majingojira:

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majingojira:

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byebyebriar:

virovac:

Why did anyone expect Voltron to be brave or progressive?

For the first six season they seemed almost ashamed to be doing a Super Robot Show. (Like how many Hollywood people treated superheroes as shameful). 

Possibility + Bragging = Hope

Voltron isn’t a bad show. Its got some great elements and wonderful moments/plotlines. There’s Allura as a black character as a great variant of the Princess archetype, Shiro a gay man of color, the diverse race cast, Pidge’s deviation when it comes to gender, Lotor and his struggle to free himself from his abusive parents, etc.. The pieces are all there for Voltron to be a game changer of kids cartoons. 

And the crew knew this, they bragged about this. The marketing around Adam is the prime example. The intentional hyping got people’s hopes up. The good bits of the show and the continued possibility that it could turn progressive kept them up.

Until season 7 and 8 but that’s a whole another fish. 

I never followed the crews announcment and the press releases so I was pretty in the dark about all this.

And Pidge was a mess coding and plot wise when it comes to gender. Season 1 she came off as a trans girl who passed as male in the garrison (public showers people, the writers never  aparrently considered that), rumors the creators talks about her in private as if she’s nonbinary, and then they just came out and said she’s cis and not gender-conforming.

But the fact she came off  initially as hiding feminity rather than intentionally wanting to be a tomboy makes it all weird.

Not to mention they claimed Earth is progressive in the future, making any of her deception weird. Are tomboys not accepted? Are trans people not accepted? Prejudice is required for either narrative to make sense.

where does going undercover end and the personal identity issues begin?

People mistook a disguise to infiltrate a base as her actual identity and assumed she was trans or nonbinary in some way.

In other words, she didn’t just fool the military, she fooled the audience.

But how could she when military showers are public? That’s where it all falls apart.

And why? There were female trainees at the base. 

A Mulan style plot in a futuristic setting requires more of an explanation than what we were given.

And why not revert to the Katie persona after confessing then?

Wasn’t pidge always her nickname?

And I can think of a few ways to get around showers. Fake a medical thing, time it differently…

It is not an insurmountable problem.

I’ve been corrected on the nickname, but the garrison had female trainees in the background so changing the gender in the disguise is unecessarily complicated.

And I’m pretty sure its hard to fake a medical thing in the military. Because they want to know.

Combine this with no medical tests are mentioned picking up Keith’s Galra heritage and I feel like the show might have made more sense if they were teens with attitude rather than military backgrounds.

haltraveler:

virovac:

majingojira:

virovac:

byebyebriar:

virovac:

Why did anyone expect Voltron to be brave or progressive?

For the first six season they seemed almost ashamed to be doing a Super Robot Show. (Like how many Hollywood people treated superheroes as shameful). 

Possibility + Bragging = Hope

Voltron isn’t a bad show. Its got some great elements and wonderful moments/plotlines. There’s Allura as a black character as a great variant of the Princess archetype, Shiro a gay man of color, the diverse race cast, Pidge’s deviation when it comes to gender, Lotor and his struggle to free himself from his abusive parents, etc.. The pieces are all there for Voltron to be a game changer of kids cartoons. 

And the crew knew this, they bragged about this. The marketing around Adam is the prime example. The intentional hyping got people’s hopes up. The good bits of the show and the continued possibility that it could turn progressive kept them up.

Until season 7 and 8 but that’s a whole another fish. 

I never followed the crews announcment and the press releases so I was pretty in the dark about all this.

And Pidge was a mess coding and plot wise when it comes to gender. Season 1 she came off as a trans girl who passed as male in the garrison (public showers people, the writers never  aparrently considered that), rumors the creators talks about her in private as if she’s nonbinary, and then they just came out and said she’s cis and not gender-conforming.

But the fact she came off  initially as hiding feminity rather than intentionally wanting to be a tomboy makes it all weird.

Not to mention they claimed Earth is progressive in the future, making any of her deception weird. Are tomboys not accepted? Are trans people not accepted? Prejudice is required for either narrative to make sense.

where does going undercover end and the personal identity issues begin?

People mistook a disguise to infiltrate a base as her actual identity and assumed she was trans or nonbinary in some way.

In other words, she didn’t just fool the military, she fooled the audience.

But how could she when military showers are public? That’s where it all falls apart.

And why? There were female trainees at the base. 

A Mulan style plot in a futuristic setting requires more of an explanation than what we were given.

And why not revert to the Katie persona after confessing then?

