I Love It When People Try To Claim Representation In Fiction Is Being Taken “too Far” To The Point

Zoro still smiles and laughs a lot, and the reason why he doesn't do it as uproariously as he used to in the beginning is because he's not as surprised by his happiness anymore send tweet.

There's something very insidious about how trans men are told by cis allies how they're "allowed to be feminine", almost as if they don't want us to be too masculine, and how this doesn't.... happen for trans women.

Like, trans women aren't told by allies that if they're masculine, it's okay. That trans women who are butch, who have love for things that are considered "traditionally masculine", are fucking women, too, and it doesn't make them any less women.

Why is that? 🤔 Hmm, I wonder why cis people's alliance only works to further trans people into hyperfeminization, which is considered by radfems to be a "safe gender" HMMMMMMM I WONDER -

Anyway, trans butch women are the fucking backbone of society and if you feel "uncomfortable" with them because they don't adhere to the hyper feminine standards that yall have imposed on trans women in order to exist, I'll make damn sure your "uncomfortable" fucking sitting down.

Latinx? Latino/a? Hispanic?

What’s the difference between Hispanic, Latino, Latinx and Latine?

People often want to know which term — Hispanic, Latino or Latinx — is the most respectful. But it really depends on the person and context.

“Hispanic” refers to any of the peoples in the Americas and Spain who speak Spanish or are descended from Spanish-speaking communities. It was coined in the 1970s by the U.S. Census Bureau to offer a pan-ethnic name for peoples such as Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans and others, whose social, economic and political needs were often ignored.

According to UC Berkeley's Cristina Mora, before the term “Hispanic” was adopted, the census enumerators would often check off people such as Mexican Americans as “White” on the census forms.

In contrast to Hispanic, the term Latino describes any person with ancestry in Latin America, a politically defined region usually unified by the predominance of Romance languages. This definition usually includes Portuguese-speaking Brazil and French-speaking Haiti, but excludes Spain.

But what about Latinx??

For some, the pronunciation of the word is cryptic: la-TEENGKS? LA-tin-EX? For others, it represents a kind of language imperialism by imposing a new English word onto a Spanish word and rendering it unpronounceable.

Latinx is essentially a non-binary form of Latino or Latina. The suffix “-x” replaces the “-o” or “-a” corresponding to masculine or feminine, allowing the word to resist the gender binary. (In Spanish-speaking countries, the term Latine with the suffix “-e” is circulating as an alternative to the -o/a binary.)

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As we turn the corner into the month of Hanukkah, a reminder for the gentiles:

Hanukkah is NOT “Jewish Christmas!”

No. No no no.

1) Christmas is one of the two most theologically important holidays in Christianity. Hanukkah doesn’t even crack the top ten, at least theologically speaking, in Judaism. (I would not, of course, denigrate those for whom Hanukkah is an important point of connection to Judaism, as that’s a different conversation.)

2) Christmas celebrates the miraculous birth of the Christian deity (at least into one of the deity’s three component parts) on Earth. Hanukkah celebrates a military victory by observant, unassimilated Jews over the Assyrian Greeks and assimilated Jews and the reinstatement of a Jewish monarchy. 

Birth vs Lots of Death (albeit of the Hasmoneans’ enemies).

3) For a very long time, Christmas has included the giving of gifts (though the form varied of course between times and cultures). Hanukkah didn’t, for much of its existence, beyond the provision of gelt (that is, money) to children. Many American and westernized Jews give gifts to their children these days, but that was largely borne out of making Hanukkah more appealing to make celebrating Christmas less appealing and even now it is far from universal.

4) Christians cannot work on Christmas (unsurprisingly, given its importance as a holiday). Jews can work on Hanukkah (though they may leave early to light the Hanukkiah).

4a) Side note: Hanukkiah is the specific name for the candelabraum we use for Hanukkah (9 branches). Menorah translates to “lamp” and traditionally has seven branches but need not, necessarily. All Hanukkiyot are menorot, not all menorot are Hanukkiyot.

Now, none of this means that we don’t love and enjoy Hanukkah. We do! Fried latkes and sufganiyot, dairy products, child-appropriate gambling, songs….what could be better? But it is very, very much not “Jewish Christmas”.

d&d characters.. 1st one is mine, 2nd is my sister's oc i drew

Cross your fingers for Disney losing full Avengers rights

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I think most non-Jews don't know/understand American synagogues are under siege, having to pay huge amounts for security, both to have armed guards, but also installing bulletproof windows and doors and putting up anti-ramming barriers. It's getting really bad out there and I never see anyone who isn't Jewish talking about it.

I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem

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Hello tumblr, this is a poem I wrote about myself, tws in tags