With some people it’s like yeah you don’t use gay as an insult anymore but do you still argue with someone when they say they look gay in an outfit
Recently my dad was giving away some flannels, and he offered to let me look through them and take what I wanted. I said “thank you for donating to the Jane dressing like a lesbian foundation” and he said why would you say that? You don’t look like that
also a few weeks ago I visited my aunt and (clearly elated) told her that the barista in the coffee shop had called my outfit soft butch and I was over the moon about it. She said “oh what a rude thing to say, it’s not like that at all.”
Girl I WANT to look gay. I want to look butch!! I am BEAMING telling you about this! Read the room!
The same goes for the word fat by the way. It is not enough to just not call somebody fat if you have a problem with someone else calling themselves fat you are an asshole.
Y’all should reblog this post with the last part attached. It was not an afterthought, it was made within seconds of the other post. Fat is also not a dirty word.
Am I the only person who actually enjoys the batfamily webtoon? I see many people who are saying that the webtoon is bad representation and too fanon. I just think the webtoon it’s just the family acting domestic and talking to each one like if no one is trying to murder them.
i also like it and sometimes it gets silly but it also has tackled some big subjects?
like if it’s too fluff for someone bc of personal taste that’s totes fine, but i’ve seen complaints, too, and i want to address two of them.
1. it’s too silly/fanon/goofy:
it’s a batman comic. like, i love angst and trauma and gore, but also, there’s a point where you have to acknowledge that “grimdark” is its own kind of fantasy. you know what’s silly? most of batman comics. batman on a grapple line is silly. batman having his back cracked in half by a former mexican child prisoner on super steroids is pretty silly. it is goofy, it’s just that when characters are all angry and the coloring is dark, we say it’s a power fantasy or some kind of realism and that makes it Serious. i love some of those comics. but it’s also bullshit. and WFA has an issue where a character grapples with how to talk to a child about parental death because of their own history of trauma with it. it has a depiction of a PTSD flashback and dissociative episode. how are those less serious?
2. The characters aren’t like that in “real” canon/don’t have relationships there.
WFA has figured out that characters don’t have to constantly be trying to kill, undermine, betray, trick, or hate one another. that’s one thing hurting so many comic titles now– it’s exhausting and boring. WFA has been letting stories happen while characters actually want to work things out. yeah, it’s often relationship driven. that’s okay. not every single comic has to be the exact same kind of comic, and frankly, many current plot-driven comics would do better if they weren’t trying to deconstruct their own world, tear relationships to pieces, or reinvent the universe.
WFA has been fun for me– not the deepest title, not the most groundbreaking title. but when did we get the idea that comics weren’t supposed to be fun? that they only matter if they’re Changing Comics as a Medium, or gritty and dark, or a specific vein of power fantasy Cool?
WFA is doing something right for a lot of people. it doesn’t have to be the right comic for everyone, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad, or failing somehow. so what if it’s a lot of fanon? there happen to be a lot of people– real people, whose opinions matter– that enjoy fanon for a reason. and batman comics, unlike a series of tv, have multiple titles and genres happening at once. it’s not The Only Comic being ruined, like a fan-service season could ruin a tv show.
anyway, WFA might not be for everyone, but i’m sure as hell glad it exists
