rifa:
This would have been more meaningful if it had come from someone besides the straight, white man. You know, like the lady two people over.
Seriously? Seriously, people? Shut the fuck up. Because he is a white straight man making an effort to gather support for equal rights he is unworthy? That his support is nothing? Or that it’s not good enough for him to support equal rights? Get your slick stinky underwear out of your ass crack and stop being so stupid. I’ve heard macklemore get so much shit today for FUCKING SUPPORTING equal rights! He is a straight white man using his privilege in a correct and respectful way and people seem to have a problem with that?! You’re fucking kidding me. So if he just decided to suck someone’s dick the day before, would his support finally mean something?! Man, shut the hell up people. This is support right here, and in the mainstream media.
/end motherfucking rant
reblogging this a million times
do you even understand how much shit macklemore gets because people think he’s gay? do you understand that they kept passing the microphone to her but she didnt want to speak? do you understand that if you’re straight, you can support same sex marriage? because you can. just because he’s straight doesn’t mean his support doesn’t matter. do you get how amazing it is to have a song like this played on the radio? things like this dont hapoen often, and the fact that the same straight goofball who sang “thrift shop” can write something so beautiful like this is amazing. in fact, i think it is fucking amazing that this man is using his speech time to talk about gay rights. he almost forgot to thank his fiancé because he cared about this cause so much. do you know what taylor swift did? fucking insulted her ex. macklemore used his minute and a half (maybe less) of speech time to stand up for what he believe, to stand up for love, to stand up for his family. and you think that just because he’s straight it isn’t valid? that makes you just as close minded as homophobic people in my opinion.
I will never ever not reblog this. Ever.
My opinion too tbh, if you dont personally like his song or him doing this thats alright, but recongize that he’s doing a load of good in the mainstream media while he could be writing songs about blurred lines and bitches on a strict diet of dick or whatever the fuck else mainstream media has going for it.
For the record, my dear followers, if you’re straight, or white, or male, or skinny, or whatever and you want to support me and love me then go right ahead because seriously, that’s amazing, and I’m not going to be like, “Well that would mean more to me if you weren’t white/straight/male/skinny/whatever.”
Actually some of my fondest memories at GameStop are the following:
1. Having two straight white managers who let my partner use my discount because, “You two would be married if you could be married.” So instead of sticking to the rules of “spouses and children” they considered her a spouse and said, “Go for it.” My assistant manager at the time tried to tell her she couldn’t use the discount, we were both like, “Manager said it was o.k.” Because he did. And not every store will let you do that, not every manager will let you do that, as proven by my assistant manager at the time. So thanks for that, straight, white, male managers who cared about my rights.
2. When one of my customers (again, male and straight), went on a rant about how fucking dumb it was that I couldn’t marry who I was with, because we’ve been together for so long. He went on a huge rant about it, because we’ve been together longer than a lot of straight couples who are married, or can get married, or who have been divorced, and it pissed him and his brother off so much when I told them how long we were together. Me and that customer are good friends now, and he cheered with me when Minnesota started to allow gay marriage.
3. The one time I actually said to a straight guy how “that’s gay” can be seen as offensive, and how he actually made an effort to stop saying it, to the point that if he did slip up he would apologize. He did this in front of his teenage son, so his son got to see his dad apologize for saying something that could be seen as offensive and trying to make an effort to change it. Sure beats the hell out of the customer who flat out said “fags” about something, and the ones my manager would try to correct who would just laugh it off.
So yeah. Can we just stop with this attitude of thinking that just because someone is in the majority it means that they aren’t allowed to be supportive? I will always find that bizarre because, I really don’t need to speak to my gay/black/female/plus sized peoples for support, you know? They want support just like I do, so I don’t need to try to make them understand, so when someone outside of this circle agrees with me on something and feels that I should have the same rights… that means the world to me. I mean, can we be happy that there is a song in mainstream that’s talking about our rights in a positive way? And yes, it is amazing that the same guy who made a song like “Thrift Shop” turned around like, “Same Love.” I mean he could’ve just kept going with songs like that, but he took a moment to say, “Look. Love is Love.” Let’s be honest I expected that from Lady Gaga (Born This Way) and Pink (Raise Your Glass) and Katy Perry (Firework), but Macklemore? A rapper who was just rapping about buying cheap clothes… is talking about same sex rights? And by then he was so popular, had millions of fans, and spoke a message like that. That, to me, is impressive, because he sure as hell didn’t have to do that. He could’ve just kept his opinions to himself or posted about it on Twitter, he didn’t have to have an entire song that played across the country.
And before someone goes on to say, “Well that’s just being a decent human being,” considering the fact that he’s getting so much hate for being the decent human being you think he should be, maybe now you see why people don’t speak up about stuff like this, let alone make a song about it. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. You want people to show support, then they do, and the response is, “Fuck him.” No wonder we don’t have more songs like this, if he just stuck with, “I’m gunna pop some tags, I got twenty dollas in ma pocket,” then he wouldn’t be bashed so hard.
And before you say its just for publicity, honestly, he was already popular enough, and even if he wasn’t, there’s an easier way to get publicity besides openly showing support to a minority group, especially when said group is like, “Fuck you you don’t know me, privileged white boy.”
