important lines in here
sorry I just really love this okay
🐸☕️ #staywoke
!!!!!BREAKING UPDATE!!!!!!
Teen who recorded the incident at a McKinney suburban community pool is speaking out about what happened. She said that it all started when two white women made racial slurs/comments to the black teens. When the women wouldn’t stop after several warnings, that’s when a fight ensued.
It just keeps getting worse….
… Bet money the officer knew this information.
Of course they knew they always know
cast actual teenagers as teenage characters campaign 2k15
Reminder that genderbends are wrong
reminder that genderbends are cissexist
reminder that genderbends erase trans men, trans women, non binary ppl and intersex ppl
reminder that genderbends reinforce the idea that only two genders exist
reminder that genderbends reinforce the idea that if your genitalia changes so does your gender identity change
reminder that instead of genderbends you can do trans headcanons
reminder that trans people exist
Except that none of this is true. Many trans people, myself in included, enjoy genderbends, because we realize that they don’t actually have anything to do with us. A genderbend is nothing like a trans headcanon, and the one can’t replace the former.
Genderbends are great ways to explore presentation, sexism, or just experiment with character design. They are not hurting trans people.
shoutout to mixed race people who don’t know exactly what race(s) they are and may never have a way of knowing
shoutout to mixed race people who freeze up when someone asks “where are you from”
shoutout to mixed race people who don’t know how to label themselves
shoutout to mixed race people who are sick of having other people define their identities
shoutout to mixed race people who feel disconnected from their cultures and have no way of accessing them
shoutout to mixed race people who can’t talk with their parents about race
shoutout to mixed race people who feel like they don’t belong anywhere
shoutout to mixed race people who feel like they “aren’t (x) enough”
shoutout to mixed race people who feel like their opinions and experiences aren’t important
shoutout to mixed race people
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