Very religious schools that otherwise have a decent academic reputation often have a department that’s basically seen as “sketchy” due to being heavily religiously influenced and in the case of Evangelical schools that’s Biology and with BYU from what I’ve heard that’s Anthropology
Also seemingly without fail the most academically and professionally well-regarded secular part of super religious universities is their law school which is like, things kinda start clicking then
People trying to pathologize like eating sweets and jerking off is wild. “I stopped doing this thing that feels good and I want more now ?? So this is an addiction and I have to keep avoiding it until the craving goes away” no you just want to enjoy things because you’re a human being. Chocolate and porn and whatever aren’t, like. Meth. It won’t kill you to feel good. You don’t have to be a medieval monk
Like yes it’s possible to have an unhealthy relationship with whatever gives you the easiest dopamine hit but the thing is that that’s more symptomatic of, like. Being depressed. Than pleasure itself being evil and bad for you
If you feel like you’re overindulging in 1 thing, the solution is to fill your life with a variety of indulgences, not live in deprivation.
If you feel like you’re overindulging in 1 thing, the solution is to fill your life with a variety of indulgences, not live in deprivation.
Wheres that old poster where it’s a jewish woman and a palestinian woman shaking hands and saying something like “my history taught me to stand in solidarity with your people”
not the coquettes literally reinventing nazi phrenology on tiktok
Yeah just a heads up. If you start judging people by bodyshape in any way I’ll kick you right in the teeth. Have fun describing someone’s face shape as inferior when your jaw is gone
this video explains it pretty well for anyone that needs a video format!
So there’s another thing this reminded me of.
First of all, I’m glad he spoke about the incel community because they have been using repackaged Nazi ideologies regarding physical traits for years now and I didn’t really see anyone talking about it besides “They think they don’t get dates because of their jaw shape but they’re just horrible to be around”. Yes, but also their far-right ideas aside from their (already really bad) trad wife fantasies.
Second, I was thinking of last year, when terfs on Twitter demanded the logo of Women’s March to be changed. The logo (shown below) consists of three silhouettes. The complaint was that the one in the front resembled a man. There’s not many articles but this one states that Women’s March took the stand of trans women being women. Why am I talking about this? Here’s the logo:
The face in the front is what they call a witch skull above. I agree with Women’s March’s standpoint of trans women being women. What I ALSO think is that female-born women can also develop a face shape like that. This is NOT the face shape of a man either way.
We all need to be more careful with the content we consume in a time like this were far-right ideas are on the rise and hidden SO WELL that people who are 1) young 2) only occasionally on social media 3) not that educated/interested in history/social sciences/gender studies won’t detect it. There’s nothing wrong with either of those but these people need to be picked up. Like, I’ve been on the internet forever and when girl dinner dropped I was like “hell yeah I can’t cook either tf”. You see how fast “girl dinner” escalated into “besides girl dinner is also girl this and girl that because women can’t do anything and are inferior”.
Also, if you’re a woman associating with far-right ideas I PROMISE you you will be their target eventually. In the beginning this was anti-trans and you might not have cared or even agreed, now it’s plain race hygiene and you might still not care, but next there will be another category to determine who is a valuable, worthy woman and who is not and then another. You might be proud to have an angel skull now and feel super feminine and special but I promise this is just the beginning of 2020s political radicalization. We need to be more careful.
Oh, just two years after WWII ended, the US vetoed the UN from condemning and imposing sanctions on the very fascist Spain, and less than two years after that, in 1949, started to fund them. Those years, while the US was getting cozy with the Spanish gov, they were using 24000 political prisoners as slave labor to build the pharaoh-like future tomb of Franco.
So every time I see someone saying how the US defeated fascism, I can’t help but chuckle (sensibly)
I recently was thinking about how Zionists position ‘peace’ and 'justice’ as two opposing ideals in the context of Palestine. In their case, peace means accepting Israel and accepting normalisation. They try to paint a picture of Palestinians not wanting peace and therefore filled with “hatred” because we refuse to either accept the existence of Israel or accept the status quo, but it’s just hogwash. It’s the same reason you sometimes see Zionists decrying pro-Palestine rallies as ones being full of “anger and incitement.” Of course Palestinians want peace. Palestinians want peace that enables them to live in their homeland without a looming occupation controlling their lives. Palestinians want peace that allows better self-determination than whatever corrupt version of statehood that the US and Israel offer them. But that peace will not be possible without justice, and that’s the difference between the pro-Israel version of peace and what real peace actually entails for Palestinians.
