Can someone see if i found gommunist propaganda? I read on XHS that if you get married and then your partner rps you, it will not be treated as a rp case. It will be legally just be listed as domestic violence. There's a few US states that also do not countremoved asremoved if youre married to yourremoved.
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Actually asking. I personally think it means If Palestinians are at threat, we're all at threat. No matter how far the war is from you, if Palestinians are still suffering what they are, the war will spread and come home to you.
Idk if this is on or off topic, but more taboo fetish videos, and porn in general, needs a beginning section where the porn stars explain in some depth why they've seeked out and want to perform things. How the consent process is drawn out. (Etc...) Like is it just for a money transaction, are they here to confront certain fears, is it something else? I feel it would clear some things up about what the actors need to work out. Then we might have more materialist answers to every taboo kink. Otherwise many people won't address issues in porn. If porn stars are seeking things out that their audience is, it could help porn stars connect and their audience to understand themselves and common themes in society.
Edit: Someone just told me this would all be nice, but every second of filming costs money due to capitalism, and not every porn star is there to talk about their shit.
I'm presenting a lot of assumptions here... I thought that that porn was mainly catering to women who wear burkas, so that they have a sexual outlet in their private time. Have I misunderstood who it's catering to? I actually don't know anything about the values of people who wear burkas. Surely it's different for everyone who wears one. Idk what makes the genre offensive because of that, plus I've seen very few videos and felt it's not for me. Do women not wear burkas at all during sex, and is it therefore disrespectful to use it as part of a kink outfit?
Edit: What I saw is actually called a hijab, not a burka. Idk if burkas go by the same rules but I found a site saying "When Can a Woman Take Off Her Hijab?"
Women may take off their hijab in a private setting where non-family men are not present. Shared spaces with other women or immediate family members, such as at home, are common places where hijabs are not required.
The hijab’s purpose is to maintain modesty in public or around strangers, not within private, safe environments.
Considering the war crimes committed there included sexual abuse, well, you can draw some conclusions from there.
You mean the returning Middle Eastern men/women and their torturers all take home the sexual and racial trauma that shapes their sexualities. That's a lot to process out of their systems, possibly for generations.
In a better world where the bombing of the Middle East stopped decades ago, this would almost certainly still be true. Stereotypes and generational trauma(in this case, sexual) are often intertwined. In that way, I can see how kinks involving both persist.
What often goes unreported in the media is that Islam has historically championed women's rights. Women were granted the right to own property, choose their spouses, participate in public office, and pursue education—rights that were recognized by Islam long before they were embraced in the West. Islam promotes equality between men and women, abolishing practices like female infanticide and the treatment of women as property in 7th-century Arab society.
Throughout history, Muslim women have held influential positions as educators, healthcare professionals, warriors, and political leaders. Many Muslim-majority countries have elected women to high leadership roles, including female heads of state—an achievement yet to be realized in the United States.
What cultural traditions create what opressive practices against Muslim women? Where are they commonly practiced?
I just discovered the term Islamphobia, and that Britain still wants to ban burqas. But I think there's more to the opression of Muslim women than Islamphobia.
So it's misogynist because this is banning of womens' wear correct? Is that the ruling class's enforcement of patriarchy you're talking about?
Or were you thinking of other forms of the ruling class enforcing patriarchy on Muslim women?
I was also intially wondering if you're talking about toxic forms of Islam. (Idk how similar this comparison is, but like how Christianity can be used toxically.)
in the cases so far it's mostly islamophobic since the reasons cited are "against european values"
michael-laugh So dumb. At the same time, I can see how that's a smart move on the racist people's part to brazenly ban pieces of a religion they weren't naturalized to be familiar with.
You've shifted my perspective by mentioning this about nuns. I've been so used to seeing nuns in American media since I was little that I never noticed how they are just as covered as women who wear a hijab. Seeing Muslim wear still always feels like a brand new experience. I've really enjoyed seeing it in person recently and it was so wonderful to see this woman's beautiful outfit.
I posted this following quote(in the picture) once by a woman(different person than the fashionable woman) who was removed from speaking at a writer's event for being Palestinian, and it's fitting for the topic of banned Muslim wear: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3cf899e8-6290-40e5-b826-b73f71bdca09.jpeg
This ban in sports is pure racism. There is no physical advantage to wearing hijabs during sports. Them being sweaty and hot in a scarf is an advantage to their opponents. This is western people spiting their own chances in sports at the chance to be Islamphobic.
I'm learning that trying to turn a bully into a friend is such grade school shit. It arrests your development, and I want to know about the ways it does. I'm embarrassed I wasted my time thinking of how to talk to liberals who seem set on being right wingers. ...
I would not go so far as to say shared political beliefs are orthogonal to being a good friend but there are so, so many things that go into the cocktail of making someone pleasant to be around that I do often wonder whether I drastically overrate the importance of politics in friendships.
It's different when it's your own etnicity being projected on, and you'te seen as a "neutral/good one" or "a dangerous/evil one" based on if you're racist towards your own race along with them or not.
I knew a person who seemed okay with the topic of socialism, then they spoke negatively about my people's country. Later they hurt me in a way I won't mention.
