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People have pointed out before that Xena does not shame other women or shame men for being feminine. Zero percent fem-shaming. She values feminine characters and traits instead and actually learns from them.
There’s more…
You know how much slut-shaming Xena did? None. Not even her past and highly evil self got shamed for having sex.
You know how many emo feelings Xena had despite her capacity for extremely instrumental, strategic military action? All of them. All of the feelings.
You know how much having a woman as a life partner damaged Xena’s self-identity? None. It actually just made it more awesome.
You know how many seconds it took Xena to deal with her cisgender privilege and act in pragmatic solidarity with a trans woman? Less than ten seconds.
Xena had more respect for her horse than most action heroes have for their own lives.
She offered more and more dignity to herself and other people throughout the show. It was part of her character’s development, part of her heroism.
And that is another way of articulating why Xena is so awesome.
FAKE TRANS DOCUMENTARY/ORGANIZATION: Here’s the ridiculous
story about how extreme the far-right is willing to go to dehumanize trans
people. I was nearly tricked into doing an elaborate anti-trans documentary by
Matt Walsh’s film crew this month. It started with an email from the “Gender
Unity Project” a couple weeks ago. They claimed they were doing a film on the
trans community and gave me names of well-known trans individuals and surgeons
they had interviewed. It all seemed normal at first. I even talked to the
producer (Makenna Lynn Waters) on the phone beforehand. She sounded like a
well-meaning cis film graduate who was just curious about the trans community.
When we chatted, she claimed the documentary was
self-funded. I was suspicious because she had finished college recently, but
figured she was just rich (who has that kind of money?). Later, she told me the
individual they were interviewing in Chicago had suddenly canceled (this
happens, but is still sus). Then she offered to fly me to Nashville: where Matt
Walsh lives. They finally sent me a release form this morning, which strangely
didn’t have the name of the company on it. So, I looked up the Gender Unity
Project. It used a registered agent to shield the company owners. It’s dubious
but sometimes registered agents simply make it easier to incorporate. Then I
looked Makenna Lynn up. Her name didn’t show up anywhere.
After some heavy Google searching, I realized she used her
middle name as her last in our emails. I found the IMDB page of her real name
(Makenna Waters). It turns out she’s a producer for the Matt Walsh show! That’s
not a red flag: that’s a gun to your face. If you’re not familiar, Matt Walsh
is a white supremacist who makes a living denying the basic humanity of trans
people. She wasn’t just a producer for his show: she worked on over 200
episodes of it! I finally found her Twitter, which features videos of Walsh berating
protesters and Ben Shapiro doing his usual BS.
I decided to look closer into the “Gender Unity Project.”
After searching its state registration number, I learned it was registered to
Justin Folk, a white supremacist documentarian who works for Matt Walsh and
Prager U. His initials (jrkfolk) were also listed in the release I thankfully
refused to sign. So, if you’re contacted by these slimy assholes, don’t respond.
The last thing we need right now is another “gotcha” anti-trans documentary!
Stay alert and take any media personalities with a grain of salt.
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can y'all stop tagging this and other posts from that account with “germany” in the reblogs?? before you oh so confidently tag random non US stuff w countries u should maybe actually look shit up… st gallen is in switzerland (which by the way isn’t the same place as sweden)
Not tagging the person out of respect but like,,,, please look at a map of Europe this is horribly painful to read
congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it