Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots
earlier today i saw that big bang theory was nominated for most popular comedy show over brooklyn nine nine and in this essay i’ll discuss why we, as a species, need another plague
B99 is cop propaganda while BBT has assisted many a parent to realize that their child may be autistic (Sheldon is bad representation overall, but better representation than most things and displays many of the symptoms that manifest during childhood.)
I’d rather be cop propaganda that frequently portrays the corruption and white straight male privilege within the service than continuously homophobic whilst promoting toxic masculinity and rape culture but go off I guess
Aside from Jake, the main characters of Brooklyn 99 are a two black men (one of whom is gay), two Latina women (one of whom is bisexual), a man who is literally not even close to what society considers tough or badass or masculine, and a woman who would usually just be a player off as comic relief with no real personality in any other show. all of them are portrayed as super badass and important to the plot and setting, it’s literally not “cop propogabda”. And the other two straight white guys are totally useless. What are you even talking about.
also, jake is jewish
B99: *criticises the police, makes racial profiling the main plot of one of their episode, frequently discusses just how terrible the police used to be, and criticises the prison and criminal justice systems and highlights their failings*
y’all: clearly this show is supposed to make cops look like they’re amazing angels who can Do No Wrong
not to mention that this show is the only one i’ve ever seen that points out how easy it is to buy a gun illegally, and also the only one i’ve ever seen where someone actually says the word “transphobic”
this show isn’t propaganda, it’s a vision of what the police could be if the whole goddamn system wasn’t rotten to the core
by the way the funniest thing ive read all week is this post on reddit i think where somebody asked for the pros and cons of different stem majors and so this one girl responded and she said she was a software engineer i believe and then she said “ok pro #1. i never have to wait in line for the bathroom ever again. there are more female restrooms in this building than there are women”
pro #2: growing up i was surrounded by so many saras. just. saras everywhere. which sara do you want? but now, as a software engineer, I am the only sara. the eleven marks weep in jealousy.
the marks smdjdjdjdjd YEAH when i took my first compsci class the lab section had twice as many nicks than there were women
someone was complaining to me about how there are too many ryans on the team, and i said “you wanna know how to fix that? hire more women” and the only other woman sitting nearby spat out her coffee
White dudes have this thing where they believe your best friend in the world can have opposing political ideas. You’re supposed to be able to have healthy debate and disagreeing shouldn’t harm your friendship. That’s gross and stupid. Its really easy to say that when all your disagreements are theoretical. Its easy to say when none of the laws passed actually effect your life. Fighting with your best friend about corporate regulations, school charters, educational funding, abortion, health care, voting restrictions, drug laws, taxes and all sorts of stuff is cool and lively because none of it is going to actually leave you in a bad spot. Its different for the rest of us. I can’t be friends with you if you think I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. We can’t be friends if you think my friends shouldn’t have the ability to designate whatever gender they want and have that be legally recognized. We can’t be friends if you think I don’t deserve health care. Or if you think native children should be ripped away from their cultures and people. We can’t be friends if you think closing down health care clinics in an attempt to end safe legal abortions is a good thing. All these theoretical political ideas and lively debates effect real people, and I won’t be friends with someone who disagrees with me on them. Because disagreement means you don’t see me or a whole bunch of my friends and family as human beings worthy of rights and respect.
When people moan about how politics use to be “civil” what they’re really complaining about is the entry into the debate of the people those policies actually effect. Bit hard to be “civil” when it’s your livelihood or your bodily rights on the line
Opinions on ice cream flavours, TV shows, and shipping can and should vary widely amongst friends.
Opinions on whether people should have rights cannot vary amongst my friends, and if they do, that person is no longer my friend.
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