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Man I actually adore the writing about Awoken’s history, but that segment where Sjur can’t kill Mara because Mara is too hot or whatever is just… what?

spartanlocke

Sjur you useless lesbian.

Also I’m not joking.

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I’m torn between “Bungie that’s a terrible excuse” and “Yeah that’s pretty lesbian alright.”

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Don’t forget how Sjur is so in love with Mara that she waves away Mara’s confession of orchestrating every single tragedy to befall their people from the very beginning in order to gain power. She calls her the literal devil, then basically goes “oh look a butterfly”.

Ayup.

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Transphobes on Twitter have started the tag #TransMenAreNotWomen.

No, that’s not a typo.

when you’re so transphobic you support trans people by accident but you don’t know enough about transness to course correct and it’s too late anyway

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dreamlordmorpheus

this reminds me of that one conservative Christian page that tried to be transphobic to a trans woman and ended up affirming her womanhood 😂

elmsjustice

Really? Cutting out my name @dreamlordmorpheus ? 😓😑 I'm just known as "a trans woman" now?

#tired

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Interspecies lesbianism

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It’s cute guys

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nothing but respect for MY lesbian big cat couple

Butch/Butch couple

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This is actually hella interesting, bc in simple terms, tigers are extroverts and lions are introverts. There’s more to it, but that’s the gist.

Whenever zoo’s tried to put lions and tigers in the same enclosures, the tiger would eventually try to groom the lioness and play constantly. The lioness would lose patience and snaps at them

So basically what I’m saying is that you have a regal and refined gf who stands at the edge of a balcony during parties, sipping champagne

Then you have the other girl who drank all of the little flutes on the servers platter, and is now drunkenly pointing at her gf and telling everyone that that’s her gf and doesn’t she look beautiful I love her so much

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why are cryptos on this website trying to pretend they aren’t terfs?

like who do they think they are convincing?

cis women

The idea of a “soft intro” is popular amongst some hate groups and cults. Basically, it’s recognized that if someone might be able to be swayed but they lead with the most repugnant of their beliefs, the potential recruit will be pushed away. Even people with a bit of casual transmisogyny in their behavior might be turned away if the first thing they hear from a terf is “trans women are literally part of a global conspiracy to invade women’s spaces with falsely constructed women in order to destroy True Womanhood” or “literally all trans women do (horrible thing here)” and so on. Instead, they have faces that turn what they think into less offensive sounding ideas that still slowly lead down the road towards the worst of their shit. Once someone’s listening, over time they can get pulled deeper down the rabbit hold towards what the group is truly about.

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Honestly if you’re female and you’re called for jury duty and during the elimination process you’re asked if you’ve ever had any adverse experience with a man (harrassment or rape or any other male violence) just fuckin lie and say no. Then vote that fucker guilty

Women survivors are barred from serving on a jury but rapists are not even questioned. There can be no doubt that this is a major reason rapists walk free. Men have never played fair. It is time for women to start beating them at their own game. Our lives depend on it.

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So I actually wrote my dissertation about this and it’s not just that the Department of Defence (there’s an office in the Pentagon dedicated to liaising with Hollywood productions), but they effectively have a strangle-hold on how Hollywood portrays the US military since the DoD give permission for producers to use military hardware, without that permission the cost of filming sharply goes up and films end up extremely over-budget. So the producers can either drop any critical elements at the DoD’s discretion, or continue with a film which will barely be released at all and will never make its budget back.

Any American film which involves the military, know that the DoD probably signed off on it, or were directly involved with. Films like American Sniper and Zero Dark Thirty had a heavy government influence, the latter to falsely justify the methods the CIA used in finding and killing Osama bin Laden, which included torture.

It’s why the military figures are always the heros and there will never be a Hollywood film which is critical of the US military because of this. Just remember, whenever you see the US military in a Hollywood movie, it’s exactly what the Department of Defence want you to see. It’s not being hyperbolic when these types of films are called propaganda.

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chaotic good

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Direct action

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not to sound like a conservative local pastor but eight year olds should not be playing, like, call of duty even offline

of course i dont think playing violent video game by itself is going to make a kid capable of and willing to commit murder because thats also dumb as shit but children shouldnt be exposed to the concepts of violence and death before they’re able to grasp the implications of it and what effect it can have on them and the way they view the world

“sex is something we dont talk about but violence is just fine” is such a dangerous combination of attitudes

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tired: slutty american flag bikinis

wired: slutty pride flag bikinis

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The thing about being LGBT+ is, at some point in your childhood, no matter how accepting your parents are, at some point, you have to question: “do they love me unconditionally?” And then you have to plan for the possibility hat the answer is no. And that fucks you up. Straight cis people never have to question that.

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🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

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Another epic fail for the free market

Dumb bitch in the notes arguing planned obsolescence is necessary to keep costs down,

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Planned obsolescence is chewing through resources and putting so much toxic shit in our landfills needlessly

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Why Are So Many Jewish Roles Going to Non-Jewish Actors? - Alma

www.heyalma.com

Non-Jewish actors playing seminal Jewish characters isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Charlton Heston played Moses in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments. Unknown child model Millie Perkins beat out 10,000 others to portray Anne Frank in the 1959 film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. And Sir Ben Kingsley famously depicted Itzhak Stern in the 1993 classic film Schindler’s List.

But in 2018, when there is so much focus on representation in Hollywood, is it still okay for Jewish characters to be played by non-Jews?

Jews continue to battle the stubborn stereotype that they “run” Hollywood. It’s true that over the last century, Jewish directors, producers, writers, and actors have made an indelible mark on our entertainment industry. Yet Jews still experience plenty of discrimination in Hollywood. There are certainly no shortage of offensive Jewish stereotypes depicted on-screen, from overbearing Jewish mothers to Jewish American Princesses to Nice Jewish Boys.

