uterus culture is forgetting all the weird symptoms that come along with your period every month and wondering why you’re feeling some kind of way until you Realize
“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.”
The fact that Dante created the most popular image of the afterlife with absolutely no theological basis for it will still be the funniest thing to me
Church: Heaven is eternal connection with God, while Hell is total separation from Him. Anything else is only speculation.
Dante: Actually Hell has layers like an onion, and the devil is big and mean and also frozen. People are fighting and there’s a mountain to get to Heaven and a nice place for babies. Also I know this because I went there with my friend :)
Dante: I had a dream where I astral projected into hell with the famous poet Virgil who I am totally Best Bros with. I wrote a poem about it if you wanna read it idk
Several Popes: Thank you king I am commissioning fan art of you
really fucking tired of how white people constantly say shit like “i was a teenager when i made that!” or “i was younger when i said that” about racism as if 17 year olds are somehow too dumb to understand that saying certain words or degrading entire races of people is bad
instead of saying “i had racist views i never bothered to question, but have now addressed those flaws and changed them due to increased knowledge” they hide behind shit like “i was too young to understand the full significance” or “i was childish and immature” like. no. you weren’t childish. you were racist.
sometimes we say and do stupid things, especially as children, but racism is racism. and saying “i was younger” is shifting blame, and I’m fucking tired of it.
White ppl say this shit as if racism doesn’t quite literally shape the childhood of POC.
White kids are too young to understand racism but children of colour are never too young to experience it
yeah! and if white people said shit like “i grew up in a racist enviornment where my own racism was never questioned and it took me years to realize i was wrong and correct those mistakes and am still working for the never ending process toward equality’ i wouldn’t mind!
but when white people say "i was young and stupid” what they’re saying is: i don’t take responsibility and i think what i did should be forgiven because children are stupid and now i totally am perfect and 100% racism free
I actually had a conversation with my friend earlier today where I was talking about how I used to have hard right beliefs. I had mentioned about how I was following what I was taught and didn’t learn until I was older and questioned everything.
I didn’t realize how important this was until I saw this post.
I want to continue learning and taking responsibility for my past choices - choices, not mistakes - and continue to grow into a better person.
I’m making that choice.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention and when I notice that I start to shift blame, I’ll change how I explain my experiences and become more aware of what and how I say it.
this is actually a lovely response im glad to see civility and common sense isn’t dead
thank you for taking the time to understand what i meant by my post and not lashing out, i appreciate it and i hope you have a lovely day