Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o will costar in a buddy movie directed by Ava DuVernay for Netflix
“After dramatic negotiation session at the Cannes Film Festival, Netflix has nabbed a film project pairing Grammy winner Rihanna with Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, in a concept that began as a Twitter sensation. Ava DuVernay (Selma) will direct, and Issa Rae (Insecure) is in talks to write the screenplay…”
Here’s some examples awkward accessibility being a thing:
Your at a hotel that has a lift to get you from one sub-floor to another, but the lift can only be unlocked and operated by one specific person that the hotel now has to go find. Sure, they’ve made the entrance to the sub-floor is accessible, but now it’s a thing.
The buses are wheelchair accessible but the driver has to stop the bus, take 30 seconds to lower the goddamn ramp, move passengers out of their seats, hook up the straps and then secure you in the bus. Sure, they’ve made the busses accessible but now it’s a thing.
The restaurant has an accessible entrance, but it’s past the trash room and through the kitchen. Sure, the restaurant is accessible, but now it’s an insulting thing.
Here’s some great examples of accessibility not being a thing:
The train to the airport pulls up flush with the platform. I board with everyone else and sit wherever the fuck I want. Riding the train is accessible and not a thing.
In Portland, I press a button the side of the streetcar and a ramp automatically extends at the same time the door opens. I board in the same amount of time as everyone else. This is not a thing.
I get that it is difficult to design for wheelchair accessibility, but folks need to start considering the overall quality of the experience versus just thinking about meeting the minimum requirements.
never say anything to a penguin that the penguin has not already said to you
this reads like a shitpost but i’m actually 100% serious.
i was walking along the side of the harbour this evening, just after all the penguins had come in from the ocean to nest. there was one penguin right by the footpath, and when it saw me it kept saying ‘höö’. so i said ‘höö’ right back. it seemed to like that, and we had a lovely conversation where we just kept saying ‘höö’ to each other. i crouched down about two metres away from it, and we kept talking, and it actually moved towards me a little bit, seeming to prefer my company to the heartless embrace of the sea.
but then i made the mistake of trying to change things up. i said ‘hweh’, which was something that a previous penguin said to me, and this penguin hated it, and fucked right off. never said another word to me. i felt so rude.
what if the sound of the instruments you’re playing is them crying because you’re hurting them
don’t do this
pansexual women: i'm pansexual
straight women: what the fuck is that supposed to be? stop trying to be a special snowflake just call yourself bisexual
bisexual women: i’m bisexual
straight women: so...you're a lesbian then? like really at the end of the day you like girls so. you're basically a lesbian
lesbians: i’m a lesbian
straight women: but...how do you know? what if you fall in love with a man someday? i’m just saying It Could Happen!! never say never!!!!!
lesbians, bi women and pan women: straight women are so fucking annoying
straight women: oh my god ???????? whY a re you being HETEROPHOBIC hmmmm ive never been anything but accepting of your lifestyle ??? i hA ve a Gay Friend and i love slash fiction i am your aLLY i cant believe im being discriminated against like this >:( oppression is a double-edged sword!!
cishet men who like androgynous/tomboyish girls have this fucking complex where they feel persecuted by the Normal Straight Men because they like Different Girls and i would wager 90% of these dudes are straight up lesbian chasers lmao
most nasty cishet dudes will get off to lesbian porn and fetishize lesbians conceptually but be disgusted by butch lesbians (because lesbians only exist as a fantasy for their enjoyment) – but those weird dudes who are REALLY into “boyish” girls are usually just Advanced lesbian fetishists who want the Real Deal
and straight ppl always get so defensive about this too, even straight women, bc they feel like “oh being tomboyish or dressing like a boy doesn’t mean you’re gay!!”
yet self-described “tomboyish” girls – especially girls with short haircuts – wax poetic about how hard it is for people to “think you’re a lesbian” all the time. straight girls with pixie cuts get called “dykes” and they’re just offended that someone thought they weren’t straight
tomboy fashion historically belongs to lesbian women and our culture. bi women are most certainly a part of this too – bi and lesbian women understand the cultural markers of women who date other women. lesbians wearing men’s clothes goes back centuries, and modern “tomboy” fashion (flannel shirts, beanies, boxers, baggy jeans, all different styles from different subgroups of butch lesbians) literally exists because of lesbian & bi women. this is a cultural marker for us. and for every straight girl who has whined about being mistaken for being a lesbian, there’s at least twice as many actual butch lesbians who were physically assaulted or harassed because of their identity.
so when straight men “just think butch/androgynous/tomboyish women are hot” it’s a huge fucking red flag. their “preference” in women doesn’t exist in a fucking vacuum where homophobia & lesbophobic abuse doesn’t exist. by saying “my preference is women who look like lesbians”, you’re making it explicitly clear you covet real lesbians. men like this grew up in the same society i did. they know as well as i do what it means when a woman is dressed like that, and the fact that they find it sexy disgusts me
butch fashion exists for other women, not for you. if most of the women you ogle are oppressed by, abused by, and harassed by men like you – your “preference” becomes extremely harmful. sort your shit out. there’s a whole world of straight feminine girls out there who want you. this is my community, these are our fashions, and most of these women are gay like i am. you can’t find gay culture “sexy” when you’re a straight man, because that alone is a massive violation of our boundaries
