From QWOC Media Wire
I didn’t catch this episode, but I did see another episode with a trans man and that was handled abysmally.
ok let me tell you something about this fucking Catfish show.
i went to college with the creator of the show/director of the original documentary that the show is based on, Nev Schulman. more so than just going to school with him, i was in a semester long class with him.
and. he. was. a. fucking. jackass.
he never did his work. as in EVER. like, we would be sitting in class, discussing whatever reading, and he would be sitting kinda in the corner, DOING THE READING WHILE HE WAS IN CLASS. and not even trying to hide it, which, would have been impossible anyway because there were only 7 or so people in the class. like, he’d be sitting there with a highlighter, highlighting stuff, underlining stuff, BARELY contributing ANYTHING to the conversation, and when he did it was such asinine, problematic shit everyone was left wishing he kept his mouth shut.
which, you know, those type of jackasses are a dime a dozen wherever you go. but not all of them physically assault queer women.
oh yes. from my recollection, there was a party or something going on, and the woman was making out with her girlfriend, when Nev walks up and WITHOUT PERMISSION BEGINS TAKING PICTURE OF THEM. she asks him to stop, things quickly escalate, i think maybe she might have tried grabbing at the camera, which is a perfectly understandable thing to do when you’re at a college party and some person unkown to you walks up and starts taking pictures of you and your partner sharing an intimate moment together, again, WITHOUT PERMISSION…..and he ends up punching her in the face.
i remember seeing the pictures she posted to facebook afterwards, her eye was bruised and swollen, and there was a cut on her nose. like, this was no bullshit punch, he pretty much fucked her up.
now normally a student would be automatically expelled for pulling such shit, but because his mom is on the board of trustees (go figure), they managed to pull some strings where i think he was able to finish the year out somehow; i know for sure he was allowed to still participate in the Spring Dance Concert, but that was with the rationale that him not being in it would negatively affect someone else’s grade, as the Spring Dance Concert was primarily a choreographic vehicle for the dance M.A. students.
(and,
i don’t fully recall thisactually yes i do, that’s how i saw the picture of the woman’s face, but apparently he only faced discipline after SLC students started a letter writing campaign for him to face SOME kind of repercussion. and i’m betting because his mom was on the board that there’s very little evidence on the internet that talks about his violent past.)furthermore, there’s evidence that his Catfish doc was a total fake, which, knowing him, doesn’t surprise me one bit.
so yeah. this transphobic bullshit is par for the course. fuck this guy, fuck his movie, and fuck his show. he is the definition of an entitled, overindulged jackass.
the internet is such a small world that my dashboard has brought me the nev schulman punching a girl in the face story twice now; also, paging rgr
all queers know that they are queer, despite the work that heterosexism and cissexism do to alienate them from this fact
the only possible reason for a queer person not to come out is that they’re in a queerphobic environment
alienation from the self as produced by heterosexism does not exist
alienation from the self as produced by cissexism does not exist
if you’re queer and not out, there’s something wrong with you
“And then he asked me if I wanted to go home with him. That’s a lie too, of course. There were two hours between our bedside conversation and his invitation, but if I’m going to tell you the truth, sacrifices have to be made. The point is that I was patient and I knew a great deal about straight men and their options at 4am.
You have to understand I had been passive aggressively trying to get myself killed for months. I was also on a constant vigil for “writing material” which, I now know, is basically the same thing as passive aggressively trying to get myself killed.
”
imagine that you and your best friend are really close. everyone around school sees it and thinks it’s cute, and then one day, people start thinking it’s more than just best friends. nothing has changed between you two, you’ve done the same thing you’ve always done, only now people are putting it under a magnifying glass. people start putting your names together, start asking you when you’re going to “come out,” start harassing your significant others because they’re “bearding the relationship.”
think about how suffocating and awkward that’d be. think about how much of a strain and a dent that’d put on/in your friendship. suddenly, it’s like there’s this gigantic fortress placed between you and your best friend and you feel like you can’t hug them in public anymore because then your significant other will get yelled at for being in the way.
why would you ever want to do that to somebody? why do you feel so incredibly invested in someone else’s life to ruin it for what you see it as? everyone wakes up in the morning in control of one mind, and that one mind is the one that they need to take care of. let other people live. i’m honestly completely serious when i say that i can see one direction breaking up, louis and harry never speaking, and it all being because of the deluded, entitled fans.
please please please, stop. it’s not your place and it never will be. your head will lay on your pillow at night just the same whether or not “larry stylinson” is real.
i don’t have to imagine. when i was in middle school, people decided my friend and i were together. i wasn’t out as queer at the time, but i still got bullied. we never did anything beyond normal interaction between two young girls - we held hands sometimes, sat close together, whispered - nothing that was actually “gay.” i got pushed into things. i got stopped from going to class, i had people stop talking to me. people deciding that i was queer was enough license to bully me. listen up, one direction fans. what you’re doing is not okay. you are hurting people. you need to stop.
communismkillsitonthedancefloor:
remember the time Richard Dawkins said teaching religion to a kid is worse than sexually abusing them.
He also said atheists in the U.S. are treated like queer people were in the 50s
Remember that time Richard Dawkins told a woman to get over being sexually harassed.
Remember that time Richard Dawkins told a woman to get over being sexually harassed via racism and Islamophobia
He’s just the worst.
as gross as they seem from what google has provided, and there’s no reason for them to have not have come through or else explained why to their backers, and the fact that apparently they go out of their way to harrass people (which might be a problem if they find these? I doubt they will but you never know) I still have to feel a bit bad for them because a lot - most even - of the articles / posts on Riley & what they’ve done were clearly going out of their way to misgender them, and as a queer poc they’re going to be getting loads of hatred from people that just do want to hate on them for that
I can see why that would make them defensive and unwilling to consider criticism from people they don’t know at all on the internet
doesn’t excuse that, when they do respond to critics, they appear to be comfortable using homophobic and ableist language, and telling people to kill themselves.
K: and people who are actually in the LGBTQ community argue that trans* people don’t completely need and deserve the support of the rest of the LGBTQ community more than any other part of it?
This is horrible…….. : (
Signal boost. Wake up, world. Stop erasing trans* people.
(Source: checkthatprivilege)
all my friends talk about all the time is like ‘ooh rosie is a bitch oooh is ollie gay’ OMG I DON’T CARE and I’m the only one who doesn’t watch it
idk who anyone is other than Ollie, but the new adverts of him deciding to be gay ‘this month’ and … from what I’ve heard of him he’s always been v definite about being stereotypically gay / long hair etc but straight? maybe I’m wrong but all the snippets from the advert just scream that the producers of the show are making him do it and ugh get off my screen
‘determined to be gay, aren’t you’ ‘yes, this month’ AGH claws at face
and the series adverts? with them jousting with mops and suits of armour and stuff?
I have never watched more than five minutes of an episode but I actually just hate it so fucking much. To an irrational extent. It makes me sad people watch it.
i watched three whole seasons of it, until the casual sexism and racism finally made me stop. i also got tired of the ‘lol we’re nerds!!!’ thing, even though i guess that’s the whole premise of the show. some episodes are funny tho.
yeah, that’s why I didn’t watch it when I originally became aware of it, but I’ve been watching some episodes for the past couple of days and thought that they were bearable and then Pria? Pria is all the same racist jokes about India that they used to do for Raj, except Lennard says them and then goes ‘that’s not racist is it’ and she kind of smiles mysteriously and approvingly
why would you bother doing that like that makes it any less racist?
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