Bethany

28 year old English doll photographer and collector https://youtube.com/@bcsdollplace?si=nVqIbpfBv10hE29S

[didyoumeanxianity]

I feel like a lot of people think they know what antisemitism looks like: slurs, racialized caricatures, Nazi salutes, vandalism…

And antisemitism can look like all of those things.

But sometimes it looks like my cousin and his fiancée canceling their wedding in favor of elopement because her parents, who purportedly had no problems with my cousin before, aren’t okay with their daughter actually marrying a Jew.

That’s antisemitism, too, and it and situations like it actually happen far more often than the obvious stuff people think of when Jews talk about antisemitism. Because antisemitism doesn’t have to look criminal to be real and to hurt. Sometimes antisemitism looks like violence. But a lot of the time it just looks like blowing off your own kid’s wedding.

[the-one-eyed-seer]

Antisemitism looks like gentiles having a conversation about what antisemitism looks like directly in front of me and cutting me out of the conversation to pat themselves on the back

Antisemitism looks like my old friends making excuses about what they can say or do because they knew me

Antisemitism looks like gentiles who police my observance or lack of observance with their shallow understanding of Jewish law (and are usually just wrong)

Antisemitism is our traditions being called archaic and weird

Dismantling antisemitism is more than just punching nazis, it’s unlearning your biases, not belittling us, not tokenizing us, actively including us, listening to us.

[girlactionfigure]

[syn-sura]

moonlight peaks pls let me romance the sun god pls pls pls

do you NOT see the beautiful contrast??? sun god x vampire ????

[amillionmagpies]

Btw, that idea that privilege makes you morally evil and suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the Christian concepts of the evils of luxury and the holiness of martyrdom. Hope this helps!

[frivolousfiddlesticks]

"Quick! If you love me!"

Holmes says that as if it's a given. As if there is no doubt in his mind that Watson loves him. He says it as if he could stake his life on it (which, in this case, he kind of does). He doesn't just believe it, he believes in it. It's something he can rely on.

Whichever way you want to swing it (in friendship or romance), it's beautiful.

[lilytad]

when someone is a christian they are not constantly asked their position on the holocaust the transatlantic slave trade the extermination of native americans or any of the thousands of atrocities committed by christians so why do muslims get asked about terrorism and jewish people about israel and are grouped in with specific bad people while christians are not required to explain themselves??

[lilytad]

goyim and non muslims can and should reblog

[lilytad]

[christians and all sectors of christianity that means you]

[jewish-vents]

im confiscating bob dylan and leonard cohen and simon & garfunkel and janis ian and joan baez and neil diamond and lou reed the mamas and papas and the band from the antisimetic music nerds on here who love to say casually horrific things about jews and have ZIONISTS KYS in their bio while making their blog revolve around musicians who are/were most definitely zionists

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[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

genuinely saw a 'zionists kys' blog with a Leonard Cohen header ????

I think it got nuked though

[chutzpahchesed]

no more Broadway or most any standards of the American songbook for any of them. Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Yip Harburg, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Kander and Ebb, Andrew Lippa, Charles Strouse, Maury Yeston, Marc Shaiman, Claude-Michel Schönberg, William Finn, Benj Pasek, Mel Brooks…

no Disney or Pixar movies with any music by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, or Randy Newman. as mentioned, no Barbra Streisand or Leonard Cohen or Simon and Garfunkel or Neil Diamond etc. no Carole King or Billy Joel or Barry Manilow or Lenny Kravitz or Sammy Davis Jr. no Amy Winehouse or P!nk or The Beastie Boys or Haim or KISS or Idina Menzel or Regina Spektor or Itzhak Perlman. the list goes on, and that’s only in the world of music.

[gloamses]

with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!

[apatheistlesbian]

Anyway this disability pride month I would like to shoutout disabled folks whose creativity has suffered because of their condition. I’m talking people with hand tremors and pain that stop them from drawing, knitting, and playing instruments. People whose thinking has become so disorganized that nothing they write makes sense to other people. People with chronic pain who can no longer dance. People so over medicated in a fruitless attempt to maintain stability that the wells of their imagination have run dry.

I see you and I love you. You are more than your creative output. You are not a shell of what you used to be. You are a whole, complete person, regardless of what your creativity has been, is now, or will be in the future.

[starg2zerlion]

Fyi being part of a minority doesnt make you or me inherently more progressive just by virtue of being that minority alone. We still need to actually be progressive to be progressive

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

If your activism is telling you that hatred and violence are necessary and good, that some human beings deserve to be killed for the world to be "better" - that isn't activism, it's extremism.

You have been radicalised.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

As a non Jewish queer person, I find the obsession some queer people have with making the Holocaust, of all things, all about us so, so disgusting and disrespectful, and certainly the way some people can only find it in themselves to give a shit about a teenage girl murdered for being Jewish is because she might have been queer.

