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templeofshame · 2 years

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i was gonna wait until i finish schitt’s creek and make one post with thoughts, but then this is nagging at me so... i definitely wanna preface this by saying that i’m really enjoying the show and i definitely think its and its creators’ intentions, especially with regard to queer people, are good. no need to defend it to me!

in s2, the thoughts i had on bi rep in schitt’s creek were fully summed up by “jake would definitely read as a problematic bi stereotype if david weren’t also bi/pan. #dangerofasinglestory.“ and the s1 manner of establishing david’s pansexuality and his family’s acceptance were cute and well done imo. it plays with the assumptions we societally have that someone who presents and behaves as david does would be gay. and even with jake as a poly casual-sex stereotype with questionable communication, it’s only an issue for david and stevie because they know each other (and have past hookups they’re awkward about), not because he’s dating a man and a woman at the same time.

but then in s5, we get some rockier stuff for me re: bisexuality. we get antonio, who is a david copycat immediately clocked as checking out men while (falsely) assumed to be engaged to a woman. he’s a con artist, as thus defined by his deception, and ultimately there’s no reason to particularly think he’s bi, but even when people think he’s engaged to a woman, the fact that he’s ostensibly queer is immediately grabbed as evidence that he’s conning wendy. (which he is, but not in a way that has to do with his sexuality.) and then once we establish that he isn’t wendy’s fiance and his sexuality isn’t relevant to the con, we still throw a queer man under the bus because wendy’s actual fiance, brad, is revealed to be antonio’s partner. we don’t get much discussion of this, but the implication is that either brad is a bi man cheating on his female fiance with a man or he’s a gay man pretending to be interested in women, and both of those feed into biphobic stereotypes.

the other thing in s5 so far is that multiple characters refer to patrick as gay without him ever describing himself that way. the characters, who are presented sympathetically and supportive of him, never seem to consider that he could be bi/pan. which he may well not be, and i don’t know if this is clearer later on in the show, but they all met his female fiance the season before and they’re all pretty comfortable with david being pan so they might have at least thought about it?

idk it’s all little stuff but it did make me double-check that dan levy is gay, not bi/pan, and it does make me wonder if they actually had any bi/pan people writing for the show.

#tw biphobia?#schitt's creek spoilers #it's also interesting that we get a lot of queer men relative to... ronnie and her partner as the only evident queer women?#it's cool that we have enough queer men in the same show for me to dig into though

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rohas98-blog · 5 years

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It’s such a shame that even in this day and age, when people claim to be so supportive and tolerant of each other, problems like racial discrimination still exist. And that too in schools! I’m glad that schools in UK are taking action against bullies but their increasing number is problematic.

Watching Chimamanda’s Ted-talk in class today made me realize that one of the major causes of discrimination could be the lack of proper knowledge that the discriminators have about the people they discriminate against (mostly a minority group). Their entire perception of the minority group is based on a single story that is sometimes the misinterpretation of reality. The single story creates stereotypes because they aren't true and lack complete information.

While students who are racial bullies should be discouraged and punished if need be but educators should also talk to those students explicitly about racism.They should discuss the cultural misunderstandings that surround some groups. Also the curriculum should address difficult issues of race, culture and ethnicity in thoughtful ways and shouldn't just expose students to a SINGLE STORY!

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/30/record-number-of-uk-children-excluded-for-racist-bullying

#dangerofasinglestory #Discriminationineducation Racialbullies

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aocommonbookplaceassignment · 3 years

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author who is known for many concepts, one being the danger of a single story. She explains the danger of single story in her TEDTalk linked within this post. Essentially the danger of a single story is about how misconceptions we form about certain cultures or groups people can be due to only hearing one story and no others to form deeper and more rounded understandings.

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alekskus-blog · 7 years

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childlifer · 6 years

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Someone Who Looks Like Me

Early morning his past Tuesday, I squeezed onto the uptown #5 train on my way to the Immaculate Conception School in the South Bronx. The morning rush crowd swept me off the train at 149th Street and Third Avenue, and up the steps to a busy thoroughfare, where several streets spoked out in various directions. I made my way up a hill, heading north and west to where the school backed up against a…

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