Unknown Playwright J. Klein-Haghani

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Mutuals who are older than me what’s the normal amount of existential dread for a 24 year old

[angrytheatremaker]

Speaking from the other side of that experience...the answer is yes.

Not helpful, I realize.

I'm 33 (my birthday is later this year). I have a fiancé and a young daughter. And I can tell you that while the existential dread will never fully leave, you learn to ride it rather than letting it ride you.

Meantime breathe, stretch, drink water, and find exercise or some other movement that you enjoy doing. (More for the mind-body connection than anything else, although building lean muscle mass is a nice bonus.)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Graham Platner's gonna win the primary, and the DSA is gonna brag they did it and by 'it' I mean give a Nazi power.

To every person who voted for Platner: You saw a Nazi. You saw REPEATEDLY he was a Nazi. You voted for a fucking Nazi. I thought if 10 people were at a table and one had a Nazi tattoo, then it was a table full of Nazis. What the fuck does that make you?

[angrytheatremaker]

And that, friends, is why I'm having trouble watching an ever-lengthening list of creators who insist the ends justify the means (Parkrose Permaculture leaps to mind here). Thank G-d for people like Daniella Mestyanek Young, the Knitting Cult Lady, who simply show up and do the work. Thank G-d for the people who call this out and call out the rising antisemitism.

Platner has plenty of problems. I'd take a Jack Schlossberg, who at least has close knowledge of the shades of grey around some of the knottier issues, over someone with a poorly concealed Nazi tattoo plus a history of enjoying the carnage of war plus... You get the gist at any rate.

[angrytheatremaker]

The other night I finally finished The American Revolution (Ken Burns's documentary). I liked it. I do have some notes.

The good: Highlighting the contributions of women, Native peoples, and black Americans; ditto the raw bloody aspects of the Revolutionary War and the darker side of the Founding Fathers. Also a satisfactory explanation of the extent of Benedict Arnold's infamous treachery plus the motives behind it.

The so-so: Pacing. Sometimes too fast, sometimes dragging.

The bad: You had time for the French officers up to and including the Marquis de Lafayette but you couldn't stop to include the Polish officers? I call foul! Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kosciusko were absolutely instrumental in changing the course of the war. Same problem with including Robert Morris and omitting Haym Salomon. Salomon, I would point out, was a mensch who believed in the ideals of the Revolution and financed much of it without so much as mentioning repayment.

[angrytheatremaker]

And I was today years old when I decided to look up Jewish contributions to the Revolutionary War. They fought and bled and backed that fight out of all proportion to their actual numbers. But that too gets forgotten in the shuffle, I suppose.

[angrytheatremaker]

The other night I finally finished The American Revolution (Ken Burns's documentary). I liked it. I do have some notes.

The good: Highlighting the contributions of women, Native peoples, and black Americans; ditto the raw bloody aspects of the Revolutionary War and the darker side of the Founding Fathers. Also a satisfactory explanation of the extent of Benedict Arnold's infamous treachery plus the motives behind it.

The so-so: Pacing. Sometimes too fast, sometimes dragging.

The bad: You had time for the French officers up to and including the Marquis de Lafayette but you couldn't stop to include the Polish officers? I call foul! Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kosciusko were absolutely instrumental in changing the course of the war. Same problem with including Robert Morris and omitting Haym Salomon. Salomon, I would point out, was a mensch who believed in the ideals of the Revolution and financed much of it without so much as mentioning repayment.

[honeyapplebutterfly]

So often non-Jewish people will talk confidently about Jewishness and say they are an “atheist” while betraying how clear it is that they grew up culturally Christian in a white American Christian hegemonic society. Jewishness is an ethnicity and a culture. We have histories, we have folklore, we have languages, we have shared moralistic beliefs, we have complex inter community philosophical discussions, and yes we also have religion that is inextricable from these things. If I never did, said, or thought anything related to religious Judaism ever again for the rest of my life I would still be Jewish and I would still be continually treated as other and less than for it. This is difficult to understand for those who are of the culturally Christian majority, whether they follow the religion or not. YOU think culture and religion are separate because YOUR religious culture is the majority.

