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by on November 10, 2022 at 7:30 pm
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patron-saint-of-smartasses:

robin-hood-for-freedom:

mr-phoenix-downer:

bunniefriend-deactivated2022111:

thinking about this guy

fellas, does it violate the sanctity of marriage if you make your wife cum?

Fun fact, it was widely believed in the Medieval church that both partners had to orgasm in order for a baby to be made.

^The belief that “women orgasm bad” is likely leftover bunk science from the Victorian era, when many doctors believed that a woman’s orgasm would “burn” semen. So many radtrad heretics act like they would be at home in the Medieval and Ancient Church when they actually act more like Industrial Age, post-Enlightenment Protestants they think they fight against. They’re just extremist fundamentalists with a Catholic gilding on the outside. It’s freaking hilarious.

I read some Victorian sex advice last night and it ended up pissing me off. I can’t even laugh at it. Most of the responsibility and blame fell on the women’s shoulders while the guys were free to whore around in brothels at their leisure. And of course all the bullshit caused numerous harmful contradictions. On one hand women were to be “pure” and “ladylike”, so they must denounce sex as often as possible as it was demoralizing. Yet the men could be as debauched as they liked with little to no repercussions, comparatively. The lack of intimacy that was encouraged in these times, lead to men taking advantage of “fallen women” (aka prostitutes) who didn’t count as “real” women, so they could sleep with them as much as they like. The prostitution business was BOOMING in the Victorian era, and the spread of STDs to wives helped coin the phrase “the marriage hearse” because of the diseases spreading to the wives.

Seriously, I cannot stress enough how ironically regressive the Victorians were and how their teachings are arguably still in effect today. The household was seen as chiefly the woman’s duty while the man had little involvement. Women were responsible for the children, servants (if they had any), the going-ons in the house, and many other things. Which sounds pretty powerful on the surface, and arguably was so in some regards. It’s just a shame that they still weren’t taken as seriously in many areas even with all the demands placed on them. Not to mention the unfair laws that were present that left many women shackled in unfair, if not abusive situations. And if any problems arose, it was, you guessed it, most likely her fault. Not to mention the gross ignorance and negligence of female health.

Here’s some quotes gathered by various marriage books:

“Women must not complain, even if there’s reason to, because the man’s authority is the consequence of sin, the sin of your own sex.”

“Having intercourse for carnal reasons alone is like allowing your husband to use you like a prostitute. A full three-fourths of diseases in women are the result of engaging in non-reproductive sex.”

“Having children under proper circumstances never ruins the health and happiness of any woman. In fact, woman-hood is incomplete without them. She may have a dozen or more, and still have better health than before marriage.”

“It’s in a man’s nature to go searching for a new version of the girl you used to be before you bore him seven children and made the comforts of his home the envy of the neighborhood,”

You get the gist of it. *gag*

I swear to… something, if it weren’t for pretty privilege and the handful of movements and innovations that were actually beneficial, the Victorians would’ve been rejected as ass-backwards neanderthals for all the absolute horseshit they were responsible for. Granted, humans are humans and obviously not everybody acted like this. There’s still some decent advice given along the bad and accounts of genuine love and affection. It’s just….DAMN. Where did these guys get off saying they were “enlightened”? The “Dark Ages” were brighter than they were.

Sorry for ranting Not really

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by on June 16, 2022 at 5:11 am
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irishironclad:

woeworld:

irishironclad:

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rinielsaerwen:

thatsastepladder:

trutown-the-bard:

catholic-medievalist-deactivate:

catholicpharmacistofficial:

The best argument for the perpetual virginity of Mary is that she gave birth to God. This is untouchable holiness. Any man of honor would know this instinctively and immediately.

Y’all protestants need to start showing St Joseph more respect for being the incredible holy man that he is

Great. Great. Now where does it say that Mary was perpetually a virgin in the New Testament? And why can’t an ordinary woman give birth to God?

I really don’t follow the Catholic argument here. Mary, by the Holy Spirit, gave birth to Jesus, so she’s somehow so holy that she and Joseph never consecrated their marriage?

This, despite the fact that Matthew explicitly names Jesus’s half-brothers and mentions that He had half-sisters as well?

