xdominoe:

snafflebithumptywink:

thisisthinprivilege: Thin privilege is not being told by one of your favourite youtubers that you shouldn’t cosplay as a particular character, because you’re too fat. sigh he’s come out and said it was nothing more than poorly executed satire

really, it speaks to the terrible nature of society, that what was meant as satire was taken as truth - his comments got more and more ridiculous by the second in that video, and yet nobody questioned the fact that a person would say that.

and that’s not alex day’s fault. the poor execution, of course, hurt a lot of feelings. the fault lies with all the people who have said things like that and meant them, thus making everyone believe that even someone who had the best of intentions could have said such hurtful things.

(of course, intentions have little effect on the way things are taken, but given that alex delivered a public apology, I think it’s time to let this one go.)