melissa dragging sexist men on twitter has been the highlight of my week
1x22 // 6x01
Amy stands up to Captain Holt to defend Jake
Bonus:
Now obviously John Mulaney has had a profound affect on all our lives, but without a doubt to me one of the most impactful things he has ever said was: “Whatever. This might as well happen. Adult life is already so goddamn weird.” That has become one of my guiding life philosophies.
good thing i listen to exactly one song with explicit lyrics every day
I’ve been saying this for a while but Startup Bro is the new and terrifying lovechild of the brogrammer and the business major and he is somehow even more self-centered and bigoted than either of them
No, no, guys, look closely.
This house is looking for extremely physically fit young men (No drugs, no makeup, no special diet, exercise 15 hrs a week) who are passive and docile (no protests, no music lyrics with swears) who, most of all, will not be missed if they disappear (very little social media presence, not rich enough to own expensive luxury items, no need to constantly be in contact with their parents over bills/gifts, few identifying markings like tattoos)
This is obviously an organ harvesting operation.
Actually it turned out that the guy who was running it wanted to create a quasi-paramilitary organization.
There were so many horror stories about the place in the news that the landlord evicted everyone.
(Gotta say, though, that I like the organ harvesting scheme better.)
“It would have been better to have found out this was an organ harvesting scheme” is not a sentiment I expected to see today, and yet.
as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.
There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared.
Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually.
If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)
“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”
“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”
“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”
“Cool.”
It’s not hard.
You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.
this is a good post.
Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.
All of this
Treating groups of people as costumes while simultaneously dehumanizing and aiding in the oppression of those peoples is a form of violence. Thats why actual appropriation is taken seriously. You don’t get to have brown kids at the border in cages and paint sugar skulls on your face as a non mexican.
Its the dehumanizing aspect a lot of us are vocal about
But many of us are willing to share aspects of our cultures with others. That which is freely given? Feel free to participate. But do not force yourself into spaces where people have historically been robbed already.
I’m always reblogging this, it’s so lit 🙏💞👏
Yes the example of the mezuzah is a good one because touching it is fine and example of cultural exchange but if lets say they decided to go and get a mezuzah that would be cultural appropriation because the mezuzah is only meant for Jewish people
sometimes people may think with cultural exchange that if one aspect has been shared with them then that means everything is now open to them which is not how it works
also it is important to keep in mind that what one person from a culture might okay with sharing another might not be and sometimes it might be best to double check before assuming something is up for cultural exchange or there is a monolith thinking happening
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.
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