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villiljos:

laurenfelton:

Even his campaign is problematic if you ask me. I’m more fond of the “MAKE it better” campaign created in response to it…

I’m really out of the loop here. What has he done to earn disrespect, and what is the problem with the campaign? I’ve only seen a couple of videos, but I thought they were quite moving, and with a positive message.

I dislike him largely because of his unrepentant racism, transphobia, misogyny, and white, male, gym-body privilege — qualities that are hardly redeemed by this campaign. While there are people out there who find the videos inspiring, the ones I most appreciate are coming from those who recognize that “it” DOESN’T get better — especially not for those who lack the white, male, middle-class, gym-body privilege that “good gays” like Dan Savage have. The fact that he’s preaching to us that “it gets better,” all the while remaining defensive of his biases and oblivious to his own privilege demonstrates exactly what’s wrong with this campaign and gay rights causes in general: same-sex marriage and the repeal of DADT doesn’t mean that it’s getting better — all this means is that our community is hindered by the same problems evident in social movements throughout history: black people were left out of the women’s suffrage movement and gays were left out of the Civil Rights Movement in the same way that people of color, trans people, working class people, and others are left out of the LGBTQ movement. 

In my opinion, it doesn’t just get better. Through the tools of social action, political organizing, and community building, we have the power to make our society better, and in the process, we get better. But as long as there is racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of prejudice in the world, no member of our community is free, and “it” hasn’t gotten better. Queer liberation will not happen until we see human liberation — until we stop meeting homophobia with racism and classism, until women are no loger blamed for being sexually assaulted, until our country stops fighting these endless wars, until Palestinians have stood at their very last checkpoint, until trans people are no longer cheated by organizations HRC, until intersex infants are no longer mutilated, until queer youth stop turning up dead… this campaign doesn’t address any of that. It simply suggests that somehow, magically, it gets better all on its own, despite the fact that we continue to live in an unequal society. 

Here’s one of my favorite “it gets better” videos — from a woman of color who points out that the campaign videos are well-intentioned, but problematic: 

(Source: bi-in-alberta)

I’m all for telling off the ~haters~ when they deserve it, but Rebecca Black’s new video about how big and famous she is such a joke. The lyrics might as well be “I’m a privileged little white girl who can get anything she wants, so all of you low-lives can suck it.”

Newsflash: You’re not better than everyone else just because people know your name. They know you’re name because you have rich parents willing to finance your joke of a music career.

I know I said something defending Rebecca Black when she was receiving death threats over Friday, and I stand by that, but she’s just as blind and pathetic as the “haters” if she thinks being a bad singer with enough privilege and wealth to make up for it is somehow groundbreaking. The music industry is already full of bourgeois fucks who are famous for being famous.

Honestly, I don’t give a shit about Rebecca having a terrible singing voice - I’m certainly no singer myself. But this song should seriously be renamed “Throwing My White Privilege in Your Face.”

femasculine:

So I’m thinking all our reports about Sarah Palins note ‘An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground’ being a racist hate speech worked because she reposted it about five hours ago saying the original ‘was somehow unintentionally deleted by mistake or technical glitch.’

I reported it again, and it would be cool if everybody else did too. 

The comments are what really sicken me. Comparing a mosque to a Hitler shrine at Auschwitz (or “Auswitz,” as this person seems to think it is spelled)? The very next commentator even had the audacity to suggest that we’re allowing Muslims to “conquer” the very country that fosters such an Islamophobic environment. I’m sick of the majority complaining that the minority they routinely marginalize and oppress is taking over the world. I just want to tell these people to get over their own privilege.

chemicalali:

Alimony,Free Entrance to the clubs before 12:00, Get fired less in a recession, radio markets to you only (Single Ladies on erry station is torture), what else u askin for ?

Equal pay, political representation, an end to our objectification in the media, an end to domestic abuse and sexual violence, to stop being patronized and exploited, to not be harassed for walking alone in the street, to not be treated like men’s playthings, to not be considered “disabled” when pregnant, to have birth control covered by insurance, to not be subjected to double standards when it comes to our sex lives, to not have people assume we got our jobs on the basis of our gender or appearance, to be treated equally in the classroom and encouraged equally in stereotypically ‘male’ subjects, to not have our abilities questioned based on what time of the month it is, to be able to assert ourselves without being called “bitches,” for men to be aware of their male privilege…

Do I need to continue?