This Whole Tommy Kinard Fiasco Is The Perfect Example Of How Male-centric Fandom Is Bc Female LIs Have

i’m just saying if you could choose between the first queer interracial slow burn best friends to lovers storyline on network television that deals with religious guilt, ptsd, internalized homophobia, and coming out later in life while working a stereotypical macho man job or two white men kissing for the millionth time why would you not choose the first one

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited

not an explicit gay porn blog rb my post to say that bt is more intimate than buddie……

they’re also reblogging posts saying lou is responsible for the uptick in viewership as well as completely misrepresenting the network switch….

(also the referencing buddie shippers as “people” bc they’ve decided to completely dehumanize us meanwhile they are the ones doing the harassing of actors/crew… lfj was being called out on racist behavior, not being budllied bc poetry weren’t blowing sunchine up a nepo baby’s ass)

as well as reblogging multiple buddie/buddie shipper posts( @jackwhiteprophetic )and saying things like “you misspelled tommy” or using them to soundboard their love of oliver (which don’t get me wrong i love oliver and id much rather people speak positively about him than the delusional fucks who have been harassing him but coming from a bt shipper it always feels so off to me idk)

or blatantly saying buddie shippers are delusional while perpetuating this claim that buck (who has spent all of maybe 10 minutes of screentime with him) is completely head over heels in love with him

I’m sick of these people and i really hope the show doesn’t continue to just ignore everything they’ve done (especially for ryan and oliver’s sake) because these are the people who make fandom spaces toxic. these are the reasons tv shows/media refuses to acknowledge fan engagement (not that 9-1-1 is ignoring fan engagement). Tim Minear has been vocal about cakling out other people/groups in the fandom directly; he needs to keep that same energy and tell these people that they’re being the problem here.

I’m so sick of people trying to act like buddie hasn’t been THE ship for years while acting like this underdeveloped character and this likewarm representation of a ship are somehow the holy grail of queer media.

Not to mention the fact that I once got a flag on my account saying they deleted a post for “explicit nudity” because i had posted a picture w a shirtless guy in it, but they can post/reblog literal PORN and they’re just labeled as a “mature account” by tumblr.

(now im not a prude, i know porn/sex work is s real job, but tumblr can’t just pick and choose who it wants to allow to post porn or not)

but who knows; after all i’m just a delusional buddie shipper so 🤷

Buck: Oh, I've got game.

Eddie: Really? Give me your best pick up line. Buck 1.0 me.

Buck: See, I don't really have any, because I'm not trying to be picked up. I'm trying to be pinned down.

Eddie:...

Eddie:...

Buck: But okay, if you really want an answer, I will say that I like your name. And I hope that at the end of our date, your neighbours do, too.

Now I know I did not just see that a bt fan messaged Tim for tmmy to have his own spin off show with buck 😭😭 there’s insane and there’s INSANE

This has definitely already been done by now but I don't care I'm excited for this movie

on every other app i'm lurking in the 9-1-1 content and all the (normie) comments are something like, "i was so suprised when buck kissed that man! if anyone was gay i thought it would be eddie!" and it's like. well !

PLEASE DO NOT VIEW THIS AS HATE. I simply saw this tweet as i was scrolling on twitter

So the show DELIBERATELY placed each of their Ll after their names are called.

Hen=Karen, Chim= Maddie, Tommy.=Buck, Buck=Eddie, Eddie =Marisol

This is my problem with SOME

BuckTommy shippers. NOT all. We aren't the ones creating theories.. the show is literally telling us this. The fact that we are being called "fuckass fan theories" is sooo telling because what was s2-s7x04 when WE ALL had theories about buck being queer coded? Were those"fuckass fan theories" as well? The hypocrisy and the way that buddies aren't even allowed to theorize anymore just because buck is with him. the AMOUNT of theories WE ALL HAD about queer buck during bucks relationships with Ali, Taylor, Lucy, and Natalia... Why the fuck is it different now that he's with Tommy. Why do the theories suddenly have to STOP NOW?

This isn’t even about buddie anymore. This is about SOME their shippers acting like BUDDIES aren’t allowed to theorize now that buck is in a relationship with Tommy. I know they don’t ship Buck with Eddie, and that’s fine, but you mean to tell me WHILE Buck was in his any of previous relationships, you NEVER shipped him with another man from the show or had theories….. PLEASE.

Again, no hate. Just something i saw last night.