And despite the fact that sex is a good and right thing for any married man and woman to do, something that God created for the covenant of marriage and saw was good?

For the last time Jesus was an only child of Mary. She remained a perpetual virgin throughout her marriage to St. Joseph.

Someone give me one good reason why St. Joseph, knowing that her Child is God, and that she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit, would dare touch her in front of Jesus, who is all-knowing God.

A good reason? Because she was his wife. Mary conceived by the holy spirit, but we aren’t told she was married to them. If Joseph didn’t have sex with Mary, they wouldn’t be married. so my question is why you call it her “marriage” to st. Joseph if it was never consummated?

In sorry are you under the impression that married couples must have sex to be actually married because that’s not only incorrect it’s gross.

I was actually arguing from the Catholic concept of annulment, though on further research it appears more complex than I thought. though I dunno why you’d call it gross.

Because it implies that married couples are required to have sex and that’s gross.

Doesn’t Matthew 1: 24-25 outright blow that theory away?

“And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took as his wife, and kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.”

And these verses too:

  • Mark 6:2-3, “And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands? “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?”
  • John 2:12, “After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and there they stayed a few days.”

Also, doesn’t this put virginity on a pedestal and reinforce the idea that virgins are somehow purer than the rest of people? Which supports the notion that sex is “dirty” and not a beautiful thing created by God Himself?

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Frick it feel like ranting right now

by on May 24, 2022 at 10:28 pm
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I absolutely abhor Christianity being labeled “The White Man’s Religion”.

It puts a single face on the Faith and by extension, salvation. Let me explain. When this phrase  implies that the only way Christianity can be known, is through the White Man. Only the White Man can know it and God, and only he has a big hand in spreading it on the Earth. So much so, the only way others can know it and God is if the white man’s involved in some sort of way, which further implies that the idea of salvation can also only be achieved if the White Man is involved. This contradicts Scripture, by implying that mankind (of any race) plays a main role in the deliverance of souls as a median. Which is in contradiction with:

John 14:6
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 6:44

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.


Ephesians 2: 8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

(Especially that last sentence.)

Now, white people can testify and minister if they’re moved to by the Spirit, certainly, but at the end of the day, the white man, or any man really, does not and cannot save people. God saves people through his son Jesus and it’s up to Him to decide how and when He reveals Himself. It doesn’t matter how many churches, crosses, or sites you build. It doesn’t matter how many times you quote the Bible to someone, how many stock prayers you recite, or how many hymns you sing, at the end of the day, it is God who reveals Himself through these things and it’s up to individuals themselves to answer or ignore His call. Which is why this phrase (TWMR) is also a slap in the face to those of other races who had a genuine spiritual revelation and relationshipwith Him on their own. It’s common to have these people be denounced as traitors, suck-ups, brainwashed, or idiots. Other times they’re simply ignored because they don’t fit within certain narratives.

TWMR also ignores history and places everything in a American/European viewpoint. Which ticks me off considering Christianity has its origins and history in the Middle East and parts of Africa but has since then spread throughout the world, and whose main figure was an ethnic Jew. The oldest (possibly) Christian churchcurrently found is the Duras-Europos Church in Syria. Ethiopia also has a church older than most European ones, and has a long an incredibly devout Christian history despite being the only African nation to never be colonized by European powers. It also ignores saints and martyrs from other places who were, and still are, killed for their faith simply because they don’t fit the stereotype of “dE eBiL wHyTe MeN” pushing their beliefs onto others. (It also shows how ignorant and callous “progressive” Europeans/Americans can be when they cheer or mock the deaths of “POCs” as long as their part of a group they don’t like, i.e. Christians.)

The TWMR moniker also makes it seem like only white people can follow the Faith, and thus, be saved because of how exclusive it is. Which is incredibly heretical. One of the core beliefs of Christianity is that anyone can come to Christ. ANYONE.

Galatians 5:26-29
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

And

John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

EVERYBODY has a chance. EVERYBODY.

