due to crude half-baked misunderstandings of intersectionality, you might initially think that a gay jew obviously has it harder than a gay christian, because two oppressions is more than one, and privilege and oppression work like effect multipliers in a videogame. but actually, when 81% of jews believe homosexuality should be accepted and only 16% believe it should be discouraged, and the figures are 54 to 38 for christians, you’re looking at gay christians facing significantly higher rates of rejection from their communities, families, and religious institutions.

you might think that the more christian a group is, the more hegemonic it is, and thus the more privileged the members. in some situations, in some senses, this may even be true. but a key consideration is that religious fundamentalist groups are bad to be in, especially for women and lgbt people. a lesbian raised into evangelical christianity was raised, yes, into a group with disturbing cultural sway in USAmerican politics, but also into a group very dedicated to and effective at making people like her want to die. the people high control religious groups hurt most are their own members. this is a vital consideration when talking to and about people who have left christianity, especially fundamentalist and repressive christian denominations. it may be tempting, for some people, to consider ex-christians barely-reformed representatives of the hegemony, who can’t possibly understand what it is to be repressed by christianity the way a jew does. but please consider that people who have been emotionally traumatized on religious grounds by their christian families and communities have direct, visceral, non-hypothetical experience of being actually, irl abused by these institutions. getting antisemitically microaggressed by your christian coworker is, i need to stress this, not actually as bad as being religiously abused.

religious abuse is by no means unique to christians, jews do it too, fundamentalists particularly but by no means exclusively, this doesn’t mean that lgbt jews aren’t oppressed or aren’t oppressed in distinct ways or situations, it doesn’t mean you can’t be annoyed at ex christians getting stuff wrong, it doesn’t mean that christians are the real victims of christianity or that members of minority religions aren’t, it means have a sense of the meaning of actual individual human suffering relative to the notional minority stress of being officially, statistically at risk for oppression. and have some compassion.

op, oppression isn't a competition. the statement that gay jews face less oppression from homophobic jews than gay christians do from homophobic christians is a false equivalency, and while i understand you coming from a place of wanting to make a point about intersectionality and the pervasive nature of homophobia in religious fundamentalist groups with high power control causing harm to their members, you also have to understand that as a gay jew, i face a unique form of homophobia and antisemitism from christians both in fundamentalist groups and ones attempting to reform. making wide sweeping statements about jewish people based on a very slim view into our community is bupkis and your digression that religious abuse happens in jewish communities too feels like an afterthought.

maybe look into unlearning whatever it is that makes you feel like jews have any kind of privilege over you, a white christian man. just saying

do you HATE the color of the sky?

penis blast nefarious

diverse types of penis blast call the penis blast various

penis blast electrical

penis blast delectable

penis blast campaigning call the penis blast electable

sorry

I live on the western isle of the north side of the West Piendies

island glanglnaglu yes?

Off the cusp of the isle of Glaggle Landry

crackers on this site will just say shit like this without thinking

Somepony wished this upon Equestria and now there are exactly three settlements and maybe a couple 1000 ponies left on Earth.

And absolutely no other sentient races to speak of.

“Cats are evil” factoid actually just statistical error. Average cat has done nothing wrong ever. Macavity, who has broken every human law & breaks the law of gravity, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something 

something charmingly twentieth century about this

This counts as a spell

Placeable AOE effect

Actually? Getting a good grade in friendship IS normal to want. AND it is even (would you believe it) possible to achieve. ask me how

looks up from my clipboard and gestures for you to continue

replace empathy with compassion and/or sympathy and this is golden

No, actually. I'm a sociopath. I am not saying you have to feel empathy. Read my words. You are required to express empathy to those you love. If you are not willing to actively seek to understand a loved one's emotions and respond with compassion and sympathy, you're an asshole.

This morning, Buckingham Palace staff found Charles III in his bed chambers alive and well. My heart goes out to all the people of Britain who will be suffering due to this senseless tragedy

Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

Artist Ron Wimberly (who used to be active on tumblr at @laabmagazine @d3-14) actually published a short comic called “Lighten Up” in 2015 about experiencing racism while working for Marvel:

Read the whole thing here on the Nib for free.

IDs for the previous posts:

[A chart of human skin tones, arranged in rows descending from dark browns to palest pinks and beiges that could be called “white” tones. Text to the right labels the rows from top to bottom as follows: “comic character,” “After editor approval”, “after a few appearances”, “live action”, “Funko pop”.

[Screenshot of a 3/2/2022 tweet by viv/tommy @vivheart616 comparing two images of Afrolatina/Afroboricua Marvel character America Chavez with the text “what happened”. On the left is a cropped splashpage or cover by an unsourced artist, where America flies towards the viewer with her fists ready. She has medium-to-dark brown skin, and wavy black hair that curls at the ends, and full lips. To the right is the official Funko Pop based on the live action movies, where both the illustration of America and the Funko itself feature pale beige skintone, straight, flat black hair, and no mouth.]

Garden for CLIMATE RESISTENCE.

why are birds so cursed

A Non-Comprehensive List of Birds That Piss Me Off

1. Dracula Parrot. This thing pisses me off like, a bunch

2. King Vulture. the felted craft project equivalent of a haunted ventriloquist dummy

i will never not resent this bird 

 3. Jacana Bird. This is the most unnecessary cursed nonsense. i deserve an apology for having to look at this. I can feel its fingers stroking my ears

No it does not have SIX FREAKING LIMBS. it’s carrying its stupid creepy spawn under its wings. A+ parents but still, piss off. even the normal 2 legged version isn’t much better

put those AWAY.

4. The Shoebill, which i’m sure we’re all sick of hearing about. this thing is the epitome of a crappy photorealistic cgi disney villainy. i despise this bird.

also this is what they look like standing up. i just feel like i shouldn’t have to deal with that, i really do.

5. Inca Tern. truly, hipsters ruin everything

6. Tragopan. it looks like a star wars species, which i dislike on principle 

7. The Secretary Bird. it wears yoga pants.

also i’m uncomfortable with the length of its eyelashes

8. finally, i really dislike this one specific parakeet

in conclusion, these birds exist to haunt me and this knowledge is a burden. birds exist to observe our sin; always watching, they are filled with malice. flee from them

this was intended as an humorous post but based on replies some of u have been genuinely cursed i think

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE

From another article i read today 😭

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he wasn’t even there to be a contestant he joined the crew as a CHINESE TEACHER but the directors noticed his good looks and begged him to compete. poor guy made it to the finals and if he had been one of the winners he would have been contractually forced to be in a boy band whether he wanted to or not

this is the closest any human being has ever come to actually being sold to One Direction

even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk

*straightens calculator*

It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:

n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.

Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries

*straightens calculator again*

Kick the fucking door in

well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it. 

some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here

No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.

Sherlock out.

woah.

it got better

and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….

Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.

Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.

The light is green.

The door is already open.

And that’s why we have a John Watson.

This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.

Omg, it’s actually on my dash! This post is like a fossil!