Elder millennial gal married to the love of her life. Christian Agnostic. Big fan of human rights. Lover of all things bizarre and beautiful. No patience for your nonsense.
We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"
Why do people deny that modern Arabs and Jews are related to each other?
Oh yeah Ancient Israelites totally made up Ishmael for shit and giggles. It’s not like they notice southern tribes such as the Nabateans and Qedarites seem to share a lot of similarities between with them
(And it was literally stated that King Saul kicked out some Ishmaelites from the Levant during his unification of Israel)
Oh where is Levant? Oh yeah southeast of Arabia
Fun fact the Nabateans had a empire that expanded to what we now call modern Jordan
Here’s one of their most famous temples
But beyond religious texts, could there be DNA texts that confirm the two share ancestry pre Arab colonialism?
Oh here it is
Genome-wide analysis of 93 skeletons from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon traces an unbroken genetic thread across three millennia.
I wonder what was it like when scientists discovered there a lot of truth about Abraham being the father of nations?
And just…AH! Okay time to admit my stupidity
Soo because my geography was shiiit, when I was younger. I was confused why the Hebrews in Prince of Egypt have the same skin tones and similar facial features that Hollywood usually gives to Arabs in media.
After @beardedmrbean help me research about the I/P conflict because I was confused as hell with the Oct 7th Massacre. Everything connect in place.
For example, I was confused to how biblical characters who were gingers like Esau and King David were able to live in the Middle East. For my idea of redheads were those with Irish ancestry
Until I saw ginger Arabs and went “oh that how!”
Also what with Arab supremacists acting like Jews aren’t Middle East descent. I mean most of the Jewish population in Israel are descended from the Jews that ARAB COUNTRIES kicked out in the 1960’s.
Ugh, my Americanism make it difficult for me to understand why they are calling Ashkenazi Jews “Europeans”, yeah they were kicked out for 2000 years started with Emperor Hadrian
But it so fucking obvious that I could easily confused an Arab for a Jew and vice versa if not for the specifics cultural differences they do!
Am I too crazy?! You been…how it technically been (with the annoying af timeline of genesis-exodus) since God promised Abraham? 5000 years? What the earliest proto ancient civilizations that would eventually morph into Hebrew and Arab cultures respectively is dated? Like when the two groups were potentially one but that diverge from each other
So if this too long and incoherent, but it like 99% of the world is blind or something.
genetically it's just plain foolish to say they're not related, all the conquering and killing that's gone on in the fertile crescent they're all going to be connected genetically
A lot of people genuinely believe that permanent disability isn't a thing that happens to good people who work hard and make responsible choices. A lot of people genuinely think that we get the life we work for and deserve. And this is definitely part of the explanation for why ableism is so prevalent
It literally is, though (in many cases). I've encountered quite a few Calvinist Christians who say that mental illness is a symptom of a reprobate spirit.
It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.
Transphobes talk about women like they’re Barbies. Have you forgotten the existence of cameltoe? Tiny boobs? Narrow hips? Broad shoulders? Why do you think choirs have altos and not just sopranos? What do you think female athletes look like? Do you think a woman that lifts weights and plays contact sports will look like a 90s supermodel? At what point in history did we collectively forget that human bodies have natural variability???
The one that kills me is that for a while, terfs were saying that Daniel Radcliffe's partner, Erin Darke, must be trans because she's taller than he is. (Maybe they're still saying it, idk.)
Erin Darke is not that tall. She's 5'7" (170 cm). She just happens to be taller than Radcliffe, who is pretty short for a European cis guy (5'5" / 165 cm). When they're both dressed up for some event and she's wearing heels, then yeah, she's half a head taller than he is. Get a grip.
Americans be like it is totally normal for an entire stadium (including military members) to stand at attention while a fast food clown mascot sings the national anthem
when we say "it is functionally impossible to parody Americans in a way that will actually insult them" this is the sort of thing you're up against. is your sick burn funnier than corporation burger clown sing national anthem baseball game? no?? of course it isn't.
My friends keep telling me that Odyssey is really good, and they want to discuss the story with me. So I finally watched it today.
I know Odyssey has done very well at the box office, and many people would said that history enthusiasts are being too picky.
But you know this: if you know a lot about cars, then when you watch a film that portrays cars in a completely nonsensical way, it becomes very hard not to notice. That is the curse of knowledge.
I genuinely couldn't be satisfied with the film's interpretations, watch it with an open mind. If I had to pick one thing I disliked the most… Not the costume, or the casting. I never expected much from Hollywood in those anyway.
What bothered me most was Athena…
All that Athena should be there were absent. I mean she is the goddess of wisdom and strategy, the deity who guided Odysseus in direction. Yet everything that should have been Athena's role is instead given to other humans.
Herself becomes almost like a ghost of Troy, haunting Odysseus's regret. She represents Troy more than Helen did.
"It is really good" or even "it is good" are not those things. "It's a movie" and "It earns a lot at the box office" are more accurate.
I think a lot of people online said what there is to be said but I particularly like how Nolan himself basically admitted in one interview that he made another Oppenheimer. A story about human regret about "destroying the world" that "this is what the audience expects".
He didn't make a movie about Odyssey. He never intended to. He used Odyssey to tell the story he wanted... Again...
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