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When you watch Torchwood there is a warning at the very beginning that some scenes may offend or disturb people, so if you allow your children to sit and watch it with you that’s your responsibility, it’s not ours anymore. We kissed, we held each other, we lay on top of each other in bed… and there were lots of complaints about that. Nobody complained that I was shot in the head four times, there were burning people in ovens, that I was stabbed by a mob of 50 people hundreds of times, and I was hanging dripping my blood in a pit. So that’s what confuses me, because you’re not complaining about gay sex, you’re complaining about two men kissing. And it’s 2011. And people say, “Well why should we have that on television?” Because the BBC have to represent the greater public — and there are gay people out there who pay their television license. For people to complain, that’s your prerogative — but you know what, none of them turned it off! They were just embarrassed because it put them in a position where they had to explain things to their kids or their family which probably should have been explained a long time ago.

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John Barrowman (via childhoodgames)

[Gif of a camera panning out on a scene where a lot of people are dancing in boxer shorts, long sleeved button up shirts and socks.]

Barrowman, everyone.

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THANK YOU BARROWMAN. 

I really need for people who watch Torchwood and went into seeing Miracle Day knowing or at least having some knowledge that Captain Jack is NOT AT ALL STRAIGHT EVEN A LITTLE BIT were okay with the sight of a queer/non-straight person being tortured and killed repeatedly but couldn’t stand to see that same person enjoying themselves during consenting, enthusiastic encounters to think very closely about what that means. It says far more about them than the show. 

Because basically the complaint is, “Look, it’s one thing if you want to brutally torture the queer dude. We don’t mind seeing queer people hurt, that fits the proper narrative. It’s just when you show them being happy and having sex lives and not getting punished for it that I get pissed. I mean, you’re sending the message to all those queer or questioning kiddies that not only can queer people be like Captain Jack, having adventures, leading a team of secret agents and saving the world, living this wonderful amazing life but you’re telling the straight ones that they should feel sad and upset and sympathetic when a queer person gets hurt. That I simply will not stand for! Next thing you know, they’ll be considering queer people human and treating them like they treat straight people and it’ll be chaos! Anarchy! Cats and dogs living together!”

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In an ideal world women could be strong, kick-ass, and intelligent without being objectified or assumed to be acting masculine. And our other strengths – even the traditionally feminine ones like mothering, or cooking, or artistry – will be seen not as things that make us safe because as the weaker sex we should be limited to them, but as strengths in and of themselves that are all part of the matrix of who we are (the Doctor Who Christmas Special this year did a fantastic job portraying this btw). As a mother my identity should not be reduced to that role, but neither should it be something I should be ashamed of or use to prove I can succeed at everything. Women should be able to be strong without having out out-violence or out-revenge the men. Women should be able to be smart without having to either be the smartest in the room or search for ways to make her intelligence acceptable to men. Women should be able to feel pretty and accept their sexuality without being turned into be eye-candy or live in fear that they are causing men to stumble. Women (and men) should be valued as themselves regardless of whether or not they fit traditional masculine or feminine labels.

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Julie Clawson (via azspot)

See: any female characters set in the fictional future.

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This!

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Down near the bottom
of the crossed-out list
of things you have to do today,

between “green thread”
and “broccoli” you find
that you have penciled “sunlight.”

Resting on the page, the word
is as beautiful, it touches you
as if you had a friend

and sunlight were a present
he had sent you from some place distant
as this morning — to cheer you up,

and to remind you that,
among your duties, pleasure
is a thing,

that also needs accomplishing

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Tony Hoagland, from “The Word”

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