Up until recently conquest was the human norm. If she wasn’t strong enough to defend it then it wasn’t hers to begin with.
Are you seriously defending the slaughter of millions of natives jfc
Yes, yes I am. Insofar as up until about last week Tuesday that’s how *all* societies functioned.
Ever wonder where the millions of black slaves came from?
Ever wonder where the meso-americans found their tens of thousands of sacrificial victims?
Ever wonder who Genghis Khan was?
Of course not. You were too busy hating white people.
Okay but…you are saying the atrocities these people committed were ok? The consequences these people are still feeling today are ok? I’m honestly lost on how you can view this dark time in human history as “justified.”
I’m not saying anything is okay. I’m saying that’s how the world worked. In many respects it still does.
However, the outrage being displayed is fake. It’s deceit. It’s a conditioned response.
I mean you’re really asking me if I think the horrible deaths of tens of thousands of people is “okay”? What universe do you even live in?
But do you see me gnashing my teeth and wailing into the stars over all the victims of Genghis Khan? Or Alexander the Great? Shaka Zulu?
Do you? Do you weep into your pillow at night over the atrocities committed by Vlad Tepes?
No? That’s strange.
My anger and outrage is reserved for the living, not the long dead. So if you find yourself becoming so terribly furious over such things it would be good to question why you feel such fury over ancient sins committed by people long dead upon people even deader.
Gotta say I agree with Cap (yup, line up to punch me in the face).
Genocide is not okay by any means (and no, Cap never said it was), racism and racist killing isn’t okay (Cap didn’t say that either so those accusations need to stop, he said nothing racist).
It’s just how the world has always worked. It’s shit, it’s bad, it shouldn’t have happened, but everybody who is becoming enraged over the native genocide probably HASN’T shed a tear over Genghis Khan’s victims, and they probably don’t even KNOW about Africans selling one another into slavery.
Like that one person said, “white people are used as a scapegoat”, and then they immediately proceeded to use whites as a scapegoat. “POC” have been enslaving and killing one another for a lot longer than whites have, and whites have been on the shitty end of that stick for a long time as well FROM POCs (historically throughout Europe and Russia).
If you’re going to get mad about someone saying “people were assholes and genocide shouldn’t happen., but that’s the way it worked back then”, you’d better be acknowledging that native Americans DID enslave one anotehr, DID kill one another, that Africans DID sell each other to whites into slavery, and that they STILL DO to this day. You need to acknowledge that human trafficking, slavery, and genocide is NOT A WHITE THING, it’s a HUMAN thing. We’re disgusting animals who take what we want without morals, that’s how it works. Playing blind to “POCs” doing this shit isn’t helping matters. Stop using whites as a scapegoat.
This was interesting but I must agree. You have to unlearn how you’ve been taught to feel through vicariousness, others’ agenda and expectations, and learn how to feel and establish your own feelings through logic and reasoning. If you resort to blaming just because others are blaming, without looking at the facts, then you are just following a crowd and not thinking for yourself at all.
Notice how Russia was invading Ukraine up until a month ago, but tumblr didnt give a shit.
I never see Tumblr criticise the Japanese for their treatment of the native Ainu people.
Also do SJWs seriously believe the native tribes and civilisations lived in peace and harmony with one another until Whitey turned up? I mean it’s not like the Aztecs conquered most of Mexico so they could have lots of slaves to sacrifice for their gods (the god of rain, Tlaloc loved child sacrifices that were crying, so it was customary for the priests to pull out the slave childrens fingernails so they would be crying for the gods pleasure)? Where did they think scalpings come from?
What about the Manchu conquering China and setting up a series of laws that kept the Han Chinese as second class citizens at best in their own homeland?
Conquest is a part of human history. Barbaric oppression of conquered people is not just the domain of whitey.
This post got a bit too euphoric at times but otherwise it’s an interesting read.
Watch The Breadwinner, and appreciate the film for what it is: This is a beautiful film directed by a woman, executive produced by a woman, voiced by Afghans, and about Afghan women and their experiences.
I love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but I loathe how edgy subcultures have turned it into some one dimensional thing associated with psychedelics and other drugs.
