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Yes! Preach! Don’t let the hate get you down because the same people hating on the LGBTQ community just won’t make the effort to understand. ❤️ 

I posted this to my personal Facebook account after dealing with a bigot who continually took shots at the LGBT community and I couldn’t stand it anymore.

This is what she posted:

(it was a shared post BTW and her name is not Sui)

She also said this along with some others in which I responded:

And then I got blocked for not agreeing with her.

So this is my personal post:

I said what I said. Period. Your close minded behavior is why the world is the way it is. That man being ourpresident has made these people think they are superior and can tell people who and what they can be. What they can and can’t do with their bodies..

I’m sick of this trash ass behavior so I’m not even gonna entertain it anymore.

🥓🖤🌈🖤🥓

Nikki Giovanni, from “[Untitled]”

La teoría del vidrio roto o por qué no creo que en la comedia se pueda hacer burla de todo.

En resumen: La teoría del vidrio roto postula que cuando vemos algo hecho, ya sea bueno o malo, nos sentimos justificados a repetirlo pensando "¿si el otro lo hizo por qué yo no?" Y así como su nombre indica, si vemos por ejemplo, un vidrio roto en un lugar abandonado, terminamos por lanzar una piedra, acción que a nuestros ojos está "justificada" rompiendo así otro ventanal.

Esto lo podemos ver en practica con basura en el suelo del centro, con burlas hacia una persona en específico (bullying) porque alguien más lo empezó e incluso con las malas conductas que vemos de nuestros padres de las que a veces inconscientemente hacemos reflejo. Pero lo que me compete es el efecto que provoca la comedia sobre los temas que creemos "libres para ser objeto de burla"

En estos tiempos he visto como algunos comediantes, entre ellos Ricky Gervais y Rowan Atkinson sintiendo que dentro de la comedia nada debería ser tema prohíbido, algo que se ha visto antes con la filosofía de George Carlin sobre palabras prohibidas que dice más o menos así "Hay ciertas palabras que son consideradas "malas palabras" nadie te da una lista de cuales son, son palabras que alguien tiene que decir para saberlas, son palabras que alguien estuvo vigilando de cerca al parecer, por la cantidad de referencias a estas palabras que hay" (7 palabras que no puedes decir en la TV, de George Carlin) y su filosofía sobre temas taboo de los que si se puede hacer burla, además de la burla a grupos de poder cuando exageran y se toman a si mismos muy en serio (siempre y cuando sepas como hacerlo) (George Carlin y su rutina sobre el tema de la violación) lo que suelen olvidar algunos como Ricky Gervais es que esto no los exime de recibir criticas, creyendo que la creatividad y la comedia son escudos infalibles con los que cubrir su sentido del humor. No tanto así Rowan Atkinson quien cree que las grandes instituciones como lo son la religión no tienen por qué estar exemptas por ley de ser blanco de la comedia, sin embargo, a mi parecer aún no estamos listos como sociedad para poder hacer burla de cualquier persona como también postula en su entrevista sobre su nueva serie Hombre vs Abeja entre otras cosas.

Volviendo a la teoría del vidrio roto y el por qué creo que no se puede hacer burla de todo siendo realistas: Todo tipo de humor hacia minorías, como lo hizo Ricky Gervais con la comunidad trans. (Ricky Gervais, sobre mujeres trans en su especial de comedia SuperNature) es que "valida" a personas que no son comediantes a hacer burla de estas minorías, permitiendo que estas personas justifiquen su actuar bajo el pretexto de "no hay temas taboo en la comedia, por lo que está bien que yo también me burle ¿Si él lo hace por qué yo no?" Y convierten lo que es una rutina de comedia (por lo demás muy mala a mi parecer) en una salvaguarda del bullying, porque al final eso es y hay que empezar a aclarar estas cosas que están pasando para poder seguir llamandolas por su nombre el cual es Bullying. Salvaguarda que permite a una mayoría la cual se pone en banda contra una minoría que tiene problemas para defenderse en un mundo donde aún no tienen ni las leyes ni los gobiernos que les respalden, ser abusadas.

Ni todo el esfuerzo del mundo ni las mejores rutinas justifican menospreciar y disminuir a una comunidad que solo busca ser respetada como seres humanos que son.

English:

The broken glass theory or why I don't think that we can joke about everything on comedy.

