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So, maybe now these places can start to heal from the insanity
And of course, the absolutely vile inhuman creatures came out to oppose it

And the wonderful JK Rowling rebuked it's post

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This is a perfect example of the TQ+ rewriting history. When Chasity came out to her mom as a lesbian Cher in her own words "freaked-out" and essentially kicked her out even though she was only 18 at the time.
Celebrating trans and non-binary lives is important year-round and celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Cher and Naomi Watts set the bar high for others to follow through their vocal support of their transgender children.
Unconditional love is crucial for everyone, but especially for children who are coming to terms with the sexuality and/or gender identity.
A 2023 report found LGBTQ+ people are much less likely to be happy in adulthood when they were not supported at home and school when they were younger.
Here are just some of the celebrities who proudly love and support their transgender children.
See rest of article
"At 18, Chastity came out as a lesbian. Despite being a gay icon herself, Cher was less than impressed and ‘had a freak-out’. "
By freak out they mean Chastity was essentially kicked out by her gay icon mom.
#Cher is the perfect example of homophonic parent of a trans child#The TQ+ rewriting history#Supporting the TQ+ without supporting the LGB
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Biden campaign steps up LGBTQ outreach as allies worry about waning support
#Biden campaign steps up LGBTQ outreach as allies worry about waning support#FUCK JILL BIDEN#A DEMOCRAT CAN BE IN FAVOR OF LGB WITHOUT TQ#I DO NOT SUPPORT TRANSGENDER#I SUPPORT WOMEN#WOMEN'S SPORTS#WOMEN'S SPACES#WOMEN'S AUTONOMY
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it doesn't affect you, so why do you care?
i care because women are being put in danger.
i care because women and children have their faces put onto pornography without their consent.
i care because violent pornography and humiliating acts is glorified, and an easy way to make money.
i care because sexual harassment is so common.
i care because women are being actively pimped out and exploited by the pornography industry.
i care because we have reverted back into stereotypical gender roles.
i care because women and men are more than the gender roles society has placed in them.
i care because women are undergoing cosmetic surgeries that lead to health problems that they regret.
i care because language is being policed.
i care because there aren't many studies on the long term effects of HRT children are taking.
i care because policies that can hurt women are being passed.
i care because i believe women deserve a voice.
i care because us as women are sacrificing out peace for a small minority.
i care because the actions of the tq are ruining the lgb.
i care because i don't believe in staying silent any longer.
#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminists do touch#radical feminist safe#terfsafe#terfblr#radical feminist community#radical feminists do interact
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This is what we mean by "designer babies"
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Just a rant about some things I have been seeing for a while now on some videos.
Basically the videos I'm referring to usually have something to with LGBTQ+ (Mostly TQ+) and then when I go to the comments I see something like this,
'I'm a gay/bi/lesbian and I don't really care about the TQ+ side and because of (random thing that really isn't an issue like pronouns) this is why the LGB is divorcing the TQ+ side day by day."
It really just annoys me how people can be acting like this to their own community. They make it sound as the TQ+ is the 'louder minority' as so they put it they are less normal than them the other people that a part of this community.
It really just annoys me, with the way they say 'The LGB side should divorce the TQ+ side because they're weird and making us look even stranger than we already are!' Like buddy, I have actually seen those stuff twice, one when I was a homophobe and the second one when I realized I was multigender and cupiromantic/demisexual.
And let me honest, my first reaction to those comments the first time were literally, 'Oh hush, you all still weird as fuck with or without the TQ+". Because seriously, no bigot sees any difference between the casual gay person and trans person. All still abominations in their eyes, talking from my point of view before I stopped being homophobic.
Plus, they are all meant to correlate?? Like you can be trans masc and be gay. You can be a nonbinary lesbian. So people who say the stuff genuinely confused me as I myself is a gay multigender who also so happens to be trans.
