women do not have to
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cook for you
have long hair
wear makeup
be feminine
be graceful
have sex with you
shave
diet
be fashionable
wear pink
love men
listen to your bullshit
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@just-another-random-turtle
women do not have to
be thin
cook for you
have long hair
wear makeup
be feminine
be graceful
have sex with you
shave
diet
be fashionable
wear pink
love men
listen to your bullshit
Teach children that this is not ok
Teach children that there’s nothing wrong with this
I’m really not understanding why you think cultural appropriation would be ok, unless you are assuming that the girl in the picture is part Japanese.
Yellow face yet she’s using white makeup in the traditional style but okay.
Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, hon. ☺️ Cultures should be shared by all means.
I disagree. The makeup is clearly reflective of traditional Geisha makeup which is yellowface and therefore racist. Furthermore, the girl is wearing a kimono, a garment that has for ages carried cultural significance. Assuming that she is white how can you think this is ok? And cultural appropriation isn’t a thing? What rock do you live under? I suggest you educate yourself on the differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.
I am japanese, in japan at this very moment. The only people who think culture shouldnt be shared are racists like you.
A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.
And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.
The only reason that you have a problem with this is because that little girl is white and you know that it is acceptable on tumblr to crap all over white people. The only racist here is you.
Rekt
Dang she got shut down.
Damn I’ve never hit reblog so fast in my entire fucking life
Daaaaamn
Pew pew pew
I reblog this every time I see it
I live in Japan and I’d like to back up this sentiment.
Recently a museum in Boston came under a lot of fire for allowing visitors to wear a ‘kimono’ (it was featuring a painting my Monet of a girl – a white girl – in a kimono, and the museum had replicas made that guests of ANY RACE could wear to mimic the painting, Pageant-of-the-Masters style). After protests and heated debate, the museum closed the event.
I was living in Japan at the time, and out of all the *actual* Japanese people I asked, not a single one was offended by the event. Rather, they were excited that people half a world away were showing interest in their culture, and were sad that visitors could no longer enjoy the event.
This party, though somewhat silly in application, is an attempt at experiencing and appreciating another culture. The mom who put this together is not an expert on Japan, but she did her best. She got a lot of things right: there are few things Japan loves more than tea, Pocky, and sakura.
Where do you draw the line for who is “allowed” to learn about Japan? If the girl were of Japanese descent, would that make it ok (even though her citizenship would be the same as the girl from the photo)? If one of the girl’s parents were from Japan, then would it be ok?
Are you only allowed to make pizza if you live in Italy? If you’re an Italian immigrant? How do we decide these things??
You can’t say you want to dismantle racism and then in the next breath make rules – based on race – for who people can wear, try, or eat, especially when the intent is obviously to have fun experiencing a culture (as opposed to having fun by making fun of a race or culture, like blackface does).
When you tell people they can only experience things ‘meant for their race’, it totally smacks of segregation to me and I can’t stand it. As someone who (obviously) loves Japan, I say let people learn about it, let people experience it, let people appreciate it. You don’t have to know every single thing about a culture to enjoy it.
fucking people got owned is what, fuck i hate how people say you cant do shit when culture should be shared and is shared its how it grows and changes through fucking generations itS HOW YOU LEARN about the world and just fucking, tumblr fucking stupid like 70% of the dam time
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Thanks American Girl!
i have never seen a cat look more like cas in my damn life man
A gif showing human evolution. This is my favorite one.
The above is an underground nuclear explosion. Here’s the youtube clip for this. This is probably one of the scariest things I’ve posted.
