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Girls I am looking you in the eye and holding you tight. 99% of all things people describe as being female or male puberty is made up bullshit. Sex is not as black and white as you think (nor is it real for that matter.) Please. Dont listen. Jaw sizes and leg lengths and whatever is made up, misogynistic, and sometimes even race science. PLEASE im begging you to not hold yourself to such standards, much less other people.

madgastronomer

A lot of people hate to hear this, but they in particular really need to understand it.

If you were raised in the US, and you weren't specifically raised as a specific religion other than Christianity, then you are culturally Christian. Yes, even if you were raised atheist. Yes, I know you hate that idea. People who were raised in specific other religions in the US are usually still influenced by it, just not as thoroughly.

But specific Protestant values and attitudes have worked their way so far into US culture that we do not ever think about. (They've gotten into US Catholicism, too, Catholics elsewhere are frequently WTF at US Catholics, or so I'm told.) The "Protestant work ethic" is one of them, that "manager in your head" you should kill. Purity as a principle. The nobility of suffering (very Calvinist specifically). The prosperity culture (again, very Calvinist). A whole list. I'm honestly not good enough at Christian history to list it all. After all, I wasn't raised Christian myself. But I can see and acknowledge that I was raised in a culture with a Christian hegemony. If I pay attention, I can see where it's affected how I think. And when I do pay attention and look at it, I can change it. I can root out those patterns in my head. It's a lot of work, but it's well worth doing.

Denying that you are culturally Christian on the basis of your absence of Christian upbringing, or absence of Christianity now, just shows that you don't understand what cultural Christianity is. It is the culture that you have marinated in all your life, if you grew up in the US. The same way you've marinated in racism, classism, sexism, right on down the line (and generally they are all one thing). All of that affects you, and the only way to fix it is to acknowledge it and work on it.

This isn't a "hot take". It's just a fucking fact.

I'm posting at 10:30pm US Pacific time on a Sunday night, and fucking nobody is going to see this. Or reblog it. But I feel better having said it.

madgastronomer

Do NOT leave this in tags!

cricketcat9

IMO, very similarly, if you grew up in Poland, even in the Communist Poland, you are culturally a Catholic 😐

madgastronomer

Too good a point to leave in tags.

alexseanchai

[image 1: Tumblr tags: #good post #avg usamerican tumblr user will be like #'my brother in christ i am NOT culturally christian. jfc go to hell' #and expect you to take them seriously]

[image 2: Tumblr tags: #cultural Christianity includes the idea that when you're being countercultural the culture- you're -counter to is a Christian one #If you say “I don't do anything for Xmas” more often than “I don't do anything for Diwali” or “I don't do anything for Eid” ... You get it]

ironedorchid

The English language is culturally Christian. For example, it has a lot of Christian ideas about our bodies being separate from our minds and souls (mind/body dualism) baked into it.

Something as ubiquitous as using a possessive pronoun about my body makes it seem conceptually distinct from myself, which is, more often than not, conceived as something intangible that can be separated from the body (and survive in some form, according to Christian doctrine).

Even talking about embodiment, the way that we exist in the world as physical beings, is historically connected to the idea of a soul existing within a body. A soul is 'embodied' by being placed in a body. But what I want to convey is that my mind and body are one, and that both are perceived through my senses (inner dialogue is typically heard or perhaps seen). Perhaps, as philosophical physicalists are so fond of claiming, my mind is an emergent property that certain types of bodies (humans) developed through evolution.

However, because the English language developed alongside culturally Christian ideas about what it means to be a person, it is so hard to convey this without either adopting language which seems to undermines my point or by breaking grammatical rules.

And that's not even going into the many words in English which gave their etymological roots in Christian ideas. Like, "Goodbye."

#this also applies to british people #although we do have CofE more than Catholicism or protestantism #(church of england)#most first/primary schools (esp in villages) are CofE #my first school claimed to be secular #yet we said grace at lunch and sing religious songs in assembly #our national anthem is fucking God Save the King/Queen

worstgirleva

Male socialization is such an evil rhetoric. Yeah I guess not transitioning at the age of 5 is my fault and I'm evil for it. Yeah I guess not having the childhood I wish I did means I'm a danger and I should perpetually apologize for it

worstgirleva

fascinating lack of awareness going on here. the f in afab stands for feminist i suppose

cyberpunkpavlichenko

I’m sorry, but the logic that a rapist “won’t stop” because you’ve warned other people about their behavior so it’s meaningless to warn other people is so stupid. I think potential victims actually have a right to know about predators in their community. Lack of accountability is not an argument against warnings, it’s actually an argument for them.

galacticsabc

The swagful Dr. Grace

anthropologist-on-the-loose

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

loveridden1999

i don't support all women's rights & wrongs some of you are terfs

loveridden1999

exactly

sabertoothwalrus

I love when someone is explaining instructions to a group I’m in and they look at me and it reminds them to say something about using preferred names/pronouns or that there’s vegan food options available. I go by my given name/pronouns and I’m not vegan but I’m proud that I can provide this service

batbetbitbotbut

slowspinningredemption

i was in the supermarket and a guy looked at me and calls over to his wife like "honey what are we having for dinner tonight?" and when she told him he nodded and, still staring directly at my shirt, said "i'll get some garlic bread"

my shirt:

tesghosterone

it's been said a thousand times but "male loneliness epidemic" is just our entire generation's loneliness PANdemic. it's just the crisis of capitalism. almost all young people these days are lonely and depressed because of the crisis and decay of the system we live under and tbh the centering of "male loneliness" in this discussion is embarrassing but also a really understandable consequence of sexism & this current stage of culture war . "Oh won't someone think of the young men" oh won't someone think about class consciousness lol

homunculus-argument

An anime that starts out with a pretty lighthearted fun and cheery premise and a large cast that is 70% female, but halfway through the first season, the women proceed to "accidentally" kill the Funny Pervert -character and spend the rest of the series covering up each others' tracks about it.