You can now vote for Tori at VH1.com for being one of the “100 greatest women in music” in categories as “All time”, “90’s” and “Pop”. So make sure you give Tori a vote in all three categories! It also says “You may vote as often as you wish but only 3 will be shared a day.” Just remember you’ll have to live in the US (or fake it) and be willing to give up a piece of your control on either twitter or facebook.
danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:
“I think the people hoping for a lesbian princess need to be reminded that Disney movies are aimed at kids. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being gay, but to push the idea at kids before they understand what that means will only confuse them. Also as a parent, I would be pissed at Disney for addressing such controversial topics in a movie intended for children.”
I’ve been waiting for an opportunity like this. Generally I don’t pay much attention to opinion blogs because a lot of people are under the impression that there is no such thing as a ‘wrong opinion’ (which there is) and talking to said people is much like talking to a pile of rocks, except even rocks would be preferable to these kind of ridiculous people.
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being gay, but -” Nope. Stop right there. If you truly think there is nothing wrong with being gay, then that would be the end of it. You would not have this opinion. There is no ‘but’. Queer couples should have the same representation in children’s movies as heteronormative couples because - gasp! - there is nothing wrong with being gay!
You speak of ‘confusing’ the kids - tell me, though. How? How would this confuse them? When children watch Disney films, they are not thinking about sex. When they see Ariel and Eric kiss, or Aladdin and Jasmine, or Aurora and Phillip, or every goddamn couple in the entire franchise, they are not thinking about penises and vaginas, they are watching two people who love each other kiss. It’s simple and actually incredibly clear. There is nothing confusing about two people in love.
See, heterosexuality and heteronormativity is so ingrained in our culture that, most of the time, we don’t even realize it’s there. This confession is a prime example of that. And to assume that representing a gay couple would somehow be ‘pushing’ homosexuality on them is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Considering sexuality is an innate part of us, something we are born with and cannot change, you could show a child nothing but animated gay couples going on adventures and falling in love and if the child is straight, they’ll still be straight at the end of it. Representation is not about trying to coerce anyone into being anything they’re not - it is about shedding light on the people of society who have been kept in the dark, about teaching children that not being the norm is okay.
Do you realize that there are children out there with gay parents? Gay relatives? Gay friends? That there are children out there - prepare yourself - who are gay? What do you think it’s like for them to see the same boy and girl fall in love over and over? That what they feel isn’t ‘appropriate’? That what they feel is ‘too confusing’ to be displayed?
It is statements and opinions like these that reinforce homophobia and make kids afraid to be themselves. This is what keeps people in the closet, in denial, afraid to come out, because the majority - heterosexuals like yourself, I presume - have condoned homosexuality/being queer as being ‘too confusing’ when it’s been proven time and time again that it’s just as natural as anything else.
Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put into femme presentation is a waste of time and energy – or, at the very least, time and energy that could have been spent doing something more important. Anti-femme culture thinks ‘pretty’ probably means ‘dumb’ even when struggling against a culture obsessed with an impossibly narrow beauty standard. Anti-femme culture thinks you can’t do math AND do your nails.
We are humans! We contain multitudes! I do not think it is a problem that teenaged girls are interested in experimenting with presentation via fashion; I think it’s ridiculous and misogynist that they are ONLY encouraged to do that – and that boys don’t have the same freedom of expression.
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| — | The Rotund by Marianne Kirby (via ellielamothe) |
It doesn’t get said enough. They were a family. Three mothers and their adopted daughter. They wore promise rings as a symbol of their relationship, and if you consider how hugely important every piece of jewelry is in Sailor Moon, you realize that that means everything. Setsuna and Hotaru had no home, no biological family, but that didn’t matter because they made their own.
Everybody talks about how amazing it was that a children’s show in the early 90s displayed a lesbian couple. Let’s talk about how the manga displayed a lesbian family. Let’s talk about how that lesbian family included their platonic friend, who was every bit as much a parent to their daughter, and there was nothing weird about that.
((OP,I love this picture,could you possibly send me a link? ^^;;)
YES. Yes, absolutely. Their family life was depicted adorably, with every person in the family having different roles which were not necessarily along rigid gender and blood family lines: Haruka papa, Setsuna mama, and Michiru mama all took care of Hotaru. ;_;
help I have a lot of outer senshi feelings
I’m really scared to play any Joanna because I’m worried my aunt or uncle will be like, “What is that racket? Please turn it off now.” Or something. Idk, I’m always afraid of playing music I really, really like around people I don’t know that well, because the music I like is actually an accurate representation of myself, and if they don’t like it, I’ll feel like they don’t like me.
I was listening to Tori’s Father Lucifer once and my dad walked in and said: “how can you listen to this shit?!”
It’s been years and I’m still mad at him e_e
