Consider: a tundra that was breed-changed to a mirror. Still has poor eyesight, but rather than identifying people by smell, it tells them apart by taste.
Cue fluffy Mirror running around licking strangers.
When the first teaser for Coco came out, a lot of people, including myself, were quick to accuse it of being a watered-down TBoL ripoff. And when criticisms from Latinx communities of it trying to trademark the phrase “Día de los Muertos“ arise, as well as rumors popping up of Disney turning down Jorge Gutiérrez’s pitch for TBoL, we all used it as more reasons to justify our initial skepticism towards the movie.
But then the rumors were debunked. Jorge Gutiérrez already explained that he never pitched TBoL to Disney, and that he supports Coco and its crew. Also, Pixar listened to the criticisms and took it to heart and made changes, and even hired some of the critics as consultants for the movie.
And while the initial teaser was pretty underwhelming, it’s also, y’know, a teaser. It doesn’t necessarily reflect the final product. We shouldn’t make conclusions based on two minutes of footage. Hell, there have been new trailers and promotional footage that serves as better representations of the final product.
As someone who has watched it, I can safely say that it is the most beautiful Pixar movie in recent years.
The one understandable reason to not watch this movie is the John Lasseter allegations. I get that. If I hadn’t already reserved the ticket days in advance, I would also be hesitant about supporting it.
If you’ve decided to never watch a Pixar or Disney animated movie until Lasseter is completely out of the company, I’m not gonna tell you to watch this movie. But if you’re willing to make one exception, at least make it Coco. It’s definitely more culturally significant than Incredibles 2 or the Wreck-it-Ralph sequel.
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And if you DON’T see it just because of Lasseter, just remember that Disney isn’t going to say “oh no look at all these people not coming to our movie because of him” and fire him or w/e, they’re going to say “Well, I guess Latino movies don’t sell” and they’re not gonna make another one for a long fuckin time.
Like, if you weren’t gonna see it anyway, fine, but if Lasseter is the only reason you’re considering not going, maybe reconsider.
I have no intention of tagging my identity or referring to it as ‘the q slur’ or tagging posts where I use my identity term as such. If my identity term is not good for you, that’s fine. You don’t have to follow me. You can, in fact, even block me.
But I’m not going to stop calling myself queer, or referring to the queer community – that is, the community of people who identify as queer, which doesn’t include you if you don’t identify as queer, so get the fuck over yourself, I don’t ask people to stop talking about ‘the gay community’ just because I’m not gay – and if that’s a problem for you, then there’s a simple solution:
Tumblr Savior the word queer. No posts including the word queer will show up on your dash. None! In the body of the post or in the tags.
See how easy that is? It doesn’t make me refer to my identity as a slur, and you don’t have to see it. Or, if you need to, don’t follow me, or block me. In fact, if you have a problem with my identity, please block me. I’d rather not accidentally reblog something from someone who thinks my identity is something I should hide.
Effing literally “Drop the T” is a radfem/TERF popular tag.
TERFs are right in lockstep with the right wing as long as trans lives suffer.
A direct quote from the article:
“Attendees were also told to wrap their transphobic rhetoric in the language of feminism, claiming gender identity is a concept offensive to women.”
This is why it’s so important for marginalized communities to stand in solidarity. ALL LGBTQ people together, the whole alphabet soup. Stand with Jewish folks, Black ones, undocumented and indigenous. Disabled people. Muslims.
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