Like, I wanna talk about the recurring presence of logic and mathematics, the cross language (primarily French) puns, I want to talk to people about their interpretations and thoughts but everyone’s so stuck on “haha yeah she’s on shrooms” like come on there’s so much going on don’t let it just be the easiest, weakest response, you’re smarter than that
It’s probably one of my favourite books and I have the exact same problem
My favourite take: Alice in Wonderland adaptations all all dysfunctional because both stories are a hellishamalgamation of victorian pop culture.
Turns of phrase, tourism in-jokes, children’s songs, academia at the time, popular figures in media, all of these are huge contributing factors to the characters and world of alice in wonderland/the looking glass. Reading the Annotated Alice is a trip and a half. Most of it isn’t actually nonsense, it’s an out-of-the-box joke on things most people when the book came out would have instantly recognized. They’re comedy pieces. Even as a modern reader it can get me to laugh, and the more I learn about what the time period was like when the book was released, the funnier it is. Caroll’s vicious deconstruction of mathematics was simply him cracking one one amongst many.
AiW adaptations are always going to be empty products unless you’re entirely willing to either double down on the time period or update it for modern times with commentary on things instantly recognizable to the modern audience.
AiW adaptations with modern settings are like “what if it’s a DYSTOPIA and the animals are all HUMAN and it’s DARK and FOR ADULTS” like…we still have animated movies starring animals? Kid media is more identifiable for the whole family than ever?? There’s a better way????? Turn the dancing mock turtle into a ninja turtle who paints masterpieces you cowards
I like this take.
So what you’re saying is that Alice in Wonderland is basically Victorian Shrek
Actually, yeah, kinda. There’s no real way to say, it’s never been fully explained by Charles Dodgson, it’s all truly interpretation. But in the way it’s written, I’d be willing to call it a literary version of Shrek. It has layers.
It’s full of Victorian Memes and celebrities and song parodies and gamer culture (the game was chess)
You could do neither and not be a racist prick. Also a good way to not go to prison is to not commit crimes
Tfw they got the cause and effect backwards for racist opinions, and they excuse racism towards white people because they don’t commit as much crime proportionally
They do realize they don’t help the situation with stuff like this right?
Like it just makes racial tension worse, cause now they’re making general statements about race, and what would otherwise be a non racist white person may see this and think it’s evidence that black people hate them, so they act in kind
Oh noes this memes could cause previously non-racist white people to suddenly become racist! 🙄
Actually no, it’s just shitty and racist. It’s not okay to bully anyone based on their race, and you have no idea what struggles white people face.
Try fucking genocide and torture in South Africa Assdick.
I suppose the ArabSlaveTrade was just “white people being sad”?
It is common knowledge that, for over a thousand years, Arab and Muslim slavers took enormous numbers of men, women and children from sub-Saharan Africa. What is not so well known is that they took equally large numbers of people from Europe. As with Africa, Arab slave-taking in Europe began in the seventh century – shortly after the rise of Islam – and continued virtually without interruption into the modern epoch.
Just “white people being sad”, right? Let me ask you this. Since Muslims make up the vast majority of slave owners in the entire world both historically and even now since it is still practiced in parts of Africa and the Middle East, why are there never any “jokes” about “Muslim tears”? Why are the issues and struggles that Muslims face never reduced to “Muslims being sad”?
So privileged, right? Everyone knows about the enslavement of Africans, but how is it that most people seem completely clueless about the atrocities that Europeans have suffered throughout the centuries? Maybe because there’s an anti-white sentiment that’s spreading like herpes which causes people to suppress certain, inconvenient aspects of history? Hmmm…
Nope, nothing to see here. Just whypipo being sad sometimes. 😥
Oh, hey. Remember The Holocaust? Yeah, where nearly 5 millions Slavs were slaughtered and/or put in concentration camps in addition to the 6 million Jews?
Just look at these stupid whypipo and their white tears, amiright? Just look at them oppressing all those PoC while being too privileged to be oppressed themselves. Pipe down there, whitey. Pee oh cees are having real problems over here.
