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Hollywood’s Disfigured Villain Trope Does Major Harm to Disabled People

palamate:

weneeddiversebooks:

The idea that to be beautiful means to be good and to be disfigured means to be evil is not new. It’s a really tired, unoriginal trend in the movie industry, and only perpetuates damaging beliefs about individuals with facial differences.

I know this is going to be dismissed as some fucking snowflake nonsense but I work in a paediatric burns unit and the effects of this trope are gut wrenching and so, so damaging.

People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for THOUSANDS of Years

madeofwhitebone:

friendlyneighborhoodeldergod:

amuseoffyre:

TeenVogue still kicking ass and taking names.

ALSO: The Bugis people of Indonesia have five genders, one of which is neither male nor female.

http://www.insideindonesia.org/sulawesis-fifth-gender-2

You’ll find examples of nonbinary and GNC people being accepted all over the ancient and non-western world. It’s almost like sex and gender are actually spectrums and heteropatriarchy isn’t normal.

They were not, and are not, nonbinary. If you’re going to put violent and Colonial language on precolonial people’s and their identities, do it off of my dash.

Using Western terminology to understand other cultures’ gender variance might only result in perpetuating that harm and erasure.

I wouldn’t necessarily even call it “gender variance”, within a gender system where it’s…just how some people are. As a part of that gender system.

Varying from commonly imposed Western systems and allowable genders, sure. That’s not the same thing, though.

People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for THOUSANDS of Years