Shipping gay

Anonymous asked: what's the difference between enjoying a queer ship and fetishizing it? It's been bugging me since you answered that other anon. Like, I love Wrightworth to bits. Phoenix and Miles together gives me warm fuzzies. Now I'm unsure of myself. Plz explain

tfwlawyers:

it’s just like…. ..the way that message was worded. there’s a difference between loving a ship for what the ship actually is (the trust, concern, love, etc involved between, for example, p/e) and liking it just because it’s ‘gay’ and ‘cuter [than non-straight ships]’

for example. hold you ever been in public or whatever and seen two girls walking around holding hands? and there’s an asshole who screams at them ‘yeah, alright, you two rock’? that’s fetishizing. you don’t know anything about these people, but because you see them in what you assume to be a non-straight relationship, you think by screaming your ‘support’ you’re making them feel good about themselves. you’re not. it’s happened to me before in big cities and I can promise you that you’re really not. you’re still os

The Cutprice Guignol

Let’s talk about shipping, shall we?

Mostly, I’d like to talk about the recent drama that has arisen around comments that Anthony Mackie made about the shipping of his character, Sam, with the one played by Sebastian Stan, his co-lead in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Honestly, I understand why people found his comments hurtful; he was pretty obvious in how he felt about the slice of the fandom that wants to see the two of them in a relationship in the show’s canon, and it wasn’t exactly complimentary. But at the same time, it’s got me thinking a lot about the way that male characters gain shipped together so often in popular culture, and why I can perceive the frustration that some people have towards it.

For one thing, permit me just say this: I would love to see more shows that depict a genuinely emotionally intimate relationship between men, period. Whether that affair is romantic or not, it’s something that’s lovely grossly under-represented. Part of the issue that drives that, I think, is that so many audiences and parts of well-liked fandoms especially view any kind of emotional attachment between two u

Fandomonium

I just watched season 4 of Big Mouth, and while I do possess thoughts on it, this really stuck in my craw. I’m sure I’m going to get some flack for this but, Aiden is a really bad character. Aiden has been in the demonstrate for two seasons, and he has less character than Lump, a background character. Hell, Milk was in FOUR EPISODES and has a more defined personality than Aiden. We haven’t even met Aiden’s Jesse that he mentioned when he met Matthew, the only friend he’s ever mentioned having. About the only thing I learned about Aiden this season was that Aiden seemed to look down his nose at Matthew’s sense of humor at the two pools they go to. But aside from that, Aiden’s just this flat perfect guy with nothing interesting. Aiden is just Blaine from Glee. He has no dreams, no motivations, no personal problems, no institution drama, no friends of his own, no baggage, no insecurities. Aiden exists to be Matthew’s crush. And he kind of sucks. Aiden is not a classmate. He’s not like Jay or even Devon. He’s not going to change or develop. And that upsets me. I don’t want to see Matthew get his heart broken, but every other character has had multiple love interests, unlike crus

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a Nature War II sailor who received the Medal of Honor, stripping the ship of the name of a slain gay rights activist who served during the Korean War.

In a video posted to social media, Hegseth said he was "taking the politics out of ship naming."

The ship's new name will honor Navy Chief Petty Officer Oscar V. Peterson, who was awarded the highest military decoration posthumously for his actions during the 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific.

The decision is the latest move by Hegseth to wipe away names of ships and military bases that were given by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration, which in many cases chose to honor service members who were women, minorities, from the LBGTQ group and more.

It follows earlier actions by Hegseth and President Donald Trump, a Republican, to purge all programs, policies, books and social media mentions of references to diversity, equity and inclusion in the military and elsewhere.

Hegseth's announcement comes during Pride Month — the same timing as the Pentagon's campaign to force transgender troops out of the U.S. milita

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