All right, y'all. I’m about to shit on all your favorite franchises. Keep in mind I don’t think you are a bad person for liking these things (I am a huge hunger games fan) but you CANNOT like something and not even fucking TRY to examine why it is problematic.

Harry Potter

- only gay character is not “out” until after the end of the book.

- heteronormative relationships

- no fat people who aren’t seen as “jokes”

- escapism into wizard world attempts to erase realities of oppression in the human world

- racism/sexism is not depicted, which erases the identities and experienced of oppressed POCs/women

- Rampant cissexism

- no POCs (or at least no important POC characters)

Twilight

- “innocent flower” depiction of white women

- obsession with transphobic ideal of virginity

- sexualizes abuse and violence

- Bella wasn’t fat (this would have been a good opportunity for this tbh)

- Indigenous characters were werewolves, perpetuating the idea that POC = animals

- sexualizes pedophilia since edward is 107 years old

- no trans or genderqueer characters

- one of Bella’s admirers is a POC who she turns down

Sherlock

- offensive portrayal of autism

- appropriation of homoromanticism by two cishet men

- includes Benedict Cumberbatch, known racist and slavery apologist

- includes Martin Freeman, notable rape apologist and sexist

- Sherlock’s lack of a sex life is slightly appropriative of asexuality

- White saviorism

Game of Thrones

- encourages us all to hate strong women like Cersei

- mostly centers around white people

- glorifies rape and pedophilia

- misgenders Brienne of Tarth, who is genderfluid

- fetishizes gay men

- dehumanizes sex workers

- unrealistic depiction of dothraki

- fails to address atrocities of colonization (Daenerys)

- glorifies cultural appropriation (Daenerys)