It really just hurts how some people don't understand we need to stick together.
yeah i've literally never understood this logic either ??? thanks for coming to point that out, i've been thinking about this a lot lately. like when i see "lgb without the t" my brain just goes ??? because it just makes literally no sense
like why on earth do some people think the queer community "belongs" to cis perisex lesbians, gays and (sometimes, not always) biexuals, and that they're just "lending space" to trans people, intersex people, other queer people, questioning people and so on. i've literallly never understood the logic that cis perisex gays, lesbians and bisexuals are the "real" community, and then everyone else is toxic weirdos trying to "invade" their community. where did they get this from, because it's not historically accurate at all
it's disturbing that this is about controlling the queer community to folks who say "lgb witout the t(q+)". nobody should be in control of the community. we all share it together. equally
trans people have been fighting for queer rights alongside cis queers since the beginning. genderqueer, gnc, genderfluid, agender, multigender and intersex queers have been standing right beside cis queers at marches and rallies. trans people have been writing about homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia and intersexism alongside the cis queers in modern queer history. why do people think they need to erase that? why would you erase progress for the sake of being petty??
its wild as hell that people genuinely think like this, i agree, it's one of the most unhinged takes i've seen in the longest time. like imagine if us trannies said "gbtqi+ without the L" literally all hell would break loose. tumblr's servers would crash from the monstrous level of backlash people would be facing. you'd be shot dead in the water. but for some reason, it's perfectly okay when you slice off a huge, very important chunk of the community because some people are uncomfy with not being able to tell what genitals a stranger has. it's so petty
i hope people who think this way get past it soon. it's dumb. like you said, queerphobes see us all as gross nasty freaks. it doesn't matter what you identify as. the thing nobody fails to realize:
the queerphobe can't tell what you actually identify as.
let that sink in.
they are guessing. they can't read your mind. even if your pin says "I'm a genderfluid trans neutral butch!" that does not mean a queerphobe knows what the fuck that means. queerphobes see: dyke, faggot, tranny: one of them queers. that's all they see. that's it. they don't know what anything else is. it's not trans' peoples faults that they see us as dykes and faggots, so how is it trans people's faults that other people get slurs hurled at them? it's not. they hate you for being queer. that's. it.
blaming trans people for other queer people's oppression will never make sense. thanks for stopping by! take care. this shit pisses me off too, i'm glad it's not just me
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1. “Trans people have always and will always exist.”
I'm sure they do. Where have I mention they do not exist?
2.“Gay men wouldn’t have rights or the implication of safety if not for the work most often led by trans people.”
This claim overstates the role of trans people in the gay rights movement.
Stonewall (1969) is often cited as an example of trans leadership, but the majority of those involved were gay and lesbian activists, with notable contributions from transvestites like Marsha P. Johnson and drag queens not transexuals LGB. TQ+ has been added recently.
Groups like the Mattachine Society (1950s) and the Gay Liberation Front were primarily driven by gay men and lesbians long before the newly added trans activists.
While trans activists contributed recently, the assertion that gay rights wouldn’t exist without them is historically inaccurate at best.
3. “Harm to the TQ community is harm to all of us.”
This assumes that all LGBTQ+ groups share the same struggles and goals, which is not true.
Gay and lesbian rights (marriage equality, discrimination protections, etc.) were fought for on the basis of sexual orientation. Never gender inequality because that doesn't exist since woman's rights.
4. “Trying to further divide our community will only serve to weaken all of us.”
The claim assumes that unity is always beneficial, but that depends on what is being advocated for. And the last election shows it's quite the opposite. Time for a TQ+ divorce!
5. “I do hope that one day you realize who is fighting for your right to exist and who seeks to destroy you.”
This presents a false dichotomy—either you support trans activism fully, or you’re siding with those who want to "eradicate" LGBTQ+ people. I won't put my rights on the line for someone who thinks they are a dog, cat, or baby, or for someone whose identity is based on a cross-dressing fetish. Which makes it clear that you are part of the problem, not the solution. Trans people have the same rights as I do. Fetishes are not a gender or a sexual orientation, and it’s time to call a spade a spade.
In reality, one can support protections for trans individuals while also questioning certain aspects of the movement (e.g., sports policies, medical transitions for minors, etc.).
Not every critique of trans ideology equates to hatred or a desire to cause harm. The sooner you learn that the better it be for everyone.

