C.K. Burch's Blog, page 77
December 16, 2015
breelandwalker:
appropriately-inappropriate:
liefplus:
if u...
if u weren’t aware of salvation army’s homophobia, its prety hardcore
Do you know, when I was in high-school I went to the mall near my house with my girlfriend to do some Christmas shopping.
We were there, sixteen year old me and seventeen year old her, holding hands and window-shopping, minding our own business.
This Salvation Army shitheel gets aggro about it in the middle of the mall and I’m there totally flabbergasted cause like, it’s christmas
Only, 16!Tabi had even less composure than 26!Tabi, so I lost my fucking mind on her.
Thing is: when I’m really angry, I don’t rage, I go all cold and apparently that freaks people out, because I could see my gf backing up and the lady getting tense and then I realized that anger doesn’t solve problems.
So instead, I started wailing.
Picture this: 5’4, tiny, blonde haired high school girl with her little violin on her back and pearls in her ears just as PTA-approved as could be, full on sobbing in the hallway.
Just, sobbing like my dog’s been shot.
Now my gf’s like, “oh fuck” and the lady’s like “oh fuuuuck!” and I’m here, head thrown back, tears down my cheeks and in that shrill, distressed, /loud/ voice, “WHY WOULD YOU B-b-be so MEAN?! It’s CHRISTMAS!”
And the lady’s like “please stop Oh fuck” because now we have a crowd, and this Molly Weasley of a woman putters over, “what’s the matter, dear?”
And mall security’s coming and this bell ringer is looking very uncomfortable so I just look at this matronly ellen-watching suburban housewife lady, eyes wide and wet and my lip wobbling.
“I was, she s-said, s-s-she said I was going to HELL!”
And I burst right back into tears.
Maaaaaaaan, they didn’t even stick around to ask why she’d said it. Soon as I said it, Mall po-po bounced her like a fucking pogo stick.
We get outside and my girlfriend’s like “that is the most Slytherin thing I have ever seen anyone do.”
It was four years before I saw the Army back in that mall.
Every word of this is fucking GOLD. I will tell this story as a life lesson to my future children.
artemisdreaming:
I climb the road to Cold Mountain,
The...
I climb the road to Cold Mountain,
The road to Cold Mountain that never ends.
The valleys are long and strewn with stones;
The streams broad and filled with thick grass.
Moss is slippery though no rain has fallen;
Pines sigh but it isn’t the wind.
Who can break from the snares of the world
And sit with me among the white clouds?
Hánshān (literally: Cold Mountain), 9th century
December 15, 2015
shejla24:
white person: brown people are terrorists and dirty lol white person: *wears a bindi,...
white person: brown people are terrorists and dirty lol white person: *wears a bindi,...
big-sugar:
bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:
averagetalks:
borna...
bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:
bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:
On the subject of dreadlocks, for example:
Let’s take a look at the definition of appropriation.
I’m gonna copy paste this straight from Google:
“ ap·pro·pri·a·tion
əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/noun
the action of taking something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s permission. example: ‘the appropriation of parish funds.’ ”
Cool. So now that we know what that means, we can figure out who specifically owns this hairstyle. Easy, right?
Except there are several cultures and religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity / Celtic folk, etc) that wear dreadlocks or have worn dreadlocks. It is not exclusively black culture.
Aside from that, who gives a shit? It’s hair. Nobody owns any particular hairstyle.
Wrong.
The problem is that you’re lumping together a whole bunch of things that are not dreadlocks: don’t look like dreadlocks, aren’t called dreadlocks, don’t have the same social/historical meaning as dreadlocks; all in the same category like they’re the same thing. That’s a form of cultural erasure, and it’s not accurate.
The only confirmed matted (not dreaded) hairstyles of Europe were the glibbe and the plica polonica, neither of which look anything like dreadlocks. And the Vikings were sticklers for having untangled hair, to the point where they kept combs on them at all times (which they were eventually buried with, signifying their importance) and kept their hair in braids. Not only do we have the burial record we have perfectly preserved bog bodies which all have elaborately braided styles. Viking warriors did cake their braids with mud to protect their hair during battles, but they did not have dreads.
The South Asian jata worn by practitioners of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism is a style only used by ascetic monks, and is matted (not dreaded, see below), and are also caked with ash from sacred ceremonial fires so that’s a false equivalence as well.
Moreover, no one is attempting to imitate the plica polonica, or they’d have one giant beaver tail, or the glibbe, which is matted bangs, or the jata, which require ash. They are imitating the way the African diaspora SPECIFICALLY style their hair into locs, which is unique and different from all the other examples you mention.
Additionally it is a hair texture issue. Afrotextured (3c-4c type hair) dreads naturally because of its corkscrew shape.
All other types of hair matt, which is a whole different process where the cuticle of the hair has to be damaged and raised, revealing the living inner sticky core of the hair in order for the hair strands to stick to one another.
Obviously, these 2 things are not the same.
That’s why all it takes for black people to have dreads is a little twisting and some kind of moisturizing product, and a life time commitment to constant maintenance & hygiene.
And why white people do silly shit like back combing, the ‘twist n rip’ method, elmers glue, not washing their hair, and other forms of damage, lack of hygiene and neglect to achieve an imitation of the real thing they consider a ‘low effort’ hairstyle.
See the difference now? That’s why the imitation of ‘locs’ in the picture you provided are a matted disgusting mess.
Okay. Those are all some pretty specific and accurate points. Thanks for educating me on that.
I redirect to my final point: Who gives a shit who wears what hairstyle?
White people, apparently.
White people have made laws against black people’s natural hair, say black people’s hair is unprofessional, continue to make rules against natural black hair, fire black people for their for their natural hair, threaten black people with expulsion for their natural hair, assault black people for their hair etc. And all but the 1st example are from within the last 5 years.
Maybe if white people stopped giving black people so much shit about their natural and cultural hairstyles, black people wouldn’t be calling out white people’s hypocrisy.
What’s funny is that they were acting like they had correct historical information on dreads. And once corrected they suddenly didn’t care about the historical significance they hold. It’s almost like you never cared in the first place, and just want to dirty up your ugly ass hair and call in dreads. Stop fuckin lyyyyyin
kierongillen:
And out tomorrow, it’s THE WICKED + THE DIVINE 17...
And out tomorrow, it’s THE WICKED + THE DIVINE 17 with Brandon Graham bringing his science.
What’s it about?
In the last of our guest issues, we’re joined by Brandon Graham (PROPHET, ISLAND, MULTIPLE WARHEADS) to slink closer to the mysterious and oft-murderous Sakhmet. Plus a back up by Jamie and Matt. Also… the end of an arc? You know WicDiv. Expect big game changers and/or Sakhmet having a nice purr. - See more at:
More at Image’s site.
Out tomorrow. And I’m travelling, so maybe won’t be able to do a plug then, so here’s the “to buy” details. If it’s sufficiently late on the 15th, you can get it from your local comic shop, or digitally either from Comixology or direct from Image.
Also, the new Phonogram out. Preview over here. It’s nifty.
monaedroid:
Janelle Monáe attends the Premiere of Walt Disney...
Janelle Monáe attends the Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
in Hollywood, California
December. 13, 2015
Photos: Ethan Miller
animal-factbook:
Unlike other animals, dogs are actually born...
Unlike other animals, dogs are actually born through Tube Extraction (TE) it is a procedure commonly conducted by experienced individuals. The breed of the puppy can be found by the tube labelling.
claytoncubitt:
If you’re not following me on Twitter you’re...
If you’re not following me on Twitter you’re missing out when I drop serious science
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