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Thereâs one (1) think in Disneyâs Mulan that irks me. The jaw line. Mulanâs jaw line is drawn differently when sheâs acting as Ping. No kidding: this is her âregular, Fa Mulanâ face. In this version her jaw is even highlighted by the makeup. Look how round is it.
and this is her Ping jaw. Square. Totally square.
WHY????? Isnât consistency in the character base shapes like, an important thing??
Not to mention how she immediately regains her long lashes as soon as she is exposed. With her round jaw obviously.
?????Â
That feel when youâre Asian and your father with a bad leg was about to be sent off to surely die in a war for your great empire so you squared up both metaphorically and physically.
itâs on the fricking vhs cover
this has bothered me since 1999
Why do you have to come for Mulan like this
Itâs called contour sweetie
sighsâŚ..
Internet is back at it, againâŚ..
When someone says harem to people, these kind of paintings come up in peopleâs mind.
L.F. Comerre. (1850 - 1916)
But, people who drew these paintings, they are called orientalists, have never seen a harem because NO STRANGER WERE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE HAREM UNLESS THEY WANT TO LOSE THEIR HEAD. So they painted what they dreamt of, since they were grown up with Western beauty concepts, they painted Harem girls as what their culture accepted beautiful.
BUT, at 19th century Persia, the Western beauty standards were not dominant. So of course, they had their own beauty standards and their own concept of beauty.
The more masculine a woman was, more beautiful she was accepted. The opposite was also true for men. Women with heavy brows and faint mustaches considered so attractive that they were sometimes painted on or augmented with mascara and young beardless men with slim waists and delicate features. In 19th century portraits of lovers, the genders are barely distinguishable, identified only by their headgear.
Young men without beards were the idols of beauty that time. Sexual mores and erotic sensibilities of 19th century Iran permitted homosexuality between these young men and older men.
BUT, after Iran started to be more modern, aka more Westernized, this beauty standards were lost. West beauty standards started to be more dominant and homosexuality was no longer permitted. Today, it is a crime to be homosexual at Iran.
This book, women with mustaches and men without beards, is about the beauty standards of Persia at Qajar dynasty. If you are interested, you can buy it and read. HERE is an interview with the author, Afsaneh Najmabadi.
At that time, Qajar princess was considered beautiful. Today, uncultured internet memers are making fun of her. Â Shame @ all of you.
EDIT: Thatâs not Pricess Qajar ffsâŚ.. Qajar is the name of dynasty, not the princessâŚ.
Her name is Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, she was the daughter of the King of Persia in the early 19th century. Not to forget that she had a university education.
Women & Congress
Original author unknown, but they want this to be passed around.
Women: Can I have birth control?
Congress: No.
Women:Â I couldnât get birth control so I got pregnant. Can I have an abortion?
Congress:Â No.
Women:Â You prevented me from having an abortion so Iâm carrying the fetus, but my employer wonât provide reasonable accommodations and is threatening to fire me. Would you please pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act?
Congress:Â No
Women:Â I had the baby, but Iâm out of work. Can I have WIC and food stamps until I get back on my feet?
Congress:Â No.
Women: I found a job, but it doesnât offer me insurance. Can I have government guaranteed insurance?
Congress:Â No.
Women: My kid got sick and I got fired because I missed time caring for him. Can I get unemployment?
Congress:Â No.
Women:Â Iâm having a hard time getting my kid from school consistently. Can we fund after-school programs?
Congress:Â No.
Women: Iâm prepared to work to support my family. Can you make sure that a full-time jobâs minimum wage is enough to do that?
Them: No. But whatâs the matter with you and your family, that working two jobs canât lift you out of poverty? And what kind of a mother are you, letting someone else watch your child while you work? If your child doesnât do well in school or gets in trouble, itâs entirely your fault. You shouldnât have had a child if you werenât prepared to take care of her.
This is so contrary to reality that it hurts my brain reading it, like, you very clearly have no grasp of:
1) the way things are as of now
2) the way congress works
3) the way government works in general
4) everything really, just everything about your posy is one giant strawman bullshit argument. just. saying.
