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Tina Cohen-Chang in ‘Glee’s brilliant character development’

Okay, this doesn’t actually add up. Feminism is about having the autonomy to make your own choices, particularly about your body and sexuality and forms of self-expression, and understanding that everyone’s choices are equally valid and deserving of respect. Tina shut Artie down because he was acting like her choices were his to make, and literally demanding that she alter her appearance and sexualize herself to meet his chosen beauty standards. It was insulting and hurtful, and she reacted the same way she does now when someone tries to stifle her or tell her she isn’t good enough. She read him the riot act and kept doing what she was doing.

But refusing to be controlled by her boyfriend doesn’t obligate her to react any particular way to future sexual comments from men. If she’s comfortable with Sam and that kind of attention from him makes her happy (which was established earlier in the episode), that’s totally fine and doesn’t make her any less of a feminist. You can freely criticize Sam for making sexual comments in the first place, but criticizing Tina’s enjoyment of them is doing the same thing Artie did – dismissing the choices she’s made about her boundaries and sexual expression because you don’t find them appealing. 

sam just looks so obscenely good

and he’s in new york

there are shots of just him and rachel “star of the whole fucking show” berry walkin’ down the street

do you ever stop and reflect on how unlikely any of this is and how lucky we are and just clutch your face 

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carsonsdream:

kurt + sometimes i just want to hug you 

other times i just want to write fanfic about blaine hooking a finger into the bight of your belt and slowly easing it free of the tongue.

THAT THING ON HIS WRIST.

THAT IS A PINCUSHION THING. FOR NEEDLES. ON HIS WRIST.

DISCUSS.

YES IT IS. It’s my favourite thing about the NY set, all these delicious little domestic details. Some folks spent a lot of season four complaining about Kurt’s opacity, but, god, didn’t we learn so much about his inner life, his tastes and needs and tools for living just by getting to see how he manages his space and spends his downtime? I usually expect to resort to fanfic for that! That pin cushion is such a ficcish detail. More, please!

And this one, the jacket under construction, feels especially deliberate. All this noise about Kurt and NYADA, Kurt and his band, yet the writers are being very careful to keep his other big talent — fashion design — fresh in our minds. Hm.

(Also, I’m coveting his wardrobe again. *whines*)

it’s just fucking illogical to let an isolated line or scene from glee inform your entire opinion of a character who has been on the show for years and had countless other lines and scenes.

literally every one of them has done something upsetting, offensive, moronic and/or completely at odds with their established personality in order to prop up a joke or create a learning opportunity for the audience when someone else smacks them down. if you judged them all by their worst moments you’d be left with a group of singing, dancing, criminal bigots who are too stupid to function, so don’t act like your faves are just above it all and you’re incapable of overlooking a few stray lines of unfortunate dialogue.

I don’t know what part of the fandom you were looking at but Brittany being bisexual was never the problem last season. It was the blatant favoritism the writers had for writing scenes with Sam that was frustrating. The inequality in terms of writing for Brittana/Bram was blatant. The fandom isn’t biphobic, the entire show is. I don’t think Brittany herself has ever said the word “bisexual” on the show. Always some ridiculous variation we were supposed to “get” and find funny.

like i said, fandom started saying these things long before brittany was actually dating sam, when there was nothing for them to compare except the concepts of bram v. brittana. representation is a legitimate issue, but it quickly became a catch-all excuse for any complaints about brittany being with sam, because no one wants to be called out on their bullshit.

the huge format change in s4 left sam and brittany, previously two minor characters, as some of the few familiar faces at mckinley who hadn’t dated; of course their relationship got more screentime than brittana in s3, when all three of the show’s pairings were dating and it was everyone’s senior year. but no one ever factors that into discussions about representation, or the fact that brittana’s season as a “new couple” was actually s2. instead of comparing klaine’s screentime with finchel and brittana’s screentime with bram, the more accurate comparisons would be s3 klaine v. s3 brittana.

there are valid complaints about the lack of physical affection, absolutely, but the point is that representation is a complicated issue that absolutely does not justify or explain fans saying they wanted to puke when bram stills were released, or reblogging bram gifsets with comments like “EW UGH GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF HER.” if you ever dipped into the bram tag last year, the blatant “brittany being with a guy is disgusting” sentiment was really hard to miss. 

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okay the biphobia here is gross, but it was just as gross when the entire brittana fandom said it last season.

if you think dating a guy was a valid choice brittany made in her love life after santana dumped her, you shouldn’t have spent a year insisting that it meant she was “straight now” and her queerness had been erased and invalidated and it grossly insulted everything brittana shared together. criticizing a bisexual for dating someone of the opposite sex is biphobic no matter how you cut it, and the “representation” excuse is hard to believe since all of that was said the moment bram spoilers leaked. frankly, this is still more respectful of brittany’s sexuality than half the shit fandom has said, because it acknowledges that she is in fact bisexual and was never a lesbian.

you’re looking in a mirror, guys.