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soliairs:

sociallyinadequate:

A summary that just wouldn’t stop growing as I wrote it:

• Generally only focusing on gay men despite calling themselves an LGBTQ group.
• Perpetuates images of ‘sassy gay men’ across their websites.
• Their posts featuring lesbians often show hot, young, white, feminine girls kissing, thus continuing the image of sexualized lesbians (and teenage girls in general) rather than focusing on inequality or any sort of intersectionality.
• Basically never focusing on trans*, pan, ace or gender-queer people at all.
• But when they do mention trans* people, boy do they heck it up. (tw: misgendering)
• Casual cissexism everywhere.
• Supports Dan Savage, who is notoriously biphobic, transphobic, ace-hating, fat shaming, racist and ableist and just generally a horrible person. (Again, focuses on gay white men and no one else.)
• Also supports Family Guy, despite its history of being offensive to basically everyone.
• Also a bit of Lady Gaga in there too. (Issues with Lady Gaga)
• Uses quotes from cishet people rather than people who are actually queer, and then only quotes from gay people who are white/cis/able-bodied/etc (lots of Ellen Degeneres and Neil Patrick Harris).
• Many of the images shared on their Facebook and tumblr are taken without permission or notification from people’s blogs (you only have to scroll down their facebook to see all the tumblr screen caps with their logo slapped on top.)
• When asked to remove these by the original posters, the people running the pages become immature and rude.
• Also stealing ideas and selling them.
• The entire Russian gay colouring book debacle which has the potential to do massive amounts of harm to innocent people in Russia.
• Lots of micro-aggressions, such as using ‘gays’ and the whole idea of “no labels just human!”

In addition, their way of advertising using young children can be seen as questionable and people have also pointed out their exclusion of POC and the use of sassy/angry black people as jokes (being white I can’t really comment on this, but I’m sure there are more examples).
How much of their profit is actually getting donated is also a question nobody can really answer.

On a much lesser note, people also have taken issue with their customer service. Definitely not as important, but a nice little fact to end on.

It also speaks wonders that I could find nearly every example needed in this answer by scrolling through the ‘FCKH8’ tag and their facebook and tumblr posts from the past week alone. These are all current and continuing issues that aren’t looking to be solved any time soon.

Here’s a new blog that’s documenting a lot of the shit they do, if you want more receipts and updates.

I actually didn’t know about any of this until a day or two ago, keep this post going.

oh my god all of this. after seeing some of these posts i went to the facebook page and… i’ve never felt such a strange and potent melange of anger, disgust, disbelief, and secondhand embarrassment