i called that yall would fall for the fuckin gay ass marketing of corporations literally before pride even started because this shit is like CLOCKWORK
if i see that budweiser post on my dash one more time im gonna flip theyre catering to the lgbt community because of our long history of alcoholism because we are being fucking killed! they want your money! they dont care about you! them putting the definitions of the stripes of our flags on twitter isnt gonna end homophobia!
You didn’t “call” anything, but you did massively miss the point of why people get excited over this.
It’s called shifting the climate. Virtually no one is actually fooled by these corporations but apparently you don’t understand that not too long ago they felt it was in their best interest to ignore or outright demonize us. Now they know it’s better to support us. Is that support solely for their own financial interests? Yes. That’s irrelevant. Because it’s a reaction, not an action. It means we’ve pushed the climate enough that the moneymaking powers had to adapt to us in order to survive. It is not a mechanism of ending homophobia, it is a result of our slowly chipping away at it and refusing to remain invisible.
Corporations are indeed soul-sucking monsters that only want to profit, but until they no longer rule over our lives, if they are profiting by pandering to us rather than conservatives, it is in our favor.
reblogging this with @touchyourblood ’s tags, because they are 1000000000000% relevant.
I’ve already had a family friend (who used to be super fucking dismissive about my asexuality because he “just didn’t get it, i mean like, what’s the point”) send me the tweet, and the pic of thr Ace glass. He said, “this is you, right? I think I understand now- and I’m sorry.”
That’s HUGE.
Is Budweiser trying to make a profit? Yes. Of fucking course they are. But that means they see us as a large enough part of the population with enough power to affect their bottom line.
And if you think that’s not a marker of the massive amount of ground we have gained, you have not been paying attention.
Does that mean “homophobia is over”? Fuck no, no one said it did. But just because we have not accomplished the end-all-be-all goal is no reason to ignore the progress made, or worse, pretend it didn’t happen.
take solace in the fact that corporations consider the LGBTQA+ community a more viable demographic than the bigots theyve been catering to in the past.
It’s dawning on me just how genuinely difficult it is to figure out if an FMA character is good or bad when they’re introduced.
And this is because literally 90% of them debut by trying to beat the shit out of Ed. Seriously. If you tally up every good/ally character at the end and divide them into “tried to beat up Ed in their introductory episode” and “did not try to beat up Ed”, I’m willing to bet the first category is larger.
A list of eventually “good” characters who were introduced by assaulting Edward Elric:
Roy Mustang
Winry Rockbell (manga introduction)
Scar
Izumi Curtis
Greed
Greed again
Slicer(s)
Tim Marcoh
Ling Yao
Lanfan
Fu
Mei Chang
Buccaneer
The Entire Briggs Mountain Army
Jerso
Zampano
Darius
Heinkel
I made a helpful collage
Extra fun fact, the series Big Bad, Father, is introduced to Ed by healing Ed’s wounds. Ed and Al spend at least five minutes of that episode thinking “Maybe this dude isn’t so bad” which honestly I understand when you consider 2/3 of the people Ed meets typically try to kill him.
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