How many of y’all initially assumed this non-existent man was white? Because only white people would do that, right? Only white people can be racist, right? Only white people oppress and do bad things, right?
I could go on, but I’ve done enough of your research for you. You’re welcome.
Come on, everyone knows white people invented oppression and cruelty and slavery and privilege, and were the only people in the history of the world to ever inflict such on others, and that ALL of white people’s victims have been black. Everyone knows nobody but white people has ever so much as been a little bit mean before, in the whole history of the world!
My favorite hanfu style is waist-high ruqun – especially those with parallel collars:
It’s my favorite for the following reasons:
a) Cinches at waist & follows body’s natural form. The waist-high ruqun is tied at the waist, accentuating the natural feminine lines of the body. Since I have a relatively small waist, I appreciate any clothing that accentuates it 😛
Which brings me to my next reason…
b) Balanced silhouette. The waist-high ruqun has relatively balanced proportions (vertically & horizontally), centered on the middle/waist, which I find aesthetically pleasing. Parallel collars, running straight down the chest, further enhance this sense of balance.
c) Ease & beauty of movement. Compared to most other hanfu styles,waist-high ruqun is relatively easy to move around in. Its flowing lines move gracefully to reflect the wearer’s actions.
d) Versatility. Waist-high ruqun can be customized using many different methods: “jackets” (banbi, beizi, daxiushan, etc), short outer skirts (weichang), long scarves (pibo), waist ornaments, etc. Below – worn with blue beizi (left) & green daxiushan (right).
Parallel collars render the chest undergarment (moxiong) visible, providing an extra piece with which to accessorize the ruqun. Below – the color of the moxiong matches that of the pink banbi (left) & green pibo (right).
e) Beautiful from the back. All hanfu styles are pretty from behind (see chest-high ruqun, quju, aoqun below), but waist-high ruqun (top left) is especially so.
After waist-high ruqun with parallel collars, my next favorite hanfu styles are, in descending order: waist-high ruqun with crossed-collars, heziqun, zaju, quju, beizi, chest-high ruqun, & aoqun (see this post for definitions).
1) Waist-high ruqun with crossed collars: This would be my favorite style, if not for the fact that I prefer parallel collars slightly more than crossed collars.
2) Heziqun (left): The hezi acts as a gorgeous centerpiece for the dress. 3) Zaju (right): The additional triangular strips add delicate movement to the outfit.
4) Quju: Curved lines wrap elegantly around the body for a pleasing form. However, it’s more restrictive around the legs & not as easy to move in.
5) Beizi (Song-style): Arguably the most convenient style, and can be worn with trousers. Multiple parallel lines create a charmingly straight & simple silhouette.
6) Chest-high ruqun: The high-waisted silhouette & long, flowing lines of the skirt produce an ethereal effect, especially when worn with daxiushan.
7) Aoqun: Exquisite designs and crisply pleated skirts on a triangular silhouette give the wearer an air of grandeur.
Note: the above is not a complete list of hanfu styles. There are more, like zhiju, u-collar ruqun, yuanlingpao, etc (not to mention men’s styles).
Now that I’ve waxed poetic on my preferences, I have a question for everyone: Which hanfu style is your favorite? I’m curious! 😀
I get that this is a laugh-at-the-white-guy post, but it’s actually an interesting question.
In the US, the 100 most common surnames represent about 18% of the population. In South Korea, the 5 most common surnames represent more than 50% of the population, with Kim/Gim/Ghim/김 alone being around 22%.
The answer, best as I can find it, is that surnames originally in Korea were much more recently brought to the average person.
In Anglo culture, average people having last names dates back to around the Middle Ages, and your surname could be anything from your profession (Smith, Taylor, Cooper, Chandler, Fisher, etc.) to your geographic location or some feature of it (Barrow, Liscombe, Badgerly, Wyndham, etc.) to some defining feature of you or your ancestor (Red, Brown, Small, Little, Longfellow, etc.). These were reasonably widespread in use and are the origins of most Anglo surnames today.