Further, the vast majority of mainstream Jewish stories seem to fall into one of three categories: persecution stories (Schindler’s List, Son of Saul), religious stories (A Price Above Rubies, One of Us), or downright stereotypes (The Big Bang Theory, The Nanny).

And most Jewish characters still remain bit characters. As Sarah Silverman put it to the Hollywood Reporter when asked about Jewish representation in film, “They don’t want to see us reflected in art, unless we’re the sassy friend that gives exposition to the main character, or the cunty first girlfriend before the guy learns what love can be.”

Silverman also shared that a well-known director told her that, thanks to her Jewishness, she could never be cast as a character who deserved love. Jewish women have traditionally been locked out of leading lady roles. Many a Jewish actress has changed her name to sound less Jewish, including Lauren Bacall (formerly Betty Joan Perske) and Winona Ryder (formerly Winona Horowitz). In fact, there is a long history of actors distancing themselves from their Jewishness to appeal more to the mainstream.

Jewish actors are often left with an impossible choice: abandon their Jewishness, or play into stereotypes. Even if they choose the second option, they could still be beat out for a role by a non-Jewish actor.

…ABC’s hit sitcom The Goldbergs portrays an All-American suburban family in the 1980s who barely acknowledges their Jewishness. The show’s creators were so worried about alienating their potential audience that they didn’t even mention that the title family was Jewish until season two. Of course, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Creator Adam Goldberg has admitted that being Jewish wasn’t a main part of his identity growing up. And for many American Jews, this non-secular depiction of Jewish cultural life likely rings true. Still, it’s glaring that outside of acting veterans George Segal and Jeff Garlin, there are no Jewish actors among the show’s nuclear family.

On Amazon’s Transparent — often lauded as the most Jewish show on television — Gaby Hoffmann and Jay Duplass play Jewish siblings. Neither is Jewish. When asked by Nylon what she thinks about playing a Jewish character as a non-Jew, Hoffman revealed: “I was raised by a lapsed Catholic, and I was raised in New York City, where my godparents and neighbors were Jewish, and I celebrated Yom Kippur and went to temple with them. If you grow up in New York, you know that old joke? You’re ‘Jew-ish.’ So I think there’s a continuum and a fluidity that we all feel really comfortable with as being sufficient.”

Meanwhile, Duplass told HuffPost Entertainment that Transparent creator Jill Soloway was struggling to find an actor to play Josh Pfefferman, “a wildly charismatic-slash-insecure, brilliant-stunted mid-30’s Jewish guy.” Duplass himself suggested several Jewish actors, which Soloway dismissed as “not right” for the role. Finally, she told Duplass, “It’s you. You are him. You’re going to play him.”

Of course, it’s possible that there were no Jewish actors available who fit Soloway’s vision of her character Josh. Still, as a viewer, it can be frustrating to see the few non-stereotypical Jewish stories on-screen depicted by non-Jews.

Jewish characters can be successfully portrayed by non-Jews, and have been for decades. But when those characters veer into stereotype territory, something feels off.

In the Netflix series Disjointed, Kathy Bates (who’s not Jewish) plays over-involved Jewish mother Ruth Whitefeather Feldman, who constantly pesters her son to hook up with his co-worker so they can hurry up and have “caramel babies.”

And despite purposely avoiding Jewish storylines, The Goldbergs’ creators seem to have no problem leaning into the Jewish mother stereotype, either. Wendi McLendon-Covey portrays Beverly Goldberg, a stay-at-home mom who meddles in every aspect of her children’s lives, often with increasingly disastrous results.

…There are certainly bigger fish to fry, what with the current rise of anti-Semitism and a fifth of millennials having never heard of the Holocaust. But representation matters. Stereotypes matter, especially when they’ve been so damaging to Jews in the past.

There may not be a hard-and-fast answer to the question, “What’s the deal with non-Jews playing Jewish characters, anyway?” But thanks to Hollywood’s sordid history of Jewish representation, there are still plenty of good reasons to ask.

Read Chelsea Levinson’s full piece at Alma.

whereintheworldiskamalakhan

It’s been a theme since the start of Hollywood. Hedy Lamarr wholly distanced herself from her Jewish heritage in order to make it in America.

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#Jewish actors play gentiles and gentiles play Jewish characters#and these combine to make us feel like being fully Jewish isn’t enough#that a desireable individual can only have so much Jewishness inside of them (via @allofthefeelings) Yes, this is such a good point. Like, it’s not that Jewish rep is nonexistent, it’s usually just consistently either not too Jewish or it’s gross stereotypes. Even when it’s both there are positive, it’s still played for laughs (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). There’s this squeamishness about portraying Jewishness genuinely and while playing it straight. Honestly, the only movies I can think of where Jewishness is consistently not a stereotype, punchline, or barely existent are Israeli movies like HaSodot. Idk it’s just… I don’t really know how to articulate this but it feels like Jewish rep is a slippery fish that keeps sliding out of the hands of movie and tv creators. I can never just look up at the screen and see myself.

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be nice to my good girl :’’’’)

(And you can read all my other Voyd comics here!)

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1999 - The Simpsons predicts everything that happens in the world

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The messed up part is that this, along with the Trump presidency, were predicted as jokes. These were seen as things so ridiculous that not only could they not actually happen, the idea of them was funny. So every time a Simpsons prediction comes true, the Simpsons wasn’t really trying to predict the future, they were making a cynical joke because they thought the real future would be better than it actually is. We’re living in the timeline where all the Simpsons’ worst assumptions about the world were 100% right.

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