These fake bi people will end our gay rights to protect their dumb ideologies. The far right will read this and think, Oh, you can grow out of your gay sexuality or pray the gay away. They’ll say we don’t need gay marriage rights because we’ll just “grow out of it” since being gay is supposedly fluid.
These people need to be exposed and cut off from our LGB community, or we will lose everything because of these nutjob activists—the same ones who cost us the last election and will cost us all our gay rights.
I’m gay, and it is not fluid. I will not grow out of it because I’m not bi! And there are only two genders, and I love my own. Full stop! I hope you all see the danger of this ideology before it's too late for all of us.
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Erin Reed for Kettering Foundation:
The months since Trump’s election have been brutal for transgender people like me. States are churning out laws that strip us of legal recognition, bar us from bathrooms, void our IDs, and more. That should be enough, but 2025 has delivered a different, more insidious threat—one we were unprepared to face. It isn’t just the executive orders banning our passports, blocking transgender visa seekers from entry, threatening teachers with investigations for using our names, or erasing us from federal websites—though those do play a role. The real danger has come from mass overcompliance: institutions, including well-meaning ones, rushing to carry out the administration’s anti-trans agenda without being asked. These attacks began with us, but the consequences won’t end there. The country needs to understand the lesson being written in real time: do not comply.
An Explosion of Targeted Attacks
The first of Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people came with a loaded title: “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The order declared that sex is binary and fixed at birth and uses rigid definitions of “man” and “woman” that fly in the face of established science. Without statutory authority, it then applied these definitions across all US code—resulting in sudden policy shifts like the revocation of gender marker updates on passports. The fallout has been immediate and destabilizing: some transgender people have had their passport renewals denied or even had documents confiscated, while others are left unsure whether they can safely travel at all. Compounding the damage, the administration has treated any contradiction to its definitions as justification for stripping federal grants—an abuse of executive power that sidesteps congressional authority.
As executive orders continued to cascade from the Trump administration, an expanding list of policies became mandatory not just for federal agencies but for institutions across the country. One order barred transgender athletes from competing in everything from darts to disc golf to dance and threatened to strip funding from any school that adopted local or individualized policies. Another order targeted hospitals, warning that providing gender-affirming care to anyone under 19—including legal adults—could trigger federal investigations and funding cuts. Meanwhile, the cuts made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have dominated headlines as organizations scramble to comply with vague and nebulous policies. Many organizations complied under the direct or implied threat of losing critical resources.
The Danger of Pre-Compliance
This last phase of reactionary compliance is where something more insidious began to unfold. Organizations, including those with long histories of supporting LGBTQ+ people, started erasing trans and queer communities from their websites, shuttering resources, and, whether out of fear or compliance, became willing enforcers of Trump’s anti-trans agenda. The first signs came from government websites. Research papers on transgender health funded by federal grants were quietly removed or retracted. The National Park Service altered language at the Stonewall National Monument, stripping the TQ+ from LGBTQ+ and rewriting history to frame the uprising—led in large part by transgender people—as a fight solely for “LGB rights.” Even the biography for Sylvia Rivera, one of the most prominent transgender figures at Stonewall, was edited. Her section on the National Park Service’s Stonewall page now says she fought for “gay and rights”—a clumsy, ahistorical revision that manages to erase her identity while mangling the grammar. Such attempts to revise history and control language are designed to cleave away would-be allies, a common tactic of authoritarian regimes.
[...] Many readers have likely noticed diversity, equity, and inclusion resources are quietly disappearing from their workplaces. Corporate donations to pride parades have dried up. Entire diversity departments and programs have been cut. In some cases, companies are scrubbing references to transgender and queer people altogether, fearful that even acknowledging our existence could jeopardize federal contracts or funding. A chilling veil of silence has fallen over LGBTQ+ people in America—our existence is now considered too risky to even name.
