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-YOU. CAN BE. A TRANS DAD.
-there is also a trans dad you can date.
-there are canon bisexual dads.
-all the dad humor is fucking A+
-Hearing the game grumps do random Foley noises
-danny saying “I may be bad, but you made me glad” and you can hear him holding back laughter
-when a bad band plays at a concert, it’s literally just the grumps yelling and banging on pots in the background
-AMANDA IS THE BEST DAUGHTER SINCE ELLIE FROM THE LAST OF US
-the minigames………
-they don’t make a big deal out of the gay thing like……..it’s funny because it’s dad humor, not because it’s gay???
-also like… it’s just a cute game. It’s so pure.
Good job, you guys. This is a super cute game, and the representation makes me wanna cry.
the extent to which straight people don’t get gay humour is incredible like the whole thing is a satirisation of how gay people have been treated for years like the reason we say “___ is for gays only” is because yall have been going around calling everything you don’t like gay and we’re making fun of that dumb mindset and taking away the power of it and having fun and yall still come onto every gay satire post with this “what if straight people said this about you” like you have?? that’s why the post was made in the first place i don’t understand how yall are this oblivious it’s honestly baffling to me
hey quick q idk if it's been answered already but have aros & aces historically been a part of the lgbt community? like whats the history? idk im just seein all this ace discourse & idk where to stand. ty!
All right, my answer may be long because I think it is important to make sure we have a nuanced discussion around this.
The answer to this question is not a clear one. There are instances where asexual and aromantic people have been excluded from the queer community, but there are also instances where they have been included.
The problem with saying “Aces have always been a part of the queer community” or “Aces have never been a part of the queer community” is that you will be wrong either way.
Asexual and aromantic people have historically had to face exclusion from the queer community, and they still do today. They have also historically been a part of the queer community (I will always point people to The Golden Orchid because I think it is one of the most clear examples of asexual and aromantic inclusion in the queer community).
So to have this discussion in a clear and healthy way we need to first divorce ourselves of the idea that the queer community is some monolithic thing.
We have always had division; and in every place and in every time period the queer community is different. Queer people haven’t generally been able to organize on a global scale, so there is no truth of the queer community that is true everywhere and in every time.
The internet has given us an advantage in that we can have discussions internationally within the queer community, which has never happened before to the scale it is happening today. Which makes right now a turning point for the queer community.
The decisions we make today will be recorded in the history books of tomorrow. So it is time for us all to decide what kind of community we want to be.
Throughout history we have examples of when our community has been exclusive and catered only to a select few identities, and we have examples of the opposite happening. We have examples of people coming together to fight for the rights and the safety of not only people who share their exact struggle but for people who face a whole different set of obstacles. And it is time for us all to decide what type of people we want to be remembered as.
The very word queer is vague which many people now find issue with but I think is a distinct advantage. It does not narrow our community down to a series of labels we care about.
And if I have learned anything from my ongoing study of queer history, it is that how society has treated different sexual and gender identities has changed throughout time. And to assume that will stop with us seems pretty arrogant.
There have been times when being gay has been accepted in certain societies. But because of these times does that mean that gay people don’t deserve a place in the queer community? Of course not.
I fully believe there have been times when asexual and/or aromantic people have been fully accepted in society at certain points. But now is not that time. So we include them. We fight for them because right now that is what is needed.
I love the queer community. For all it’s many flaws I have faith in it. One of the reasons I love it is because of how inclusive we have the power to be.
I cannot make this decision for anyone else. But as someone who studies queer history, I can say that while the past can give us much, it is ultimately the present and the future we must make our decisions for.
“In 1974, four years after publishing his first children’s book about the close friendship between Frog and Toad, the author and illustrator Arnold Lobel told his family he was gay.”
tracer is undeniably non binary sry. i always saw her as gender non-conforming and that she’s comfortable dressing however she likes but still identifiable as a butch lesbian
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Ya know one day I should write a modern Macbeth where Macduff is a bamf lady born of her trans father and then she kills Macbeth and marries Lady Macbeth
Macdick: no man born of woman can harm Macbeth!
Macduff: uh well I’m not a man, and I was born of my trans father so. Eat your devastated argument on a bed of crispy lettuce. Wham
And then she stabs him
Fuck it, a whole book of queer feminist rewritings of Shakespeare
Modern Much Ado about Nothing where Hero tells Claudio to get fucked and dates Margaret instead
Modern The Tempest where Miranda refuses to be a pawn for all these trash men in her life and takes charge and gets her own ass off the damn island and becomes a badass lady pirate
Modern Merchant of Venice that isn’t horrifically antisemitic
Modern Twelfth Night where when Viola’s identity is revealed Olivia still loves her and they get married
(Since queer representation remains relatively scarce in this genre, note that while many of these books DO discuss queer themes at length — and that all contain at least one queer character — a few do not revolve around said character(s) and/or are not centered around queer themes.)
In addition, goodreads.com has shelves for just about everything; one look at its Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ones can uncover some of the many books I couldn’t fit on this one post!
The first gay Disney character is literally named The Fool
He’s unrequitedly in love with a straight man
A straight man who bullies and abuses him
Le Fou will 99% likely NOT get a happy ending
He’s being played by someone known to be straight
His sexuality is basically a joke
His sexuality is likely to be the butt of a joke the entire movie
We already know the character will be the butt of the joke even if his sexuality itself isn’t
His entire role in the movie is to be evil and stupid comic relief and boost Gaston’s self-esteem
He’s described as “confused”
Queercoding villains and Disney go together like peanut butter and jelly
Disney is patting itself on the back for all of this
His character description is stereotypical
Le Fou being gay for Gaston is already something of a cultural joke
He’s barely in the movie
He’s the only gay person in a love story, he will end up alone and evil
People have been saying how you could improve the story by making it gay for years and of all the ideas this is the worst possible option for picking a gay character
We coulda had lesbian Beast
Kids will have this as their first gay Disney character
For some kids this will be their first gay character period
It will be their ONLY gay Disney character
They chose to make a shot for shot remake of the animated movie with the most whitebread actors and the only thing they want to change up is making the evil fool gay
Disney could get away with any kind of lgbt character because they are a monolith yet they choose this
Translating “Le Fou” as simply “The Fool” is being too generous. Here’s a dictionary definition of Fou:
They literally took someone whose name meant that and decided that was a great character to make gay. In an era where our dear vice president believes in violent conversion therapy for our “illness”, they decide to do that. That is what upsets me the most. (Though the other parts are certainly bad too.)