Now don’t get it twisted. I’m not ignorant of how Christianity became known to others, especially by those seeking to use it for abuse. I don’t blame these people, be they in the past or now, who have a strong aversion if not outright hatred for the Faith because of cruel people using it for their own selfish desires. I myself loathe these same people and find them to be a canker sore on the Christianity as a whole. Every time I hear a story or see coverage of a “”“Christian”“”“ doing something despicable and still claim to be of God, or worse, try to use the Bible of justification, I wanna throw my TV out the window in rage. I am not all downplaying the suffering that these people’s victims suffered; and it’s equally disgusting when the Church and other believers don’t call it out when they should. Worse, they try to hand wave it away. These criminals should absolutely be judged by both the Church according to God’s Law and the Law of Man and be punished as such by both.

The Bible mentions fake Christians and abusers of the Word frequently:

Matthew 15:8 These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Titus 1:16 They claim to know God, but they deny him by what they do. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit to do anything good.

Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not
everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in
your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in
your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For
such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves
as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself
as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also,
disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will
correspond to their deeds.

Jude 1:4 For certain people have crept in
unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly
people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our
only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even
as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring
upon themselves swift destruction.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people
will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will
turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

If you are a Christian of any race, gender, status, or what have you; and someone is not acting as they should according to the Faith,

CALL. THEM. OUT.

Not only to put them in check for their sake and others’, but because we are commanded to:

1 Corinthians 5:

9-13 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Matthew 18:15-17 If
your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you
are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two others with you so that
‘every word may be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
If, however, he ignores them, tell it to the congregation. If he also
ignores the congregation, regard him as an unbeliever and a tax collector.

1 Corinthians 5:1-2
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and
of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his
father’s wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Galatians 2:11-14 But
when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he
stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating
with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated
himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted
hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by
their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in
step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If
you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you
force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Lastly, I also have strong issues with the common depiction of Jesus as white. For starters, He wasn’t. He wasn’t black either, as many people insist, but he certainly wasn’t white either. He was a Jew from the land of Israel. But at the end of the day, it’s all pointless anyway. Being a certain race doesn’t magically make that race any closer to Him. They don’t get brownie points or a headstart over anyone else. They still have to stand before God on Judgement Day just like everyone else. All that matters was that Jesys was born, He lived and taught us, he died for our sins, He was resurrected, and will return in the New Heaven and Earth. That’s literally all that matters, everything else is cosmetic. Whatever shell He came in was just that, a shell. It was merely for interacting with this world and it’s people before ascending once again. I don’t give a damn if He was purple, polka-dotted, with rainbow hair. I don’t care if He looked like Homey D. Clown. All that matters, is that He gave His life for all of us and asks Him to follow Him in return.

Nothing else matters.

TL;DR

– “The White Man’s Religion” crap disregards history, ignores other races, is absolute heathenry in multiple ways and gives me bizarro Manifest Destiny vibes (often pushed by regressives).

– Call out false believers and heretics.

– Believe in Jesus, He died for everyone. Yes, even that one coworker you don’t like.

Christianity: Come for the Bread, stay for the Word. Everyone welcomed.

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by on May 5, 2022 at 8:25 pm
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life-advocate-feminist:

“BuT tHeY’rE oNlY a ClUmP oF cElLs!!1!!”

And so are you and every other living thing. You just have add-ons. These people, yes, PEOPLE, were and still are human and always will be human. They deserve a right to life just as much as their mothers, and taking them away is brutal and a violation of their rights as fellow human beings. Them living doesn’t infringe on the mother’s either, they are both EQUAL.

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oh i just KNOW 90% of you prolifers would’ve bullied the fuck out of me. as a fat autistic kid, it wasn’t the children who proudly exclaimed their religous afflictions who were kind to me. nope! they mocked me for not wanting to be touched and mocked me saying words a lil different since my dads an immigrant. the ones who did treat me were the other autistic kids and the immigrant kids! while you may be all “uwu save da little retard babies!” i just know if you meet one of us irl you’d act real different. You certainly have so far

by on April 23, 2022 at 9:10 am
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beakedwhalesyo:

prolifeproliberty:

tijuanabiblez:

prolifeproliberty:

tijuanabiblez:

prolifeproliberty:

tijuanabiblez:

a-really-big-cat:

tijuanabiblez:

prolifeproliberty:

You got the wrong person for this one. My brother’s autistic, half the people I hung out with in college are autistic (either officially diagnosed or “on the spectrum”), my husband is autistic…

I wasn’t the one making fun of weird kids in elementary/middle school. I was the weird kid who got made fun of.