Fear and Uncertainty Breed Anticipatory Obedience
A lesson can be found in all of this. The most devastating damage from these executive orders hasn’t come from their direct mandates but from their vagueness. The orders are deliberately opaque and create just enough uncertainty to push institutions into overcompliance. Risk-averse legal teams, fearful of losing federal funding or becoming political targets, preemptively erase transgender people from policies, programs, and public language. The cruelty lies in the ambiguity. These orders don’t explicitly bar specific conduct but deputize decision-makers to interpret them in ways that inflict the greatest harm on disfavored communities.
[...] We are, in many ways, teaching those in power what they can get away with by complying with regulations that have no legal basis. I understand the fear that organizations are responding to. Each individual decision that erases a mention here or cuts a program there can feel rational. Everyone wants to keep their head low, but fear calcifies into cowardice. And cowardice, when widespread, leads to the erosion of every value we claim to hold.
Erin Reed wrote for the Kettering Foundation on the Trump Regime's war on trans people (and LGBTQ+ people in general). The overarching message: do not comply with Tyrant 47's demands.
#Kettering Foundation#Erin Reed#Opinion#Transgender#Anti Trans Extremism#Transgender Erasure#Trump Regime#Trump Administration II#Executive Orders#Executive Order 14168#Executive Order 14187#Executive Order 14201#Department of Government Efficiency
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"Colours of the suffragette movement. Purple represents loyalty and dignity, white for purity, and green for hope."
Sucks to suck, arsehole.
Just kind a reminder

This is the genderqueer flag, not the "radfem" flag.
Hope this helps💛
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Welcome to the nonsense that is my blog!
Hello! Im moss, or atlas.
I dont feel like updating my age, so ill just say i was born in 2002, and love rave music, doing weed, shrooms, and drawing whatever the inspiration demons bring to my table

So, i have both chronic pain conditions, and conditions that take out about half of my vision, so all of my art takes a ton of focus. as well as a ton of time. all spelling mistakes are missed due to my partial blindness, which is actually caused by a neurological condition rather than a physical one

I have Multiple chronic pain condition that make movement very painful for me. Also suspected nerve damage. Thats super fun. Were having a great time over here in moss's world
I dont really have a DNI list as i dont think it works. If i dont like you or you harrass me, ill block you. If i see youre posting racist or terf shit, ill block you. I block as freely as the wind blows. The block button is my best friend. I curate my space and you should too. That being said, to stay off my block list, keep your nose clean about the following:
Black lives matter (they do)
You cant have LGB without the TQ
Intersex people are real and experiance real abuse(i should know, im one of them)
fat people are ignored in the medical field because doctors suck
TERFS are shit people and are not welcome in my space
Heres my Master posts Links | Lies Fortold
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I was blocked, so here was a continuation of my argument ~
Sexuality is not a spectrum. Sexuality is inherently exclusive and to say otherwise is disrespecting a person's lived experience as a sexuality. However, bisexuality is a spectrum, some people may find men more attractive while others find women more attractive. Male homosexuality, and female lesbianism is exclusive to the same sex only while female and male heterosexuality is exclusive to the opposite sex. To say that sexuality is a spectrum or is fluid is a form of conversion therapy. You cannot biologically make a monosexual person attracted to the same/opposite sex without mentally harming them under the guise of 'sexuality is a spectrum'. I have to argue saying sexuality is a spectrum erases the real lived experiences of people who's sexualities were not inclusive of both sexes- especially homosexual males and lesbians.
Asexuality is the complete lack of sexual desire that is set in stone in the individuals complete disinterest in sex and romance. There can't be an spectrum to something that doesn't exist (romantic/sexual attraction) and if it is, it falls under the category of allosexuality, just on the lower ends of attraction. What is a spectrum is how a person who can be attracted to to people perceives their own personal attraction. The 'a-spec spectrum' absolutely dilutes real, complete lack of sexual attraction and desire's experience to shoehorn in people that do experience it.
The split between the LGB and the TQ+ is primarily created to differentiate same sex attraction, verses gender ideology/a medical condition and… 'queers' (whatever that means.)
The LGBTQ+ community is about defying conventional straight attraction, traditional relationships, and how society treats gender.
