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the stars would be so happy to know that their atoms made something as wonderful as you

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new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

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Salvation Army bell ringer: *rings bell in my face* would you like to donate to the salvation arm-

me: *walking past them* I’m gay

jennyfair7

I saw a few pictures of this book when I used to only lurk on Tumblr and had to have it! I found it on Amazon.fr if you’re interested - adapted by Christine Beigel, illustrated by Christel Espié. Sadly there’s no Persian, but otherwise it’s gorgeous and I had to share!

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question: how would you deal with cyber attacks against the US government?

donald trump: i am so strongly against cyber. we came up with the internet. cyber is a big issue. we need to be SMART and QUICK. let me tell you. my son has a computer. he’s 10! he’s so good on that computer so good you wouldn’t believe it!

republicans:

otherbully1

This sounds like a joke BUT HE SAID THIS!!!!

sixpenceee

Where dinosaurs came from.

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firefoxed

why would a candle thats already lit want to be with a match

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also her being lit is going to eventually melt her and reduce her to nothing match guy is an abusive sadboy who thinks he’s the victim when candlegirl just wants someone who will keep her alive

greatwhiteprivilege

im here for this analysis

feministkutti

“Colorism isn’t real.”

pilambdaod

Colorism? Wow because the term “racism” is so blase.

xekstrin

pilambdaod Colorism specifically refers to people of their own race valuing lighter skin over darker skin. For example in latina culture, valuing “good” straight hair over “pelo malo” or bad, curly hair.

Racism would imply we’re talking about at least two different races here; colorism specifically is about racist ideals within one race, people of one race policing others appearance within their own race.

(since this is an indian book, presumably made by indian people for indian children to read, depicting a light skinned indian woman as more beautiful than a dark skinned one, it’s colorism.)

pilambdaod

One of those is clearly Caucasian the other Indian.

Creating random new “isms” only makes legitimate grievances seem petty and stupid.

belligerentbagel

“One of those is clearly Caucasian”

Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut

Karisma Kapoor, Shruti Haasan, Zarine Khan

All actresses/models born in India to parents who were also born in India (or Pakistan), in a narrow view of “race.”

If a Papua New Guinean hooks up with a Swedish person all you get is a human. There’s no new thing you’re going to get. You just get a human.

- Bill Nye: Race is a Human Construct (and don’t look at the comments; it’s the usual cesspool of bigots)

Ideas on “race” have been in slow development over the years, but colourism is a real thing (often with roots in imperialism, especially as Western ideas of beauty began to intrude upon countries).

The 100 Years of Beauty: Philippines has a jarring jump where April Villanueva (who has light/medium-toned skin) gets her skin darkened for the 1910s-20s aesthetic, then becomes powder-white when US/European colonial interests make a stronger influence on Philippine society in the 1930s (more in the research video).

Two more examples of skin tone variation between famous women in countries where colourism has become prevalent in celebrity culture (ie, it was a lot harder finding photos of a dark-skinned Korean actress than a light-skinned one):

Koreans: Song Hye-kyo and Lee Hyori

Filipinos: Valerie Garica and Nicole Scherzinger (active in the US; Filipino father, Hawaiian/Samoan-Russian mother)

Variation in skin colour across a “race” is as real as variation in eye colour (”oh, you have brown eyes? I guess you’re not a real Caucasian”).

Colourism also pervades a lot of modern beauty marketing.

What’s underneath your dark skin? A prettier, lighter version of yourself! Everyone should strive to be more fair and lovely because only then you’ll be happy with your flesh prison!!

tl;dr colourism exists and isn’t some bogeyman made up by “”es jay double-ews,”” and if you’re the person bemoaning how it “delegitimizes racism” then it’s likely you actually don’t care about racism at all and are just trying to devalue the arguments with the classic “but so-and-so people have it worse! how could you be so self-centered and selfish??”

ghostmistake

Also “colorism” was coined by Alice Walker in 1982. This is not some new internet fad.

rejectedprincesses

“Men want to beat me. I play men, six, seven hours a day. Men… they do not beat me.”

- Masako “Katsy” Katsura, first woman to compete for a world’s title in billiards

The “First Lady of Billiards” learned from her brother-in-law and in the 50s became Japan’s only female billiards pro. She paved the way for women to come, then left the spotlight and lived a quiet life. She died in 1995.

catsi

For decades, Inuit had to wear numbered identification tags around their necks because white people couldn't pronounce their names.

“Well, my name’s Jennifer Qupanuaq May…but apparently in the eyes of the government I’m still E8-2571,” she says with irony.

The 33-year-old Inuk woman from Kuujuuaq, Quebec, is referring to her Eskimo Identification Number, a long-forgotten government program that ran for decades in the North—all the way to the 1980s in some parts.

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We get it, you vape.

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Can’t believe I’m posting a vape vid

wetjoints

But like if you cut the vape section out (or skip it) this is a beautiful story about a bubble full of magical mist and it’s encounter with a very spiritual lake that sets it free.