If you bring up vegans eating food picked by underpaid immigrants but stay silent about underpaid workers working for animals agriculture then maybe you don’t actually care about underpaid immigrants workers at all idk just a thought
Imagine hating trans men so much that you read the history of someone who presented as a man for so long that most people only discovered he was ~biologically female~ after his fucking autopsy and be like “well clearly he was just gender fluid” I’m fucking
he specifically asked to be buried in the clothes he died in!!!!! we only know he was trans bc someone disrespected his direct wishes after his death!!!!!!
ah i know this is obvious advice but like: dont let your friends vaguepost about you. its disrespectful and passive aggressive and makes it a lot harder to facilitate safe discussions. also dont vaguepost about your friends thats childish
look like I’m not trying to defend or excuse vagueposting but this discussion could have more nuance
when you feel sad or abandoned or betrayed, it can be super hard for you to talk to whoever you feel is abandoning you, especially if you think that person already hates you. turning to social media to express your feelings is definitely not always a healthy mechanism and sometimes you wind up vagueposting when you’re only trying to express your sadness and fear. that doesn’t mean vagueposting is ok but let’s recognise it’s not always born out of childish or cruel people who are purposefully causing anxiety, but sometimes it’s born out of people who are still learning how to have emotional regulation and communicate properly.
yah i mean ok but also vaguing your friends is passive aggressive and disrespectful and if thats born from anxiety or mental illness you still need to deal with that and you should still not allow your friends to treat you that way. dont vague your friends in 2019
some of you never played online dressup games while sitting in a huge beat up desk chair while being yelled at by your mom when you were kids and it shows. grow up
shows nowadays always try to be clever with “metaphors” for racism and homophobia and whatnot. but back in 2004, static shock just said the shit outright. they had multiple episodes about combating racism and discussing static’s issues he encounters being a black superhero. they had episodes about combating homophobia. static’s best friend was canonically gay and they actually said the word gay, IN A KIDS CARTOON IN 2004. richie foley was the first gay character i ever saw on tv. why are shows nowadays so tiptoey about it? theyll have gay characters but bever actually have the characters talk about being gay or use the word “gay”.
static shock was super ahead of its time and is still to this day one of my favorite cartoons ever… im so excited for the live action static shock reboot thats in production, static has always been my favorite dc hero!!
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