It’s not about us. It’s not about us. It’s not about us.

Seeing queers get angry because the Jews “get” to have the Holocaust, as if the generational trauma of 6 million genocided human beings and the overwhelming loss of memory and culture is somehow a privilege.

Yes, queer people have historically, and continue to face extreme oppression and violence around the world. Yes, we should talk about and commemorate our dead and fight for our living.

Sidelining and erasing Jews and antisemitism from the fucking Holocaust is not the way to do it. That is not our trauma. Just stop it.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

There is a rather large section of "leftist" activists who perceive themselves as some sort of paragons of virtue, of possessing a superior form of morality than "ordinary" folk, who view anyone not in activist circles as people who don't care about the world around them or can't be bothered and are somehow more likely to be bigoted or narrow in some form.

And I've honestly found that it's ordinary people living ordinary lives, performing small acts of kindness for their neighbours, caring for their communities, and forming genuine human connections with each other who do the most good in actuality, and those activists who set themselves apart and above others with their saviour mentality, who pick apart every word and action, that foster fear and anxiety.

[twakiju2]

*sighs and unfollows another artist whose art i love*

[twakiju2]

Non-Jews (and many Jewish people too, especially Americans) really don’t understand how fucking lonely it is. To scroll through the blog of an artist whose work you love, who you maybe have been following for years (and have maybe even been friends with!) and suddenly see them proudly saying that they want your people and your loved ones dead. See them laughing as they respond to someone’s ask bringing up that something they drew was insensitive and upsetting. See them ignoring and/or erasing the Jewishness of their favorite characters, unless they can make it fit their narrative.

I don’t care whether or not you agree with me. All I’m asking is for you to imagine how it feels.

[twakiju2]

You can reblog this, it’s ok :)

Please do, actually!

[twakiju2]

So guess what happened again 🙃

[alwaysfrowningslightly]

This is always so demoralizing

[traveling-spartan]

If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:

1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.

2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.

[gahdamnpunk]

I’m just now finding out Anne Frank was bi??? OMG

[luanna801]

Yeah okay, those edits were made by her dad, a cishet person - and also her dad, a Holocaust survivor, who would have been brutally aware that when the diary was first published in freakin’ 1947, had he included anything which people could use to demonize his daughter or tar her as some kind of “pervert”, it would prevent the message he was trying to send about the horrors of the Holocaust and the heroism of his daughter from being properly understood and accepted the way he hoped.

That isn’t fair. It isn’t just. But it is reality. If Otto Frank had let this be included in the published version, there’s a large chance the homophobic backlash would have prevented the book from reaching the audience it did and spreading the message it needed to. It was NINETEEN. FORTY. SEVEN. The Holocaust had ended TWO YEARS AGO. The acceptance of LGBT identities was basically nonexistent. Otto Frank made a decision based on the time and place he was living in, about what the world at that time was and wasn’t ready to accept. 

Let me say this as bluntly as I can - I am a bisexual Jewish girl and I would have made the same decision Otto Frank did. Making sure Anne Frank was unambiguously seen as sympathic and heroic was more important. Making sure people weren’t sidetracked from the main issue of the Holocaust was more important. He shouldn’t have had to make that decision, without doubt. Anne Frank’s sexuality (however she would have identified in modern terms) shouldn’t be considered relevant to her status as a hero or a sympathetic victim. But in 1947, it undoubtedly would have been.

Otto Frank survived Auschwitz and lost his entire family (a wife and two teenage daughters) to the horrors of the Holocaust. He hoped that publishing his daughter’s diary would spread awareness and sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust. If he had to make sacrifices to do that - well frankly, so fucking be it. I don’t know who alive today has the right to judge him. 

[queenofthefaces]

Let’s also look at this thread from a queer Jewish person who brings up the fact that ANNE FRANK EDITED HER DIARY HERSELF

[rosebramblewolf]

i think its also important to note that like. hmm.

im bisexual and i had experiences like that, kissing other girls at sleepovers specifically, and it not only took me another half a decade to start identifying as bi, but all the girls i did that with grew up to be straight women.

having those kinds of feelings and experiences at that age may mean nothing about your sexual orientation.

[weemietime]

Im begging queer goyim to shut the fuck up about the holocaust lmao

[indecisiveavocado]

Yes maybe Frank was queer.

She was still killed for being Jewish. We do not know how she would have identified, because she was killed because she was a Jew. She was not your blorbo, she was not a fictional character, and it’s disgusting to talk about her possible queerness while erasing the aspect of her identity that got her killed, namely that she was Jewish, especially as antisemitic attacks against Jews are at a record high. You can’t talk about Anne Frank without talking about her Jewishness. And you should go read People Love Dead Jews right now.

[hermthejewishwyrm]

I think we should just take Anne frank away from goyim permanently.

[hellobuddybradley]

RIP Sam Neill (1947-2026)