don't let them fool you, or even try to school you

[heathershaped]

Links of rage:

+ I imagine most people have heard about the law Arizona passed - actually passed - allowing ~suspected immigrants~ (read: people who are not white) to be stopped at any time and asked for proof of citizenship - and actually obligating law enforcement officials to perform these checks. Well, not to be outdone, a legislator in Texas is pushing for a similar law to be passed there. FANTASTIC. @##@###@

+ In other news, Oklahoma has overridden the Governor's veto of an abortion measure that will require all women (victims of rape or incest NOT excluded) seeking an abortion to submit to a vaginal ultrasound. An unnecessary, penetrative ultrasound. By force. That's now LAW in Oklahoma. Never mind that abortion is LEGAL in this country.

Things is fucked up.

Regular-flavored links:

+ Heather Morris (Brittany from Glee) speaks to The Advocate. Firstly, she's LOVELY; secondly, she says she asked Ryan Murphy if there were any plans to explore Brittany/Santana in a less implicit way, and he said no, because it's a primetime show (ugh), but "we'll see what happens". Can't say I'm surprised, though it makes ZERO sense. :/

WHATEVER.

~never forget~

+ Speaking of Glee, I meant to link this earlier, but ciderpress takes down hipster racism re: Mike Chang here, and does it beautifully.

+ I finally got a chance to read Charles Tan's No Foreigners Allowed, and... I'm just going to link you to the rebuttals - I'm sure most people have seen them by now, but they're brilliant.

An Open Letter to Charles Tan by deepad
No Country for Strangers by ephemere

Comments

[glass_icarus]

OMG LITERALLY ANGRY WITH RAGE!!11!!1! WTF, country. WTF.

Also that interview ciderpress quotes has some awfulness re: In the Heights (and that weird-ass "respect" paragraph) as well; am debating how much I want to dissect out of there other than simply MATT MORRISON YOU ARE BEING AN ASS.

[heathershaped]

That entire Morrison interview turns me off, kind of a lot. Even the non-skeevy parts - he comes off like a bit of an ass all around. WHAT is he even talking about with the last paragraph about disrespecting the girls, and how usually it's the girls disrespecting the boys but the tables turned for that one episode.

WHAT SHOW DOES HE THINK HE IS FILMING CAUSE IT'S NOT THE ONE I AM SEEING.

[goodbyebird]

she says she asked Ryan Murphy if there were any plans to explore Brittany/Santana in a less implicit way, and he said no, because it's a primetime show (ugh), but "we'll see what happens".

Whut? Are they, like, not aware that they already have an OPENLY GAY CHARACTER on the show? And it's not like the show is being freaking subtle with our gay cheerios as it is. I doubt anybody's missing the point. Grrrrr for fricks sake!

[neigedens]

Heather Morris (Brittany from Glee) speaks to The Advocate. Firstly, she's LOVELY; secondly, she says she asked Ryan Murphy if there were any plans to explore Brittany/Santana in a less implicit way, and he said no, because it's a primetime show

Seriously, UGH. I don't watch Glee, but I hate that attitude, that gay relationships are inherently more sexual and ~risqué~ than straight ones.

Also, lol that No Foreigners Allowed article holding up Heart of Darkness as a good example of multi-cultural literature. Maybe this was just me, but didn't everyone's English teacher make them read Chinua Achebe's essay about how awful it is after reading it?

[cloudbusting]

but but but I love Brittany and Santana! They're adorable! God forbid we see girls being in like with other girls on our television! >:|


Also, I think Matthew Morrison is talented as anything, but...kind of clueless and dumb. :|