they should invent a living alone that is affordable
straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia
As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!
Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries. This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago. By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.
yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??
also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!
like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.
the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.
can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia
Please help me avoid becoming homeless again!!
l've been posting about it for a while but I finally got a job but won't get paid until the start of next month I found out, and still need money for rent, food and basic essentials. The goal is 722, because rent is 600, and I still owe Klarna and my bank because I have less than $5 left on my overdraft. I don't have enough for bus fare to get to my shifts either so l'm really nervous.
36.89/722. There hasn't been any donations for 4 days so please share, I have less than two weeks to pay my rent and I still need to be able to get to my shifts and eat. My P@yPal is here.
52.29/722!!
Please share!! I only have $20 currently because I had to use the other amount for stuff like pads, toilet paper and groceries!! I have nothing for rent this month still!!
Please help me avoid becoming homeless again!!
l've been posting about it for a while but I finally got a job but won't get paid until the start of next month I found out, and still need money for rent, food and basic essentials. The goal is 722, because rent is 600, and I still owe Klarna and my bank because I have less than $5 left on my overdraft. I don't have enough for bus fare to get to my shifts either so l'm really nervous.
36.89/722. There hasn't been any donations for 4 days so please share, I have less than two weeks to pay my rent and I still need to be able to get to my shifts and eat. My P@yPal is here.
52.29/722!!
Please share!! I only have $20 currently because I had to use the other amount for stuff like pads, toilet paper and groceries!! I have nothing for rent this month still!!
There’s been no donations for 2 days and I have 10 days left to pay rent, my first shift is on the 31st so I won’t have to ask again for help after this month, please please share!!
A strange thing happened in much of the United States where once upon a time food trucks were cheap food that you could get on your lunch break but then in our car centric society they slowly died out because people would just drive somewhere cheap to eat.
Then people started realizing that a food truck was basically a more affordable way to start up an experimental restaurant and the food truck was reincarnated as a device made to sell you a coffee for ten whole dollars.
I was walking somewhere in 100 degree heat in this horrible car centric desert of my hometown that lovingly nursed me on pollution and heat stroke and saw on my journey a food truck selling iced coffee. “My savior” I thought. “It shall sustain me and keep me cool until the bus arrives in half an hour”
Um, but no they were charging ten bucks for a simple coffee with milk and caramel syrup.
Hi, @tadc-crit here! Do you mind boosting me and my family's GoFundMe? We were in a fire in February and need money to help us return to financial stability, as we haven't really been able to get back on our feet ever since.
gofund.me/a02bf27a3
(+ My post to verify that it's me: https://www.tumblr.com/tadc-crit/824239227496808448/donate-to-help-a-black-artist-and-their-family?source=share)
So here's the GoFundMe in question. I know the goal is lofty, I don't quite expect to reach it by the end of the month as much as I'd love it to, but please share and/or donate if you can to help me and my family out! If we get to even half of the current goal (26K) it would change our lives for the better :)
$45/$26K as of this morning. Please continue sharing so others can donate ‼️
Still only $45/26K 💔
Still only $45.
I'll probably switch to only doing these daily at this point.
$245 now??? Less than 30 minutes later???? Holy shit???/pos
Switching to this blog for these from now on, but $266 now! Keep going everyone ^^
Switching back here because I realized I should probably have more eyes on this even if it's "off topic".
Anyways still $266 atm 👍🏾
Still $266, please keep it up ‼️
$297 now...
Plus our first monthly donor ($5/month)! Idk if said person would want to be credited but thank you so much if you see this!
Keep on sharing and donating, everyone!
$308 currently!
Remember, if you know someone who can (and is willing to) help, please send this to them ^^
$395 now! Keep going ^^
Still $395. Please don't let this stagnation continue 💔
We're now at $415!
And, as a reminder, I now have adopts! 5/5 available currently; prices and rules in the post below 👇🏾
Completely forgot to update last night:
We're now at $524!
Thank you so much to both the folks who bought the adopts and those who donated outside of it ^^
I still have 5 adopts left (the pale girl with the cyan skirt is on hold until I get confirmation and payment from the person who wanted her), so feel free to buy one if you can!
We're at $579 now! Wow!
There are 7 adopts left total (3 of Batch 1, 3 of Batch 2, and one Special Edition Adopt), so get them if you can! And/or just donate to the GFM directly!
Since there are multiple adopt posts now, I made a little masterpost of them in my pinned for you guys to browse through:
So here's the GoFundMe in question. I know the goal is lofty, I don't quite expect to reach it by the end of the month as much as I'd love it to, but please share and/or donate if you can to help me and my family out! If we get to even half of the current goal (26K) it would change our lives for the better :)
Starting a new thread because the last one is getting obnoxiously long.
We're at $594, and there are 9 adopts left total.
Check the "adopts" section of my pinned to browse though them 👍🏾
I'd like to at least reach $1,000 by August 31st, since I realize now that my original goal isn't happening anytime soon.
All y'all better be reblogging this
