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Things that ACTUALLY EXISTED FOR REAL IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: Non-white people, mostly those of North African and Middle Eastern heritage who were immigrants, merchants, missionaries, mercenaries advisors, and scholars; female leaders, including the famed Warrior Queen Boudicca; and queer folk, seriously, Shakespeare wrote sonnets for dudes.
Things that did NOT actually exist for real in European History: Magic, faeries, dragons, wizards.
Q.E.D. The “well, there’s no black people/brown people/women leaders/gay people in this European inspired fantasy because that would be inaccurate” rhetoric is bullshit.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YESTHIS PLEASE AND THANKS
So much fantasy is set in quasi “dark ages” feudal Europe. Can we just take a sec and realize that Europe is that asshole who gets to be a continent even though he’s not really a continent. He’s the jerk who, when he has a bad day, everyone starts calling it The Dark Ages.
FYI, “The Dark Ages” were a golden age for almost everyone else. Islam was booming, spreading and gathering up classical knowledge that would have been completely lost otherwise. China was going through a golden age of its own unter the Tang empire and Song empires, during which China grew and traded so much and so widely that they ran out of metal for coins and had to invent paper money (they also invented gunpowder). And let’s not forget that, while we have relatively few written records from this region, the evidence suggests that Africa (ALL of Africa, both around the Mediterranean and in Sub-Saharan Africa) was booming as well, creating empires of their own, trading with Islamic travelers and building gorgeous goddamn cities.
During this massively diverse time period, there were gay emperors and female emperors in China, the most traveled man in the world was an Islamic scholar and one of the wealthiest men in the world was an African Muslim king.
Yeah, it was only even the Dark Ages for a small chunk of Europe, because Moorish Spain and the Byzantine Empire were both flourishing during this time as well.
Can we just take a sec and realize that Europe is that asshole who gets to be a continent even though he’s not really a continent.
^forever this.
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I was literally JUST talking about this.
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Reading all of the men’s rights movement/activist shit I’ve read today, this quotation is so relevant right now.
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i am 100% for young women destroying the lives of the men who harass/assault them
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white women: omg who is beyonce callin a bitch who is she telling to bow down???
same people: omg lol they called a 9 year old black girl a cunt ITS SATIRE LOL THEY CAN CALL ME A CUNT ANY DAY EEEEY ;))
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It always struck me that men actually might benefit from the “bumbling idiot” stereotype. In very many of the dysfunctional heterosexual relationships I’ve observed, men basically only work then come home and do nothing, and women do a majority of the actual work and men use this learned or feigned helplessness to get women to do everything for them. They’re socialized this way, I think. I married this very equality talking, sensitive, feminist-ally, politically correct kind of man and yet the day we got back from our honeymoon, my ex husband suddenly became an infant who no longer knew how to operate an iron, pack a grocery bag, balance the budget, take a pee without splattering the entire bathroom, flush the toilet, cook his own meals, return phone calls, put his own dishes in the sink before they turned moldy, or even drop letters off at the post office.
The bumbling idiot stereotype doesn’t hurt men. Men are not being denied jobs or health care or legal rights because of being seen as bumbling idiots. They benefit from the stereotype because it means that women do everything.
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I find most days I just can’t be bothered with white folks.
Especially white queer folks.
Especially white queer folks who constantly name drop PoC academics and theorists and warriors and movement shapers. Who let names like bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde roll off their tongues like they can ever understand their struggles. Who don’t recognize how the narratives of these powerful people are often kept from the people of color they were meant to be shared with.
Especially white queer folks who take up too much space, co-opting our anger, pain, joy, laughter, love, compassion. Who drain us and offer nothing in return.
Those same white queer folks who would stab you in the back and burn down your house all while claiming to be standing in solidarity with you. Who scoff at the mere mention of how their politics don’t match up to their actions. Who refuse to recognize that solidarity is more than empty “hey comrades” and claims of allyship.
Who can talk about being held accountable but vanish when it’s time to do the work.
Who are more than willing to blame you for their inability to talk about race and white supremacy instead of staring their own glaringly obvious privilege in the face.
I find most days I just can’t be bothered with white folks.
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White people are always surprised and wonder why some of the best vegan food is “Ethnic”
Vegan food from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, even Caribbean and South American cuisine seem to easily accommodate a vegan diet, because of their use of spices and unique flavor combinations as well as expert use of ingredients, so you don’t even miss meat, eggs or cheese.
But you shouldn’t be surprised.
Because all around the world, People of Color have been vegan for centuries.
CENTURIES
You would only be only be surprised if you assumed that veganism was made for and by white people
No, sweetie
It wasn’t
WORD
Even like, thousands of years..
Western diets are fucked up and a weird combination of economics and tradition
LOL, WHITE PEOPLE.
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- White people: I'm tired of hearing about race on tumblr
- PoC: I'm tired of experiencing racism in real life
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