Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled
Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.
This is so fucked up.
To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.
In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.
This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.
Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.
The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.
This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.
(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)
tumblr is just so whipped when it comes to natalie dormer
Anyone else remember
Field Tournament Style Up and Down On The Ground Manja Flanja Blanja Banja Ishka Bibble Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Rerun Free for All Big Ball?
as pride season rolls around let me remind fellow het-partnered bisexual people:
Pride really isn’t for you, so don’t act like you deserve to be there as much lesbians and gay men. Really, just don’t go at all, because there are no resources there that are for you. what are you proud of? being in the relationship literally everyone expects you to be in and that introduces no actual oppression into your life?
but at the very least, if you must go (and god knows hell nor high water will stop you) please, please, please
don’t
bring
your
het
partner
^^^^
THANK YOU.
This just in- Bisexuals not welcome at Pride. I guess I’ve been reading LGBT wrong this entire time.
There’s a B in LGBT.
There’s a B in LGBT.
There’s a B in LGBT.
Bi people should not feel obligated to be in queer relationships to fit in your narrow mind. They do NOT need to be in same sex relationships to be or feel validated. Just as you expect people to respect and tolerate you and your being, the same can go the other way. Respect bisexual people who are only being themselves. They are still valid, they still deserve respect, and after reading this, they seem to need pride a bit more than you because they are denied on both fronts.
To bi people, you are valid. You deserve pride. Bring your partner with you. Celebrate you. If people in your LGBT community shun and deny you, they don’t deserve your presence. Stay fabulous.
This makes me mad every time. People are there for support regardless, and all people can do is say ‘Sorry, you’re not gay enough, leeeaaaave’
Honestly…
Biphobia is real. How can the lgbt+ community expect to be taken seriously if they don’t even treat fellow lgbt+ members with respect. There’s more to lgbt+ than l and g.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
