trafficlightromance:

Now I’m sad.

This is about basic human rights. This is about how after sharing their lives for six years, sharing finances and a home and a business and a LIFE together, not only did their families, but the government said none of it mattered. None of it.

No one should have their basic civil liberties invalidated like that. We need to keep fighting this fight, for as long as it takes.

barryyouasshole:

behold: more reasons for me to hate peta even more than i already do

Wow. There are so many things wrong with this. I could go on for ages listing them, but for the sake of brevity, I will say that I have rarely felt so attacked by a community I belong to. I’m not a member of PETA (I was in childhood, though) but I am a fat woman who has been vegetarian for nearly my whole life. This is exactly the same bullshit I’ve seen since I was a kid (“But you eat so healthy/you don’t eat that much/etc etc etc… So why are you fat?”)

I’m sorry PETA, but you’re wrong, and you can go home with your fat-shaming.

bookshop:

feministdisney:

unknowablewoman:

fatbodypolitics:

red3blog:

Earlier this month, Disney announced a collaboration between Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida to bring their considerable experience and expertise in marketing to children to the health insurance industry’s long-standing commitment to blaming fat people for their health problems. These titans of industry will pool their talents to give fat shaming of children a brand-new re-branding. Oh, that’s not what they announced, of course, but it is what they are doing.

Newly unveiled at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center is ”Habit Heroes”, an exhibit and online game designed to combat “bad habits” by personifying those habits and then stigmatizing those personifications. I’m guessing you are already ahead of me. 25 Pixar-inspired characters make up the “Bad Habit Gallery”, a collection of low-ambition super villains content to use their powers to model socially unwelcome behavior. I’m not going to really get into the advisability of the project. This sort of negative reinforcement feels misguided in general, but especially when the negative reinforcement involves creating cool characters of the things you are supposed to be stigmatizing. (See Hungry) Never mind the broad condemnations of things like being in a bad mood are just setting kids up to fail. Everyone gets in bad moods or doesn’t get enough sleep enough some of the time. Especially counterproductive is shaming kids for lacking self-esteem. You’re going to make kids feel bad about themselves because they feel bad about themselves? Way to go, Disney. So, there is a lot to complain about, but as you probably deduced, what really concerns me are the fat shaming characters in the “Bad Habit Gallery”.

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For information about contacting Walt Disney World and Epcot, please visit their site or find them on Twitter @WaltDisneyWorld. Contact information for Florida Blue can be found here or on Twitter @FLBlueCenter.

This makes me so angry and sad and hurt. A place that is suppose to be the happiest place on earth is now using my body and bodies like mine to create more shame, more harm.

I am so fucking done with the world today…and it’s not even noon.

agreed that the first one is a fail on their part to shame because she looks like she’s having a ball and I want to go out for drinks with her tonight

but anyway

WHAT
THE
FUCK
IS
THIS

DISNEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING.

also good, thorough commentary on it all! 

If I hadn’t read the post, I would have assumed this was some kind of awful trolling. But no! Jesus Christ, here is what the official Disney Parks blurb says about “Habit Heroes”:

This new experience encourages children of all ages to learn healthy lifestyle habits and become more active. Guests can join forces with Habit Heroes Will Power and Callie Stenics to fight off villains like Sweet Tooth and The Snacker.

You can even go look at the Gallery of Bad Habits

online. HERE’S WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT “SWEET TOOTH”:

Sweet Tooth
BAD HABIT: Too many sweets

BEST WAY TO DEFEAT THIS BAD HABIT: Like Snacker, Sweet Tooth has a soft spot for healthy snacks like fruit, but just doesn’t know it yet. See if you can get her to try some!
BIO: This shapely girl may disguise her unhealthy habits, but in reality her blood sugar is so high you could bake a cake with it!

In other words, HOW DARE SHE HAVE A FIGURE THAT MISLEADS US ABOUT HER TOTALLY UNHEALTHY LIFE STYLE. HOW DARE SHE NOT CATER TO OUR NEED TO BODY POLICE HER BY NOT HAVING A BODY FAT ENOUGH FOR US TO EXPLICITLY SHAME.

i feel physically nauseous. oh my god, i can’t. i can’t.

WOW. WOW.

Okay then. SO. As if what they were saying about that beautiful ‘shapely’ girl up there isn’t bad enough, let’s turn our attention to another one of these villains—a male one at that—The Glutton.

So let’s see what his bio says:

BIO: The Glutton has a big appetite for life—and more!  Not only does he overeat, he wants to take you down with him. He runs a chain of greasy spoon diners and Cheezy Greezy Hot Dog Carts where his customers are as over-stuffed as his porkchops.

So he overeats on greasy, fatty foods. Which is totally what was wrong with Sweet Tooth and The Snacker, right? So they’re probably going to recommend that he changes his diet to more health-conscious things, fill up on “free” foods like raw fruits and veggies! Right? Right?

Let’s see:

BEST WAY TO DEFEAT THIS BAD HABIT: Slow him down and he just may find that he eats less and can actually taste what he eats!

So. Uh. No healthy food? He can keep eating “his greasy hotdogs” as long as he isn’t “speed eating?”

Does that mean it’s totally okay to tell a woman what she should, and should not put in her mouth—but with a man, he just needs to cut back a little?

There are 25 of these “villains,” and I would love to see how the men and women compare when it comes to their habits, because as far as I can see a lot of the men’s habits are things like “Listening to music too loud,” “Skipping breakfast,” “Drinking too much coffee” while the women are things like “Stressing Out,” “Smoking,” “Gossiping,” and of course the two ladies mentioned above who eat too many sweet, fatty foods.

bookshop:

vegtablez:

“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”

“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—

“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”

“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”

“OUT.”

Jane Elliot is a champ.

I’ve never heard of this woman before and now I’m just sitting here with my mind blown.

“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.

jaredgeller:

jaredgeller:

chasewhiteside:

A reminder to give to charities who don’t tell those in need who they’re allowed to love.

The Salvation Army won’t be getting any of my fab, gay hand-me-downs this year.

The most good?

And another thing — you can have a section about ‘Homosexuality’ and you can have a section about ‘Human Equality’ but you don’t get to have a section for both.

newwavefeminism:

Non-Discrimination is Non-Negotiable