Pretty much how I feel about it.
what the fuck are the people over at jellycat dOING
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look at this!! look at this!!! perfection!!!!
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how could i ever be sad again when i know THIS EXISTS
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don’t be sad, just look at THIS LAD
this was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my LIFE
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Canon Jesus is so much cooler than Fandom Jesus.
Western history loves to brag about their geniuses, philosophers, thinkers, and innovators throughout history but as far as I know, nobody talks about geniuses in non western history. Why can’t an Aztec community have their neighborhood Einstein who loved to study engineering and physics and helped build an efficient-running town?
Reblog is you're uncomfortable with how eurocentric our understanding of history is.
Numerous Egyptian murals: literally explain that stone blocks and large sculptures were transported using water
“Ancient Aliens” fuckos:
say it with me: it's the racism
My 5th grade science and math teacher showed us a video on the ancient aliens stuff and presented it as a real theory. This stuff gets taught young and sticks with people
“What is it that the child has to teach?
The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.
And the child is right.”
— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: 'Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann
I know it was probably a joke, but I absolutely want to know your argument for why Rainbow Fish is about wealth distribution. I've seen a couple people interpret that story as a kind of brutal "share your talents and become lesser in order for people to like you" and it never really sat right with me, I'd like to hear other takes
I really do have this many strong opinions about picture books so you’re in luck!!
If you don’t know The Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister), it’s about a fish who is born with many shiny scales which are quite beautiful but which he will not share with anyone. The other fish don’t enjoy his company because he’s so prideful and selfish. In true Britney fashion, the loneliness is killing him. A wise old octopus tells him "you should share, actually" and so he does. He ends up with a lot of friends and only one scale left.
Some readers see it as a "sharing is caring" narrative, and others read the message as "bleed yourself dry." If you cross your eyes, you can see both at once. I have found this tension hinges on whether you understand these a scales to be external or intrinsic.
The thing is: these shiny scales are purely aesthetic. It’s unclear what they represent. If you think about the scales as money, then it’s definitely a narrative about the wealth gap. Rainbow fish was born with a lot of money, he hoards all of it for himself, becomes a lonely old miser, and the Ghost of Christmas Octopus reminds Rainbow Scrooge that making connections with friends is more valuable than excess wealth.
Like I said, it’s a messy allegory because the scales have no value other than as a social currency. It seems a little weird to redistribute beauty like it’s a resource.
And then there’s the other angle– what if the scales represent something internal? Your values, your interests, your abilities? Are you supposed to dilute yourself down into a version of you that’s more likable? Is making friends a necessary sacrifice of the self?
If you look at the Goodreads reviews for this book (my advice: don’t!) you’ll see a lot of parents who conflate these two ideas, in a "this is the future liberals want" kinda way– "socialist propaganda wants YOU to become the perfect citizen by giving up what makes you special." You can see the giving away of the scales as either a generosity or a loss of individuality, but before you can answer the question of whether it’s worth the cost to give up the scales, you have to ask: what are the scales?
Or maybe you just like it because the print editions have shiny foil stamping on every page. That’s an opinion everybody can get behind!
lovecore this. cottagecore that. what about the reactor core its going to explode
Some people's brain rot is so deep that they seriously paint racist, homophobic, etc. right-wing women as helpless victims of their bigoted fathers and husbands. The Trump family women are genuinely evil on their own. Ben Shapiro's wife is a racist pig in the medical profession. Margaret Thatcher was horrible. The female members of the KKK and other white supremacist terror groups are choosing to be white supremacists.
that’s because there’s this whole idea that women can’t be evil, and that if a woman does something bad, it’s always men’s fault somehow. but women are human, and human being can be horrible on their own, regardless of gender. let’s stop infantilizing women and acting like they can do no wrong. it’s dangerous and it lets too many female bigots/criminals off the hook!
EXACTLY INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM 101 GUYS
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I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment
Nestle has:
Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.
Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.
Used slavery to produce their cocoa.
Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.
Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.
Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.
Price-fixed food items.
Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.
The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.
'kids these days have it easy' thats the point thats the point thats the whole point we're here to make it better for whoever comes after you sad selfish self absorbed puddle of wank
John Adams: “I study war and diplomacy, so that my son may study trade and commerce, so that his son may study art and music.”
I wasn’t sure about that quote, so I looked it up, and it’s a fairly accurate paraphrase of what Adams actually said:
I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
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