I followed you because of the calculator thing because i thought you were funny. Turns out i was wrong you are just some arrogant bitch who rubs against my every nerve.
I do think I’m pretty funny, but I suppose I’m not really the best judge of character since it’s obviously not exactly an objective opinion. I also don’t think I’m arrogant, and I don’t think I’m a bitch, but I guess that, again, that’s up to other people to decide.
You’re free to feel that way about me. I can’t stop you. However, you can’t expect me to change for you, either. As Popeye once said,
And that’s not going to stop just because you don’t like me.
I spent quite a while trying to figure out what I did to provoke such a reaction from you, and I think I finally figured it out. It’s probably about this post. For those of you on mobile or just too lazy to click the link, it’s a post about how kids don’t care about the race of Disney characters. They relate to characters based on the character, not the skin tone.
My comment was, “In which liteRALLY THE ONLY PEOPLE TO FEEL VICTIMIZED BY DISNEY ARE BUTTHURT TUMBLR USERS WHO TRY TO USE NON VICTIMIZED CHILDREN AS JUSTIFICATION FOR COMPLAINING.”
I’m not going to apologize for it, although the inevitable backlash I’m about to receive would probably be significantly mitigated if I did. But if I apologized, I wouldn’t mean it, and a long time ago, I promised myself I would never give a false apology.
I would, however, like to explain myself because evidently I was not clear enough in the original comment.
Tumblr has this tendency to create victim complexes where there are none.
Remember when Frozen came out?
Remember how people were annoyed that there were no POC in the movie?
The movie set in Denmark?
Allow me to show you the statistics for the ethnic groups of Denmark:
Danish 97%; other (incl. Scandinavian) 2%; Faroese & Inuit 1%.
97% of people are Danish. Guess what color skin Danish people tend to have?
Yet tumblr flipped its sh*t over the fact that there weren’t any POC in the movie. For whatever reason, showing white people in the setting of a primarily white country was racist and bigoted.
I’m going to say something that I really hate that I have to use as justification for my comments because people’s race shouldn’t determine what people are and aren’t allowed to say: I’m a POC.
But even if I weren’t, my argument is just as valid as it is right now.
Tumblr’s justification for freaking out about Disney not having enough diversity is that children are going to feel left out. Where are the role models of various races for these kids to look up to?
SPOILER ALERT: ROLE MODELS DON’T HAVE TO BE THE SAME GODDAMN RACE TO BE ROLE MODELS.
You know who I find inspiring? Beyoncé.
You know who’s not black? Me.
LOOK AT THESE KIDS.
DOES SHE LOOK LIKE SHE THINKS SHE’S NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE BELLE BECAUSE SHE’S ASIAN AND BELLE’S WHITE?
NO.
DOES THAT LITTLE GIRL LOOK LIKE SHE DOESN’T RELATE TO TIANA’S CHARACTER BECAUSE SHE’S WHITE AND TIANA’S BLACK?
NO.
DOES THIS GIRL LOOK LIKE SHE GIVES A SINGLE FLYING [DOLPHIN NOISE] THAT CINDERELLA IS WHITE?
NO.
NO.
NO.
Fun fact: Kids don’t care about race. TUMBLR does. By insisting that characters be created to fill the quota of characters of a certain race, you are being inherently racist. You are insisting that a character’s CHARACTER take backseat to their SKIN TONE. By definition, that is racist.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Guess who said that? Go ahead. Guess.
Would I like to see more diversity in Disney movies?
Yes.
I would love to see Disney take stories from traditionally non-white cultures and make movies out of them. There are so many great stories waiting to be told out there that are part of a POC’s culture.
If there were a Disney movie about a Hispanic princess, you can bet your ass that this Latina would be first in line for tickets.
But guess what?
There’s not, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean that Disney is racist. It means that Disney is trying to make money, and I don’t blame them.
This is exactly like when tumblr talked about wanting a Wonder Woman movie. Would I go and watch it? Absolutely. But most people wouldn’t. Even if all of tumblr went to see it, it wouldn’t even begin to touch the number of people that would go to see a Superman movie. So why would a movie studio spend tons of money on a movie that only a very select portion of the population (read: tumblr) would go to see? Answer: They wouldn’t. They wouldn’t because that would be monumentally stupid.
Just because someone doesn’t do what you want doesn’t make them racist.
Just because someone doesn’t pander to your every whim doesn’t make them racist.
JUST BECAUSE DISNEY DOESN’T MAKE THE MOVIE YOU WANT DOESN’T MAKE THEM RACIST.
You’re allowed to complain. You’re allowed to be upset that things didn’t go the way you wanted them to. But at least be honest about why you’re upset. You’re not upset that kids don’t have role models of their own race. You’re upset that you didn’t get what you wanted. And you’re allowed to be. But at least come by it honestly.
