Earlier tonight, I attended the Donald Trump campaign rally at my school, the University of Illinois at Chicago, which was subsequently cancelled by Trump himself due to “safety concerns.” So far, all I’ve seen in the media is “the protesters were instigating violence on a wide scale, and it was therefore wise of Trump to cancel the event.” That is a lie. Neither any of my friends, inside the venue or outside on the street, nor I witnessed any sort of conflict that was not instigated by a Trump supporter, and even those were few and far between. Any protestor retaliating against a Trump supporter was immediately called out by the rest of the crowd for not maintaining the peaceful protest we were trying to conduct. I watched a Trump supporter exit the venue, snap a Nazi salute, and stand there, unmolested save for a few choice words and hand gestures, for a few solid minutes. No violent action was taken against him whatsoever, despite the strong urges of every member of the surrounding crowd. The chief of UIC police released a statement praising how peacefully the protest was handled. The Chicago police department released a statement saying that they did not recommend the event be cancelled, as Trump claimed. The only safety threat was to us protestors at the hands of Trump’s rabid supporters, and you can be damn sure he didn’t cancel the rally on that account. The real reason Trump cancelled tonight’s event was because he’s a coward who can’t handle speaking to a crowd which largely opposes him. He’s accused us of denying him his right to free speech, even though that’s his M.O. whenever someone tries to speak up at his rallies. The only reason Trump cancelled tonight’s event is because he couldn’t throw all of us out, and even if he could, it only would have revealed how few were actually there in support. Don’t believe anything else you hear, because they weren’t there.
Remember this shit while Trump is hosting a rally in Cleveland today.
all Bucky wanted to do was get some more tea and now this. Thanks a lot, Sam. You had to fuckin’ tell him, you ass.
Aggressively Progressive Steve Rogers is so what I’m here for.
STeve would unleash and be all “DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WHOOPING COUGH SUCKS?! DO YOU?! DO YOU REALLY?! ARE YOU FUCKIN’ STUPID?! BUCKY, TELL THEM HOW I BROKE TWO RIBS! TELL THEM!”
Omg, new headcanon, Beleaguered Bucky Barnes being grabbed by the shoulders and practically lifted into camera view by Steve shouting about how Bucky needs to confirm some terrible illness because no one else is alive form that time to corroborate any of Steve’s claims. Bucky shyly telling the reporters that yes, Steve did indeed have that thing adn yeah it is dangerous and Steve jumping back into frame like “I told you! I TOLD YOU IT SUCKED SHUT UP JENNY MCCARTHY!”
“AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE?! POLIO!”
“Steve you never had fucking polio-”
“YEA BUT IT STILL SUCKED! KNOW WHAT STOPPED IT?! VACCINES!”
“Oh my God, Steve.”
“I DIDN’T EVNENKNOW WHAT THAT SHOT WOULD DO TO ME BUT I TOOK IT!”
“Steve, that’s… That’s not really a good argument.”
“I DON’T CARE FOX NEWS NEEDS TO STOP USING MY IMAGE!”
“Steve, doll, calm down.”
“I VOTED FOR OBAMA!”
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And all the while Sam is just laughing his fucking ass off and Bucky is wondering if he could just go take another nap for a few years.
Okay but imagine the savvy pediatrician who shyly sends Steve a message at Avengers Tower. She loves his message. Loves it. Wants to know if she can give her vaccinated kids a sticker of the shield because she wants other parents to subtly get the message, and of course what kid doesn’t love Cap? She’s no graphic artist, but she got a picture of the shield off the Internet …
… two weeks later, a box arrives at her office. It’s an order of shield stickers, very clearly actually produced by a graphic artist. Some of them sparkle, some are metallic, and some of them say “Protecting my friends by protecting me!” for the older kids who can appreciate the idiocy of the anti-vax movement.
There’s also a hand-written note with Pepper’s personal address at Avengers Tower listed on it: Contact us when you need more. No charge. Keep fighting the good fight.
They end up going on sale after the pediatrician’s colleagues see them and want to pass them out. Steve insists that any profit they might make should go to the March of Dimes. Tony and Pepper barely talk about it before they go “do you know how little it costs to produce stickers, Steve?” and decide to donate the entire sales cost. They’re not expensive to sell, either, but it adds up.
Vaccination rate goes up. Being an anti-vaxxer stops being trendy and starts being seen as living in the dark ages.
The history of lesbian representation on television is rocky — in the beginning, we seemed exclusively relegated to roles that saw us getting killed/attacked or doing the killing/attacking. And until the last five or so years, lesbian and bisexual characters seemed entirely unable to date an actual woman or stay alive for more than three episodes, let alone an entire run, of a show. Gay and lesbian characters are so often murdered on television that we have our very own trope: Bury Your Gays. We comprise such a teeny-tiny fraction of characters on television to begin with that killing us off so haphazardly feels especially cruel.
When I first saw this headline it was 65. The number keeps climbing. That’s fucked up.
Now it’s up to 108 (the headline says 103 but I counted them). Like any good psychologist, I had to graph the data. I coded them (very roughly as I haven’t seen the majority of the shows) based on the method used to kill off the character, and whether the death was murder, suicide, accidental, or illness related. I don’t have non-lesbian/bi characters to compare these numbers to, but here is what the raw data looks like:
Gunshots, whether accidental or on purpose, are the leading cause of death for lesbian and bisexual characters.
Roughly 64% of the characters were murdered.
I also noticed a disturbing trend of deaths that were due to their orientation, such as characters dying because they came out to someone who reacted badly and it caused an accident, or due to jealous exes (or exes of their same-gender lovers) murdering them/causing accidents. Together these made up 16% of all deaths. Two other themes I noticed were pregnancy-related deaths and death just after a major happy moment for the character.
Because you know, god forbid that queer women get to see people like us being HAPPY in anything…god forbid that we get the idea in our heads that we’re able to live happy lives…
Holy hell you said it. The more I see this post and the higher the number goes, the more depressed I get. Not surprised… Just depressed. 😦
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It’s so upsetting and depressing to see that this is basically all that ever happens to characters like us…we seem to exist in these shows ONLY to get killed off…
They have called this day The Eleventh of March! And whom-so-ever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain…you will stand at tiptoe…when e’er you hear the name again, and you will get excited!…At the name March The Eleventh!
“We happy few, we few, we band of brothers…our names will be as like…household names. And those who are not here, be they sleeping or… doing something else…They will feel themselves…sort of crappy. Because they are not here to…to join the fight. On this day, the Eleventh of March! -Buck Frobisher
They have called this day The Eleventh of March! And whom-so-ever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain…you will stand at tiptoe…when e’er you hear the name again, and you will get excited!…At the name March The Eleventh!
“We happy few, we few, we band of brothers…our names will be as like…household names. And those who are not here, be they sleeping or… doing something else…They will feel themselves…sort of crappy. Because they are not here to…to join the fight. On this day, the Eleventh of March! -Buck Frobisher
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