Beit Kvetch

They/them pronouns. I’m a queeny gay in the Midwest who is into art/crafts/DIY and nature. I end up making a lot of personal posts about my life. I have a baby now. Into earthy Judaism.

[brehaaorgana]

Too many people wring their hands and go "omg I'm like 24 years old and haven't even mastered [skill/hobby/gotten into my dream profession] is it TOO LATE FOR ME?" And frankly this is just a silly problem to have. You need to set your life expectations better.

1. Old people can do new things if they want to, you don't stop existing or learning simply because you are aging. Maybe you should go outside and meet some retired senior citizens starting up learning new hobbies or skills.

and,

2. Be like me and assume you will live until you're at least 100. Then being 24 is nothing. That's an infant. It's like charging your phone battery like "wow 24% is almost totally done for and full up." That's just absurd. 24% is nowhere near all charged up.

like, chill.

[jewishbarbies]

just in from tiktok: pictures of babies in diapers on the side of a diaper box is pedophilia

[maimonideznuts]

I don't know if stupid pearl clutchers know this, but the largest cohort of people who need diapers/nappies, has traditionally been babies, and it is a long established norm to put images of the target customer demographic on the packaging.

If people can't detach their sexualisation of continence aids from the children (and adults) that need them, that's their problem and actually they are the one who needs to stop projecting their sexualisation of children on diaper packaging as something the rest of us need to care about.

[autisticsnubbull]

is that why they're calling it pedophilia? i fogured it would be because the babies are probably only wearing diapers. like no clothes.

[jewishbarbies]

these people are saying advertising on the box is for pedophiles and therefore the company is pedophilic, which is objectively untrue and frankly weird to claim. the babies are only wearing diapers because it’s a diaper box. it’s for parents to see what the product looks like. if the babies were in uncomfortable poses or something I could see claiming something, but saying even just the concept of babies wearing diapers on a diaper box is pedo bait is just absurd.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

How is buffalo hunter hunter going so far?

Im enjoying it!! Its just very slow going because im tired at the end of the night so ill read like two pages before falling alseep lol

[jewish-hot-takes]

Germans who want to convert to judaism and have ancestors who were complicit in the holocaust shouldn't be able to convert.

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[jewish-kulindadromeus]

so y'all just love giving voices to bioessentialists and dickwads huh

[failure-artist]

if we're basing it on whose ancestors oppressed jews than nobody would be able to convert.

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

like actually though

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I feel like this blog is just rage bait but also… choosing to join the Jewish people would be the biggest “fuck you” to Nazi ancestors

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Bless the gays who are into pits, what would the world be without you

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[evardstentacles]

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

My uterus is doing something evil

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

It brought me to tears last night but I’m not sure if it was from pain or just that the pain was freaking me out.

I’m worried that my IUD got dislodged or something because I can’t feel the strings 😬 I do happen to have an (unrelated) doctor’s appointment today, so I’m going to ask if they can check it out

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

My uterus is doing something evil

[soloorganaas]

we’re banning use of the phrase judeo-christian. there truly is no such thing. what people mean is christian interpretation of the old testament and all the ideas and ‘values’ they pushed onto the world for 2 millennia and they’re too lazy to distinguish that from the fundamentally different ethno-religious group christians took the book from in the first place

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I think I’m also struggling with fitting in to my Jewish community in person as well. I like my shul a lot, but I don’t find services all that compelling. I also feel guilty because they really emphasize volunteering, which I don’t have the bandwidth for right now, or participating in leading services, which I don’t have the knowledge (or interest in learning). Dues are sliding scale, and I pay a very small amount per month, basically to cover my lunch if I end up going for kiddush, but I feel guilty for not giving more. I end up feeling shame for feeling like I’m not prioritizing it enough. There’s so much focus on sharing yourself, your resources, your skills with the community, and I feel like I don’t have much to offer.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I was going to exchange these glasses because the accents are silver instead of gold but now they are growing on me what do we think

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Sometimes I wonder if online Jewish stuff is a net positive or negative for my relationship to Judaism/jewishness

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

It definitely has been a positive for me in the past, I felt like I found a lot of community. But now I’m not so sure. I care about rising antisemitism, and at the same time, hearing about all of it is so demoralizing. I compare myself to others when it comes to education and observance. I don’t share my thoughts and experiences with Jewish stuff much anymore because with context collapse, literally anyone is in the audience and it would be impossible to add enough addendums to prevent Well Actually This Doesn’t Apply to Me (never said it would). Related, types of discussion I used to find engaging I now find tiring and want to avoid. And there are just so many opinions that sour me.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Sometimes I wonder if online Jewish stuff is a net positive or negative for my relationship to Judaism/jewishness

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

There should be a word for when you’re not particularly into something yourself, but you enjoy someone else being into it

[notaplaceofhonour]

a ring camera is like if a mezuzah was evil

[notaplaceofhonour]

hear o neighborhood you are being surveilled

[starlightomatic]

who by fire, who by water, hoobastank