Nope. The LGB community is based around same sex attraction. The love and struggles people who are in relationships of the same sex face. Yes, this community exists as a way to help other marginalized sexualities and gender non conforming individuals, the LGB community has always been focused on same sex attraction specifically. Anything after the B is (in your words) "is about defying conventional straight attraction, traditional relationships, and how society treats gender."
Aro/Ace people do a lot of these things constantly, and we can’t be excluded.
Aro/Ace people are included in the TQ+ section of the community. Not the LGB/Same sex attraction community. Does that mean that you shouldn't be able to stand up against discrimination or not be prideful in your identity? Not at all.
I have done my research on asexuality and aromanticism. I highly suggest you read through r/actualasexuals to see why viewing asexuality as a spectrum is damaging.
#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminist safe#radical feminists do touch#radical feminist community#radical feminists do interact#terfsafe#terfblr#asexual#aromantic
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the gender identity-based model of sexual orientation has become so ubiquitous in the lgb(tq+) community, in no small part due to the social ostracism of actual homosexuals, that I do not believe a single poll reporting that self-identified lesbians and gays have supposedly “higher rates” of “accepting” trans-identified people, especially when you then turn around and use that unspecified, undefined “acceptance” as proof that we are open to taking them as romantic and sexual partners.
did you ask them what “acceptance” means? does it mean something as basic as being opposed to their discrimination, or something as all-encompassing as seeing them as sexual partners? “acceptance” is going to vary in the mind of the pollee and in the mind of the interpreter.
did you ask them what “lesbian” or “gay” means to them? are they already self-identifying as L or G on the basis of their attraction to anyone who self-identifies as a woman/man, or is it based in biological sex?
I would almost venture to say that the vast majority of self-identified Ls and Gs who are highly involved in the community and came out in the past decade or two use the former definition, making the poll self-fulfilling conformation bias. I believe that gays and lesbians who don’t participate as heavily in the community due to the ostracism of their actual, real homosexuality are less likely to come across these kinds of polls and fill them out.
activism is not done in the bedroom. someone can accept your claims about yourself and oppose discrimination against you without having to sleep with you. and if you think their refusal to sleep with you does make them some sort of bigot, especially on the basis of something they cannot control* (sexual orientation) you sound like a rapey incel. and asking (read: demanding) gay ppl “unlearn” their homosexuality in order to be good, non-transphobic people is homophobic conversion therapy rhetoric.
* note that anyone has the right to deny anyone sex or a relationship for any reason
#ppl will be like ‘no one’s saying you have to sleep with transwomen! but if you don’t you’re transphobic’#and act like that ISN’T social pressure/coercion
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One thing I'm loving about I Am In Eskew right now (I'm new here! As in listening to episode 5 as I write this) is how nonchalant David is about most of this. Us the listeners are shocked, horrified about hearing about the goings-on of his life, and he simply narrates without hardly any distress. Now this could just be how he is, after all, we're hearing these things long after the fact, and he does work for a newspaper. This is not meant as a cry for help, as of right now he's simply documenting things for the sake of sharing with the world. But, I still think it's more than this.
John Ware (The Silt Verses, I Am In Eskew, etc) is a masterful writer, and deeply critical of our world in all of the works I've seen from him. It's not much of a stretch to imagine that this too, is a criticism of our modern, 3rd world society, just another degree removed from reality.
Here, in our world, homeless people are shot dead in the streets by the people supposed to protect our cities. The same thing happens to LGB and speifically TQ people. Here, the youth cannot afford to live, can barely afford to learn. Here, our jobs are slowly (but far too quickly) being replaced by soulless amalgamations of illicitly gained text and images. Here, we drain the essence of the long dead creatures that came before us, light it on fire, and send it into the air to melt our icebergs and raise our oceans and warm our climate. Here, rapists and politicians (sometimes indistinguishable from the other) walk freely in our world. But we don't call it that.
We say we're keeping our streets safe. We say it's for the best, difference is dangerous! We say we're improving our productivity. We say we're saving our economy. We say it's not real, that this is normal, that it's okay! These are how things are supposed to be! It's just how things work!
