Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Quiet World”
what the fuck
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wish i could watch this for the first time all over again, not to mention the masterpiece "cash money"
pro tip if your gaydar is bad: pay attention to who looks like they did something drastic to their hair and who just has a grown out version of their old hairstyle after quarantine. because all the gays either bleached, dyed, shaved or at least cut their hair in some way
shielding a child/not allowing a child to be educated on the LGBTQAP+ community at any age is not only homophobic/transphobic/etc, but is is abusive and terrible parenting, and here's why :
1 - first of all, it's homophobic/transphobic/etc because you don't shield children from straight people because they're 'too young' to know about it and 'they won't understand'
you're promoting heteronormativity, and also promoting the idea that being gay is something shameful, bad and harmful.
you shield your children from the ideas of abuse, r*pe (a), and other horrifying things in the world. someone's identity should not be a thing you shield them from alongside of those.
2 - it is abuse. promoting the idea that someone's identity and being themself openly and loving themself is wrong to your child is abuse and extremely harmful.
because your child could be gay, or trans, or anything else.
yknow what those ideas will lead to in a queer child?
shame, guilt, fear, the need for oppression and not authentically be who they are because of the ideas you, as a parent, put in their mind.
then those feelings will lead to self loating
which may lead to things like depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, difficulty sleeping, etc.
and yknow what those feelings of self loathing can lead to?
self harm. or worse.
by 'shielding' your child from gay or trans or anything else people, you're reinforcing internalised homophobia, heternorms, and homophobia in general.
stop acting like it does no harm.
ok i’m sorry to still be talking about this in the year of our lord 2021, BUT
a lot of people have talked about endgame’s forced heteronormative ending, which i completely agree with. But I wanna talk about endgame’s forced amatonormative ending, b/c the mcu, prior to endgame, didn’t really focus on romantic relationships.
and this is definitely a result of the mcu’s sexist treatment of its female characters (who make up the bulk of the love interests, especially in phase 1 and 2), but I think there’s something to it beyond that.
Let’s go through the romantic relationships in the mcu, and how they are framed by the creators, and in comparison to other relationships the characters have:
- Tony & Pepper - I would say this is the core one which is pretty central to the mcu, but even this is relatively superseded by Tony’s fraught relationship with Steve, as well as his familial relationships with Peter and Rhodey.
- Peter & Gamora - Yeah, pretty central to the Guardians, but similarly superseded by Gamora’s complicated relationship with Nebula.
- Thor & Jane - Almost entirely superseded by Thor’s relationship with Loki.
- Steve & Peggy - After TFA, similarly eclipsed by Steve’s relationship with Bucky and Natasha.
- T’Challa & Nakia - Much more central to both of their characters, but again, their romantic relationship isn’t emphasized nearly as much as their friendship (in addition to their relationships with other characters, like Shuri, Okoye, and Killmonger).
- Natasha & Bruce - A joke - literally a joke, and completely forgotten by the end of AOU.
- Clint & Laura - Similarly a joke. What little we get of Clint’s character is focused more on his relationship with Natasha, not his own wife.
- Scott & Hope - A pretty sweet couple, but again, their relationship is framed through more of a friendship lens, and the movies tend to focus more on familial ties (Scott’s relationship with Cassie, and Hope’s relationship w/ her parents).
Really, the only romantic relationship in the MCU that I can think of that is the central bond for both characters is Wanda & Vision.
And I think this is the reason that so many people felt hollow & betrayed by Endgame - because it completely shat upon the “real” relationships that these movies have developed in favor of a forced, “husband + wife + white picket fence” ending which was never the focus of these films anyway.
Why would Steve go back to Peggy when several years of movies emphasized to us again and again that his relationship with Bucky was more important?
Why would we feel happy about Clint getting to go home to his family when we’re told time and time again that his relationship with Natasha is more important?
Why would we feel happy about Tony & Pepper having a kid when the movies have consistently framed Tony & Steve and Tony & Peter’s relationships as central to his character?
And that’s not even to mention the non-romantic relationships that were just ignored in Endgame: no mention of Thor & Loki’s relationship (despite Thor travelling back to Asgard and meeting his mother again), no resolution for Gamora & Nebula, Natasha gets fridged and doesn’t even get a funeral or service w/ any of her friends, no interactions between Carol and Fury or Carol and Maria.
Just sudden, forced heteronormativity and amatonormativity in a franchise that actually never put much focus into the romantic relationships of its characters. And honestly, I really liked that about the MCU - shipping aside, it was nice to have a franchise that was clearly more focused on friendship and family than “single guy meets single girl. sparks fly.” But Endgame needlessly pushed all of that character building aside in favor of a bland, boring ending with romantic relationships between characters that nobody really cared about.
Cisheteropatriarchal ideas about the nuclear family are so deeply ingrained in us that even people who consider themselves ‘far left’ often feel uncomfortable with more queer family arrangements.
Why can’t a lesbian couple and a gay couple co-parent? Why can’t a kid have multiple mums and dads and nonbinary parents? Heck, who said parenting has to be a romantic endeavor at all? Why can’t I decide I want to raise a child with my sister, who I have a life-long bond with and who I trust to parent our child appropriately. Why are people expected to move out of shared households if they have a child, like they have to leave their friends in order to “start a family”. We don’t have any problem calling reams of friends and relatives “auntie” and “uncle” but if they have as big a role as a parent, why can’t they be called “mum” or “dad” (or a nonbinary equivalent) as well?
I remember a while ago seeing an article about a mother who was a surrogate for her gay son’s child. They didn’t have any kind of sexual relationship - the egg was from a donor. All she did was carry the child once the fetus was fertilized, and yet people left right and centre were talking about how debased this weird incestuous thing was.
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