Please be sure to send me any screenshots of examples of similar behavior. And don’t be afraid to post them yourself.
And then there is this:
I always got terrible vibes from this channel, but I could never pinpoint why exactly. The things they posted seemed to follow a pattern: rarely would the channel post pleasant highlights about the female cast members. The focus was always on Travis and Sam. I also noticed that they’d either like comments that bashed certain cast members, or would passively aggressively do it themselves.
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Well, now I know why.
Let it be known: CRITICAL ROLE HIGHLIGHTS IS SEXIST AND MISOGYNIST.
This tweet showcases another recent example of Critical Role Highlights highly public and vile misogynist behavior. Be sure to re-tweet and spread the word.
I for one, cannot and will not sit back and watch this person MAKE MONEY off of Critical Role while not supporting their beliefs. The asshole even has a Patreon essentially stealing money from people to use Critical Role’s content. (See below).
So there we have it: if you are a true fan of Critical Role, the cast, and what they stand for, then you will not only boycott Critical Role Highlights, but spread the word so this bastard will never make money off of hate ever again.
Spread the news on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube comments, wherever you can. Let us work together to wreck this channel once and for all.
Sorry, no art, but this made me so angry, I had to post about it:
Y’all might want to consider unfollowing the youtube channel Critical Role Highlights. It’s not really clear on there how much of a bag of trash the owner of the channel truly is but a brief tour of his twitter should give y’all a VERY clear idea of the kind of person he is : )
Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?
They called the police on this lesbian painting.
The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman & Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity & portrayed in a place of power & control. Realism humanized the female form in art, & removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.
So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.
Harvest Guardian 