jumpingjacktrash:

priestessamy:

acellura:

trans-mimikkyu:

In one episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine, they talk about how trans people have it difficult in prison. In the very next episode the sentence “Nothing is more attractive in a woman than the clear absence of a penis” is uttered.

It’s almost like B99 is a show made by liberals for liberals and its progressiveness is entirely performative.

Just want to point out since the post kind of glosses over the fact that the last sentence is uttered ironically by a gay character who is trying to pass as straight to distract a guard at a women’s prison. The running joke is that he believes straight people are transphobic and homophobic, so when he tries to pretend to be one, he acts that way. The joke is, no one around him acts like what he’s saying is off, making further commentary on how transphobic and homophobic our society is.

I feel like this is a really important point to clarify.

Look, I understand that we HAVE to be careful when we enjoy our media. Because literally any show could make a misstep and fuck it up. They could try to make a girl character gay by saying she ‘loves pussy’. They could have a dude in a dress for comedic effect. I’m sure I could come up with other obvious things but I don’t want my brain to go down that path.

And yeah, for a moment or two that joke did make me a touch uncomfortable. But acellura has a point here, the reason Holt would ever say something like that is precisely because he’s attempting to pretend he’s a member of the lowest common denominator (which he’s simulatenously awesome and terrible at). And let’s not forget last season they had the AMAZING line about the transphobia in Ace Ventura.

B99 isn’t always completely perfect (it is, ironically, just shy of 100% perfect) but it’s also trying WAY harder than a lot of shows out there. Always be critical of the media out there, but also don’t shame people for enjoying it I guess? I dunno.

you know what’s entirely performative?

nitpicking ambiguous moments in an extremely progressive show instead of taking on genuinely regressive tropes that are still being played unironically on a whole bunch of other ones.

like, game of thrones added extra bonus rapes, and you want to talk about holt pretending to be transphobic? really?

asterlunanova:

fandomshatepeopleofcolor:

White people are more likely to get hired because their names sounds white.

White kids are punished less for the same behavior than black kids

White convicts are more likely to get a job than black people without records.

A white person with no college degree is just as like to get hired as a black person with a college degree

All white juries (it’s starts on page 11) are  more likely to convict black criminals than white ones.

Black people are more likely to be stopped and frisked than white people even though they have a higher drug usage than us.

White people (majority of doctors) think that black people feel less pain

Black people get longer sentences than white people

White people use the majority of drugs but black people go to jail longer. This talks more about why our jails and prison are full of black and poor people

White people push for harsher laws when they think it will affect black people

Black people are more likely to get death penalty if their victim is white vs white people if their victims is Black. (Really it applies to all races. Any race that isn’t Black is less likely to get the death penalty if their victim is Black.)

Since this is much longer than the others if you scroll down to figure 5 and read the information about it that’s where this is detailed but the whole thing is a good read.

Reblogging this to here because I can never find examples of white privilege and systematic oppression when I go searching for it in our blog or my personal one.

Please, as a white person, do not let the only emotion you feel be guilt when reading this. White guilt does not help! Pity? Anger? Yes, those are okay but are still markers of privilege. Of observation. Whatever you feel…

Take this information if it is new to you, and let it motivate you to activate. If you see it happening, call it out. In your life, workplace, environment. Document it, end it. Step out of the way, listen, boost voices, and do not ever do it for praise, or conditionally. If a PoC is mean to you, work harder. They’re still angry. They have every reason to be. Let their anger at you motivate you to work harder for justice. They might never not be angry. A bad history is hard to forgive, let it be and try for a better future.

As they say, stay woke. Don’t ignore it. Ignorance is complicit. Don’t allow your freedom to lack of concern be yet another way you exercise your white privilege.

This isn’t some nebulous idea here. This is real people, real lives, kids, parents, people. Being harmed, hurt, killed. That should be motivation enough.