This is actually a photo from the future during Donald Trump’s presidency and that’s Texas
crazy how much force it makes in that instant
worm with mouth
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what’s up, worm with mouth?
my favourite lyric in breathe is ‘i see your face in my mind as i drive away cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way people are people and sometimes we change our minds but it’s killing me to see you go after all this time music starts playing like the end of a sad movie it’s the kinda ending you don’t really wanna see cause it’s tragedy and it’ll only bring you down now i don’t know what to be without you around and we know it’s never simple never easy never a clean break no one here to save me you’re the only thing i know like the back of my hand and i can’t breathe without you but i have to breathe without you but i have to never wanted this never wanna see you hurt every little bump in the road i tried to swerve people are people and sometimes it doesn’t work out but nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out and we know it’s never simple never easy never a clean break no one here to save me you’re the only thing i know like the back of my hand and i can’t breathe without you but i have to breathe without you but i have to it’s 2am feelin like i just lost a friend hope you know it’s not easy easy for me it’s 2am feelin like i just lost a friend hope you know this ain’t easy easy for me and we know it’s never simple never easy never a clean break no one here to save me i can’t breathe without you but i have to breathe without you but i have to breathe without you but i have to i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry’
New “kid safe” search engine blocks children’s searches seeking help on reporting sexual abuse, calls rape a “bad word”
Censorship of sexuality, especially while simultaneously violence, particularly sexual violence, is left uncensored, and the harmful implication this juxtaposition has on our collective sexual wellness, is something I’ve written a lot about, like here and here. Hell, I’ve even written a book about it.
So when I found out there is a new “kid safe” search engine called Kiddle designed to block adult search returns for children, I feared it had sex-is-bad-and-violence-is-normal disaster written all over it. When I learned the results are handpicked by humans and not a computer broadly banning based on keywords, I was extra curious to see if I was still right. I was.
I typed in a bunch of different searches that a child might reasonably want or *need* to anonymously ask the Internet. Well, I’ll let you see the results for yourself:
“My girlfriend hits me” is also a bad word.
Inquiries about vaginal discharge are, you guessed it, also bad words.
Related bad words: menstrual care, menstrual pads, menstruation, and uterus.
When avoiding a gay dating website in the search results is considered a higher priority of “safety” for children than their homelessness, and you recommend confronting their abusive parents, we have a tish bit of a problem.
If I was 12, typed this into a search engine, and instead of results got a “bad word” finger wagging, I would take the answer to the “is it ok to be bisexual” question as a big fat NO it’s not OK :(
But the human censors apparently allows kids to search for this one under their “kid safe” censorship policies:
So questions about puberty, health, identity, and seeking help for sexual abuse is not “safe”, but kids buying guns is. I feel like a broken record, so I’m going to let you all unpack it this time. Discuss:
did anyone else do that thing when they were in elementary where you write T H I S on your knuckles and a stick figure on one palm and a scribble on the other and you go “this is bob bob says hi this is bob when the car comes by” thing. that was messed up.
Here’s a really fun fact I’ve learned recently.
These are American Slave-Making ants, they have an odd behavior where they steal the pupa of other species of ants and force them to carry out tasks for the colony instead of creating minor workers themselves. This specific picture is of a slave that is no longer responding to its captors so it will be killed.
ants are savage as fuck
so my grandmother just told me a joke…
“Why do women wear panties with flowers on them?”
“I dunno, ‘cause flowers are pretty cool?”
“In loving memory of all the faces that were buried there.”
i just like omg grandMA NO
Grandma yes
I just tried to tell this to my girlfriend.
Me: Why do women wear panties with flowers on them?
Her: Oh, I know this! It has to do with the plague back in the 1500s. You see, [explanation of plague stuff]
Me: In… In loving memory of all the faces that were buried there.
Her: What?
Me: It’s a joke. It was just a joke.
Friend: I need to see something funny
Me: My love life
brattybrows:
MY HEADDD HURTS
Then there’s Taylor Swift
and in that moment, even those that hated taylor swift loved taylor swift
I love Taylor Swift
you: that is a nice ass shirt
me: thank you but, to be honest, its called “pants” and not an “ass shirt”
i want to achieve “she’s adorable and i will protect her at all costs but also i am slightly frightened by her power”