All this aside, I don’t want children being killed, period. Having autism or Down Syndrome or any learning or intellectual disability does not make someone an exception to this principle.

I don’t have to be your friend to not want you dead.

it wasn’t specifically you i was talking about, it’s you tradcats in general. I’m biracial, bisexual, autistic and generally mentally ill. for centuries tradcats have seen me as a freak of nature. i’ve been religious during my little phases several times, and i ain’t found any love there! the people you follow would’ve put me in a mental instution if they could. 

why would Catholics hate someone who’s biracial (i mean we wouldn’t hate anyone if we did right by our teachings, but that one really confuses me)

literally almost every one of my mutuals is mentally ill or disabled in some way

@that-catholic-shinobi

(also prolifeproliberty is actually Lutheran…)

because muh tradition. papa broke it when he fell in love with a hispanic woman. most trads stick to their own kind. next time you’re in a white picket fence neighbourhood, count how many same-raced couple vs mixed you see. and they’re real traditional there. 

I don’t live in a “white picket fence” neighborhood, and my church isn’t in a neighborhood like that either. Most of the Catholics I know personally are Hispanic.

Sounds like you had a very specific bad experience with specific people mistreating you/your family and hiding behind their religion to excuse their behavior.

Don’t blame that on all “tradcats,” and definitely not all Christians or all pro-life people.

oh i didn’t say you did. just said some conservatives don’t like people like bc of that. there was a freak out in like 2014 cuz a commerical had a mixed family on air. And i’m well aware most hispanic people are christian. 

and i wouldn’t say “hiding”, more just establishing dominance over someone who’s inherently different. And its really that specific, the children in my grandmothers school tried to burn her as a witch cuz they thought she was too weird.  And i’m not blaming, i’m just saying my existance is inherently in oppision to yours, as yours is to mine, and therefore i wish you’d stop acting like you actually care about people like me. 

How is your existence in opposition to mine? We probably disagree on some things (such as your view of sexuality), but you’re a human being with value and rights.

You came to my blog and vented your personal and family trauma because I interact with people who remind you of people who hurt you. I’m not sure what you want from me – because it almost sounds like you want me to say that you don’t have value, because you think that’s what I “truly believe.”

It’s almost like you want me to be an awful person because that would justify the generalizations and stereotypes you’ve formed based on your bad experiences with specific people.

How is your existence in opposition to mine?

because historically, christian officals have used their powers to make us weirdos not have a place in society. sodomy laws, the hayes code, virginia v lovin., in ye olden days places that showed nudie films were raided and protested by you guys. 

and i didn’t really vent, more say my mark that most of you prolifers don’t care (not you since you seem to be an exception) about autists in more than theory and goodie points. i was unaware of your relations to my people. 

and truly think in your heart, do you really want degenerates like me on the same earth as God? when you guys protested in the 60s against the new wave of everyone who wasn’t a straight white guy, you sure didn’t want us. when christian moms want a cure autism or homosexuality and make stupid little articles about how their autism/down syndrome child is like a curse or a zoo animal you sure don’t want us. 

So you’re blaming me for things people did in the past before I was born?

You’ve fundamentally misunderstood what Christianity is. Our core belief is that we are ALL “degenerates” – “For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God” (Romans 3:23)

None of us deserve to be in God’s presence, which is why none of us get to go to heaven under our own merit. It’s literally the core, central message of Christianity.

Well, more accurately, the core central message is the verse that follows the one I quoted:

“and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.” ‭‭(Romans‬ ‭3:24-25‬)

The entire point is that none of us deserve God’s love, but Jesus died and rose again to pay for our sins and free us from them.

