@ReinaSgt@tragic_endings_ and there’s no acknowledgment of the fragility of the closet. It takes nothing more than one bad moment to be irrevocably outed and then immediately subjected to violence
Sometimes you'll see a woman on Twitter being like "gay men are still men, they benefit from patriarchy, they're our oppressors" and you check her bio and she's posting from a country where being gay carries a 14 year prison sentence
@deardoeface if Sirius’ parents were poor they’d be just another set of Gaunts. The Black sisters’ parents secretly being broke, though, would be interesting
it’s insane how many time i’ve read gothic classics and been like “oh this is about rape/sexual assault” and then all the academia is like it’s about LUST and DESIRE
@verderebb@aletheia327 Which is why it’s ultimately harmful to women to assert that men are inherently evil when that isn’t true.
And it’s also untrue that women are the only oppressed group who exist in that kind of enforced proximity with their oppressors.
@tragic_endings_ they largely seem to be trans or identify as nonbinary, which is the crux of the issue. ‘he/him lesbian’ is an identity whereas using she/her pronouns is something gay men do, often playfully