All you have to do is not smile. And then they’re like, “She’s a bitch.” There’s so much extra pressure on females in the music industry to be accommodating and nice, and it’s such horseshit. They would never say that to Stapleton, or Eric Church, who wears his fucking sunglasses all the time. If I wore my sunglasses all the time, people would be like, “She thinks she is hot shit.” Kacey Musgraves for Billboard
transphobic people will be like “I dont understand what you are and I’m entitled to a polite explanation in detail about you and your body and if you are rude then it will be your fault that I hate trans and nonbinary people”
r. kelly threatened to sue lifetime if they air the documentary. please support “surviving r. kelly” and stand with all survivors of abuse. listen to them. end him.
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Where can I watch it if I don’t have cable?
i think it’ll be available for livestream tomorrow on lifetime’s website!
I know this is a fun tweet and all that but it absolutely is an instance of striaght privilege. Heterosexual people have up to seven years to explore their sexual and romantic attraction in an environment that is designed for them while many queer youth deligate their time in maneuvering their identity in response to themselves and their environment. It’s one of the reasons why dating as a queer adult is so hard: so many of us are romantically undersocialized when compared to our heterosexual peers, who are not only given social liscence to explore themselves, but who have the additional benefit of being able to see themselves in media.
There will always be exceptions to this, of course, but it’s so sad to see how the effects of childhood homophobia haunt us well into our adult years, to the point where it limits our opportunity to connect with other people around us.
It’s not just heterosexual privilege either. Women of color, regardless of sexuality, are seen as gross and undesirable, or as fetishes and objects. As a brown bisexual girl, I couldn’t date women because of homophobia, and men never liked me back because they saw me as a monstrous, ugly “bitch” who’d never be half as pretty as white girls. And I saw my fellow women of color going through the same things. Only the most hyper-feminine, skinny, conventionally attractive women of color were desired, and even then they didn’t have as much dating experience as the white girls in my grade did.
The opportunity to healthily explore your romantic identity as an adolescent/teenager is rarely afforded to women of color, and this affects bi/trans/lesbian teen girls of color even more because of the combined effects of racism, misogyny (and transmisogyny if they’re trans girls), and biphobia/lesbophobia/homophobia. Conversely I even knew white gay people who found other people to date even while my wlwoc peers and I were closeted.
