Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
Thank you.
I will always re-blog this
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.
wait, so vaccination is called vaccination because the first vaccination was against smallpox by using cowpox?
Every fandom is shit. No fandom is pure. If you say your fandom is pure and hasn’t done anything wrong, then you’re part of the reason it’s trash.
That being said, you can gauge how bad a fandom is by the general consensus within the fandom on it’s purity status. homestucks, bronies and superwholocks know their fandoms are trash. The worst they do is porn and shoving the fandom crap in your face. occasionally harass someone off of tumblr. And they acknowledge these things happen.
The SU fandom has ruined a small business and tried to barr an entire fandom from “joining” because they were afraid it would “taint their pure fandom” as though there wasn’t already porn of the gems. Like, the reason why it’s a rule of the internet that if it exists there is porn of it. there’s been porn since episode two, long before it became wildly popular. They’ve driven people to near suicide over headcanons and then when the show writers said people are free to have their own headcanons, the fandom harassed the writers off of twitter. And they continue to harass people for headcanons. People who say that headcanoning a character as bi is apparently lesbophobic. And I’ve seen the same people who say that then spout biphobic and acephobic crap. The steven universe is trash. it’s the worst fandom I have ever seen. and they still claim their fandom is pure.
I only hope that one day there will be an episode to address horrible fans, because the writers are clearly done with your shit.
