Shipping gay

Anonymous asked: what's the difference between enjoying a homosexual 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. possess 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

Fandomonium

I just watched season 4 of Massive Mouth, and while I do contain thoughts on it, this really stuck in my craw. I’m sure I’m going to receive some flack for this but, Aiden is a really bad character. Aiden has been in the show for two seasons, and he has less personality than Lump, a background ethics. Hell, Milk was in FOUR EPISODES and has a more defined individuality than Aiden. We haven’t even met Aiden’s Jesse that he mentioned when he met Matthew, the only comrade 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 absorbing . Aiden is just Blaine from Glee. He has no dreams, no motivations, no personal problems, no school drama, no friends of his own, no baggage, no insecurities. Aiden exists to be Matthew’s boyfriend/girlfriend. And he nice of sucks. Aiden is not a classmate. He’s not like Jay or even Devon. He’s not going to change or mature . And that upsets me. I don’t want to observe Matthew get his heart broken, but every other nature has had multiple love interests, other crus

The Cutprice Guignol

Let’s discuss about shipping, shall we?

Mostly, I’d fond to talk about the recent drama that has arisen around comments that Anthony Mackie made about the shipping of his personality, 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 explain in how he felt about the slice of the fandom that wants to see the two of them in a connection 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 receive shipped together so often in famous culture, and why I can perceive the frustration that some people include towards it.

For one thing, allow me just tell this: I would love to observe more shows that depict a genuinely emotionally intimate connection between men, period. Whether that association is romantic or not, it’s something that’s pretty grossly under-represented. Part of the issue that drives that, I think, is that so many audiences and parts of popular fandoms especially view any gentle of emotional connection between two u

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who received the Medal of Honor, stripping the ship of the name of a slain queer 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 judgment 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 community 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 Event Month — the same timing as the Pentagon's campaign to force transgender troops out of the U.S. milita