“It was a logical ruse”
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Call me Shira or Zephyr
20 years old
She/they pronouns
Bisexual
Ashkenazi Jewish
one of the replies on the "please don't plan events on rosh hashanah and yom kippur" post was like "i don't understand, how does it interfere? is it because events would be noisy and disturb people in synagogue?"
it didn't occur to them that we would want to attend the events
if u r trans no matter what ur agab and ur gender may be there is a good chance u will have a voice in ur head telling u that u need to lose weight to pass and to have people take u seriously . that is the voice of the DEVIL do NOT LISTEN TO IT !!!!
HIIIIE EVERYONE, my commissions are officially reopened! check out my updated online portfolio for examples and prices!!
to be honest yall... i need help. I got cut off from my family, i'm unemployed, and i'm pretty scared about making rent this september, so it mean so so much to me if i got some work <3
if you don't wanna/can't comm me, i get it! even just a kofi would mean so much, or just reblogging this post would mean the world.
thanks so much!
Disability Pride shout out to everyone whose disability…
gets in the way of their sex life
gets in the way of expressing and/or understanding their sexuality
gets in the way of their romantic life
gets in the way of intimate relationships
gets in the way of exploring any/all of the above
beloved mutuals just know that I am gently patting you on the head and telling you you are doing a good job
I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.
social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.
transmasc butches and transfem butches are not at odds with each other, in fact theyre – no….thats private….i shant say
it's not that I have a massive dislike for the soulmate trope - I choose not to read it because it makes me uncomfortable - but what I do have a massive dislike for is that whenever an aromantic person brings up the fact that the soulmate trope isn't inclusive to aromantic people suddenly 1483949585 people burst out of nowhere saying "soulmates can be platonic" "it could be with a pet!" or whatever 'exception' they create to the rule.
not everyone experiences platonic attraction or feelings. not every aro is partnering or wants a qpr. not everyone wants a pet.
so even these caveats to the trope aren't even inclusive. it isn't about trying to make soulmates inclusive, it's about getting people to realise that a fictional scenario where you are destined to have a long term monogamous relationship with a specific person doesn't apply to many people, and that it is based on a cultural structure where romance is prioritised as the best, most important type of relationship.
I don’t often share hate I get because it’s not productive, but this is an anon I got a few hours ago.
I reported and blocked them, because people like this can’t be reasoned with. Luckily, I hope more people read and learn from the response.
Here it goes…
This anon claims all Jews are white mass murderers. Let’s break that down.
Besides being just antisemitic as a whole, it’s also factually untrue in all the ways.
All Jews aren’t white. Firstly, Jews of color exist so already it’s obvious that not all Jews are white. Boom, Anon is defeated. Secondly, when it comes to Jews and “whiteness” there is a long history especially in America with what that means for Jewish people. You’ve probably seen the “No Dogs; No Jews” allowed signs that were popular well into the 1950s. I wish I had recorded Ari Axelrod’s insta story from the other day where he broke down everything about this. Basically Jews are seen as white when people want us to be (usually to remove us from being a minority and a group that needs help and protection), and seen as “other” and “non-white” (in a negative way) when people want us to be (see; the Nazis). Jews exist in this weird in between where some have the privilege of lighter colored skin, but if someone hates Jews, they’ll hate you anyway. Jewish last names and prominent physical features are constantly changed to be more “white.” Also, not all Jews are from Eastern Europe. There was a bunch of assimilation to make Jews fit more into the “white American” society. There’s so much. But the moral of the story is that while Jews can identify as white, when looked at by society in history and now in the rising heat of antisemitism, white becomes a weapon used against Jews. You’re white, so you’re not a minority in need of help. You’re white, so you can’t be a victim of discrimination. You’re white so you don’t need representation on TV or in movies. Jews aren’t white, they’re full of dirty blood (literally Hitler’s main thing was that Jews were too subhuman to be white). Jews are whatever the person who hates us wants us to be. We’re either too white or not white enough. If you’re all gonna hate us, you should get your stories straight. Many Jews, in the face of hate, have started to reclaim being Jewish as an indigenous race as well as their ethnicity. Antisemitism is legitimately a form of racism, as seen in David Baddiel’s book and others, but because western culture has a certain view on what “race” means, Jews who claim they have experienced racism (as I have) have to explain what race means in the context and the whole history of everything. Jews being their own race said in a derogatory way is obviously bad (i.e. Hitler), but since Jews do experience racism through antisemitism and therefore do have factors of race it’s all a lot and a pile of ethnicity, religion, culture, genetics, community, belief, history, and more. Jews can identify however they want, as long as nobody is insultingly accusing us of something we aren’t…
Jews aren’t mass murderers. I feel like I don’t need to explain this one. What I’m confident the anon is getting at, is that all Jews are somehow murderers because there’s a conflict in the Middle East that’s been going on for forever and in modern times, longer than the majority of Jews today have been alive. Tell me how a random Jewish preschooler is a murderer, tell me how American Jews have any impact on something happening literally across the world. Bringing the I/P conflict into a conversation about Jewish people where it has no relevance will always be antisemitic. Claiming all Jews are murderers, a false statement, is antisemitic. It’s just wrong and it’s just hate.
1945 (September) was the official end of WW2 (though pogroms and attacks didn’t end when the war did). Funny that this anon specifically said to “stop living in 1945,” because that’s exactly what happened to 6 million of us. They were murdered. To put that into perspective, 6 million people is the size of:
All of these places. Imagine there not being a single living human being in Wisconsin. Or in Connecticut AND Nevada. 6 million is a lot of people.
And Jewish people are still dying. There was a mass murder at a temple only a few years ago. There are countless bomb threats and gun scares every week. We have police officers outside for our safety. Jews are stabbed on the street in broad day light.
No, it’s not 1945 anymore. But antisemitism never stopped, only the gas chambers did. And it hasn’t even been 100 years since the start of them.
Are Jews oppressed? No. We can own land, go to the doctor, work, have a family, study, etc.
But the real question is are Jews severely discriminated against? Yes. See above where I list how physical attacks never ended. I, born at the turn of the 21st century, personally have nearly been attacked or killed dozens (yes, plural) of times based solely on the fact that I “look Jewish” and my house had a mezuzah. I used to live in a town where I couldn’t walk safely down the street without fear that someone would attack me for being Jewish. I had an Uber drop me off a street away from my temple so they didn’t know where I was going. Jews aren’t safe.
The only difference between The Holocaust and now is that there were concentration/labor camps and baseless laws. The attitudes have never changed, the attacks have never changed, the way Jews are viewed has never changed.
This is why Jews need representation in media. Because we aren’t “white mass murderers.”
We’re people. People who, against literally all odds, are alive. We’re diverse. We’re more than what you see on TV. We’re an ethnicity. We’re a culture. We’re still trying to recover from being mass murdered. We’re worthy of life and appreciation.
