Minty the Demon

the main thing that didnt hit for me w barbie was "can we please have a NORMAL barbie?? she's just like. a normal person. not perfect or extraordinary" bc when i was growing up w barbie, she always was a normal woman. she was pretty and smart and capable, but she was a normal person. and i guess a big disconnect there is that i grew up with the animated movies.

maybe seeing her make mistakes and be selfish and scared and hasty and mean (watered down, dont get me wrong), as is necessary for a halfway decent protagonist, made her less of a monolith in my mind. i saw her fall on her butt ice skating, and be an awkward confused teenager in a kinda lame garage band, and get laughed at and bullied by others but come out okay. it was the style at the time to make your protag clumsy or unskilled as a starting point (so that theyd have SOME flaw, SOMEWHERE to grow).

it's the same thing for the whole body type deal. i know she's a plastic fake doll. i didn't associate my body with hers until well meaning adults told me to, and even then it's like comparing yourself to a cartoon character.

don't get me wrong. i am only one person with one life experience. and i am so so grateful for any improvement and any discussion that leads to a better experience for someone else.

i just dont personally relate with considering her so literal

I know this isn’t all of them but I feel like these are the more iconic ones

also please reblog for a bigger sample size I am tyring to cunduct sceintific research

Consider:

I can't believe I'm making this BUT-

In honour of my friends assumptions, who has never seen Bakugan, I just had to see what Tumblr thinks. LMAO

To me, transphobia is misogyny wearing a mask. From what I’ve seen, being seen as a woman is hard for both cis and trans women. And both of them aren’t taken seriously.

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.

Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.

All Dividers are Feds. Stand united or die separately.

ANYONE who is trying to divide our community is a fucking Fed. That includes other queers who like to argue about who is and isn’t “allowed” in our community.

Need a girl to objectify me as her dumb little boy so I never have to think again

We NEED to reevaluate how we view people with "red flags" that don't actually indicate harm to anyone. Things like "doesn't like animals," "doesn't have pets," "my pets immediately distrust them, so that means they're Secretly Evil."

I have a psychotic disorder. I suffer from flat affect. I have zero control over how I am emoting, and very often my emotional readout is completely blank. A LOT of animals (dogs especially) have exhibited aggression and fear around me ever since this started. (There are only TWO dogs I've met in the last five years that didn't BITE ME.) Dogs are unsettled by me because of a symptom of my psychosis--a condition that is out of my control that IS NOT DANGEROUS and doesn't harm anyone.

I also have a severe autoimmune disease and severe allergies to basically all animals. Whenever I tell people I can't come over because they have pets, or I don't have/want pets of my own, the IMMEDIATE response I always get is "why don't you like animals?" So I'm always pretty pissed off when I have to say, "I'm severely allergic. Don't fucking assume I have an undesireable quality just because I'm not a pet owner."

Another ableist red flag we need to talk about is "has no other friends/all their friends break up with them." Hi. I'm physically disabled with a digestive disease and a degenerative disease in my spine. That means my dietary restrictions are stupid and I can't sit/stand/walk for more than 15 minutes without being in pain. Most of the friends I break up with, I do so BECAUSE THEY ARE INCREDIBLY ABLEIST TO ME with no visible potential of changing. From people relentlessly harrassing me about lifestyle changes to not accepting correction or feedback when I tell them "hey, you CAN'T do x because it triggers y condition." If they argue or blow me off, I'm not their fucking friend!

Tl;dr: Disabled, chronically ill, and people with "scary" mental illnesses are often lumped in with "bad people" for characteristics that hurt no one and aren't in their control. Stop using "my dog is uncomfortable around them" as a litmus test for everyone you hang out with.