[angrytheatremaker]

I run into this so often it's disgusting. "I hate and despise all Abrahamic religions", says the proud ex-vangelical atheist. And it turns out--oh, whoopsie, they're out here being loud and wrong about Jews and Jewishness because they assumed all religions are exact duplicates of whatever Christian-flavored shit they were raised in. Never bothered to unpack their upbringing in full, and that includes their antisemitic supercessionist bullcrap. Miss me with your "I hate religion" and your culturally Christian assumptions and your "Zionists are..."

This is one of my hot buttons. This is something I'm sick of hearing goysplained back to me. I've had it.

[jewish-sideblog]

Dude what is with Chabad’s Jewdar??? I was in downtown Chicago recently, middle of the Loop, easily a hundred people on the sidewalk around me. I cannot stress enough that I am a pink haired, septum piercing transfemme who was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. No Magen David, no kippah, nothing. I straight up look more like I would hatecrime a Jew than be one.

But this pair absolutely clocked me. They asked me, specifically, if I was Jewish— not anybody else on the street, and not any of the goyim I was traveling with. Just me. They were super nice, gave me Shabbos candles and sent me on my way. I’m still reeling from it. How did they know. How did they know???

[angrytheatremaker]

They know. It's an entire thing. I got clocked age eleven or so during a public Hanukkah celebration...and I was not visibly presenting as Jewish that day.

Also I'm guessing the pair of Chabadniks you ran into registered you as a woman. Congrats!

[starg2zerlion]

Good rule of thumb is the more people of different backgrounds you know, the harder it becomes to dehumanize them, so its a really good thing to meet people from different backgrounds, and anyone telling you that people from x culture or y country you really shouldnt interact with probably dont have your best interest in mind

[i-can-kazoo]

^this includes Israelis

[angrytheatremaker]

Correct. So often the only reason I see Israelis invited onto shows with non-Jewish hosts is because rage-bait plus a free chance to needle and demonize the Israeli in question. You're not approaching your guest with genuine curiosity, just a story you've already pre-selected because it strokes your prejudices? Really? Okay, you're flat-out indulging your assholery and bigotry, so that gets a giant "Fuck you" from me.

It wasn't until recently that my fiancé would even entertain the notion of listening to individual Israelis. As a raging goysiche atheist and wannabe revolutionary in college, he knee-jerk shunned Israelis (and South Africans!) if not went out of his way to be rude to them, because apartheid and genocide. Y'see, individuals from different nations aren't their government...unless you carry a venomous hatred for both. He says being with me has forced him to reexamine at least some of his old biases. (Meantime I'm saving up the information that Charlize Theron was originally from South Africa for his next scoff fest.)

[angrytheatremaker]

Soup of the day! Soup of the day! (It was lentil, and it's delicious.)

[angrytheatremaker]

Anyway I appear to have inherited the new teddy bear that my daughter has categorically rejected. Placeholder name that my fiancé and I agreed on was Paddington. If I'm going to inherit this bear and use them as a cuddle buddy I think I have a little more wiggle room for chosen name, gender, and all that wonderful stuff.

[angrytheatremaker]

Oh, yes! I would like to introduce you to Mx. Buster Brown, first of their name.

[angrytheatremaker]

Anyone got a new uterus for sale? The old girl is kicking me in the rear. Again.

[angrytheatremaker]

It was phantom cramps, by the by. Today it was real, and I have a new band name: Leaky Uterus. Still open to a new uterus for sale.

