#about how your blorbo gets your pronouns wrong 'because 1960s'. shut the fuck up

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

Sticking this on here even tho it's a general Sitewide Problem - I'm sick of people making excuses for retroactively adding more bigotry into tf2. It feels like people are only capable of thinking about marginalized people (especially "in the past") as our suffering, so writing a gay character, or a trans character, or a black character, or etc. must involve them suffering somehow. People go to such fucking lengths to pull hypothetical marginalized people out of their ass who LOVE writing about characters like them experiencing hate crimes as "coping", but In My Opinion your coping should not involve publicly making a bunch of joke characters from a comedy video game get called real slurs that affect people in real life. Even if your point is "bigotry is bad", not every single fucking thing that has a black character or a gay character in it has to be About Bigotry. You all let white characters just be characters, but the minute you wanna put Demo tf2 in your fanfiction you need to take some great stand against racism and choose to do this by portraying him suffering. I don't care if it's to show that Racism Bad - you NEED to learn to love marginalized people more than you hate bigots. Never mind everything I could say about how actually no, it would not be "period accurate to the 1960s" for everyone to constantly be spewing or facing racism and homophobia. Acceptance and taking stands against bigotry aren't new concepts. Your "historically accurate" tf2 fanfic has done absolutely nothing except show a bunch of already marginalized people that our suffering is more important than our joy. In My Opinion

#like being trans fucking sucks right now and honestly i don't need a bunch of posts in a video game tag #about how your blorbo gets your pronouns wrong 'because 1960s'. shut the fuck up #open mick night #tf2 #team fortress 2 #i've been in other tags too where like. there's So much west side story fanfiction where y/n experiences anti-latino racism #and it fucking sucks. and it doesn't help me 'cope'. and i shouldn't have to be exposed to that. sorry! #i know i did the 'in my opinion' sign-off on this but it's like when youtubers say 'allegedly' #anyway i retain my right to feel uncomfortable around you if your trans headcanons involve violent hate crimes