In the original draft of Gideon, Harrow doesn’t say ‘Oh, I have hurt your heart,’ she says ‘Oh, I have rustled
your jimmies.’ She says that purely because that’s what my brain thrust
into my hand and I liked the way it sounded. Carl said, ‘You can’t put
that in a novel’ […]
Now that I work with a bunch of homophobes, I feel the weight of being a ‘one of us.’
“Why are women so — oh but not you, you’re different.”
“Why are gays so–’ but you’re not like them, you’re more like us.”
Krusty The Bird Killer rants for five minutes about black women being 'sluts that all have eight kids with different fathers because they’ll lay with anything that moves,’ and then talk sweet to our secretary, a black woman in her 40s who doesnt seem to count as a black woman when he’s ranting.
I’ve been trying to put words to this behavior for awhile now. And I think it just comes down to 'us vs them.’
I showed up to work in a cowboy hat and work boots, wasnt afraid of the men’s room, and lifted a 50 pound trash bag full of dog shit on my first day. I’m not like other women to them. I dont count. I’m one of us.
I talk about my girlfriend in a quiet way: I dont declare queer supremacy and I dont make my whole life about being queer and oppressed. I’m not like other lesbians. I dont count. I’m one of us.
They dont know me. They dont know my girly interests and they dont know about my political art pieces and they dont know about the fake eyelashes that I wore during pride. They certainly dont know I’m trans.
I passed their test. I’m 'one of the dudes.’
I’m really not, though.
If they saw me outside of work, I would be a Them. But they got to know me first. I’m in their list of “thems that are us.” And every them that they meet can be an us. But they dont go out of their way to meet many thems.
I’m a Gay. I’m not the Gays. I’m (to them) a woman. I’m not Women. The secretary is black. But shes not The Blacks (pardon the phrasing, it hurt me to even type it that way.)
Every person is the stereotype of their group until someone gets to know them. But that doesn’t disprove the stereotype- it just means that the person doesnt count as part of that group anymore. They’re with us now.
Respectability politics really dont get us anywhere. If you’re out to disprove the stereotype out of a sense that you’ll change their minds, I’m telling you that energy is better spent living authentically if you are safe to do so.
Your influence on them doesnt change their perception of the box they put you in. They just put you in a smaller box. Fuck their opinions.
Yeah. They did that. I bet the ‘clarification’ came as a result of some strong legal threats.
So be aware in the coming weeks that if your favorite actor reportedly says something shitty about the strike that makes your blood boil? Check the sources. There’s going to be a lot of uh, spin in the news.
i feel like there is a lot of misinfo going around about fans’ role in the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike…
i see people telling fans on tumblr not to be scabs and not to cross picket lines and not to see media that will be coming out during the strikes… but as far as i know (and i could be wrong of course, i’m not in the industry) — you’re not considered a scab unless you’re part of the striking unions (or you want to join them in the future) and you work during the strike
and “crossing the picket line” specifically means working in the industry for one of the studios during the strike while others are striking. it doesn’t mean watching media, reblogging gifsets, or even just talking about or giving attention to media in general
i’m seeing panic and anxiety from people who are thinking they did something wrong by reblogging a gifset on tumblr dot com and are encouraging others “not to cross the picket line/don’t be a scab!” and like… this is fearmongering and anxiety producing to a lot of people for whom these terms do not apply
in reality until the writers or actors call for a boycott (which they HAVE NOT at the moment), boycotting media or giving it less attention actually is counterproductive to the strike’s goals. multiple authors/actors have said we should be continuing to engage with media in order to show studios that we value the work of writers and actors that studios are trying to eliminate
there also seems to be some confusion about engaging with media while the actors are on strike because *they* aren’t allowed to promote media (by participating in press junkets, promo work etc)… but… reblogging an actor’s likeness on tumblr is not breaking the strike if you yourself are not striking
there’s some nuance to this if you’re a current or aspiring union member but in that case you should be following official guidance from the WGA/SAG-AFTRA and not emotionally loaded posts from tumblr telling you you’re doing something wrong without realizing it
