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maybeitsacomfyclown

Your right sign, all things are possible with God. But let’s clean up that definition a bit buckaroo.

I do not belive in any sort of religious diety, there is no being that powerful in our universe. Christians will say that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled is that he made us stop believing in him. I say the greatest con “god” ever pulled was him making us belive in miracles, because it’s not some divine being that awnsers prayers its


People.

People, other human beings, your neighbors, friends, parents, bus drivers, random ass people you see on the street. Good will and collective action are stronger and have more right to be called divine than any single deity. The single most incredible thing we have the capability to do is to help someone else, to reach our hand out and help someone else. Even small things like, giving bus fair to people being hounded by bus drivers, making sure to thank bus drivers who bring you safely stop to stop, holding the door open for the person behind you, treating minimum wage workers kindly and with respect, and all sorts of other things like that.


Anyway go be Gods and divine smite your local bank.

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cookinguptales

So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.

I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.

See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.

I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.

Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.

In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.

They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.

Conservatives lost their damn minds.

Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.

When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.

Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America. 

Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”

Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.

The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.

This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.

Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.

The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.

I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.

Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.

Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.

The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.

That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.

They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.

So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.

We have! To keep! Pushing back!

cookinguptales

Someone reblogged this saying they'd never heard any of this before and they didn't even know how to begin verifying it, so let me help!

Here's a 1995 article from the NYT about Disney putting this policy into effect after promising to do so in 1994.

Here's a wikipedia page about Disney's unofficial Gay Days and how they've been protested by Christian groups.

I tried to find the book I read, but honestly so many different weird evangelical anti-Disney books came up when I was googling that I can't be sure which one it was. 🙃

finnglas

I can't help you with sources other than the fact that I too am an exvangelical kid whose parents went on-and-off banning Disney movies from the house as I was growing up. ("On" when the pastor got on a tear about the evils and how the movies had gay propaganda in it and ~witchcraft~ and my mom would obediently remove anything from my reach that had the concept of "magic" in it - and then "Off" when the pastor hadn't said anything for a while and my mom got sentimental about how much she loved Winnie the Pooh and The Aristocats.)

I remember the first "Gay Days" and how they put up signs around the park saying that it was unofficial and not affiliated with Disney, and how that didn't stop the evangelicals from foaming at the mouth, and the groups had to change it to "Friendship Days" to keep from getting gay-bashed... and I also remember how the last time I went to Gay Days (2019) they had fucking Pride merch in the stores with signs saying that proceeds from the sales went to GLSEN to prevent gay kids from being bullied at school.

Disney has done a LOT to normalize queerness in the mainstream - and I know it's a joke, blah blah, first canon Disney queers being a new minor character every year, but outside of the movies, in the real world where real people live, it has done a LOT.

And yeah. You want Disney to wipe the floor with these dudes. Because as evil as some of their business practices are (capitalism sucks, man, and there's no getting around that) - I HAVE to emphasize that they have been curating a safe space for real-life queer people for decades. And we want that to win.

prismatic-bell

The enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, but they're sure as hell a gigantic mouse-shaped meat shield, and right now we need the enemy out of bullets.

cherishedproperty

Corporations in FL and TX are watching this. Red state governors are watching this. A victory for Disney means more companies pushing back. A victory for Florida means an absolute avalanche of restrictions on LGBTQ+ people, corporate support of reproductive rights, etc.

We NEED Disney to win.

deyjahboo

honestly a way of putting this is that yes both are horrible but one is CLEARLY more fucked up than the other. think of it as a picking the lesser of two evils thing. in this case disney is clearly the lesser evil so you need them to win

maybeitsacomfyclown

This feels equivalent to the bbeg from your last campaign showing up to help with the latest even worse bbeg.

fishandchips321

I’M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

entertainingfaith

To prove something to a friend, please


REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

spacexualkids

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:)

ladyofthegeneral

REBLOGGING SO HARD.

too-easily-obsessed

YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IM REBLOGGING WTF

genderfluid-coyote-starrk

GET 👏🏼 RID 👏🏼 OF 👏🏼 ACE/AROPHOBIA 👏🏼

sylveonagainstddlg

im gonna reblog this everytime i see it ,,

sjw-hitgirl

REBLOG THIS ALREADY!

thechaoticbisexual

I almost liked before I finished reading-

I SHALL BREAK THE REBLOG BUTTON!

hamiltonbitch15

+  +  +

book-dragon-not-worm

I might be a lil biased, BUT HELL YES ARE ACES/AROS QUEER!!

bendy-in-the-inky-abyss-au

Reblog! >:3

8-bitfandoms

r e b l o g t h i s m o t h e r f * c k e r

lilsunny273

REBLOG THIS

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❤️

lotusneedsserotonin

reblogging for the 30,000th time

randomchild20

Reblogging because I’m not a pos

xolborsaysstuff

anyone who believes otherwise needs a reality check asexuals are just as valid

vacillatingcreator

I am aroace, I sure hope I’m valid :’)

i-am-a-sobble

t-they are valid as the p-person reading this!

i-am-a-meowstic

yes! valid!

i-am-a-skitty

WOOO ace valid!!

i-am-a-magikarp

<º)) ))>< Aro/Ace people are all valid!!

<º)) ))>< My trainer says he thinks yall are really cool, everyone is!

i-am-a-cranidos

Grrrr… Ace people are good.

GRRRR… BUT ANYBODY WHO’S ACEPHOBIC IS GETTING HEADBUTTED STRAIGHT INTO A TREE!

i-am-a-sandshrew

yes! we love the ace friends!

i-am-a-scorbun

The Ace’s will run the world! *covers mouth.* I mean yes they’re valid.

i-say-ok

OK!!!

kylievershion

I’M ASEXUAL MYSELF

anonymous-person-in-hellhole

Asexuals are just people who aren’t attracted sexually, of course, they exist in LGBTQIA+.

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ASEXUALS FRIENDS DESERVE TO BE SEEN AND HEARD

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y3s!!!!(yes!!)

r4wr1ngstuffzz

0fc!!!

gore-iskawaii

Ofc X3

crowcussion

i’m on the ace spectrum how could i not?

maybeitsacomfyclown

Fuck it we ball

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feliicityrampant

i wish there was a site that was like. video game hints. that were less walkthroughs and more “it’s in this general area” or “this puzzle is easy if you picked up all seven clues. are you missing one?” or “don’t forget you can [mechanic].” sometimes im stumped but i dont want someone to just tell me the answer…

feliicityrampant

oh good fucking news this exists

pbdigital

In a similar vein there is Before I Play which is a site that has contributions to kind of give you a heads up on stuff you probably would’ve liked to know ‘before you played’.

Warning that there may and will be spoilers, though they try to avoid them mostly.  It’s a good resource if you constantly worry you’re missing something important or doing thing wrong.

maybeitsacomfyclown

Rebloging so I can come back to this.