To summarize: The broken glass theory postulates that whenever we see something done, be it good or bad, we feel justified in repeating said behavior thinking that "If someone else already did it, why can't I?" And just as the name suggests if for example: We see a broken window in an abandoned building, we end up throwing a rock. An action that in our eyes is "justified" and so, another window ends up broken.

We can see this in daily life with litter on the floor downtown, with people making fun of someone specifically (bullying) just because someone else started it, even bad behavior we see on our parents that we inadvertently start to mimic might be part of the broken glass theory. But what I'm here for is the effect that comedy has on subjects that we think are "free to make fun about"

Nowadays we see many comedians, some such as Ricky Gervais or Rowan Atkinson feeling that nothing in comedy should be taboo to joke about, something that we've seen before with George Carlin's philosophy on forbidden words which says something along the lines of " There are certain words which are considered "bad words "No one gives you a list of which ones they are you ought to say them to learn which ones they are, words that someone has kept a close eye on, seeing as they have so many references to these words..." (7 words you can't say on TV routine by George Carlin) and his philosophy on taboo topics that you can joke about, plus his routine on groups of power that you should joke about once they take themselves too seriously and start to exaggerate, as long as you know how to do it (George Carlin on rape jokes) what some comedians like Ricky Gervais forget though is that humor does not save you from receiving criticism , thinking that creativity and comedy act as an infallible shield with which to cover up their sense of humor, not so much Rowan Atkinson who believes that big groups like religion should not be exempt by law to be made fun of in comedy, nevertheless, I do think that we still aren't ready as a society to be able to make fun of everyone as he says on his interview on his new series Man vs Bee among other things.

Coming back to the broken glass theory and to why I think that not everything can be made fun of if we're being real is that: All kind of humor towards minorities like Ricky Gervais did against the trans community (Ricky Gervais on trans women on his comedy special SuperNature) is that aiming it towards minorities "validates" people who are not comedians to make fun of minorities, letting people justify their behaviour under the pretense that "there are no taboo topics on comedy, so it's ok for me to make fun of them, if he did why can't I? And they make what is only a comedy routine (a bad one at that if you ask me) into a safeguard for bullying because in the end that's what it is and we should start making things clear so we can properly call them by their name, Bullying. A safeguard that lets a majority that bands together against a minority which still as trouble defending itself in a world where not even laws or governments have their backs, be abused of.

Not even all the effort or the best comedy routines justify disparaging or diminishing a community that only seeks to be respected as human beings.

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“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

— Victoria Erickson

tumblr is very sexy for being like the only major social media platform that doesn’t display your follower count right on your page 

Can't get over the prominence of the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in my childhood. Can't get over the prominence of the moral of God above family and friends in my childhood. That always tore me apart.

I realize this may be a tad out of your ambit, but from my research, Christianity has been responsible for a heck of a lot of the authoritarianism that has caused a lot of harm from conservative logic. How did this come about, and why doesn't it show up in (many) other religions? Or at least not as strongly?

so I’m gonna say something Controversial Yet Brave here: the problem isn’t Christianity, the problem is religious fundamentalism + the Roman Empire.

religious fundamentalism is what happens when you mix religion (value-neutral, not intrinsically a force for good or evil) with traditionalism, which…

if you’re playing along with your The Earl Longpost Bingo Card at home, this is the space marked ‘childhood trauma’! But Bret Devereaux’s series on Sparta got me thinking about this, so you get to hear the rant.

people who’ve been traumatized from a young age often only feel safe when they’re in conditions that are similar to the conditions that traumatized them. if you’re used to the world working a certain way, it can be jarring and even painful to discover that in most of the world, it doesn’t work like that. it’s like… if you were used to gravity being upside-down, so you walked on ceilings, and then suddenly it goes back to “normal” and you have to get used to walking on the floor.    

I genuinely believe that most political traditionalism comes from people who were traumatized as children trying to force everyone else to live in the world where they feel safest. and unfortunately for all of us, the world where they feel safest is ‘a world where things work the way that they do when you’re a small child being mistreated by your parents’.

most self-described traditionalists want everyone to live by a set of rules laid down by a semi-divine, parental authority figure- whether that’s God, Lycurgus, Odin, or a modern guru. These rules are inherently full of contradictions and non sequiturs- no one can properly follow them, even if they want to.