So, break it all down and Iâll reblog it.Â
First of all, women can get an abortion AND birth control and those rights were granted via the Supreme Court via the implied âRight to Privacyâ via the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 9th amendments.
Second, women are capable of getting food stamps and assisted aid, but the high numbers of people abusing the system has resulted in sever limitations being put on to protect the use of tax dollars for people who actually need it, thus making it harder to obtain, sure, but blame deadbeats who popped out five, six, seven babies to get more and more assistence, not congress.
Third, the welfare of citizens is the duty of the state governments, not Congress or the federal government. They literally do not have the legal power to enstate âinsuranceâ for their citizens. Nor can they force private companies to provide it for you. Its beyond their jurisdiction.
Fourth, unemployment is 100% available for people who get fired i really have no clue where you got the idea it isnât. Its just in the same boat as food stamps so, again, blame deadbeats who made it difficult, not Congress for attempting to protect people who actually need it.
Again, schools are under the jurisdiction of the state/local governments, not the federal government/congress.
Lastly, i agree that there needs to be a livable mimimum wage and thats pretty much the only part you got right, but as for the part about attacking her choices, thats based in opinions from the general population and only from certain individuals, not Congress. Not to say some members of Congress dont hold that view, but certainly not all. That being said, you vote for members of the House and Senate so maybe participate in state elections (every 2 years for House and every 6 years for Senate)
Legally, they can get an abortion. However, they are making it very difficult on a state level. Each state has their own set of requirements before an abortion can happen. Some states have a mandatory waiting period and other states got a âwhen life beginsâ thing going on.Â
Birth Control is usually treated as âa luxury itemâ aka something that you donât need to get, which I guess is fine because you donât need birth control to have a normal life. However, itâs costly and itâs not something that can be readily available like cough medicine. So, there lies the problem.Â
Oh, would you like to know who keeps abusing the Food Stamp system? Most of the SNAP recipients are White⌠about 40% according to the U.S. Dept of Agriculture. Iâve been on SNAP for a few months and that program⌠is hard. Imagine getting a small allowance for food, and then imagine having to stretch that? And then imagine only having access to very little healthy food, meaning you have to travel outside your home area for the good stuff. For SOME people, thatâs easy to do, but not for the majority of others.
Congress has the power to regulate certain aspects of insurance. Why do you think thereâs a big deal over it for the past several years? They may not be able to force New York to put prices as low as Flordia, but they do have the ability to offset things so it doesnât matter where you live, youâll have access to affordable health care. And they also have the ability to create a program so that it forces the states to have a bare minimum. If they can force the states to create a phone program so that people can have access to telephones, then they can create a way for people to have insurance.
Unemployment varies by state. Some are also âat-willâ states, which means they can fire an employee and some companies can prevent unemployment from kicking in. With so many different states laws, itâs difficult to keep track of. So, once again, itâs up to Congress to simplify.Â
Congress canât tell the states what to do education wise, however, they can fund the states based on performance. Ever hear of the âNo Child Left Behind Actâ? If they can require students to perform at a certain level, then they can require âAfter Schoolâ help as well, since it does help with performance.Â
Congress does have the power to make sure that the states play fairly, so they canât control what is going on in each state. Needs in Oklahoma are different from Florida and Florida is different from New York. Each state needs are different, but thatâs why we look towards Congress, because if the states canât do their jobs, then itâs the next logical step up.
HOWEVER⌠people should get involved in both state and national politics so that at least it can get better on a local level since most of these things can be done locally and are easier to manage.