Pidge was her nickname from Matt, not just a false persona

Point taken, still have never gotten the military showers thing addressed by anyone defending the show, or the fact you can fake a new identity without presenting as a different gender. In fact presenting as a different gender gives you a whole new set of lies to keep track of and makes things more complicated.

majingojira:

virovac:

byebyebriar:

virovac:

Why did anyone expect Voltron to be brave or progressive?

For the first six season they seemed almost ashamed to be doing a Super Robot Show. (Like how many Hollywood people treated superheroes as shameful). 

Possibility + Bragging = Hope

Voltron isn’t a bad show. Its got some great elements and wonderful moments/plotlines. There’s Allura as a black character as a great variant of the Princess archetype, Shiro a gay man of color, the diverse race cast, Pidge’s deviation when it comes to gender, Lotor and his struggle to free himself from his abusive parents, etc.. The pieces are all there for Voltron to be a game changer of kids cartoons. 

And the crew knew this, they bragged about this. The marketing around Adam is the prime example. The intentional hyping got people’s hopes up. The good bits of the show and the continued possibility that it could turn progressive kept them up.

Until season 7 and 8 but that’s a whole another fish. 

I never followed the crews announcment and the press releases so I was pretty in the dark about all this.

And Pidge was a mess coding and plot wise when it comes to gender. Season 1 she came off as a trans girl who passed as male in the garrison (public showers people, the writers never  aparrently considered that), rumors the creators talks about her in private as if she’s nonbinary, and then they just came out and said she’s cis and not gender-conforming.

But the fact she came off  initially as hiding feminity rather than intentionally wanting to be a tomboy makes it all weird.

Not to mention they claimed Earth is progressive in the future, making any of her deception weird. Are tomboys not accepted? Are trans people not accepted? Prejudice is required for either narrative to make sense.

where does going undercover end and the personal identity issues begin?

People mistook a disguise to infiltrate a base as her actual identity and assumed she was trans or nonbinary in some way.

In other words, she didn’t just fool the military, she fooled the audience.

But how could she when military showers are public? That’s where it all falls apart.

And why? There were female trainees at the base. Changing her name should have been enough. A change in presented gender brings logistic issues.

A Mulan style plot in a futuristic setting requires more of an explanation than what we were given.

And why not revert to the Katie persona after confessing then?

hellyeahteensuperheroes:

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bloodytales:

bloodytales:

bloodytales:

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I want more women to feel empowered to do this.

Scars from breast cancer can be both hard to hide and embarrassing for some women. I wish they weren’t, because scars mean you’re a fighter and a bad ass.

Women have told me after their mastectomy they felt self conscious about someone seeing their chest. My grandmother wore her false breast (she had only one boob removed) around even the house for a long time. (Of course, now when we were taking about the procedure she asked “want to see my boob?” And had to go fetch it from the other room. It was an interesting conversation to say the least.)

Anyway, breast reconstruction can be expensive, and some women either don’t want it or can’t have it done for various reasons.

But you know what, chest tattoos are easily accessible. There are even tattoo shops that give discounts to women covering up breast cancer scars. And women who no longer have a nipple? You can get a bad ass tattoo

Check out

P.ink

Their site starts like this:

They host pink day:

Check out some of the work on their site:

You can donate to the organization, or if you know a tattoo artist you can let them know they accept volunteers to be a part of their community of artists.

Here is another badass lady and her bad ass tattoo (found on pinterest)

I am sharing this again because @staff might decide this is “adult content”.

These are cancer survivors reclaiming their bodies.

Banning all “female presenting” nipples ignores a commuity of women who are total bad asses who said “fuck you” to their cancer scars and turned them into art.

Not every image of a female nipple should be sexualized. This is not porn, this is courage and strength.

Are the new regulations going to delete this post. Does a post supporting a cancer survivors violate Tumblr’s community guidelines?

If it does, maybe the guidelines are wrong, and not the post.

Hey @staff, per your guidelines this isn’t explicit content.

Yet this post was flagged. Maybe figure out an appeal process.

I asked for a review and they responded:

So women reclaiming their bodies after breast cancer is “sensitive content” and should be hidden from minors.

Tumblr has some messed up morals.

Spreading the word! Messed up morals is putting it nicely. Gonna find more nipples to post. 

PLEASE REBLOG!!!  So, the OP’s post was flagged for “explicit content” even though it IS allowed under their current guidelines for adult content.  My first reblog was flagged as well.  So I’m asking EVERYONE TO REBLOG as a protest for @staff​ flagging this content which should be allowed per their own guidelines.

There are literally no nipples in this post you fucking muppets.

Lol, my reblog got flagged. >.<

reblogging in protest of @staff incompetence.

– Admin