In Korea, until relatively recently, surnames were only used by the nobility and aristocracy. The ruling family for a long time in some rich and important regions? 김. And so, when everyone started taking on surnames, it was only natural to have your surname (which, remember, was largely geographic in nature, although not named after a geographic location per se) be the same as your ruler. And so you end up with more than half the population sharing the same 5 last names.
A similar thing is at work in China with the surname Wang/Wong/王/汪. The two variations are most common and 58th respectively. The first of these, by the way, 王, means King, just to make the connection a little more obvious. It also represents more than 7% of the population all on its own.
elizabeth swan and will turner are actually SO romance in the first movie and not enough people acknowledged this because the early 2000s were the age of the edgelords who only valued jack sparrow’s moral ambiguity and that is the TRUTH
the part where she’s like “how many times do i have to tell you to call me elizabeth” and he shyly says “once more, miss swann” and once she walks away he gazes adoringly after her and whispers “elizabeth” to himself like he’s unworthy of it
then when he’s patching up the cut on her hand and she flinches and he says “i know, blacksmith’s hands… they’re rough” because he thinks that’s what’s bothering her HE KNOWS HE’S NOT WORTHY OF HER!!! THAT’S THE PINING I’M TALKING ABOUT BINCH!!! I DON’T ACCEPT LESS!!!!
he has like 10 chances to confess his love to her but waits until he’s dressed like this to do it:
my man knows 1) the importance of a good outfit when shooting your shot 2) how to ACCESSORIZE. take NOTES.
Will Turner was pretty sure he was going to fail to rescue Jack Sparrow, so he dressed up to the nines to do it, because if you’re going to hang for rescuing a pirate, you may as well be wearing a nice hat while you do.
*history side of tumblr comes diving in through a window*
Funny you should say that! See, there was a thing in England for a while (maybe before this time period) where the hangman got to keep anything that was on the condemned’s body at the time they were hanged. Nice clothing, sweet hat, money in your pockets, it’s all his.
What this meant was that you could get on the hangman’s good side by showing up to your execution in nice clothes or with money on your body. What good will getting on the hangman’s good side do you, you ask? You’ll still get hanged. Well yes, but the hangman has the option to arrange a nice clean broken neck, compared to a lingering drawn out suffocation or – as was also common – drawing and quartering.
So is that what Will is intending here by showing up in a nice suit with an expensive hat? Probably not what the film makers intended, but damn.
dress every day like you’re ready to woo your honey, do crimes, and impress an executioner
miss me with that ‘weapon accuracy’ shit. im shooting everything. im laying down cover fire. im shooting the walls. im shooting my teammates. im shooting myself. my accuracy is 100% yall just dont know what im aiming at
I didn’t even read the rest because I’m still laughing at “miss me with that ‘weapon accuracy’ shit” like I’ve never read a more perfect phrase in my life
Fun fact: during the Revolutionary War, the British HATED American soldiers’ fighting methods. Why? Because Americans aimed. We’ve all heard of the battle of Bunker Hill and how the soldiers were instructed not to shoot until they saw the whites of the enemies’ eyes, but did you know that the British military’s battle plan was essentially to spray as many musket balls as they could all over the enemy? Troops were told to just aim in the general direction of the opposing army and shoot, and the British thought that Americans aiming their weapons was a savage and uncivilized form of combat.
The British sound like me when I play Overwatch and the enemy hitscan players kill me more than once
“You aimed! That’s cheating!” -some Britbong who got shot in the nut
Um. Lots and lots of men were tried as witches, you idiots just don’t know about them because you’re too busy cultivating your victim mentalities to actually read up on the history.
It’s a metaphor, die mad about it
Ummm… I guess OP doesn’t realize that men were also charged and hung for witchcraft. But lets make it about the women.
>complains about people “misusing” a metaphorical term based on historical incidents
>only knows the pop-culture version, which means she’s misusing the term
Just two of the Salem witch trials’s many male victims include John Proctor, a farmer and bartender who is also the protaganist of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
you can’t use this term where people were tortured, killed, and had their reputations ruined due to accusations of a crime to…..
describe people having their reputations ruined over accusations of a crime
okay then
And that the accusations in the Salem witch trials were overwhelmingly made by… women.
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