Friday, June 17, 2022

I Didn't Say It

Chris Evans, actor and hunk and LGBTQ+ ally, who voices the main character in Pixar’s animated movie Lightyear, on people reacting negatively to a gay couple in the film:

“The real truth is those people are idiots. Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good. It’s incredible, and a real hats off to Disney and Pixar for having that kiss be a part of this story. The kiss is a greeting and a gesture of love that is tender. It does establish who they are as people, but it is not the singular identifier for who either of them are. Seeing a loving gay couple in a meaningful way is important for everybody. There’s always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before, but those people die off like dinosaurs. I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human.”

While I agree in part about ignoring them and moving on as they, hopefully, die off, some of these bigots are in office and seeing things like a simple same-sex kiss as grooming of children and then use that as a weapon against the whole community.

We need to speak up, loudly, and we need to have our allies speak up even louder.

Case in point: Lightyear was banned in the United Arab Emirates because it depicts homosexuality, and Disney has been unable to secure permission to show it in 13 other Middle Eastern and Asian countries, including Saudi Arabia.

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Ron DeSantis, Florida’s fascist GOP governor, and now apparent dumbest man on Earth, responding to Elon Musk’s Tweet that he was leaning toward supporting DeSantis for president in 2024:

“I’m focused on 2022, but with Elon Musk, what I would say is, I welcome support from African Americans, what can I say?”

Musk is white and from Pretoria, South Africa.

DeSantis is white and a dumbfuck from Florida.

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Candace Owens, conservative wingnut, on Pride:

“I have been covering the wonderful month of Pride, for which I feel no pride for at all. I think it should be called shame month. It’s absolute debauchery. You’re seeing right now that adults are getting behind this narrative so they can have a woke t-shirt on and say, ‘I love my children. I allowed my child to pick their gender and pick their species.’ And they feel proud of themselves because they can go and they can say this on Facebook that they are wonderful, accepting, and loving adults. When, in reality, they are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them because it’s child abuse.”

Yes, Candace believes people can choose their gender or even choose their species, but the only thing Candace Owens chose was to be an ignorant, hate-filled, delusional, homophobic bigot.

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Dave Rubin, homocon podcaster, on the backlash he received after announcing that he and his husband are expecting two children via surrogate later this year:

“There’s a lot of mean people and trolls and clickbait people and all of that stuff. 99% of what I got, especially from the public people that I’m associated with. So are there gonna be some traditional religious conservatives that are not happy with same-sex marriage and same-sex couples having kids? Of course, there are, I believe in religious liberty. And, as long as your beliefs don’t impede on my life and my ability to have a family and all of that stuff, then I still think we can live in the same country. And I would hope that they can too. You’re allowed to believe what you want.”

Does anyone else find it odd that Dave Rubin is the same guy who recently said that Karine Jean-Pierre got her job as White Press Secretary because she’s a “Black lesbo” is whining that people are saying mean things about he and his husband having kids.

Look in the mirror, Dave, the hateful things are in you, too.

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Dwyane Wade, on why he fights for his trans daughter Zaya:

“Just being a father and seeing our child grow up every day, and doing what you are supposed to do as a parent [which is] is to make sure that you sit back and see what it is in life that they want to do and try to go there with them, and try to help them … and believe them when they tell us who they are. The moment when you were in the hospital and you grabbed your daughter and you looked at your daughter, all the emotions that went through your mind and how much love filled your heart at that moment. Don’t let that ever leave you—no matter what. The one thing we do as parents is: We find our mini-mes and we try to make them just like us, but our kids are going to be who they are.”

Believe your children, your friends, your co-workers, your family,  when they tell you who they are.

It really is that simple.

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28 comments:

  1. Death Santis is an idiot. He is applying for Cheeto's former job, so... he needs to demonstrate how stupid he really is.
    Love Chris Evans. Hate Candace. She's a c*unt (sorry to all the fantastic c*nts out there) and should shut her trap. But won't cause that gives her money.
    Love Dwyane and the support he gives to his daughter. Example.

    XOXO

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    1. Dwyane and Chris are my hot daddy ally bookends this week!

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  2. Candace prefers a voting block that sleeps does what they are told, sleeping through everything. Dave Rubin thinks he's special, he thinks his husband is special, and because both are special, no one should take issue with how he feels others should be treated. Dwayne is a great father.

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    1. Dave is a self-loathing ass. He ought to seek advice from Wade.
      Candace just flaps her lips for the attention and doesn't acre to even know the lunacy she speaks.

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  3. Saudi is run by members of the extreme Wahabi sect who think that anything, including chopping up a man with a bone saw, is okay as long as you don't drink alcohol, eat pork etc., or have same-sex relations. Funny really when homosexuality has long been permissable throughout history in the middle-east.

    The repulsive Elon Muskrat thinks he still lives in the apartheid era - his factories being bastions of racial hatred.

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    1. Saudi Arabia should look into the subset of Arabic Gay Porn and then close their mouths.

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  4. ( )s to the good people.
    xoxo :-)

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  5. This post is like a sandwich. Chris and Dwayne being the nice freshly baked pumpernickel bread. Unfortunately, the middle of the sandwich is filled with rancid peanut butter, toxic tuna and moldy fruit preserves.

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    1. I'm sorry, I got lost in the idea of being the meat in a Chris Dwyane sammich.

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  6. I was about to say something similar to what Deedles said (the sandwich). I wish Chris Evans were right and we could just pay them no mind. Anyway, Dwayne Wade is a great father!

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    1. Sadly, for now, bigots ate very loud.

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  7. Loved this post. And yes, DeSantis is a real big dumb fuck.

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    1. I just don't get his popularity.

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  8. Disney used to always cut any gay content (however innocuous) in order to market its films in Arabic countries, China and other homophobic markets. With "Lightyear" Disney is, for the first time, refusing to make any cuts or edits and that's why this movie won't be showing in Saudi Arabia, China, etc.

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    1. It's 2022. It's beyond time to change!

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  9. I could understand gay men being libertarians or apolitcal, but Republican is just absolutely nuts

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    1. Makes no sense to me either, Adam!

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  10. Dwayne Wade is right. We should not try to turn our babies into mini-me's but let them be "who they are" - guiding and supporting them.

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    1. He is exactly right. And we need more outspoken parents to say so.

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  11. I'm so very proud to have such a genius as the governor of my state. DeSantis puts the duh in Florida.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. He is head-shakingly dumb!
      xoxo

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  12. We really are all just people, what does it matter who we love?

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    1. It shouldn't. but some people just don't grasp that fact.

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  13. I heard about Chris Evans's remarks. Bravo to him. As for DeSantis: Doh! How embarrassing!

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    1. Evans has long been an LGBTQ+ ally, while DeSantis has long been an ignorant asshat.,

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  14. Huh. Candace can spew hate and get paid for it. Well, apparently not very much. She really needs to stop buying her cosmetics at the dollar store.

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