This is the first time ive seen this meme used and it wasnt only in character but also literally sounds like actual dialogue from the series itd paired with
My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.
My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years – thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! – and they slip quietly out of class to pray.
My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”
I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems – schedules its WEEKS – around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.
God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.
Heck, the only holy day we DON’T get off is Ash Wednesday, and that only involves a church service if you’re Catholic.
Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
Really need to go food shopping and hoping to hit up the food shelf at the same time, found a ride but gonna have to pay for gas and possibly lunch for the driver, any help is greatly appreciated. Miigwech (thank you).
ive been working on a Discourse Thought about terfs lately, and here it goes:
you know that super precious, stifling, ‘women are so important and precious and vulnerable’ rhetoric that gets used about white women to rile up racists? i feel like that exact sentiment is what terfs are using to rile up transphobes, and they’re getting young lesbians all caught up with them in it. there’s this very smothering, matronly sort of attitude that older women can have towards younger women, and towards the whole concept of female sexuality, and it’s all about fear and control and hatred.
it says, ‘as a woman, you are vulnerable. you are physically vulnerable, you are mentally vulnerable, and you’re definitely sexually vulnerable. you are vulnerable to corruption and to predators and to violence and to sin. you must be kept safe and pure from Bad Men, of which there are many, all of them extremely eager to abuse you physically and emotionally and sexually. you must also be insulated from harmful media, which can corrupt you utterly and lead you right to all those Bad Men, or perhaps even make you Bad too, like the Bad Men. and of course you must be trained to recognize the terrible danger you are in! all the Bad things and ways that could destroy you! you should be scared at all times, and listen to us, your elders, your sisters and mothers, who know all the horrible dangers of the world, and will keep you safe from it, and pure, and good, right on this clean little pedestal where we can keep an eye on you, and you must never get off.’
this isn’t a very good kind of feminism. it’s hard to see it as feminist at all, in any possible light, because it’s note-for-note just regular old sexually repressive bigotry, but now with an invitation for lesbians to come join their straight sisters in this Safe Space that’s definitely-for-sure-we-promise not a cage.
feminism should be empowering. it shouldn’t be one more shot of poison in the ear of girls who are already scared enough. because women are people, not things. they are valuable, and, yeah, they’re vulnerable. but they’re also capable of strength and bravery, and they deserve the scary and dangerous freedom of being allowed to live in the world on their own terms, not the safety of a cloister.
terf rhetoric won’t make you safe. it’ll just make you scared. and you deserve to be free, instead.
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