I’m fucking dying. I got roasted in the best way possible.
lavacherries
babyblueavenger
pinkbaron
i survived too much steven universe discourse to have to suffer through a new age of she-ra discourse
unless she-ra personally commits a hate crime, i dont want to see you grown ass adults attempting to philosophically dissect yet another kids show
REMEMBER WHEN PPL TRIED TO SAY STEVEN UNIVERSE WAS PRO FASCIST
but it is??? like maybe they didn’t mean to be pro fascist bc Rebecca Sugar is too incompetent to do anything on purpose but it is like. irreparably pro fascist.
I don’t understand how y’all look at Steven genuinely trying to befriend dictators who’ve committed genocide on innumerable accounts and are intolerant of deviation from the norm unless they can weaponize it, and say that’s not fascism.
Like you can still watch the show and everything (hell I will myself) but. That’s literally the textbook definition of fascism.
Rebecca Sugar probably didn’t mean to write it that way, but the fact is that she wrote a narrative that condones forgiving people no matter how terrible they are, to the point where it is apologizing for people who’ve willingly committed genocide, which is a hallmark of fascism.
Steven trying to turn the Diamonds to his side is fine. But the point where it crosses into fascist apologia is when she started trying to write the Diamonds as sympathetic. You cannot write fascist dictators as sympathetic and not expect to get called out on it.
You know what? Fuck it. I haven’t posted a single fucking thing to this blog yet, but you cretins have disgusted me so much that I just can’t take it anymore. This is the last straw. I’m not going to argue with you, because there is no argument. You just parroted a really stupid narrative that’s gotten somewhat popular lately, and I’m gonna tell you exactly why it’s stupid.
“Steven is genuinely trying to befriend dictators!” No. Steven is trying to protect his family and his planet, and he’s trying to save all the corrupted gems. His strategy, for now, is to get on their good side and appeal to their emotions by reminding them that they’re family (which they technically are). There has been no indication in the show that Steven likes the diamonds or that he forgives or excuses the atrocities they’ve committed. He empathizes, because he literally has empathy powers and he can’t physically help it. That is not the same thing as forgiveness, or even sympathy.
“Recebba wrote fascist, genocidal dictators as being sympathetic, which is a Bad.” No. You know what’s bad? SYMPATHIZING WITH REAL LIFE GENOCIDAL DICTATORS. Sympathizing with Hitler and calling him a poor, misunderstood artist is BAD! You know what isn’t bad? Fucking giving your fictional villains more than one dimension! Giving them some fucking personality, some damn motivation. It kind of makes for a more compelling story, you know? You might even say that the Diamonds are multifaceted, harr harr. Anyway, I don’t know how to tell you that the Diamonds are cartoon space aliens who are more comparable to indifferent goddesses or queen bees than they are to nazis. I guess calling the sjw cartoon “fascist propaganda” makes for a juicy narrative, which brings me to my next point:
“I’m sure Recebba didn’t MEAN to write fascist propaganda! She’s just too incompetent, that’s all. That
dumb, stupid, weak, pathetic, white, white… uh, uh, guilt, white guilt, milquetoast piece of human garbage.”
This is really what makes me the most crazy. I’m sure that people know that Rebecca Sugar is Jewish (incidentally, this means that nazis don’t see her as “white,” or even as a human being). I’m sure that they know that she’s a bisexual, Jewish, non-binary woman who’s in love with a black man. It’s more like they just don’t care. “B-b-b-but just because she’s Jewish herself doesn’t mean that she can’t accidentally write fascist propaganda! She’s just a bad writer!” Yeah, no. Do you honestly believe that Sugar, who lives in America as a Jew, who uses the internet as a Jew, who has a Jewish family, who is descended from a gotdamn Holocaust survivor, and who (alongside her partner, Ian) has survived white supremacist violence herself, doesn’t know a thing or two about what it feels like to be hunted? It shows so clearly in her work, too. It shows in how desperately the Crystal Gems fight to defend the Earth and their way of life, it shows in how the Off Colors desperately hide themselves for the sake of their survival, and it shows in how miserable and stifled the lower caste homeworld gems are in their rigidly strict assigned roles.
So, why do all the great, critical thinkers of this nightmare hell site call this show “fascist propaganda?”
Because Steven is squeamish about the idea of killing. Because the villains where shown to have a little depth. That’s it!
The fact that so many people are willing to interpret this show in such bad faith really astounds me. If you don’t like the show, then you don’t like the show. Maybe the show makes you deeply uncomfortable. That’s fine; the show is supposed to be uncomfortable. It shows emotion in all its raw irrationality; it puts mental illness on full display and it doesn’t squirm away from showcasing the consequences of trauma. The good guys do fucked up things sometimes, and the bad guys appear sympathetic sometimes. There’s nothing fascist about that, and it certainly isn’t bad writing. In fact, it’s so real that it’s uncomfortable. And that’s a good thing.
Rebecca Sugar is a really good writer. :)
robiguess
average-trickster
smallest-feeblest-boggart
i took safari off private mode for the first time in months and these are the only tabs i had open
babyblueavenger
pinkbaron
Anti-gay companies include:
- Salvation Army
- Hobby Lobby
- Forever 21
- Urban Outfitters (Along with racism and anti-feminism.)
- Boy Scouts America
Gay-friendly companies include:
- Starbucks
- Wal-mart
- General Mills cereal
- American Express
- Mariott Hotels
SO REMEMBER. Get some Starbucks coffee, go on Google to shop at Wal-mart.com with your American Express card while eating a bowl of General Mills cereal and enjoy your stay at our fine Mariott Hotels.
Also shop at target, they dropped ties with transphobic and homophobic companies and are one of the most inclusive employers in the country
Just to clarify…Girl Scouts is completely separate from Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts is very gay & trans friendly and is overall a great organization that empowers little girls and promotes community involvement and kindness so go out and buy as many girls scout cookies as you can
am i the only one genuinely surprised walmart is gay-friendly?
In addition, Hot Topic is also very LGBTQ+ friendly (if you couldn’t tell from the plethora of queer stuff they sell)
Lush is pretty great too!
average-trickster
acurseddragon
I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
In Finland on the other hand.
Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.
PERRrrRrrRrKELE
((Two kinds of people))
@thejegsu12 I’M SORRY BUT-
babyblueavenger
feralsrock
@ all trans boys that aren’t feeling very masculine today, you are so handsome!!! you are masculine and you are a cute boy!!! keep ur head up, one day youre gonna look in the mirror and see yourself as a cute boy, you just gotta hold on and know that you can beat this dysphoria!!!
ladyofacat
littlecofiegirl
ruinedchildhood