I’m sorry nobody ever share the Gospel with you, but I recommend the book of Romans if you want to understand what Christianity actually teaches (Romans 6 is a really great summary of what life looks like for a Christian who has been saved)

As one of the aforementioned half of her friends group in college, an autistic bisexual man, I’m here to say she’s not the caricature that lives in your head. She and I disagree on many things and we’ve argued about them both irl and on here, but I hold no malice or hatred towards her, nor does she toward me.

It should tell you something that I’m loyal enough to her to leap to her defense as soon as I read your wild assumptions and accusations. I’m also quite religious and hold conservative social beliefs, though I don’t believe in imposing them on others. There are many people like me in our camp as well.

Don’t let the victim mentality that’s been drilled into your head by ideology drive wedges between you and people you’ve never met. Just because you strongly disagree with someone on things, doesn’t automatically make them your mortal enemy.

I’m sorry you were mistreated by people like us in the past, but you can’t let those people define the whole. If I let the fact I was bullied and taken advantage of by a gaggle of girls in high school shape my view of women as a whole and cause me to hate them, I bet you’d rightly think that was wrong and call me a mysogynist.

^This

I was sexually abused by my own cousin at least twice. But the trauma and its effects that I’ve suffered from don’t justify me treating all men like shit because of what he alone did. An innocent person who you know nothing about shouldn’t have to cosign for something your abuser did. The same goes for associating innocent people who have something in common with your abuser. Miss me with that “guilt by association” BS.

Seek help dude because right now this all sounds like a cry of help and pain. You are trying so hard to force this person into a box so you can justify your anger, and it’s only going to make things worse for yourself.

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by on February 8, 2022 at 7:51 pm
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stop-stalin-and-suck-my-dick:

gsirvator:

Someone legitimately tell me, why were the Christians of the 90s right? They were right that there is a certain portion of the population that can’t understand the difference between reality and fiction, that can’t understand fiction cannot harm people, that dangerous and evil ideas written in fiction won’t cause someone to perform said fictitious acts.

I am speaking of course about the way DnD and now Pathfinder are going, censoring vast swathes of the lore and settings to satisfy a mentally deranged, yet vocal minority, this minority saw evil, inhuman races such as orcs and stated without a hint of irony that they’re representations for black people, now they’ve neutered every evil race in DnD, mindflayers aren’t allowed to be a part of a collective Hive Mind, beholders aren’t allowed to be xenophobic, paranoid and racist, and so on, as much as I despised 5th edition, Volo’s guide to monsters was a great piece of lore, harkening back to other pieces of lore, like when 40k or Warhammer Fantasy used to release tome after tome of lore, now a majority of what was written in Volo’s guide is gone, unless you owned a physical copy you won’t be able to get the old, now “problematic” lore.

Paizo bent the knee to 1 freelancer they hired, some mentally deranged loon who got offended that there were rules for 1 city in the entire setting where you can buy a slave, now slavery has been retconned out of the entirety of Pathfinder, no in world explanation, no, just 1 douche was outraged so an entire aspect of the setting gets Thanos snapped, I get it, slavery bad, and I agree, however an absence of slavery isn’t even the norm in reality, I understand you moral busibodies don’t read much or look out the window of your ivory towers, but a majority of the globe still actively practices slavery, unless you live in the west slavery is still very much alive and far worse than before, so why are you robbing the players the ability to play an adventure where they get to stop the slave trade?

Hell, Pathfinder isn’t even realistic in their setting with slavery, only the most evil societies practice slavery there, so what do you freaks have against villains owning slaves? I’ve said this before to other moral busibodies on this site trying to police DnD, stop trying to reduce being evil to being a Saturday morning cartoon villain, God, it’s like they’ve never read history, never understood that even the most evil people in our history had redeeming qualities, Genghis Khan killed 40 million, practiced cannibalism and raped so much a majority of Asia has his DNA, but he created a stable silk road, allowed everyone under his protection to practice any religion they wished without fear of persecution, fostered an environment that nurtured the dining etiquette of ancient China, yet he is still a man who did evil things, a villain can perpetuate the slave trade, even strengthen it, and they can still be written well enough that they won’t be black and white, realistic fictional writing needs both the good and bad of reality, if you can’t handle the bad then you need to fuck off.