And so, we see this reflected to an EXTREME degree in the works of John Ware. Here, people are sacrificed daily to appease gods beyond comprehension. Here, the government disfigures it's citizens and straps them into nukes, into trains, into the electricity grid itself, and monetize it. Here, entire groups of people are demonized, and disappear without a trace. Here, the city is alive, and malevolent. Here, monsters and saints beyond comprehension, indistinguishable from the other, roam freely through this world. But they don't call it that.
They say they're keeping their country safe. They say they're saving their system, keeping things running smoothly. They say it's for the best, that difference is dangerous! They say it's not real, that this is safe, normal, that this is okay! That this is just how things work!
they're not so different from us after all, are they. So, when David recounts yet another of his adventures, it's no wonder he's able to keep his monotone tone. he's not too distressed about the monsters, or the warping architecture, or the looming threat of death and/or disappearance, or mutilation and disfigurement. Because for him this is how it's supposed to be! This is how it's always been! This is the life he knows, and he sees little reason to challenge it until it affects him.
But to us the readers, it's horrifying. For despite our worlds flaws, the lives we lead are still so much better than theirs. They don't know what they could have. They've never known our definition of normal. And that's what scares us, as much as the monsters and lovely body horror that Jon, Muna Hussen, and Sammy Holden, as well as the rest of their incredible team, provide us with. At least, that's what scares me. Because it's not all that far off, given the direction America is moving as of 2025.
Of course, I haven't actually finished the series yet. Hell, I'm barely 1/6th in. It's probably too early to make a judgement call here. But this applies to The Silt Verses too, which I have finished. Either way, I feel like this still rings true
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You know the annoying thing is that, while the tide is turning in most of Europe and UK regarding the trans ideology, it's just getting started in my own country; or rather online media are trying to bring it over here, and there have been a few speakers on tv/radio talking about it, one of them a psychologist that claimed that it's nothing to be worried about regarding the rise in sex dysphoric kids cause actually the numbers are getting higher cause we're finally talking more about it(gods how I hate that rhetoric, whenever it's used for any topic on mental health; slight tangent: like yes, regarding mental health, part of it is we're talking more about that sort of stuff, but there's no denying that there are far more issues now than in the past; the numbers aren't just rising cause we're more aware. I really do hate it when people say that "oh we're more aware, that's the reason for high numbers).
However, people at the moment are still resisting the ideology, but I fear for how much longer; either that, or the ideology will make them even more conservative and against the LGB cause they're already conflating LGB with TQ+, and I really hate it. Honestly I fear that at this point the tide will sooner turn in the US.
In France we usually get the new American obsession 10 years after it started there, and I was really hoping that the tide would turn soon enough for us to be protected from the trans craze. Turns out we weren’t and faced the same collusion between trans activists, blue haired kweerios, former supporter of president Mao, fascists in balaclavas calling themselves antifa, idiotic bougie Parisians, critical race theorists, raging antisemites and Islamists (multiple labels can apply to one person, yes I know)
That’s quite the sour cocktail.
In ten years they managed to completely undermine feminism, ecology, anti-racism and LGB rights activism. We’ve reached a point where many people don’t want to hear anything about it anymore. I mean we have local planned parenthood promoting the Islamic veil and prostitution at the same time.
So what happened basically is that this ideology propelled many people towards the right and the extreme right. The left is slowly disappearing and the extreme left, to just exist in the media has been acting like a 1930s NSDAP supporter for literal months, obsessing over Jews and Israel.
Pride parades and feminists events have become sad displays of nonsensical ideologies and the media loves nothing more than interviewing the most unhinged people attending. So I’m afraid - and I’ve been saying that since the beginning - that without a strong reaction from LGB people themselves this will, in the end, send acceptance back to the 1980s.
And I’m not blaming it on gay people at all, I mean I see what feminism has become and how all major charities have been taken over… it’s really hard to be heard. If anything I’m heartbroken for the victims and for all the people who are going to suffer from this. People will forget the fetishists who will go back to their birth name and underground clubs, but not about the « slippery slope » that for them started with marriage equality.
