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Haha. Get it. Cause TERFS are useless piles of shit.

I would like to apologize. Grimer is way better than terfs. #GrimeragainstTerfs

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“That boy ain’t right.”

There’s more to abuse than hitting.

tbh, I was kinda waiting for someone to point this out and yes, you’re absolutely right. Abuse doesn’t have to be physical, it can be emotional and/or verbal.

This comic came about because I‘d read several commentaries comparing Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin, specifically in regards to how they treat their daughters.

Almost everyone I know who takes the time to think critically about The Simpsons or Family Guy hones in on the fact that Peter physically and emotionally abuses Meg, whereas Homer is incompetent, neglectful, and absolutely does not understand Lisa – but he loves her and he tries.

In the commentary about how Peter and Homer treat their daughters, I didn’t really see anyone bring up the physical/emotional abuse of their sons.

To lay it out there – I loathe Family Guy. Fucking hate it.

I grew up watching The Simpsons and can have entire conversations purely through quoting the show. But as much as I love The Simpsons, I think the overall cultural attitude to corporal punishment (physical abuse) has changed enough that it’s time to retire the running “joke” of Homer choking Bart. It may have been a culturally acceptable joke ten years ago, but more and more research is showing seriously negative outcomes for kids that have experienced any form of physical punishment. We need to stop normalizing it.

As for King of the Hill, Hank and Peggy are hardly perfect parents and both have a tendency towards stifling Bobby’s more flamboyant and/or “feminine” behavior. But they both love Bobby; they have both, at different times during the show, been able to connect to Bobby through his various interests. While not perfect, they are a much healthier depiction of a family.

As a queer transgender dude who grew up in Texas and is totally unsuited for Southern concepts of masculinity, I have a real soft spot for King of the Hill and for Bobby. It’s a far more real and complex depiction of family, compared to the pointless cruelty of Family Guy or the lesser cruelties of The Simpsons.

“That Boy Ain’t Right” Hank said this a lot, but if I remember correctly, he’s never said this to Bobby’s face. He doesn’t understand him sometimes, but he’s never treated him like Homer and Peter have.

Another thing on Hank. A big part of the show is Hank learning to be a good father while dealing with his experiences with his own shitty, racist, abusive father. If Hank has a scene where he is extremely uncomfortable, it’s almost entirely with showing emotions. When someone is crying or upset around him (Peggy, Luanne, Bobby, John Redcorn, Bill, etc) he shuts down because that’s what his father molded him into.

And by the end of the series you see him behave differently. He learns to be openly romantic with his wife (even having sex on a freaking train), he deals with his father’s issues, HE DRESSED IN DRAG IN FRONT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR BILL, and most importantly he learns that his son will always be “different” and gets over his own unease so that Bobby can be happy. Hank’s a good dad on the pure measure that he tries and that’s damn more than Peter or even Homer.

But Bob Belcher will always be #1 dad anyways.

I’m glad I searched the notes long enough to find this addition since it’s great and covers all the issues I failed to word myself because I just can’t words sometimes.

Thank you @potbellies for mentioning Bob Belcher. He is #1 dad for sure.

Bob will occasionally jokingly mention that his kids are useless/horrible, but he has never abused them - mentally, emotionally, or physically,- at any point. There have been entire episode plotlines that focused on him bonding with Gene, Louise, and Tina. He constantly and consistently supports them and shows that he loves them unconditionally.

In “Sheesh! Cab, Bob?”, Bob goes so far as to shave his mustache so Jimmy Jr., the boy Tina has a crush on, will be allowed to come to her birthday party. In “The Equestranauts”, Bob reluctantly agrees to learn about one of Tina’s favorite shows and dress up as the show’s parody of a brony to go to a convention so he can take back Tina’s horse figure that she was conned out of by a gross jerk. He has also been shown to resent the idea that Tina is growing up.

In “Carpe Museum”, he accompanies the kids on a field trip and, although he disapproves of Louise’s behavior at first, he eventually has a good time with her and a classmate when they stray from the group (and get into trouble, as Louise usually does). Later, he feels immensely proud because she admits she’s thought about taking over the family business when she grows up.

One of the best examples happens in “The Laser-inth”, when Bob takes Gene to a laser light rock show because he used to love going to those shows as a kid and wants to share that with his son. Partway into the show, Gene gets overwhelmed by the flashing lights and loud music, breaking down in tears. Instead of forcing Gene to sit through the show, Bob immediately removes Gene from the situation, even though he would have preferred to stay. He put his son’s needs before his own, and not once does he make fun of Gene for his breakdown. They sit in Bob’s car and Bob turns on a CD of the band at low volume and leans his and Gene’s seats back so they can have their own smaller version of a show. Eventually, Gene decides he wants to go back to see the end of the real show, so they sneak back in and Bob makes Gene a pair of earplugs so the music from the show won’t be so overstimulating.

These are just a few examples, but this kind of stuff happens all the time on Bob’s Burgers. Bob is an excellent father and loving husband who deserves the most praise out of all these animated dads.

