Worst of Social Justice

[Damen]

So it seems "bromance" is now oppressive.



And yeah, you read right: they cited "because is ruins my gay slash pairings" as a reason for it being oppressive.

[kefkaownsall]

a lot of poc get frustrated with some rather boomerang bigots like Herman Cain or Michelle Malkin or George Zimmerman

[Thejebusfire]

So it seems "bromance" is now oppressive.



And yeah, you read right: they cited "because is ruins my gay slash pairings" as a reason for it being oppressive.

• I don't like it and therefore no one else should use it.

[gyeonghwa]

Bromance is problematic in that it assumes other male on male affection is homosexual in nature and therefore icky. Heretik posted (somewhere else on the interwebs) an interesting piece on how the animadversion to affection between men and the need to constantly euphemise it as "bromance" in order to assert heteronormativity is detrimental to all men.

With that said, "because is ruins my gay slash pairings" is one of those stupid shit expect from fandom bloggers.

That's not what signal boost means.

My first thought when seeing that posts. But I've seen people use QFT in the wrong context, so it really shouldn't really phase me as much.

[Meshakhad]

I actually see bromance as a response to the idea that any affection between men is gay. There's still the cultural need to clarify that it isn't gay, but at least it's recognizing that such a thing is possible.

Part of the problem is that there's a standard jab that if two unrelated people are spending a lot of time together, they must be fucking. It's there regardless of gender. And in fact it's strongest if it's a man and a woman.

[Shane for Wax]

I use bromance for relationships between two guys, one guy one girl, two girls, etc., But I might be weird that way.

[Thejebusfire]

That's not what signal boost means.

And it's not the first time I've seen that specific post. I still feel like it's a poe.

I remember that blog. They also posted this:

[chitoryu12]

Yeah, that's a really Poe-like post. It hits pretty much every point there is with crazy social justice weirdos ("transfat", engaging in strange and disruptive behaviors that also happen to be more than a little silly, "tone and language policing", which happens to be a trigger and causes a panic attack, a regular person having a problem with their behavior, and a funny ending about "precious calories").

[chitoryu12]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I DON’T CARE IF IT’S FANTASY AND YOU’RE COSPLAYING A DARK ELF OR SOME SHIT YOU DON’T PAINT YOUR SKIN BLACK OR BROWN OR YELLOW IF YOU ARE WHITE

NO IT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS BEING GROSSED OUT BY FURRIES WHAT THE FUCK

blackface girl isn’t in her racist bodypaint today thank fuck

This was posted on Tumblr (presented in chronological order) by a girl who came to a con I was at (Holiday Matsuri in Kissimmee), in relation to a femme-ish Holiday Jarlaxle cosplayer.

This is Jarlaxle:



Clearly, the drow are the African-Americans of our time.

[Askold]

I use bromance for relationships between two guys, one guy one girl, two girls, etc., But I might be weird that way.

Well if it is supposed to refer to a very tight friendship rather than anything romantic then I guess it would make sense to use it regardless of genders even if it originally was for friendship between two guys specifically.

As for that Drow face-paint thing... Would they get equally mad over people cosplaying green skinned orks or Na'vi from Avatar or something? Besides dark elves in most settings are specifically BLACK (or sometimes grey or blue) not the brownish dark colours that humans have (well some africans really have quite black skin but I don't think even they get as black as the drow in forgotten realms are sometimes depicted as.)

And WOW those pics I found are huge so I put them behind a spoiler. They still don't look like any colours I've seen on healthy humans.

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[ThunderWulf]

A post I saw on tumblr about the whole drow/dark-elf thing hit the nail on the head that:

If you think this:


Is as offensive as THIS:


Then you're not paying attention.

[chitoryu12]

I found a picture of the actual person doing Holiday Jarlaxle from the con.



Clearly, with her pointed ears and red eyes, she's a black person.

[SpaceProg]

Geez.  That's ridiculous to equate that with blackface.  I swear, some people want to make something out of obviously nothing.  Do they get their rocks off on it or what?

[chitoryu12]

Geez.  That's ridiculous to equate that with blackface.  I swear, some people want to make something out of obviously nothing.  Do they get their rocks off on it or what?

She's Chinese or Korean as well, and her Tumblr includes some posts making fun of white people (like "lol white people's face when they try our herbal tea"). So she screams in all caps that someone painting themselves to resemble a dark elf is racist, and then starts making rather racist jokes herself.

[Thejebusfire]

It's like that time when a bunch of SJW's got pissed at some black dude for cosplaying dark Link.