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Since the original intent of the Bechdel Test was more like “can I pretend these women are lesbians for five seconds,” I think it’d be funny to write a scene of two women graphically fucking while talking about men the whole time
French Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Sunday that France will ban the Islamic garment known as the abaya in schools. “The school of the Republic was built around strong values, secularism is one of them. … When you enter a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the religion of pupils,” Attal said in an interview with French TV channel TF1.“ I announce that [pupils] will no longer be able to wear abaya at school,” he said. The abaya is a long, flowing dress commonly worn by Muslim women as it complies with Islamic beliefs on modest dress — but it’s also worn by other communities in North Africa and the Middle East. In 2004, France banned religious symbols in schools, including large crosses, Jewish kippahs and Islamic headscarves. But the abaya occupies a gray zone and hasn’t specifically been banned.
Abayaat are not a religious garment, they're culturally Arab. Arab Christians, Jews, Druze, Samaritans, etc... all wear them. It's just another form of anti-arab racism hiding under the veneer of secularism. They will target Black people who wear maxi dresses or abayaat as well of course. Because it's about control of Black and Arab bodies. The title and content of the article are false and only further serve the racist French narrative.
Source: politico.eu
“I wasn’t alone in this. In the Iliad, Priam’s recovery of Hector’s body is a triumph of vulnerability over pride and power: “I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.” Gilgamesh violently laments over Enkidu’s corpse until maggots creep out of his nose, and then embarks on a futile quest for immortality. Many of Ovid’s metamorphoses occur in the extremity of grief as an excess of energy transforms the world, if not in the way the grieving wish: Phaethon’s sisters slowly harden and leaf into poplars at his grave; the stone Niobe weeps for her children; Hecuba, enraged about the murder of her son, morphs into a literal bitch, snapping and biting forever. Orpheus, pleading “for a loan,” makes “the bloodless shades weep.” Demeter lays waste to the earth. Something must change. In such moments, it is not hard to believe that you could resurrect one person, if you could find the right words or the right path to the underworld—and, crucially, out again. The problem seems one of method, not power. This essay is the fruit of a necromantic passion, and an emblem of failure. I remain sister to a dead man.”
— Elisa Gonzalez (via smakkabagms)
you need to live to be a weird funny old person whos weirdness was not broken by a rigidly formal world and to do that you must be a weird you now and not be broken despite it all
“Does it matter why Lot’s wife looked back? She looked back because she loved her daughters. She looked back because she loved her home. She looked back because she loved the past. She looked back because she loved the world. Remember Lot’s wife: it’s intended as a warning, but I have adopted it as a creed. When the world burns, I will fill my eyes with as much of it as I possibly can. I can think of no greater honor than to remain on the earth. You are worth turning around for. You are worth transformation. You are the heat that lights the match that lights the hearth that warms me. You are everything.”
wish ppl would really sit down and think about how much skinniness actually influences their view of gender bc once you realize how deep it goes it rly changes your whole worldview
Some of you straight up hate masculine women and gnc women and I wish you'd just say that with your full chest instead of pretending women are oppressed for being feminine when in reality feminine behavior is expected and women are policed by men and each other if they don't present femininely enough. Femininity is looked down upon esp in men but that's bc it's associated and tied to women. Not bc women are oppressed for being feminine
also acting like judaism and islam are inherently more spiritual than xtianity, like theyre inherently more progressive than xtianity, like theyre the "good" ~moral~ religions to xtianity's "inherent evil" or that they arent forced on ppl is like, hilariously historically revisionist at best, straight up erasure and dehumanization at worst.
and im not an antitheist and im not saying judaism and islam are """bad"""" religions or that theyre inherently oppressive and again, it all comes down to the tools people use to enforce stuff like misogyny and homophobia, which religion has historically been a major one. (im a religious jew myself)
but like. if your solution to opposing antisemitism and islamophobia is to treat these complex, living religions, with many many (billions with a b in islams case) different followers and interpretations as simply "cutesy uwu spiritual and nonthreatning", youre not actually opposing antisemitism and islamophobia. like there are more options than the binary "blind hatered" and "blind romanticization historical revisionism" lmfao. youre just making it harder for jews, muslims, ex-jews and ex-muslims to talk about their experiences lol.
and like. the only way i can describe that phenomanon is 'europilled americel'
also acting like islam is a minority on a global level is hilarious. billions. with a b and an s.