I really resent being treated like a toddler who needs to be spoonfed behaviors that are appropriate bc it’s just assumed that I will repeat any modeled behavior

Like I’m sorry y’all DON’T have morals but I’m fine actually and I’ll take my fucked up fiction with an extra side of inhuman atrocities

Which is why should I ever publish a story covering dark themes, I’m ignoring the hell out of these people. God in Heaven forbid villains behave like, yaknow, VILLAINS. They’re supposed to be detestable! It’s totally cool to have a villain with nuance like OP said, but there’s this idea that there’s some things even a villain “shouldn’t” do. FRICK THAT. Villains should be allowed to do what even mainstream people consider reprehensible. THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT. We’re supposed to hate them at the end of the day. We live in this bizarre age of making villains “lovable” and “quirky” and “unproblematic”, but at that point they’re just edgy antiheroes.

Also, people who say stuff like “orcs are black people” reveal their racist mindset when they say stupid ish like that.

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by on January 29, 2022 at 8:17 pm
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patron-saint-of-smartasses:

starryeyedpixyel:

patron-saint-of-smartasses:

The primary victims of the witch trials were not young adult pagan women. They were middle aged Catholic (or other Christian) women who had little to no support for their menopausal and/or mental health.

They were also simply ostracized from the youthful cliques that had more social leverage among the community.

^^^Yup! Being older, no longer “pretty,” having your own income (common with trades like midwifery), losing fertility with age, etc all factored into their treatment at menopause. This was on top of their menopausal symptoms that were falsely attributed to witchcraft. Glossing over these real issues for the sake of ~witchy rebellion~ is literally erasure of women’s history.

I learn so much from your blog lol.

Man, women just could not catch a break in those times could they? They were either seen as weak, dumb, and easy-to-manipulate little lambs, or they were man-destroying she-devils with enough guile and trickery to outwit them. Sometimes, somehow, even both at once when it was convenient.

SHEESH.

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by on November 4, 2021 at 5:41 am
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blood-drunk-discourse:

cherokeefrank:

cookingwithroxy:

sindri42:

molothoo:

shutyourmoustache:

White supremacy and colonization really forced that male/female binary forced onto so many communities, lands, and cultures, huh?

I’m noticing that trend ☝🏾…a lot of cultures historically recognized more than the binary system that they’ve been shoving down our throats for centuries. Because they came and pushed their beliefs on everyone and made them assimilate. Come to find out that they were wrong…about a lot of things. But the irreparable damage they’ve caused 🤧.

See I look these up and it always seems to be something like “historically māhū were male at birth… performed the roles of goddesses in hula dances that took place in temples which were off-limits to women… described as not having access to political power, being unable to aspire to leadership roles, and perceived as always available for sexual conquest by men…”

Almost every time I hear about a “third gender” in historical indigenous peoples, it ends up being less like ‘we have a complex spectrum of gender and sexuality with deep respect for non-binary people’ and more like ‘well there are women who have to do woman things, men who get to be in charge of everything, and broken men who aren’t up to real men’s roles so they don’t get shit’.

I’m totally in favor of the idea of maintaining the best parts of your ancient traditions while discarding the fucked up bits, but the idea that everything was a magical utopia until the evil white men arrived is just continuing the missionaries’ work, erasing what’s left of the real history of these places to replace it with something that won’t offend your modern sensibilities.

“We have a third gender, and it’s (Blatantly a place to shove gay and effeminate men so that they can fill a woman’s role, including being the victim of rape, in places where women are not allowed to be.)’

You know I hate that this is a repeating trope. That we’re asked to treat a horrible custom used to abuse men as some kind of enlightened position because it ‘bucks the gender binary’. Like, this isn’t a third gender, it’s a ritualized version of a ‘Prison Bitch’.

Don’t even get me fuckin started on “two spirit.” 

noble savage

And then there’s Hijra – which is basically trans women and infertile men forced to do sex work for money.

People painting all non-whites as a bunch of hippies who all got along with zero problems before “de ebil wypeple” came, ticks me off so much. It’s babying them by erasing their flaws and own terrible acts. As if they couldn’t understand evil on their own and take responsibility for it like responsible adults. Nope! “It was all sunshine and rainbows and the POCs didn’t know any better!”

