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comphet isn’t real and goldstar lesbians are the only real lesbians, unfollow me if you disagree. and know that i will ignore your sobbing asks begging me to validate your sexuality. bisexual and heterosexual women stay out of this, you have nothing to say in debates about homosexuality. also i don't believe in biphobia. cry harder i guess
The solution is to not birth boys in this first place, rather than play referee to a predator, having to keep your children separated like dogs. This form of abuse is so common, and girls continue to be failed because nobody actually wants to acknowledge the truth. The world is broken because of the insanity residing within the population, who “remedy” issues by sweeping them under the rug, or suggesting that you keep creating the same problem, but do “your best” to monitor it next time. There is genuinely no getting through to these people, they believe males have dominion over existence, everyone else be dammed. Who cares if female children are always in danger of being molested? XY’s are somehow still worth the risk and liability. Mass psychosis is an understatement, humanity is intentionally helpless.
i'll come back soon and explain everything <3 bye!
Difference between "Romani"/"Roma" and "Romanian"
I decided to make this post because a lot of people get Romanians and Roma mixed up. It's something that's pretty common, even among Europeans who are more familiar with Roma than Americans are.
"Romanian" comes from latin "romanus", meaning "Roman", inhabitant of the city of Rome (Italy). Romanians are a white people indigenous to (Eastern) Europe living in Romania.
"Roma" (noun) and "Romani" (adjective) mean "people" in Romani language. It probably comes from Sanskrit "ḍoma", which refers to a traveling caste of musicians. Roma are a South Asian diaspora that traveled through the MENA region for about two centuries before arriving in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Many people get Romanian and Romani confused because of the following reasons:
the names are similar: this is true but coincidental, as "Romanian" comes from Latin and "Romani" comes from Sanskrit, and both words have very different meanings
Romania has the largest Romani community in Europe: this is true. The reason is that, upon entering Europe in the Middle Ages, the Roma that arrived in Romania were enslaved and couldn't move out of the country. The slavery of Roma in Romania lasted 500 years. After it ended, in the mid. 19th century, the majority of those Roma remained in Romania, though a few of them migrated to America and to Western Europe.
TL;DR
The Romanians are indigenous to Europe. The Roma are indigenous to India.
Romanians are usually Orthodox Christians. Roma can be of any religion, typically converting to the dominant religion of the region we settled in.
Romanian culture (singular) is a unique culture that was influenced by its proximity to Slavic, Greek, Hungarian, German cultures. Romani cultures (plural) are of South Asian origin and were shaped over the centuries by our travelling through the Middle East and Europe.
Romanians live in Romania. Roma don't have a particular country.
The reason many Roma live in Romania is because Romania has a long history of anti-Romani racism and slavery.
Romanians often suffer from xenophobia when living abroad because they are (white) Eastern Europeans. Roma suffer from racism and xenophobia: we are a brown people whose cultures are very identifiable as non-European. As such, we have suffered and still suffer segregation, police brutality, ghettoization, slavery, pogroms, slaughters, discrimination in the workplace and in education. Anti-Romani racism is still the most widespread form of racism in all European countries to this day.
The majority of Roma, especially those living in Eastern Europe, ie around 2/3rds of Roma, are visibly brown, because of our mixed ancestry (South Asian + MENA), though some groups can be lighter due to interracial marriages with white people. It's the case of the British Roma, in particular.
Our traditions, culture and belief system evolved with us from India through the Middle East to Europe. It is thus pretty recognizable as "non-European" and has been used to identify us as "others/foreigners" over the centuries. FYI, there is not one single and unique Romani culture, because cultural beliefs and practices, as well as religion and Romani language dialect can vary a lot between each Romani group. To make it more intelligible, I invite you to think of the larger Romani diaspora as one race that is composed of a manifold of Romani ethnic groups.
Romanian
Romani (adjective) / Roma (noun)
(I have more of these in my "Roma" tag)
Roma =/= Romanian. Romanians are European while Roma are a South Asian diaspora. While Romanians do suffer xenophobia when living in Western Europe and America, anti-Romani sentiment is a type of racism widespread in all of Europe and America. It's particularly important to know the difference between Roma and Romanian, as Romania has a very long history of racism against Roma: slavery, segregation, ghettos, genocide.
Gen Z and are so funny to me (another gen z) because they're like "we are against CAPITALISM ! we are the rebel generation !" but they'll defend porn (a capitalist industry based on the exploitation of women), prostitution (a capitalist industry based on the exploitation of women), makeup (a capitalist industry based on women's insecurities and sexist beauty standards), cosmetic surgery (a capitalist industry based on women's insecurities and sexist beauty standards), transition surgery (a capitalist industry based on using the issues of dysphoric and gender non conforming people to make money), fashion industry (a capitalist industry based on the exploitation of thousands of people and that's harmful for the planet) and like thousands of other capitalist shits. it isn't an anti capitalism generation. it's a very pro capitalism generation. they just use all these capitalist things (porn, prostitution, makeup, surgeries, fashion) to paint an anti capitalism aesthetic, an illusion, a look (based on their appearance, their content on social medias) to look anti capitalists, but they are not. if they were, they wouldn't think it's okay to traffick, exploit and sell women as objects, they wouldn't think it's okay to maintain and spread sexist beauty standards to push women to buy your products/surgeries because now they feel insecure about their face and body, they wouldn't keep supporting and industry that exploits other people and hurts their planet, they wouldn't support an ideology that tells you to alter your body by selling you lies about how you are born in the wRoNg one and need to pay to be your true self.
it's an aesthetic for them, they want to look cool and rebel and revolutionnary, but they support capitalism. and misogyny. (but but but it's EMPOWERING)
Yup, a LOT of Gen Z kids have drunk the capitalist Kool-Aid. I didn't think it could get worse than my generation (Elder Millennial here). Like, now you can BUY a gender identity, it's absurd.