read this out loud:
⢠I am allowed to take a break today
⢠Itâs not selfish to put my feelings and health first
⢠I need to remember to care for myself
⢠I should be allowed to express myself, I am lovely as I am
U sound silly right now. No need to freak out about a post that dared to point out that bourgeois white women lived lives 1000% better than those of enslaved black women, thanks to their enslavement. from one white woman to another, chill. U will survive this Tumblr outrage
i feel like you dont understand the magnitude of rape? rape isâŚextremely bad. itâs a very bad thing to happen to you, especially by your family. saying âthese women deserved the suffering they experienced because of other peopleâs suffering they had essentially no agency in, but benefitted fromâ is so fucked up
âWHITE WOMEN HAD NO AGENCY IN SLAVERYâÂ
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Â
White women actually had a lot of agency during slavery. They were slave owners in their own right. And in significant numbers by the 19th century. While white men dominated plantations, white women dominated smaller urban spaces as slave owners. They tended to own black women in particular. In fact, they often owned brothels where they forced black women to endure rape.Â
Even within the patriarchal plantation structure, white women had totalizing power over their slaves. The white mistress watched their husband rape the female slaves and then theyâd then take their anger out on that same enslaved black woman by demanding floggings, selling off their children (that were the result of said rape), and any other violent, sociopathic thing you can think of.Â
In many slave narratives written by black women, white women are portrayed in a worse light than the men because their powerlessness in comparison to white men made them particularly sociopathic towards those they did have power over: black women and men. You can read narratives by Harriet Jacobs and Mary Prince, as a start.Â
White women may have been vulnerable when compared to white men but there is nothing even close to the vulnerability of legally being a non-person as was true of enslaved black people.Â
Iâd read scholarship on slavery & gender. Particularly, anything by Hilary Beckles. You can also read More Than Chattlel by Darlene Clark Hine. Youâre not qualified to make historical claims on slavery when youâre uneducated on what truly happened.Â
Also white Women were raping male slaves for their own pleasure much like white men were with black women. They also were quite literally the head of the home and ruled over the inner workings of the manor, including the house slaves.
They sexually abused female slaves too especially younger girls. They were literally just like their male counterparts in almost every aspect. For OP to go ahead and say with such confidence that white women were powerless and innocent during slavery without doing any fucking research just shows that they were convinced by their whiteness alone to assume these women were blameless. She also doesnât care enough about black people and our history at all to know that white women have always been one of the biggest perpetrators of violence against black people especially black children. Peep that âleftistâ title she gave herself on her header too. Thatâs a fucking laugh.Â
Good addition. White women have a really perverse and sucking history of sexually and physically abusing Black children. I believe sheâs a leftist. The white ones are some of the worst racist Iâve met becaus, like liberals, they believe for a different reason that they arenât racist.
Never Give Up! KEEP GRINDING FIT~HONEYS. She is⌠thesamurider
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Signs When Nervous:
Aries: fidgets leg Taurus: plays with hair Gemini: bites lips Cancer: forgets how to walk or doesnât know what to do with hands. Leo: walks around. Virgo: plays with nails Libra: tries to pretend they are doing something. Scorpio: looks around a lot Sagittarius: laughs loudly Capricorn: doodles something on their arm or hands Aquarius: tries to stay still and quiet Pisces: physically there, mentally somewhere else.
my type of public transportationÂ
âWhy were you late in today?â
âOh, I got tied up on the subwayâŚâ
I was always 50/50 on whether to reblog this but the last comment pushed it to like 95/5 in favor.
âWhatâs our stop?â
âYouâll get off when I tell you to.â
Advice for people in their 20s from someone whoâs just entered their 30s....
1. Donât waste time being fearful: go for that job that youâre certain youâre not gonna get. Whatâs the worse that can happen? You are rejected, but you gain interview experience. Self-doubt is really a waste of time.
2. Live in the present. Yes, it is important to plan for the future, but it is easy to put off living until it is too late. Make sure that you have no regrets about what you should have done. Do one exciting thing per year.
3. Know your worth. This applies to both work and relationships; never sell yourself short. No job or romance is more important than your self respect. Also, charge for any unique skills/services that you can offer.Â
4. Donât be afraid to leave bad situations. I left a stable but draining teaching job in order to protect my mental health. Even though this was a big risk, it was the best decision I ever made. NOTHING is more important than your mental health.Â
5. Most 20 somethings feel that they are underachieving. This is normal - especially in todayâs financial climate. Donât feel bad if you are still living at home and cannot afford to rent/buy. Iâm 30 and still living at home, saving to buy.
6. People will disappoint you, but most of the time, itâs not about you. Everybody has their own demons and traumas that make them behave in certain ways. If somebody disrespects you, assert your boundaries and keep it moving. Also, examine if there was anything you could have done to avoid the situation. But DO NOT let it eat away at you.
