Not To Be Controversial But Like. Women Who Don’t Compliment Or Validate Their Male Significant Others

I know pretty much everyone has said this but Harry Potter is SUPER freaking bi. Like Harry,darling, Just admit it.

just a friendly reminder that this type of rhetoric is misleading, (in my opinion, slightly antisemitic) and not the way to go about fighting religious homophobes.

religious jews still follow these laws. we dont wear clothes that have a blend of wool & linen (laws of shatnez). fresh produce in israel follows all of the agricultural laws outlined in the torah. as for some of the other laws i always see referenced: we don’t eat shellfish or pork or anything prohibited by the torah. clean-shaven men will only ever use electric razors never blades. we don’t work on the sabbath, we observe the sanctioned holy days, we believe in, love and fear God and obey God’s commandments.

personally, i find the rhetoric harmful and insulting for three reasons. one, it only works on the (very christian) premise that the torah is outdated, and that ~nobody in their right mind~ would follow those laws anymore. two, it tends to ignore the fact that lgbtq+ orthodox jews exist and have to live through the struggle of being lgbtq+ and observant, despite community backlash, severe judgement and institutionalised homophobia. and three, it gives homophobia-masked-as-religious-observance some sort of legitimacy because yeah, the rest of those laws are kept in varying degrees by millions of people.

don’t fight homophobes by saying ‘look at all of these other ridiculous laws’ – those laws matter to a lot of people, including me, a jewish lesbian. instead, say ‘do not stand idly by your fellow’s blood (leviticus 19:16)’, ‘whoever humiliates another in public forfeits their place in the World to Come (avot 3:11), ‘one shall not say to a person words that hurt them or cause them pain against which they cannot stand (sefer hachinuch, mitzvah 338)’, ‘do not do to others that which you would not wish them to do to you. this is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary (gemara shabbat 31a)’, and what is perhaps one of my favorite verses in tanach, ‘to what is good and just is more preferable to God than sacrifice (proverbs 21:3)’.

oh, and here’s a good starting point for educating your religious friends and family members. 

Anti anxiety.

Daughter tells her Dad he’s going to be a Grandpa [x]

My 4 year old nephew loves to paint his nails. Any time he sees someone wear nail polish he asks if he can have some too. The most difficult part is getting him to decide what color, because he he wants all of them.

Nail polish is for everyone.

Obscure Texas election could change the world

Things are very dire. The world is aflame. Our political will is in tatters. But despite all this, there are leverage points, where a small intervention can have gigantic consequences.

One of these is an obscure political race in Texas.

It’s been 26 years since a Democrat was elected to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state oil and gas industry, whose practices are lethally dirty, even by the industry’s own homicidal standards.

https://capitalandmain.com/race-obscure-texas-office-could-have-lasting-impact-climate-change-0910

Particularly egregious is Texas’s world-killing flaring process  - burning off usable gas and creating massive amounts of CO2 for no useful purpose, merely because it is inconvenient to capture it - in 2018, West Texas flared enough gas to power the whole state for the year.

For the first time in a generation, one of the three seats on the board that oversaw a transition from responsible capture to toxic, reckless flaring might go to a Dem.

The Democratic candidate is Chrysta Castañeda, the superlawyer who got T Boone Pickens $145m from the partners who ripped him off.

Her GOP opponent is bizarre: Jim Wright, who primaried the GOP incumbent. Wright’s company paid a $181k fine for violating commission rules.

Wright - who, recall, is running for a seat on the commission - owns DeWitt Recyclable Products, a company that “toxic waste to pile up and leak into the soil.”

It’s also been repeatedly sued by oilfield operators for fraud.

Wright is a staunch proponent of flaring, insisting in print that “If you do away with flaring today with no other technology, that would shut our oil business down.” (This is not true)

The Railroad Commission is a century-old, extremely powerful bulwark against pollution, and it can only grant licenses to flare if all three commissioners agree. A single commissioner COULD END ALL TEXAS FLARING.

Castañeda is a long-time opponent of flaring. Her work led to ex-commissioner Ryan Sitton publishing a report that called out the worst flarers, and the oil industry promptly raised a war-chest to mount a primary challenge against him, creating this competitive race.

“Wright, who won the primary with barely $12k on hand compared with Sitton’s $2m, now has more than $400k in his campaign bank, much of it from employees of the sectors he intends to regulate. (Castañeda has slightly more than $120k)” -Judith Lewis Mernit/Capital and Main

Here’s Castañeda’s campaign site. I just made a donation - these leverage points are few and far between, and we can’t waste ‘em.

https://www.chrystafortexas.com/meet/

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full offense but cis people dont get to call us shemales and trannies and femboys and traps and “its”, and campaign to “drop the T” in LGBT and deprive trans people of resources and beat the shit out of us in bathrooms and make fun of us for having “baby faces” and strip us of our rights and murder us for being trans and joke about how we “identify as an apache attack helicopter”, only to turn around and call themselves “allies” when they police OUR identities, just because they call themselves “cis transmeds”! i cant!! im not fucking allowing it!!!

since jk rowling is shitting on trans people once again - in the midst of a black lives matter-lead revolution, of all times - please consider donating to homeless black trans women during this violent, unsafe time for our most vulnerable people. the goal for this fund is almost complete and you can support pride month and black lives with a donation here, no matter how small. trans black lives matter. fuck jk rowling and her terf brain worms.

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tag yourself • TSC gays™️ edition

Alec

- closeted gay™️

- feels awkward

- when they come out they do it like the queen they are

Magnus

- f l a m b o y a n t

- freewheeling bi

- loves a certain combo when it comes to appearance

Michael

- unrequited :(

- super resourceful

- has at least once dated someone of the opposite sex to have a coverage

Ty

- has still to figure out their sexuality

- very thoughtful

- playing people is for boys, playing with the dead is for men

Kit

- 0 skills at coping with feelings

- drama bitch

- rejection? who is she I dunno her

Helen

- soft bby

- would do anything for their loved ones

- the friend that has the braincell of the group

Aline

- BOLD

- “wanna fight huh”

- don’r cross her, really

Mark

- “it hurt itself in its confusion!”

- has the craziest taste in food

- unpredictable

Kieran

- doesn’t know what’s going on 24/7

- “whoops I changed my mind”

- best hair in town

Diana

- scared of judgement

- says fuck it to said judgement

- tough on the outside, marshmallow on the inside

Anna

- everybody has a crush on them

- 100% fashionista

- knows everybody’s business

Charles

- “me? gay??”

- ambitious is their middle name

- that one kid in group projects that claims to have done everything

Alastair

- angsts bitch

- changes hair color after a breakdown

- the default answer is no

Thomas

- b a b y uwu

- big™️

- in constant need for cuddles

Matthew

- alcohol 🤝 them

- the friend that jumps off a cliff in your parents’ examples

- 100% fashionista along with Anna

Ariadne

- will win you back

- your gay awakening

- sensuality 🔝

Hypatia

- never despises attention

- always spots good looking people

- knows a lot about everything

(and happy pride month folks!)