Women are not human.
No you're right we're superior
How come you're not racist? I'm sure you get a lot of hate for being a TERF or whatever but it's kinda impressive to be on the political right and French but not racist, no offence intended just curious.
I'm not on the political right lol
I’ve said this before but why it it always “queer and trans”? Why does trans get to be named specifically but lesbian, gay, and bisexual have to be lumped under a slur that calls us weird? It can’t be for simplicity’s sake, nobody’s ever cared about that when creating alphabet soup acronyms, 70+ gender identities, the ace/aro spectrum, etc. So why is it that trans gets special recognition and the dignity of being called by name, but LGBs are denied that recognition and dignity and referred to as “queer”?
hypothetically, what kind of woman would you love to date? like, dream girlfriend?
Dream girlfriend? I guess I'd love someone smart, who enjoys reading and learning, and with whom I could have deep and interesting conversations about all sort of stuff. Someone I could listen to music with. I'm into funny women with a strong personality and strong values and political opinions. I of course don't wanna date a trans activist, a misogynistic, a racist or anything like that. "Masc", "femme", etc, I really don't care, I'm just not attracted to hyperfeminine women (who shave, wear makeup, wear heels and very short/tight/sexualized clothes, etc). And of course it'd have to be someone able to like the very awkward, huge nerdy tomboy weirdo that I am lol. That's all I guess? All that matters anyway.
I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.
Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.
Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.
It can not always be about your preferred topic.
You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.
“I’m no less a feminist than you are simply because I choose to hold onto my youth and beauty” you are less of a feminist for entertaining the patriarchal belief that beauty = youth and that a woman’s beauty disappears once she looks older than 20 lol
I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.
has the "let people enjoy things" crowd considered that i really enjoy complaining and criticizing
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
ActionAid India
SEEDS India
GlobalGiving
Raise India (Project Tapan)
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I kind of want to rant to someone about what’s happening in Iran because I’m a mainland-born Iranian from Saqqez. I’ve tried to have these conversations with diaspora Iranians the ones from America and Canada but they’re so annoying that I can’t stand them. You can ignore this ask if you want to; I don’t mind. Overall, I just wanted to say how bad the Iranian diaspora is because it’s filled with so many Zionists and Trump supporters. A lot of these people believe Israel and the U.S. are going to “free” us, even though they’ve literally bombed us. If you say anything about how wrong it is for the U.S. or Israel to interfere in Iranian politics, you get called a regime supporter, when all you’re saying is that the Iranian people should be the ones to change our own government. We don’t need Western powers trying to change our government especially considering the history of how badly that’s gone. For example, what the U.S. did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Millions of people were killed by drone strikes, and I don’t want that for my country too. I don’t want more Iranians to be killed by the regime, Israel, or the U.S. With this whole situation involving Huda Beauty an Iraqi woman who said she doesn’t support the regime or Israel or the U.S. going into Iran for regime change she’s speaking from firsthand experience of what that did to her country, Iraq: millions of Iraqi citizens dead and horrific sexual violence against Iraqi women and girls. She doesn’t want that to happen to Iran, and I agree with her. But Iranian diaspora living in America are calling her a regime supporter. The American diaspora is doing serious damage to our movement because so many people now believe all Iranians are Zionists or have these bad takes. They yell at anyone who doesn’t support the U.S. or Israel trying to play God in Iranian politics and label them as regime supporters, even when they’re not. I could also talk for hours about how bad the racism is, and how many of them try to claim the work Kurds have done in Iran’s human rights movement throughout history as Persian.
you're right and should say it
Saw the news about Venezuela. Two back to back earthquakes, that's terrifying.
Powerful earthquakes struck western Venezuela, killing at least 32 people, injuring over 700, and prompting the government to declare a stat
lives destroyed in a matter of seconds. my people don't deserve this.
this is the worst earthquake we've ever experienced and we're not ready to handle it. 50.000 people are reported missing (reported by independent media and family members themselves).
if you don't live here but you wanna help, i found a few organizations accepting medical supplies in different countries. this is not a full list, i can add more later and i encourage you to find a local center helping venezuelans. we're in every social media, in every country, i promise you will find us (my asks are open if u wanna ask about ur country as well)
The priority is to rescue survivors while the entirety of the damage is assessed
i will also be dropping some supplies myself tomorrow, any help counts and we're extremely grateful to anyone spreading this information.
