Reminder for all Jews with invisible disabilities: I want to remind everyone to be extra aware of how we are pressured by society to ignore the consequences of our disabilities because our disabilities are not apparent to others who do not pay attention. There is a lot of pressure right now to fast for Yom Kippur. Most of us understand that we are supposed to abstain from fasting if fasting would cause harm to our health.

Remember that the risk to our health does not need to be apparent to other people to be valid! If you have an invisible disability that could interact poorly with fasting such as diabetes, a history of eating disorders, or a mood disorder you deserve to take care of yourself.

Talk to your rabbi about how you can modify your religious observance in order to take care of your needs.

the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family

Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making

Straight White Frat Boy Gothic

- You’re playing a sports video game. You’re losing. You are so angry that you’re losing. Your bro is playing against you. He is somehow also losing. You both say slurs to express how angry you are.

- There are no clean dishes left. You’ve seen people put dishes in that box in the kitchen before, but can’t figure out how to do it yourself. You leave your dirty plate out. Someone else will clean it up.

- There is a girl in your apartment. Girls clean all apartments. If only you had a girl roommate. Or a girlfriend.

- You call your white friends the n word. Your black friend is over. You don’t say it around him. Someone points this out. You say it’s just a word. You are so angry. 

- You get caught for underage drinking. Your parents are lawyers. You face no consequences. You say, “Fuck the cops”. You’ve been treated so unfairly.

- You smoke weed inside. Your roommate hates it. But it smells so good you say. He just doesn’t get it.

love watching straight people’s reaction to how we knew someone was gay because it’s always stupid things like “i asked her where she got that button up shirt and she said the men section of zara” or “she got into a heated debate about werewolves and only a gay person would be that passionate about werewolves” and straight people’s wack ‘he has a lisp’ gaydar cannot comprehend this level of secret language and just look at us like

WTF JUST LET ME DIE SHAGGY

but soft, what brick through yonder window breaks

It is the East, and Juliet’s got a gun.

Romeo + Juliet (1996), Baz Lurhmann

watching youtube videos in 2012: woahhhh 5 minutes? didn’t realize I was watching a movie buddy, haha

watching youtube videos in 2018: *sits down with a bag of chips to start a 40 minute video* let hell commence

Biggest fucking mood.

They’re also meant for hiltops, not small rooms. Cant get the right reverb with all that echo.

they’re also meant to make you fight the english. don’t forget that part.

“when you insult men, that includes your fathers!”

me:

Some of you need to learn the difference between skinny girls being made to feel insecure about their body from certain people and fat girls being made to feel like their entire life is worthless because of their body size from literally the entire world

People still don’t get the point of this post…….wild

for whatever reason, you suddenly gain godlike powers of control over the universe. what’s the first thing you do?

i straight up get rid of carbon. 

carbon the chemical element upon which all lifeforms are based?

That’s the bitch

If any meme accurately conveys Liberal twitter’s meltdown this week over the SNC Lavalin scandal and how its effecting Trudeau’s brand, its this one.

oh to be a powerful lesbian sorceress living in the snowy evergreen forests of some slavic country, reviled by village elders as a wicked, seductive temptress for spiriting their wives and daughters away to come live with me in my log cabin where we pick berries and mushrooms and roast them with meat over campfires and sleep together on piles of bear and deerskin furs

oh this post is anti TERF btw. my forest sanctuary is trans inclusive and you can die mad about it.

I’m both