I wasn’t trying to “rub against your every nerve.” I was just pointing out something that I thought would be obvious to everyone: Take responsibility for your actions. If you want to complain, you can. But don’t lie about why you’re complaining.
ah. well, ignore her to the best extent you can due to her being your parental figure. >:( because family is sometimes dumb as hell. also i hope you werent hurt by what she said because it was kind of ridiculous <:P
I t h u r t .
I stood up for myself, and she insulted me. I never know what she wants from me anymore. I eat too much, then too little. She encourages me to become more confident, then shoots me down when I try to get my points in and say my rights.
I don’t know what to do. Especially when she makes threats to kick out my girlfriend.
sigh, yeah, my dads a lil like that, too. where they want you to do things, but when it comes to -them-, it’s a different story. though, when parents are ridiculous like that (and are hypocritical, non-sensical, and just all-around hard to deal with), the best thing to do really is to not let it get to you too deeply. be frustrated, but dont let it haunt you. after all, you know they’re being ridiculous. just because they’re not receptive to what you have to say doesnt make them any less ridiculous.
though i would be pissed if my parents threatened to kick out my squeeze for no real reason except possibly to get to me.
Men feel the pressures of society just as much as women. Through my internet searches I have come across nothing that encourages body positivity in men. This needs to change.
Please, tell me of the struggles this dude faces as a white male. I’m really interested in hearing about the alternate reality that he inhabits.
WHAT A DUMBASS POST
CRY HARDER WHITE BOY
Booohooooo who says all girls wanna look like barbie dipshit
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you guys honestly saying that just because he’s a man and white? Are you fucking kidding me? You all do realize what you’re technically saying right? You’re pretty much saying that that this guy has no right to be sad because there are people out there who have it worse. I thought that was one of the main things you never tell a person with depression, so why are any of you saying that here?
Seriously, what world do you guys live in? What if a white man abused as a child? What if they were told that they were not good enough by their family and and people around him? Do you think every white guy lives a life where everybody loves them, nobody thinks they’re ugly and they get everything they want by simply asking for it once? You have to be a complete fool to believe that.
Are you trying to tell me that a white person can’t be depressed because he is “privileged over everybody else”? Let me put it to you like this: Let’s say a white man loses his job, is insecure about his body (because maybe he’s not very tall or muscular, which is what society today tells a man he should look like), and has no friends. Now let’s say you have a successful black business woman who makes a lot of money, has a great social life, but also has depression. Which one of these two people has more right to be depressed? The answer: NEITHER!!!! Because depression is not always about how successful you are life or what you have. Depression is feeling that you’re not a good enough person no matter who you are and how hard you try.
All you that contributed to the above commentary should be ashamed of yourselves. There are people out there, include white boys, who hate themselves because of their looks. They will self harm just like anybody else with self hate issues, but none of you care. All you care about is their gender and skin color. I’d hate to see what any of you would say if ever met a cutter that happened to be a white guy. What would you say when if showed you his scars? Would you laugh in his face? What if he told you that he attempted suicide? Would you roll your eyes at him?
None of you are any better than those racist and sexist people you claim to hate so much. You don’t want equality. You want anybody that shares physical similarities with “the oppressor” to feel like shit. You want people who to be looked down upon because of the their race and gender; two things they have no control over. How is that any better than someone belittling a black/hispanic/asian/etc person because of a broad and untrue generalization?
I’ve come to realize this important fact: Tumblr isn’t the safe haven for logical people that so many people want to claim it is. It’s full immature, hypocritical , and ignorant people just like any other website. I don’t care if I lose followers because of this. This has to stop.
^this is probably one of the best things I’ve read.
The last paragraph. If I wasn’t on mobile I’d bold the everliving Hell out of it for emphasis.
ok so what if Harry and Neville got into like this passive-aggressive lie-off regarding what a truly great man Severus Snape was like they got drunk and Harry was like ‘Snape though’ and Neville was like ‘I know right’ and Harry was like ‘what a… what a fantastic bastard. What a guy.’ and Neville was like ‘we should fuckin’ get him like, like… let’s have a funeral. A huge fucking fuck-off sized funeral with like, lilies, and, a marble coffin, and a big statue, an’ crying women, an’ all that shit’ and Harry got whiskey up his nose laughing so hard and he falls off his stool and just wheezes ‘lillies’
and then during the funeral Neville and Harry like spend the whole time trying to give a better eulogy like they keep getting back up after each other are done to try and have another go at it but then they get schooled by Hermione being like ‘for fuck’s sake boys this is how it’s done’ and she goes up to the podium and just bursts into wild banshee hysterics and throws herself across the glistening marble casket, sobbing ‘oh, it should have been me, would to god that it were me, you stallion of a professor’ and all the reporters tear up a little and then go home to pen really fervid biopics on this bleakly noble and tragically overlooked hero of the revolution
anyway like eighteen years later Harry names his kid after Severus and sends an owl off to Neville like ‘your move, mate’ and Nevill pauses in the middle of polishing the giant marble statue of Snape tenderly cuddling an armfull of adoring woodland creatures that dominates like 2/3 of his office to cuss a lot and pour himself another drink
