every time a straight asks me if i have a boyfriend and i laugh and say that definitely not they think im being self-deprecating when really its the opposite
The use of plastic straws by disabled people became a moral detriment suitable for public shaming before lack of accessibility became a moral detriment suitable for public shaming.
My disabled YouTuber friend now gets harassed when she uses a plastic bending straw (an accessibility tool, something she NEEDS in order to drink, no alternative currently works) in her videos.
Reminder right here: no matter how someone looks, their disability will not always be apparent to you.
But when my disabled friend is denied emergency evacuation plans out of a building because the elevators get shut off and she uses a wheelchair, does the building owner get shamed or harassed? No.
Those are the power dynamics at play here.
Imagine if ableds cared about accessibility as much as they care about banning plastic straws.
no offense but bert and ernie arent ace nor are they sexual they are characters on a childrens show and they can be and are a happy cute couple in love without you having to specify whether they fuck or not
sesame workshop keeps saying they “dont have a sexual orientation” and “dont exist below the waist” which is beside the point. they have hearts to love each other and its not wrong for children to see gay love because being gay isnt inherently sexual
I was in the Slenderman game, and I was walking around finding the pages, trying to avoid him when suddenly I saw a patch of sunlight that was shining on a little cottage house and out pops Slenderman in a grandma-like frilly pink apron and holding a watering can, pouring the water over his plants. I thought to myself, “If THIS was the side of Slenderman the media saw we wouldn’t be hating on him,” and then I woke up.
“Amy’s a lesbian—I know—but we really vibed the other night, so maybe she’s one of those lesbians who’s also kind of into dudes,” said Callan, adding that, since lesbianism existed on a spectrum, there’s a good chance that she’s attracted to at least some guys. “It really felt like we were about to kiss at the bar and then she told me she’s a lesbian, but there are so many different kinds of lesbianism. So does that mean no? It honestly doesn’t matter to me whether she’s a lesbian or not, I just want to know if I have a shot.”
…… When the writer of BERT and ERNIE said he wrote them as gay literally no one was thinking abt the two puppets banging off-screen. it was a CHILDREN’S show. theyre gay bc they loved each other. going off abt asexuality is so weird bc no one was talking abt sexual intercourse in the 1st place!!!! And going off abt how they identified as male but had the bodies of a puppet so therefore they can’t feel sexual desire or WHATEVER is also batshit insane. Be more normal
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