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How in the fuck are you going to be anti trans and a Good Omens fan as if both the book and the show don’t explicitly establish the existence of several nonbinary characters and both Aziraphale and Crowley themselves are genderless beings
Not to mention both David and Michael’s staunch support of the LGBT (really emphasizing the T here, since you love to drop it) community as a whole, and David literally has a trans child
Part of me is even asking this in good faith because how do you see a series that is so incredibly queer and like it considering how much you shit-talk trans people on your lackluster TERF blog
There’s many reasons, actually! I’ll explain them in good faith, because I think that people who ask questions like this don’t understand the perspective of so-called “terfs” and assume we think like you do.
Firstly, I’m a feminist, so I’m used to media not aligning with my politics. I expect it, actually. Down to very simple things, like knowing I’m never going to go into a show and see a woman just existing with body hair like men do in shows all the time. But I’m comfortable and confident enough in my beliefs that I can consume media that doesn’t align with them. This extends to my feelings regarding gender. A they/them character doesn’t make my head explode, it’s just the same for me as seeing a Christian character (like Ella from Netlix’s Lucifer) or a female character who’s pro-beauty culture (like Elinor from First Kill). It’s a representation of a belief I don’t agree with and personally don’t believe in, that’s all.
Secondly, Good Omens is set in a made up universe with fantasy themes. I can easily get behind the idea that the true forms of angels and demons are genderless, because that makes sense to me in the same way God being genderless makes sense to me. This doesn’t have to carry over to me believing that humans can be genderless (I don’t believe in the concept of internal gender identity, because I don’t believe in souls. So I guess the better way to put this is that I don’t believe humans can be sexless unless we’re using gender and sex as synonyms). In the same way that it makes sense to me that angels and demons have souls that are put into bodies issued to them…but I don’t have to believe that also applies to humans. Or how it makes sense to me that Aziraphale and Crowley could survive without food, water, and sleep…but I don’t have to believe that also applies to humans. Etc. etc.
Basically, just because something is in a fantasy show, doesn’t mean I have to believe it’s real.
Thirdly, what the actors do in their own lives is none of my business. I don’t agree with supporting the TQ+ especially in relation to LGB (considering they’ve made it a primary goal to harass lesbians into pretending we can like penis, and to take every chance they get to express their hatred for homosexuality. I love to drop the T because they dropped me and my fellow homosexuals years ago). If two straight male actors want to do that, whatever. I also don’t agree with Sheen having a baby with a woman his daughter’s age, but that hasn’t stopped me from watching the show or appreciating his talent.
This all takes me back to what I said about believing you don’t truly understand the perspective of those you call “terfs”. Just because you might not be able to comprehend watching and enjoying something that doesn’t perfectly align with your worldview, doesn’t mean others feel the same. For example, many radical and rad-leaning feminists enjoyed the Barbie movie, despite it not being radical feminist. We’re capable of watching and enjoying things we don’t agree with, and of having discussions about why we don’t agree with it.
A much simpler answer to your question would be: I’ve always loved angels and demons and all things supernatural. I’ve always loved old cars. I love Queen. Religious/moral commentary and critique interest me. I love lighthearted comedies. I’m gay and starved for representation of healthy gay relationships. I love gay star-crossed lovers stories (go watch First Kill). Naturally, I’m going to love Good Omens, even if it doesn’t perfectly align with my worldview.
#asks#anon#it’s not even just the stuff regarding gender I don’t agree with!#I have a HUGE issue with the existence of Ms Sandwich and her ‘stable’ of ‘girls’#brothels are insanely inhumane and a breeding ground for human trafficking. And women are human—not property to sell#tbh I take bigger issue with that aspect than any of the gender stuff#there’s also the whole thing with God being a woman/having the voice of a woman…#…despite there being no attempt at reimagining what the world would be like had it been made by a female god instead of a male one#(example: maybe Adam would’ve come from Eve’s rib. Maybe Adam would’ve been responsible for the Original Sin)#instead Neil keeps all the patriarchal religion stuff in and pats himself on the back for casting a woman as God#what I’m trying to say is that yeah. I have disagreements with the show. so what.#it’s still a good show even if it’s not a radical feminist/rad-leaning show
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