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thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

thirteenxrose:

Doctor Who has received significant viewer and critical acclaim for an episode, featuring Rosa Parks (Vinette Robinson) that tackled racism and discrimination.

The storyline also did not attempt to influence the event, or in any way inspire Rosa for her actions that day.

Rather, they helped protect the circumstances so that the event did happen.

Not only did the episode highlight racist attitudes in the past, they also highlighted how racism continues today. Ryan (Toisin Cole) talked about being stopped by police and Yaz (Mandip Gill) opened up about being the abuse she has experienced as a Muslim.

They also contextualised Rosa Parks’ story, highlighting the future difficulties she faced and the continued fight for civil rights.

Notably, this was also the first episode in Doctor Who history to have been written by a person of colour.

It was also pointed out that the episode was aired on the same day as a black woman was racially abused and was made to move on an Ryanair flight.

And at the end of the episode, The Doctor highlighted that Rosa Parks not only changed the world but the “universe,” pointing out an asteroid that has been named after her.

Here is Asteroid 284996: Rosaparks.

The Daily Mail seriously tried to claim there was a “Fan Backlash” over how “PC” the show had gotten over this episode

(For those who don’t know, the Daily Mail and the creatures it employs is basically the kind of garbage that even Fox News wouldn’t hire because they are literally the worst kind of filth to ever have sadly not been aborted)

In reality?

This show got a far larger amount of viewers than many of the previous few seasons did and Jodie’s season has done better in terms of ratings so far than any season of the new show has done since before David Tennant left the series

So yeah…if there are fans who are mad about this episode or the new season in general, I’d say that they are the type of “Fans” who the show can do without given that it’s doing BETTER without them watching than it has done in over five years

THIS WAS AN AMAZING EPISODE

And I love how it handled the issues it confronted and also the respect it showed Rosa Parks…the new series past historical episodes where famous people from history showed up have tended to not exactly be very accurate in how they portrayed them..I’m glad that this episode gave Rosa Parks the respect she deserves 

The Daily Mail has never and will never change

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nitrosplicer:

transhumanist-viking:

transhumanist-viking:

“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”

COLOUR ME FUCKING SURPRISED

I want people, in particular cis people, to read this and understand what it means.

It means that these groups, these organizations, are so Hellbent on getting trans people outlawed, hurt, and killed, that they will openly lie and admit to lying to stir up emotions. They have no qualms with actively lying and distorting reality. 

They have no qualms about misleading people. Actively lying to people. 

They don’t care how immoral their actions may be, how much their rhetoric flies in the face of reality, as long as it reaches their end goal of the destruction of “transgender ideology.” 

MassResistance and all their ilk want us dead, and should never be trusted, not even for the most trivial of matters. They should be rejected, reviled, despised, because nothing they do is in service of anything but hatred and evil. 

And in case anyone actually doubts this, and wants to cry “fake news,” here’s MR’s actual article. Should it get deleted, here’s an archived version. Some choice bits under the cut, if you want to see how vile these people really are. 

Keep reading

As I’ve said before about this issue, there’s something missing from this post that I feel is very important to know: this is the group who put anti-discrimination legislation protecting transgender residents in Massachusetts up for a ballot question during the midterms. If the ballot question had resulted in repealing the ALREADY ESTABLISHED LAW, it would have sent a threatening legal precedent, not just in Massachusetts, but in the US. I need to stress this, because a lot of people weighing in on the Yes on Three campaign seemed to think that this was not a matter of already established law.

Trans rights were already made law in Massachusetts, and Mass Resistance and Keep MA Safe created a petition to put the law back on the ballot for voters to decide. Fortunately, a majority of voters defended transgender rights, but I must draw attention to the massive effort created by Freedom Massachusetts, the coalition which went out on the streets, asking people to vote yes on three. Due to the confusing way in which the ballot question was worded, we very well could have seen a different, more dire result, instead of the current outcome. This result did not occur in a vacuum. It was the result of people standing up to defend trans rights against those who are willing to use scare tactics which they know are false. This scare tactic is why trans rights were on the ballot. Don’t dismiss this as a small or insignificant detail. As a transgender resident of Massachusetts, life could have changed utterly here.

Tldr: they weren’t thwarted in a vacuum, the efforts of trans people fighting to protect their rights created an important difference.

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