One of the worst parts of current internet culture is that it makes good old fashioned complaining so difficult. I don’t wanna cancel anyone or bully anyone, I’m not trying to form a hate mob I’m not calling anyone out, i just wanna bitch about something. Because complaining is fun, good for you, even. Is that too much to ask? Where is the room for shooting the shit?
The African Nova Scotian Justice Institute says they have serious concerns about systemic racism within Nova Scotia’s criminal justice system.
More specifically, they allege the practices, policies and objectives of the province’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has upheld anti-Black racism since its inception.
“The structure is systemically racist and the ability to reflect on and embrace that reality so that the system becomes a champion of addressing the systemic racism … we’re not there yet,” says Robert Wright, the institute’s executive director.
The African Nova Scotian Justice Institute, an organization comprised of Black lawyers and legal experts, says their objective is to support policy development and law reform that increases the representation of African Nova Scotians across all boards.
But Wright says for decades, many criminal justice systems have acted in resistance to advancing emancipatory efforts for Black and Indigenous peoples in Nova Scotia. [...]
Tagging: @vague-humanoid, @politicsofcanada
it’s my birthday very soon. and i’m trying to be happy about it. but my whole paycheck is going to go to rent this week and it’s killing me. so if you can help me get some things like food and stuff for my classroom the next two weeks, it’d really be super helpful. thank you so much. i really appriecate it.
rent is paid but I have less than 20 dollars in my account. so if anyone could give me a hand it would be rly appreciated
hi my birthday is next week! if anyone could wants to help me out or get me a present! I’d really appreciate it
hiiii if someone could help me out getting some groceries that would really help me rn
why did tumblr make a whole tab for five pictures of the guy from one piece
Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.
Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:
“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent
Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”
And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.
The peak of the whole "white person fixes racism" genre of the 2010s was the makers of Hidden Figures making up a good white person who fixes racism they also made up
Literally taking an organization that was already desegregated (NASA was never segregated, even!) by the time of the film, and resegregating it so a fictional white guy can desegregate it again
elon musk is literally like a parody. like he cant genuinely fucking be like this like bro is on some satirical depiction of a spoiled rich kid type shit. like hes a cartoon evil rich guy. throwing tantrums bc someone criticized him or said they didnt like him. spending billions of dollars to buy an app and then changing the app every time someone uses a feature of the app to insult him or hurt his feefees. dude straight up does the cartoon steam blowing out of ears train whistle shit irl every time someone says anything mean to him or is transgender but whats terrifying is he has enough money to do anything he wants and millions of chuds who would gladly no homo suck his cock every night before he goes to bed. like. how has someone come to be like this. why has this been allowed to happen why was he created
i think most rich guys are actually more like elon than they aren't, they all have simpering fanclubs online but enough haters to keep them up at night. i've seen a good half-dozen "richest man in X country" instagram accounts litigating their personal beef with some obscure shitposter who won't stop trolling them. they run the world but everyone doesn't love them so they're not happy
this is the richest guy in africa and his mortal enemy, a bored brazilian man
Nearly four years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugged the director of India's space agency who was reduced to tears after losing Chandrayaan-2 - his country's first attempt to land on the moon. Today, it was tears of joy. This isn't just a huge triumph for Indian scientists and engineers. As Chandrayaan-3 touched down near the lunar south pole, it landed India in an exclusive club of just three other nations who have achieved the feat - the US, China and the former USSR.