Imagine yourself.

This phenomenon is NOT lost on adults. Take it from someone who IS one.  As an adult, anyone who is a teenager is a child to us. This is not meant to be condescending; adults see teenagers as people who have growing to do. People who are so much younger, immature even. Small like a younger sibling who needs protecting. If you are underage, and an adult tells you that they see you as an adult and are attracted to you because of it, THIS IS A LIE. They see you as a child. If an adult tells you that they see you, who is underage, as an adult, stay away. That person is attracted to children. That person is a pedophile.

This is the best explanation for how teenagers should be looking at any adult who approaches them romantically or sexually.

So…..watching synchronized swimming from underwater is absolutely ridiculous

holy shit

I’m shooketh

you have to actively push jealous thoughts out of your mind. actively celebrate when good things happen to other people. actively choose to not compare yourself. actively decide that someone else’s success doesn’t mean your failure.

of course, “i” am included in that “you.” i choose to push those thoughts out of my mind because i refuse to walk around in bitterness, because that bitterness will make me miss out on appreciating the life that i have

so when are men gonna realize that women aren’t complicated and we’re actually just normal people and it’s men that lack emotional depth and interesting personalities?

Yeah….. Except I’m an emotional man with tons of depth. I speak 5 languages and play every instrument known. I can build a house. I can plant a garden. I know a little bit about everything.

Maybe women really are cunts who just seek to destroy men and invalidate them?

i have no idea how to reply to this cause it’s simply just the funniest thing i’ve ever read and nothing will ever top it

I really need some of you to grasp that the racist assbags marching in the US are largely white supremacist & white nationalist orgs. This isn’t a conflict about Nazis & anti Semitism & nothing else. This is the Klan coming into their long predicted heyday with David Duke & the monstrous offspring of Christian racism driving the bus. Their focus is anti Black & anti Muslim & anti immigrant. The bell they want to toll isn’t for Jewish people yet. It will be. You should totally be concerned. But no, you aren’t the group that needs to be centered here right now. Other people are in more danger & solidarity is going to look like you listening to us while the White House empowers ICE and police and CBP to go after us with full force and no real concern for civil rights. Today’s speeches were all about blaming us for not accepting oppression. 

They literally chanted “Jews will not replace us” and “Heebs will never divide us”. They believe that “Killing Jews” is the third tenet of the Republican party. They are absolutely centering antisemitism, right here right now, alongside their antiblackness, Islamaphobia, and anti-immigrant stances. I’m not minimizing their antiblack terrorism or saying that you shouldn’t center blackness. It’s horrifying and you should absolutely center antiblackness. We all should. But saying that antisemitism is not their focus right now is inaccurate. They’re going after Jews too.

ICE and the police and CBP are not coming for the jews (tfu tfu tfu), and in those struggles jews 100% need to step up and defend our Black, immigrant, and Muslim fellows. but there are factions of the racist assbags that are very, very much focused on murdering jews, and when the broader left sees people marching in the streets shouting nazi slogans but calls jews paranoid because we're not *really* targets, yes, we get a little touchy. i am more worried about the immediate safety of Black, Muslim, and immigrant americans than i am about jewish safety... but the amount of energy some people are putting into telling jews to worry less about themselves is distressing to me, because we very much have skin in this game.

Richard Mechelson, The Jews that We Are

feels painfully relevant right now

(via yehudmood)

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an anti-israel protest by turkish ultranationalists yesterday in instanbul surrounded a synagogue [neve shalom], kicked the doors, & threw rocks at the windows, saying it was revenge for israel keeping muslims from entering haram al-sharif & that they’ll be back today & every day after that for more

the jewish community in turkey goes back two & a half millennium & they have nothing to do with israeli policy. please keep them in mind & refuse to let diaspora jews be blamed for israeli actions

I’m not super comfortable with ethnically Jewish people who have expressly converted out of Judaism into other religious movements trying to take up space in the Jewish community beyond respectfully contributing to discussions related to experiencing racial anti-Semitism. 

Like, oh you converted to Bahá'í? That’s nice. Why the fuck are you giving me your opinion on Jewish issues? 

Once a Jew always a Jew? Far as we function, whether we are born into it or convert into it, that’s it. I could convert into another religion but always return to Judaism without conversion. Yeah, in this particular situation people can get annoying and we can be annoyed, we can complain, but they still hold a place as a Jew among Jews. Takes a whole fucking lot to actually kick someone out of the tribe.

isn’t that what being removed from the community is though? (I’m a little confused, I guess). Like yes, you can return, but unless you do, you’re in a state of being apart from klal yisrael? I know most people aren’t as concerned about karet (”cutting off”) but isn’t this…the same logic which requires many bnei anusim to convert in order to be considered Jewish - that if your family/ancestors converted, you were karet? 

i believe bnei anusim (who can document their lineage) only have to go through a giyur le'chumra, if anything. i don't think karet really has any bearing on halachic status. karet is a divine punishment. the majority of jews in the world are guilty of unrepentantly violating shabbat as traditionally halachically understood, which is grounds for karet, but it has no bearing on their children inheriting jewish status.

Watch granny destroy gender norms on Dyke Problems.

Gal-Gadot-Gate

Progressive things boycotting/endless call out posts/antisemitism/blood libel/hyper focus on her role perpetuates: literally absolutely nothing. Not her career (she’s going to do fine), not the lives of Palestinians. Not the progressive discourse of the responsibility of media consumption. Genuinely it’s a massive waste of time and just makes the poster feel superior to others by a means of ‘gotcha’ or virtue signalling. 

Regressive things this endless attack culture is perpetuating: you’re making every Jew in the room horrifically uncomfortable and pushing us out of left movements that our community actually built. (And I’m talking here from the comic book industry to liberation movements we actually started such as the international working women’s day, Butler’s gender theory, race as a social  construct, we’ve legit been in the back bone of justice and equality movements since their inception). 

tl;dr: we get it, you hate jews, and it makes you excited that you can drag one through the dirt under the guise of progressive politics. 

Lord Rabbi Sacks

05.19.17: i mean, i guess we’re doing kiwi again.  i feel like jay z.

HIstorian Suzzannah Lipscombe responds to Mark Lawson’s poorly researched clickbait Guardian article, “Not in this day and age: when will TV stop horrendously airbrushing history?”

Idiot man