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The reasoning behind why Iroh choose a doll for Azula, from a colonial perspective

irl, colonizers and other dominant groups made dolls of minorities to assert their hegemony and subjugate them, often using stereotypes e.g. https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/links/essays/toys.htm

These toys were also used to indoctrinate children into particular cultural values or racist ideas. This might be the purpose of Azula's doll. It might be made in EK or FN colonies. Either way, it may represent the colonized EK female, symbolizing women the colonizer can own and objectify. It fits the stereotype of the pretty EK girl from Iroh's song. That might be the message of the doll.

If so, this wouldn't make it better that Iroh gave Azula the doll not the knife. But it shows his chauvinist and sexist thinking that he would use the doll to say: FN women, you can be imperialists too! (just not by fighting or being ruler, that's for boys only).

by @theteashopgirl

Is hell for satanists heavan?

dont kill urself until u try adderall and/or transitioning 👍

Some people can’t handle different skin colors. I don’t think furs will help.

I feel like a whole bunch of human aesthetic problems could be solved if we just re-evolved fur

America is just an empire that changes it’s emperor every 4 or 8 years(not counting death)

I think one of the most important reasons why the USA tends to be seen in a better light than China vis a vis human rights violations is because China makes the crucial mistake of doing more of them to its own people.

Like yeah Americans have terrible healthcare and the largest prison population in the world and an oppressive spiral of poverty but their worst offenses are mostly committed at a distance in the Middle East, South America, and previously in South East Asia. Being an American looks pretty good! It gets you further away from their human rights violations!

Note to self: do not come to party hosted by political enemies.

You’ve become your icon and you have the same situation as the icon you have.

How fucked up are you?

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.