7. In love, nobody owes you anything. Even if they made a promise, they are their own personâŚEverybody has the right to change their mind and to leave a situation which is not beneficial for them. This is hurtful and hard to accept, but it is the truth.
8. Learn to enjoy your own company. Your 20s can be a lonely time as your social sphere narrows, due to employment, finances and exhaustion. Use this time to find out more about yourself and do the things that you enjoy. There is something liberating about eating at a restaurant alone.Â
9. Be kind, donât gossip or overshare. I am still working on this one. It is really difficult to be kind and positive in a world full of annoying people. However, your attitude will influence how you are being perceived. If you are unkind, people will laugh at your jokes but they will never trust you. They will never trust you not to treat them as you treat other people. Remove yourself from toxic people, and only share negativity (sadness/anger/depression) with a therapist and one other person that you trust. If you overshare negative feelings, you may be stereotyped as being full of drama. Furthermore, people will want you to stay in a negative place because itâs entertaining and makes them feel better about their own lives. Just donât do it.
10. You cannot win every battle. Within conflict, it is tempting to try to force others to agree with your perspective. However, most people are set in their ways, and find it difficult to change their views and behaviours. This is especially important when dealing with toxic family members. You may never get the apology and empathy that you seek, so it is important to accept that every battle cannot be won, and gain validation internally, rather than externally.
⢠Use the hand you write with.
⢠Make a fist with your thumb outside, not tucked inside. If itâs tucked inside your fist, when you punch someone, you might break your thumb. The thumb goes across your fingers, not on the side.
⢠Donât be like in the moviesâdonât aim for the face. Face punches donât usually stop people, and you can miss when they duck their head or break your hand on their jaw. If you want to get away quickly, or end a fight, aim for the chest, or the ribs. If you really want to do some damage, e.g., youâre being attacked, aim for the throat, which will make it hard for your attacker to breathe for a hot minute.
⢠When you punch, you want to aim and hit with your first two knuckles. Not the flats of your fingers, and not your ring or pinky knuckles, which can break more easily. You can use your weight, if youâre on your feet, to add wallop, and spring into a punch with your feet and torso.
Useful information, esp. if you havenât taken self defense.
I reblogged this once before to add this and Iâll do it againâŚ
keep your wrist straight.
You can also risk breaking your wrist if you allow it to bend. Â I actually canât believe this isnât in there.
Other good pointers:
if your attacker is male, go for his junk - especially if heâs wearing loose pants. Thereâs no sportsmanship when it comes to assault so fuck them balls UP
punching pretty much ANYWHERE in the face is going to actually hurt you a LOT (just think - youâre punching your bones into their bones and ow). If youâre going for the face, my suggestion is to strick upwards with your palm.
see that meaty portion highlighted in red? Thereâs a lot of muscle and fat right there which makes it excellent for striking. Hold your hand as shown and aim for the nose or chin (though Iâve been told in extreme circumstances, doing this to the nose can be fatal but Iâve never really heard if this is true or not) and just aim upwards
other delicate areas:Â
the shin (hurts like a bitch if you kick it right - also, you can hit this spot if youâre being held in a choke-hold and if your attacker has to move in order to stop you from kicking him, heâll have to angle his body so as to expose his stomach and crotch to the wild spastic jabbings of your elbows)
the solar plexus (either jab while holding your hand in a sort of spear position or use your elbows - unless youâre super strong, your punch probably wonât wind your attacker. Your elbow or a spear hand will, however)
Originally in (most) martial arts, you hit the solar plexus because it supposedly contained an important chakra. Now we know that it actually also contains like a bunch of necessary organs that are exposed just below your ribs and is also (roughly) where your diaphragm lives so getting punched there is not pleasant.
the clavicle (from experience, getting hit in your clavicle HURTS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. If you strike downwards with your knuckles, the person might just cry. Like I did.)