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by on October 20, 2020 at 8:47 am
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gunn1337:

sirartwork:

sirartwork:

Turns out loving your “work” is a far cry from loving your industry.  Who knew?

Anyway look out for my new show, coming to a streaming platform near you where it will be buried under a monsoon of nigh-identical dogshit

*whoosh

It’s like when I say I don’t like gay characters being forced down my throat in media like movies and shows, and get called a homophobe.

Dude… I like dick. I just don’t like 70 year old white dudes sitting around a table saying “let’s add one of them fags to the cast to sell more copies.” That shit is shallow and pointless.

Same, but from a black person standpoint. I hate how some companies
drum out ambiguously colored “pocs” and push them like they’re the next
best thing despite having no true personalities, character development,
or anything. At best they’d be cobbled together cliches we’ve seen done
to death already. Worst case scenario, they’re shallow agenda-pushing,
political mouthpieces with absolutely no nuances— or they’re
stereotypes.

I want characters who happen to be black, not “black” as a character trait.

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by on October 17, 2020 at 9:56 am
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yimra:

nyc-conservatarian:

mizumanta:

cheshireinthemiddle:

cheshireinthemiddle:

Since Tumblr cannot tell racism apart from sharing culture, I would like to point something out. 

This is yellowface:

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This is not:

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This is blackface:

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This is not:

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*color*face is the intentional mockery of a race by imitating an epitomized and perceived stereotype,typically for comedy purposes. *color*face is not a person sharing in a culture or doing something you assume was ‘invented’ by another race. *color*face is not an actor who happens to play a character of a different race. *color*face is not someone with a tan. *color*face is not someone cosplaying as a nonhuman.

So to recap,

Blackface:

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not blackface:

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Yellowface:

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not yellowface:

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There ya go

-Yuki

And yes,

Whiteface also exists.

-Jackson

Also Nick Cannon, in the last image, recently got in trouble for saying white people (and jews) were inherently inferior to black people.

So it just makes his Whiteface that much worse. It was bad enough when he was doing a caricature of an entire race, but to later learn that he honestly sees that race as inferior? Whole new context.

Lmaoooo that black guy in the second photos looks so sickly with that shade of white on his skin 😂😂😂

Dave Chappell and he’s funny as hell

I was JUST looking at the controversy of a character named Zwarte Piet who was Santa’s helper from the Nederlands. He’s been around for a while so he has several origin stories. But one was where St. Nick freed him and Piet became his companion and servant. He’s commonly depicted with dark skin, red lips, and curly hair (not unlike American blackface). But, to my knowledge, he’s never shown as inferior or in a degrading manner. (Also he dresses fly AF)

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Recently people want to have him banned or called ‘Soot Pete’ and simply have people depict him in their normal skintone with soot on.

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Which is fine I guess, but after seeing the “controversy”, I was thinking along the same lines as the OP.

For frick’s sake, most people didn’t have a problem with Robert Downey Jr.’s depiction in Tropic Thunder. Hell, I didn’t even know it was him because of how convincing he was, down to the voice!

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I feel a lot of Americans are too sensitive with racism and slavery (as it was in the West) and see other things through those lenses. It’s like they see something from another source, note how it’s similar to another racist thing in our history, and think the other is therefore racist because of how similar it is.

Blackface was awful because it was born from hate, made to misrepresent black people on purpose by supporting racist stereotypes, and make light of issues we were facing at the time. There was an actual character called Jim Crow.

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However, someone wearing theatrical makeup to depict a person who happens to be POC, is about the same thing as depicting a character who happens to be green and an alien. It’s just makeup, nothing more nothing less. Granted I can understand if they want to switch a character up or use actual people of a certain race to portray someone, that’s fine. But immediately labeling something as racist without doing your got dang research isn’t going to fix anything and makes you look like a fool.

I’m kinda concerned about reactions to things like this. Because certain people will see a certain character in a setting and start placing all these labels on them without looking past their initial appearance.
I swear, if we’re not careful, noone’s going to want to depict anyone outside of their own race.

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