But the consequences for not following them are as harsh as they are for not obeying an abusive parent, and applied just as arbitrarily. so you must perform the arbitrary and pointless tasks your authority tells you to perform, adore the authority upon command, and- of course- hate the people your authority figure tells you to hate, without question.

there is a reason why most forms of religious fundamentalism look more like each other than they look like the religion they’re based on. a religion based on giving to the poor and breaking down power structures becomes a religion about hoarding whatever you can and begging your authority figure not to smite you; a religion of peace becomes about striking down those your authority figure hates… because it’s not about the religion anymore; it’s about making the world feel safe for people who only feel safe when the world is arbitrary and cruel.

 child abuse is, unfortunately, ubiquitous. there are traumatized people everywhere, because there are people who should not be parents everywhere. it’s not unique to the USA or to the Anglosphere or to the Christian world… and so neither is religious fundamentalism.

there are fundie Muslims. there are fundie Orthodox Jews, and fundie Hindus, and fundie Buddhists. from what I understand, there are fundie Confucians and fundie Shinto. there are definitely fundie pagans and atheists, though they’re unlikely to use the label because of its connotations.

the reason that it seems like Christianity is so much worse is that … well… Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. it just so happens that one of the ‘arbitrary rules’ that fundie Christianity tends to keep over its original incarnation is “go ye to all the world and tell them what happened here”… because it’s convenient for both the people who need the world to be trauma-safe and the people in power who need others to do what they say.

The Romans, and the empires that inherited their legacy and worldview, spread Christianity to every place they touched. between Rome, Byzantium, British/French/Spanish colonialism, and American hegemony… there are Christians everywhere, and in the Anglosphere, Christians are a majority.

and of course there’s a lot of factors that go into whether the fundie strain of a religion is the majority. but in general- fundies with the power to do so traumatize their children, creating a new generation of fundies, who seek more political power so that they can feel safe and traumatize their children because It’s The Rules, henceforth and forever. so a lot of the time there are at least a plurality of fundies in any religion, and…

you’re more likely to hear about Christians behaving badly if you live in, well, Christendom, because there are simply more Christians than anyone else. and when fundie Christians specifically are the majority… they have the power to make everyone else live in Trauma City. 

I suspect that if the Roman Empire had embraced Mithraism as its primary religion, we’d be sitting here talking about whether Mithraism is uniquely terrible and likely to foster authoritarianism; if they’d stayed Dodekatheist we’d be arguing if worshiping Zeus or Ares was more likely to make you an authoritarian asshole, and if they’d somehow gone atheist, we’d be discussing whether believing in a god makes you less authoritarian.

Because it’s not about the specific religion; it’s about the political hegemony + the fundamentalism.

celebrity chef theory of imperial collapse

stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

“When we set children against one another in contests - from spelling bees to awards assemblies to science “fairs” (that are really contests), from dodge ball to honour rolls to prizes for the best painting or the most books read - we teach them to confuse excellence with winning, as if the only way to do something well is to outdo others. We encourage them to measure their own value in terms of how many people they’ve beaten, which is not exactly a path to mental health. We invite them to see their peers not as potential friends or collaborators but as obstacles to their own success… Finally, we lead children to regard whatever they’re doing as a means to an end: The point isn’t to paint or read or design a science experiment, but to win. The act of painting, reading, or designing is thereby devalued in the child’s mind.”

— Alfie Kohn, The Myth Of The Spoiled Child

I don’t know if it’s just me but the second someone tells me they hit their kids or want to hit their future kids I immediately never want to talk to them again.

economists really took the divine right of kings and turned it into billionaire CEOs

I was thinking you could still use Jana Werner for the German Dub. She’s been in the Non/Disney dubbing world since the early 90s.

She has played

Belle, Thumbelina, Odette, Anastasia, Ariel in the tv series and Cinderella in the 3rd Movie.

Sorry, if I’m rambling I just really like bouncing around ideas.

@o0whiterabbit0o

 ~•~ Lashanie’s voice claim ~•~

For a few days, I’ve been considering to change her voice claim & now I’ve made my decision :) Even though I still love Jana Werner wholeheartedly, I think the new one fits her a little better.

So let me share this little fun info with you ♥

Her new voice claim : Ashley Spencer

example no1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw47UL8crrs

example no2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMohQlq97TM

example no3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qyc7Q7DhHk

As some of you might know, Lashanie’s a singer. So even if it doesn’t seem important or needed, I still think it’s nice, to give an idea of what she possibly could sound like :)

Fun fact - Ashley has been suggested to me by a friend already a few months ago & I was like “naah…”, until she send me a cover of her & Jeremy of Maybe I’m amazed. That’s what made me listen to her more and kinda fall in love with her voice & attitude ♥ So, thank you @nostalgialover808​