the ear (this is probably the best place to punch besides the throat. Itâs all cartilage so it probably wonât hurt you all that much and most people will be like âDUDE YOU PUNCHED ME IN THE EAR WHAT THE HELLâ)
the kidneys (this is harder to hit without training but if you somehow get your attackerâs back to face you, try to hitâem in the kidneys. Again, from experience, this FUCKING HURTS. You canât really hit the kidneys from the front with any effect but from the back it is super painful)
if youâre held in a choke-hold, try turning your head so the forearm isnât pressed into your throat. If you can position yourself right, you can sort of force your chin into the crook of the elbow, making you able to still receive (limited) oxygen and provide time for you to kick some shins or elbow some spleens and shit
-Also, remember that a guyâs junk is not an off-button. Donât think that you can rely on a swift kick to the balls to immediately incapacitate him in an emergency. Adrenaline and anger can keep somebody going for a long time even through extreme pain, and if you expect to end a fight with a single groin-attack you might be caught off-guard when he doesnât drop. Certainly go for it if you get the chance, but keep hitting him until the fight is over.
-Draw blood if you can, especially if you can draw it from the face or the eyes. Blood in the eyes is not just a good way to impair your attackerâs vision, itâs also a really good way to freak them out and let them know that they might be getting more than they bargained for by picking a fight with you.
-Elbows and knees are really powerful weapons. Elbows are very sharp and very strong and if you are in close-range they are often more effective than trying to throw a punch.Â
-Yelling and shouting makes you scary.Â
Nothing much to add to this, itâs pretty much all there. So. Reblog. Oh, also, itâs really easy to break a nose - go for the eyes too. All it takes to avoid a shot to the throat is tucking your chin. Also, that part about the ear - donât punch. An open hand over the ear hurts a lot.
Tumblr teaching me how to fuck a bitch up
Also if you fuck up their face itâll be easier for police to identify the attacker.
If someone gets you from behind and you cant punch them, go for the underside of the upper-arm. A bad pinch there is legit so painful because that skin is super sensitive. Also this cant be stressed enough, if the attacker is a guy then fucking rip his junk off.
When throwing a punch:
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Shyamal Bhumika Bridal 2017
Sooo pretty yall
Yay! Finally got a bin for my yarn stash. The satisfaction of organization :)
Because I received so much love and support on the first one. Some new additions :) unisexgvt
Aawww, that's cute
Real life Disney Princesses and one Queen. (Click photos for links).
PSA: DO NOT DONATE TO THE RED CROSS
DO NOT DONATE TO THE RED CROSS. As an organization they barely lift a finger to actually help people. When we lost pretty much everything to Hurricane Sandy they did absolutely nothing. It was only when officials started looking into the huge amount of donations the Red Cross got and question where they went that they started doing stuff. If you want to read more you can read a bit at the links below. There are a ton more articles out there that tell you why you shouldnât donate to them.
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/04/368453320/red-cross-misstates-how-donors-dollars-are-spent
http://gawker.com/dont-donate-to-the-red-cross-1652192522
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/14/the-problem-with-the-red-cross-cont/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/staten-island-red-cross-hurricane-sandy_n_2065209.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/010905redcross.htm This link is from 2005! Theyâve been doing this shit for a long time!
An average of 17 cents of every dollar donated goes to âfundraising expensesâ. Then thereâs vague back-end costs of âmanagement and general expensesâ that subtract even more off your donation. They take full advantage of the loopholes of their 501Š(3) nonprofit status to pay their CEO and high-ranking paid employees a cushy salary as well.
Charity Navigator is a really good resource for determining if a charity is worth donating to. They rank charities on a bunch of things from transparency to accountability to how much of your donation actually reaches its destination. Charity Navigator has listed here some good organizations to donate to that ACTUALLY help and are already prepared to respond to Hurricane Patricia:
Convoy of Hope, Direct Relief, GlobalGiving, Heart to Heart International, International Medical Corps, MAP International, Medical Teams International, and Water Missions Hospital.
These are all rated much higher than the Red Cross. Direct Relief is highest rated. It has a grade of over 99 while the Red Cross has a grade of just under 81. Heart To Heart International and MAP International each have a grade of over 97.
I think itâs clear that these charities are all doing a lot better with your money than the Red Cross.