[infiniteglitterfall]

[ancestralsurvival]

To OP’s point, Indigenous Bridges put this statement on Instagram in late 2023:

[the-library-alcove]

#i feel like a lot of folks think that by saying Palestinians are native to the area known as the Levant#they are saying that Palestinians have a right to do literally anything they want there to other people who are there#and that is why they push so hard to make Jews NOT native to that land- because if Jews ARE native?#then by their own logic they are allowed to do whatever they want#of course this doesn't actually hold up and I promise you that if any native tribe here in the USA gained the power to have a state-#a full state on their land of origin#the leftists would turn on them in a fucking heartbeat#it's like... like to me#this is why leftists are the way they are about the fucking Holocaust and trying to claim it for everyone BUT the Jews#because they cannot stand that the Jews- who they HATE. HAVE something in their eyes#to be native is to be oppressed which is to have social capital to them and to be more valid#to have experienced genocide and pain is to be oppressed and is to have again that social capital and validity#and the PROBLEM they have with jews having those things is that if we ARE indeed marginalized oppressed people...#then the left is going to be forced to listen when we tell them all how fucking antisemitic and racist they are and they DON'T WANT TO HEAR

@hazel2468, your tags pass peer review.

[prismatic-bell]

I've had three separate propals get mad at my pinned because, according to them, if Palestinians aren't indigenous to Israel, then they have no human rights.

Note: not civil rights. HUMAN RIGHTS. As in "if you're not indigenous, you have no right to be alive."

Further note: my pinned explicitly notes that not being indigenous doesn't mean Palestinians shouldn't have the right to dignity and safety.

They are literally defining humanity by some weird "your culture must be this noble savage" metric.

[angrytheatremaker]

"Noble savage" racism is a beast. Native erasure is a beast. Antisemitism (no matter what noble veneer it hides under) is a beast. At the mo I'm side-eyeing a whole lotta people who practice all three and never bothered to unpack any of it.

My paternal great-grandfather was half-Native, the family legend goes, although most people who see me tend to erase that bit because I'm fair-skinned. My mother's family are all Jewish, and because I can read as anything but I get a carload of shocked Pikachu faces any time I bring it up. It makes me happy to see Native and Jewish solidarity; goyische (and white) leftists can stay mad about it.

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

I talk about this so much. The relationship between Dineʼé and Israelis is so beautiful and has only grown deeper and more beneficial over time. Presidents and other tribal leaders from the Diné nation have visited Israel for diplomatic missions numerous times; there have been exchange programs to aid with education, cultural revitalization, economics; Dineʼé have studied Israeli water management and agriculture to adapt to the conditions in Dinétah (due to the similar climates) and Israeli technologies have provided much-needed resources to Dinétah that the US federal government neglected to provide. Indigenous peoples supporting each other, despite the objections of those who want us weak and impoverished (or worse).

[sheydyflora]

Ah! This makes me so happy!! I've been there! I'm so glad they have better access to water now!

[angrytheatremaker]

I've been sitting on the urge to yap/infodump about this for a couple of days or so. But it's beautiful to see and I love it.

[uncahier]

[angrytheatremaker]

It reminds me of Dorothy Parker, esp. the "Worn once by mistake".

[angrytheatremaker]

Anyway I appear to have inherited the new teddy bear that my daughter has categorically rejected. Placeholder name that my fiancé and I agreed on was Paddington. If I'm going to inherit this bear and use them as a cuddle buddy I think I have a little more wiggle room for chosen name, gender, and all that wonderful stuff.

[angrytheatremaker]

Anyone got a new uterus for sale? The old girl is kicking me in the rear. Again.

[machine-saint]

👑 henry-ii

look i'm not saying that th*mas b*ck*t needs like a big callout post I just think their vibes are kinda off :/

[a-crow-with-rights-and-anxiety]

[angrytheatremaker]

Counterpoint: Thomas Becket wasn't wrong to call his friend the king on the penitential carpet. Also the royal response was out of all proportion.

[swords-and-grimoires]

Happy Black Fae Day!

I did this as part of a collaboration post with many other wonderful black creatives over on IG. My theme was Warrior Fairy.

Creative Direction and editing by me

Shot by @sachinteng 🥰

[angrytheatremaker]

You look fabulous! I salute you. (Also, nice sword.)