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lizard people is the most benign possible antisemitism but for some reason it hits me harder than overtly malicious antisemitism, i think bc it’s The Case Study of how easily an antisemitic trope can just become a normal part of everybodys vocab and after that ppl will fight you endlessly on whether or not its actually antisemitic

confusionofconfusions-deactivat

i think also, to people who are not familiar with antisemitism (through experience or study or both), antisemitism often comes across as cartoonish or wildly antiquated, so that people are inclined to dismiss it as toothless. i mean, lizard people is super fucking silly. or, people don’t really believe jews drink the blood of christian children anymore, that’s medieval. then its on jews to put in the legwork pointing out the use of lizard people to describe zuckerberg’s physical appearance, how qanon is modern blood libel, how easter pogroms can’t really be divorced from ‘the war on christmas’. and then, especially because conspiracy theory is now such a jokey quirky thing to so many people (”what’s your favorite conspiracy theory”) and not understood as an integral aspect of modern antisemitism, jews are suddenly The Fun Police, even tho all of these things share the same logic and imagery that drove an entire genocide not even a century ago

ewaneneollav

dark ouside huh? :) thats because its winter now. & if you listen i can tell you more. about this world

bakwaaas

this is how men speak to women

#shitpost

intersexfairy

sensory issues be like *turns up phone brightness to hear better* *turns off light to see better* *socks don’t have to match but they MUST be the same length and texture* *washes hands out of no where because they don’t feel clean* *oversensitive to one sense but undersensitive to another, related sense* *unlocks phone to concentrate*

#me

fairycosmos

look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i don’t think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.

serotonin-sunrise

fun fact: this POV is actually called “body neutrality” and it’s SO MUCH more accessible/realistic for a lot of people. it’s based on the idea that the way we look is the least interesting/important thing about who we are, and that our bodies are worthy of respect regardless if they fit the mold of the current beauty ideals.

exjade

If you’re ever at all mildly confused about this, just think of how when people look at males they don’t scrutinize their age, their laugh lines, their deep wrinkles, their gray hair, their flappy chin skin, etc. They look at young males and say they’re handsome while those males wear no makeup, no foundation to hide their imperfections, have loads of armpit hair, leg hair, butt hair, back hair, and no one scrutinizes these things. No one says “no fam, his bushy armpit hair is sexy” or “wow his visible pores are sooo hot” - rather, people just accept and ignore them and move on.

What a truly rebellious concept to imagine that the same should be applied to females.

#needed this so much #body neutrality

freelance-philosopher

“We never discard our childhood. We never escape it completely. We relive fragments of it through others. We live buried layers through others. We live through others’ projections of the unlived selves.”

—

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1944–1947)

#quote #anais nin