Love is Brightest in the Dark (Knight)

officialbioware:

typicalwelshnonsense:

officialbioware:

“If you think 2 girls kissing is offensive then you need to grow up” - Graham Norton on Finland’s Eurovison entry

NO NO NO

NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO

NO

NO NO NO

NO

THIS IS QUEERBAITING AND WRONG

NO NO NO

NO

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUEERS ARE NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT FOR YOU TO GET VOTES

QUEERS ARE LEGIT HUMAN PEOPLE

FUCK OFF

NO!!!

I’m sorry, but I really don’t see the problem. If this was a boy and a girl there would be no issue whatsoever. She’s from a country where there was an unsuccessful vote on gay marriage rights and has every right to make a statement. She wasn’t doing it to sexualize lesbians or pander to the bases; the kiss was really sweet and happy.

Let’s look at P!nk. She’s made outright political statements about gay rights in her songs and has music videos depicting lesbian sex scenes, and nobody would accuse her of doing it to sell records. 

Let’s look at a smaller scale: A club in Cardiff were repeatedly separating and ejecting same-sex couples who were kissing, so people organized a flashmob where same-sex couples just kissed. Some of them were even straight people who were doing it because they didn’t like discrimination.

As far as I’m concerned she wasn’t doing it to bait anybody, she was doing it to show support. There are people out there who struggle with their sexuality and many of them aren’t lucky enough to live in a country or society or even family that accepts it. There’ve already been countries who refuse to air Eurovision this year because of it and she’ll doubtless lose votes from countries with a less-accepting viewpoint, but there’s going to be kids out there who’re going to feel a little better about who they choose to kiss. It was a clever twist on a tired formula 

I’m sorry, but I’m tired of this attitude where if you depict a gay kiss or a lesbian sex scene you’re automatically doing it to sell records. Does it happen? Absolutely. But as long as we assume that anything like this is done for that reason then it’s just going to continue, and people making a genuine political statement or trying to tell a story is going to be seen as pandering to bases in the interest of sales, when in fact it’s often the opposite that happens. A same-sex kiss gets a higher rating than a straight sex scene and attracts hundreds of complaints. Oreo got mass boycotts for supporting gay rights, along with countless other products. Films with gay protagonists are constantly accused of promoting an alternative lifestyle, and gay relationships are- more often than not- reduced to subtext. LGBT actors or singers are advised by their management not only to stay in the closet but to refuse to take roles where the character is LGBT for fear of affecting their career. Supporting gay rights so openly is more likely to affect your prospects in a competition like this in a negative manner than a positive one. She’s literally risked screwing her chances to get points from so many countries to give a message that she thought was important, and she did it in the right way- by not making a big deal out of it. It’s not like they were naked writhing in oil, it was just a couple getting married who happened to be same-sex.

the massive problem with this is that queer people should be making queer statements

this woman, as lovely as her intentions were, is a straight woman

if you want queer rights, and queer acceptance, START FRONTING QUEER PEOPLE AND SHINE THE SPOTLIGHT ON THEM instead of letting the straight people handle it

and as tumblr user purplebeards said:

“queer people are not fodder for votes. It was not a political statement, there was nothing political behind it. It was just something “outrageous” and “progressive” done to get attention and garner votes. A “fun” kiss between straight girls is some queer bating bullshit.”

Now that I know she’s straight, I’m not too happy about that kiss. Whether or not she was making a statement or pandering.

(Source: seanmorrisons, via otter-kat)