So every 10th post on my dash for the last week has been about Wallpart, encouraging people to check the site to see if their artwork is being stolen and then to file a DCMA at the bottom and to sign a petition.
Don’t visit the site.
Don’t file a DCMA.
The website basically uses google image search when you punch in your name. There isn’t an actual working store on the site; no one can actually buy your art through this site.
So what’s the purpose of the site? When you file a DCMA you have to enter several pieces of personal information. Personal information which can then be sold to companies. It is a phishing scam, like those survey sites or contests. It’s just targeted at artists because artists are very protective of their work.
And if you stopped and thought about it, you’d realize how obvious this is. Especially since we already went through all of this months ago back in June. It exploded, everyone reblogged it, some folks actually did some investigating and found out that most of the links on the site don’t work and that you can’t actually buy anything from the store, actual reporters researched it, and it died down. Also; do you know how big of a file you would need to print a poster? Did you put a file that big online? 90% of you haven’t, which means any site that tried to print your stuff would have a blurry mess on the page.
So to summarize;
Your art isn’t being stolen.
Don’t visit the site.
Don’t file a DCMA.
Stop reblogging posts telling people to check the site for their art.
Do a google search about the site before posting about it.
You do it for her~ that is to say You’ll do it for him~
and steven
And if you think we can’t
Gems
If you aren’t trans, don’t say what is and isn’t offensive to trans people. Don’t tell me what I should and shouldn’t be offended by. Don’t speak on my behalf, I can speak for myself.
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askclaylex-deactivated20161221 asked: Like seriously, this is one of the best episodes Season 5 has to offer us. The team worked their butts off with this and people got to talk shit about transtuff? HE WORE A DRESS AND MAKEUP AND ACTED FEMALE FOR HIS SISTER! AND JUDGES KNEW HE WASN'T FEMALE! Jeez SJW like think of something better to bitch and moan about.:l
1. Big Mac actually speaks more than he ever did in the previous seasons, even if it was disguised as Orchard Blossom.
2. It built upon his character, and shows how family oriented he is, going so far as to enter a competition to earn the love of his little sister.
3. The way the two reconcile at the end.
and 4. The fact the officials said plain as day why he was disqualified (is evident there was no drag, trans, or whatever buzzword the SJW horde use to claim offence to).
If you want to blame “shitty writing”, why the hell have a “sisterhooves” event with a vague ruling, when it could be a more open and friendly family-social, which is more inclusive, and could allow Big Mac to take Apple Jack’s place? Just saying.
The reason a man dressed as a woman is ‘funny’ is because people are seeing all things feminine as jokes. The same reason men in pink is laughed at, and why men acting feminine is also often something people joke about. We get movies about men dressing as women for admirable purposes (Mrs. Doubtfire) and it’s a comedy.
Usually, women dressing as men is considered bold, brave, and heroic, even charming at times. Examples like how people admire tomboys and praise them for being athletic while girly boys are called ‘sissies’, and we get ‘inspirational’ movies like Mulan where her dressing as a man is funny for a bit, but still proves she is bold and brave for that action. It’s the reason strong women in media are being praised so much, because we’re trying to say ‘masculinity is good. Masculinity is what makes a woman admirable’.
And yet we don’t get major films showing men embracing and accepting femininity.
We as a society have been deeming ‘feminine’ as weak, silly, and laughable, while anything masculine is praised. We try to encourage women to be stronger and more bold, but we don’t encourage men to be more sensitive and vulnerable.
This is where we have extremist feminists screaming that men shouldn’t touch anything that is meant to be ‘for women’. They don’t realize they are villainizing femininity and embracing masculinity. These women are doing as our society taught them: They are acting in a way they were taught was strong. To act more masculine, essentially. We shouldn’t be talking about man and woman as two binary defined things. We need to start looking at things as masculine and feminine, and praise both as strengths but also be willing to look at the flaws of both as well.
This whole thing about men in dresses being ‘offensive’. It has nothing to do with transphobia. This is gender misogyny. It wouldn’t be offensive if we just stopped and said ‘there is nothing wrong with a man in a dress’ as a society. And it’s weird because a long time ago, it was wrong for a woman to dress as a man, but men dressing as women was standard in theater which was considered a sophisticated thing.
Somewhere along the line, that changed. Somewhere along the line, women learned that in order to be strong, they needed to be considered able to do all the things men can do. They are now equals in that they can wear pants, and they can act masculine, they can hold that difficult job and support a family on their own, they can be heroes.
But because they used masculinity to create ‘equality’, femininity was sacrificed. Men could not be equals to women because masculinity for both genders has become so highly praised that they FEAR being anything but masculine. We want men to understand women more, and we want to all be equals, but how can we be when we won’t allow people to embrace feminine things no matter their gender?
Why can’t we try to encourage everyone to have a good balance of both sides and that either side is just as admirable and just as strong as the other?
Instead of screeching about a man wearing a dress being offensive to transpeople, maybe you should be screeching about how colors, outfits, and choices on appearance need to stop being so heavily gendered. And fight for the fact that there is nothing wrong in the masculine embracing the feminine.
