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"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library
embrace of the illness.
is there anything as good as lying in a sunbeam
telling the truth in a sunbeam #honesty
I need to be held for 4 hours but that's my business I don't need to post about that
I'm at work so I can only hold you on paper
oooohjhh I love this so much this is so cute and you are so kind thank you and your art RULES
The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.
To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.
The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.
White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.
So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”
At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.
White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.
TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.
some girls are more plushie than human... you can test it by cuddling them and those who melt into your arms immediately are just toys pretending to be people. you can take them home with you and they'll thank you for it.
EXTREMELY GOOD PLUSHIE!!
Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.
Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.
Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.
"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you
the thing that gets me is that if trans women were allowed to be mainstream feminists the movement would be advanced by leaps and bounds but those dumb motherfuckers are too busy delighting in their disgust to care
like feminism was on its way until everyone decided they care more about hating trans women than being feminists and now look where we are. cis women and trans men join cis men in attempts to cripple and gut the movement and before you know it we backslid into doing mens rights again while transfems have spent the whole time building on feminist thought doomed never to be taken seriously because were just a bunch of terminally online trannies right? and it makes me want to scream
you people call yourselves feminists until youre faced with a woman so honest as a tranny and then you jump ship
quite simply if you can avoid a type of discrimination by saying "im not one of them" then you have privilege over them
i think that soy sauce fish and honey bear must be the very very best of friends
look at them. look at them!!! i bet they have tea parties together when the spice cabinet is closed.
buddies!!
see i think when a Final Girl kills a Slasher she should automatically inherit his mantle
the sequel should reveal that the previous movie's Final Girl is the sequel's Slasher. like a curse
wait. make it an extended allegory for transitioning
It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.
ngl i kinda hate the woke 2.0 and friend that's too woke "jokes" because any bigotry that is normalized enough will have you get dismissed as "the friend that's too woke" for calling it out. like i've seen people called wokescolds and shit for saying it's bad to use mental disorders as an insult. it's basically a way to tell you that it's ruining the optics to point out bigotry or to justify being bigoted since it's to the "right targets"
also it's so unfortunately ironic how racism is downplayed in these ways when the term woke is literally AAVE that got bastardized
being woke is just an aesthetic for so many people and you can really see it in their worldview
Amnesty International backing down (hiding its report) when threatened with JKR's lawsuits just shows how weak the liberal human rights framework really is. It never seems to flinch when governments criticize it, but the moment an influential Westerner pushes back, it suddenly loses its nerve.
Inaction is their core philosophy
"Amnesty's position, emblematic of the human rights movement as a whole at that time, was that since human rights violations were a universal evil, wrong in and of themselves, it was not necessary to determine why abuses were taking place but to document them as meticulously and credibly as possible."
149, The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