If real life was like The Sims

OH THATS WHAT IT WAS

I think all of us thought we were reading the most fucked up post on tumblr and halfway through realized what it was

Dear women D&D players,

I’m a huge podcast fan, and I listen to a lot of Dungeon and Dragons/roll playing game podcasts. What I feel is missing is women playing D&D. Especially women DMs. I think the world is missing out on hearing how fun women playing D&D must be. And how different it must be. I for one would be thankful to find it and hear it. I hope I get to hear a women led rpg podcast someday. Thank you.

Girls Guts Glory comes to mind as well as Shieldmaidens. Both are an all-female D&D game groups that do youtube videos/streams/podcasts

Including links for 

Girls Guts Glory

Shield Maidens: Deadly Dames do D&D (althought the DM is a dude, the rest of the players are women.)

@damesanddragons -  A 5E dnd podcast

Thanks a million for recommending us, @lawfulgoodness​!!! :)

Here are some more lady-laden D&D podcasts for consideration:

Updating with more recommendations from the notes:

If you want to listen to a group of women role playing incredibly poorly, here’s our RPG eps set in the world of ASoIaF: https://closethedoorandcomehere.podbean.com/p/house-doore-roleplaying-game-adventures/

Not strictly high fantasy, but I’m on a podcast called Ladies of Darkness using the World of Darkness system where we play through various campaigns, starting with Demon: The Fallen! We make music for it and everything!

George Takei,

You rule. 

George Takei is a beautiful human being.

I love George Takei!

George Takei being amazing and mocking these sad, pathetic bigoted idiots in his glorious style

It is the best thing

LOOK AT ALL THIS STAR-SASS RIGHT HERE :D

I’m not even sorry for putting this on my blog. This is perfect.

Yay!! It’s back!!

I love him!!!!

George Takei is such a hero!

He is precious

So I got to meet him at a Con a few years ago and he was amazing.

He seems like he is :)

“There are girls with penises, boys with vulvas, and transphobes without teeth.”

Yeah, ‘cause having kids and a career in science ought to be kept mutually exclusive, right?

*sigh*

It’s like those mommyjacking posts stating that a woman’s worth is having children. A woman isn’t supposed to be doing anything else or be valued for anything else at all, let alone being a scientist and a mother.

Fun fact; my mother has a PHD in computer science and has published papers in developing a system for providing safe spaces for children and vulnerable adults to interact online.

People like these are the reason why my mum was forced to quit her computer science studies and become a housewife against her will when she found herself pregnant of a boyfriend who she had only known for a couple of months.

It’s fucking terrifying to see this mentality is still a thing.

Fucking disgusting.

One of my aunts had an illustrious and well respected career in microbiology. And she also had my cousin John. It shouldn’t have to be a one-or-the-other choice.

My mum is a particle physicist and one of the only two women currently occupying full time indefinite contracts as researchers at her place of work, which I’m going to keep anonymous. She also had three kids.

My mom raised me and my two brothers and is known at her company as a damn good civil engineer.

Ok. I get that we are talking business. I do.

But fuck you. Mass Effect has a loyal fanbase.

You’re just … Giving up. After so much, rather than buckle down and redeem yourselves over the course of DLC content and the next two games, you’re throwing in the towel. You’re GIVING UP.

And you’re giving up on the huge fanbase that never gave up on you. Through everything, we screamed our love of this franchise and we never gave up that they’d make it right. No, another slap in the face.

Fuck you EA. We didn’t give up on you even tho we had every reason to. You gave up on us cause of TROLLS. Weak. So weak.

Like, let me be clear here.

Was Mass Effect Andromeda perfect? Oh hell no. There are plenty of legitimate grievances with it to be had. It isn’t about criticism and has things that it should be called out over.

But the game was, at best, barely given a chance by a lot of people - there were how many pre-release articles condemning the facial animations, and that was the tip of the goddamned iceberg.

Honestly, I found Andromeda a better game than Inquisition, and Inquisition got to conclude its story through DLC and won game of the year. Mass Effect Andromeda deserved at least a full DLC cycle. But because people decided to kill it in the cradle, the base game is all we get. They don’t even get the chance to make up for their mistakes in DLC.

THAT is what pisses me off here.

About the ME: Andromeda news

FUCKING HELL, BIOWARE.

I LOVED Andromeda. A LOT.

Sara Ryder is probably my favorite Bioware protagonist. The scenery was GORGEOUS. There was a good balance of sidequest and main quest storyline. The supporting characters were pretty great. Once I got used to the gameplay, I grew to love it a lot.

But Bioware is abandoning Andromeda. There will still be multiplayer updates, but no more single player updates. No DLCs. So I’m guessing no Andromeda 2.

GODDAMNIT.

FUCK

I’m so annoyed right now.

Andromeda was a GOOD game. It was better than Inquisition, imo!!!

I feel like Andromeda is a much better game than people gave it credit for. I think maybe people’s expectations were super high given the cult status of the original Mass Effect trilogy? So when it was launched and had some issues, people acted like the game was horrible. Idk. Maybe if Bioware had waited a few more months to fix things that they did in later patches before they released the game, it would have been better received? IDK.

ANYONE ELSE WANT TO MOURN ANDROMEDA WITH ME?

Also, it seems like Bioware is going ALL IN with Anthem. We haven’t heard anything about Dragon Age 4 in AGES. So if Anthem flops, is that the end of Bioware??

Thanks for nothing, Bioware.

Eat shit, Bioware.

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