So I drew a boundary. My people have some socialism in their history, so of course we are demonized. I can't afford to be close friends with people who demonize the country of my people because that's evidence they may see me as the "good insert my ethnicity." Especially because I don't want to be at a higher level of risk of being around people who are sexually attracted to me simply because they fetishize my people because they, as evidence, don't fully respect me as a insert my ethnicity person. As someone said about being racistly removed from an event's cast, they "stripped me of my humanity and agency, reducing me to an object onto which others can project their racist fears and smears." I cannot sit there forever waiting to be approved by people close to me. They have racist bully shit to say about my people's country without it being a genuinely open question, I don't want to be super close to them. Although I will always run into and befriend some people who may be racist to me, it is a still a way I don't want to try to turn bullies into close friends.
I'm so sick and tired of tiptoeing around the topic of my people. I'm not totally sure what other boundaries I need to set. I worry openly saying positive, nonracist things about my people will get me attacked verbally, emotionally, mentally, amd maybe and in other ways. https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/18ade2f6-68f8-4af8-b6fc-82ae2fcc38bc.jpeg
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Who are Hezbollah?(Is that a grammatically correct sentence?) Are they are a really different group from Hamas? I feel like I hear about them together at times.
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One that is confusing is when someone calls another "psycho."
Like, do they mean psychopath? Or psychotic, as in someone that's in psychosis? Or that someone's angry? Or aggressive? Hyperactively happy? Out of sync with people around them and being a sore thumb? (Etc...) Because there's a big difference between these all.
that they know better than the people deemed crazy, and in a huge way as people to be exploited.
I remember I was having social anxiety while talking with a much older man and his mix-aged crowd of friends that I just met at the park. The topic of age had come up. I mentioned I was insert multiple decades-old. (So keep in mind that this man's behavior, was NOT at all because he was so elderly he mistaked me for a kid. There was a guy around my age who he seemed fully respectful of.)
Later, he invited me to step away from the crowd sitting in the sun to sit with him and his dog in the shade. I was treating the dog extra nice because he told me it was dying of cancer.
About 10 minutes later, probably deliberately while he had me isolated from his group, he said, "Have you ever been to the looney bin?" I said, "Why, have you?" because I was wondering if this was a lonely guy who was looking for people to relate to him. He said no, but he knew people who have been 51/50'd.
So he was plain nosey and felt entitled to know just because he felt I was... something, based on my social anxiety? Idk. Not wanting to give him the satisfaction of a yes or no on something highly not his business, I responded, "That's private."
Then he immediately starts interrogating me asking "What direction is your house? Where exactly do you live? You're so young and you've been in here in this park for hours." (A park that many people recreationally hang out for hours in.)
Later on this site, I made a post asking about why he did that. Someone made a good point that some creeps pretend to be saviors as an excuse to creep. Especially on much younger people.
Anyhow, I feel like this relates to what you're saying. Even though idk all the ways how.
I'm learning to ask about manipulators, "What is the game thats being played, and what's the purpose of this thing they're presenting?"
I'd say the game he was playing was pretending he's only interrogating me as a kind favor towards me. And the purpose of this game was to successfully interrogate me for my home address and other personal information. To stalk me in plain sight.
I don't think I'm paranoid that people quietly think them. I may not always know when, but I know the sight of my stomach triggers people's insecurities. ...
Sounds like youre refusing to absorb other's self projections and not lashing out. I have no idea if your exact version is completely healthy, but it sure sounds like a safe shell.
I like showing myself off because I want to feel as radiant and beautiful as possible. I think that's the way more people could feel. And that never feeling and expressing our radiance can be a waste of our life. I wonder how I can do both, what you're doing and what I'm trying to do at once.
I used to give all people compassion each time I noticed someone acting insecure, but this often hasn't worked because so many people act and talk in bad faith. It's their shell, and when you point out their insecurity by saying its okay to look/be insert an okay thing to be, they usually will deflect and won't allow a crack in their shell for light to be let in. It's sad, I know what it's like to be in the dark about my beauty. Since reaching my highest ever weight, I'm recently very in the dark about it again. I feel like if I vulnerably act and dress like I'm proud of my body, people will feel entitled to shaming me. In their head and out loud with me in earshot of them.
I love crop tops, but idk how to deal with having a hanging belly for the first time. I think its unflattering. Strange because that girl with a large belly in a crop top was way fatter, and I my first thought was "WOAH She rocks!"
maybe remind yourself that showing off your body in a very small way impacts societal norms as well.
Right, people think dress codes are an actual thing. You can dress traditionally to your culture, but me going outside of it isn't actually breaking anything but other's personal rules for themselves. Oftentimes those rules are ways they shamefully limit themselves.
And institutionally, for example it's not actually inappropriate to go braless and dress in a miniskirt at the work office, HR just doesn't want a sexual harassment lawsuit on their hands and that's why they often try to make workers look sexless as possible. To them lawsuits waste time and money, and capitalizing on a workplace as highly as possible means enforcing a sexless uniform.
And beauty and health institutions capitalize off shame. If I go out with a freely hanging belly I could slow down my path in allowing these industrial standards to run my life. Maybe I should surprise everyone by wearing a crop top eventually.
Disability that's reinforced by societal failings suck. I am disabled and I understand my own case of this. And my body is still mine as long as I'm alive. I will do my best to see it in the light of self compassion and see it's still beautiful after everything. My body endlessly does me noble deeds in that, regardless of all harm I've suffered, it lends me life and keeps me alive. When I show myself off, I'm displaying that this is what resilience looks like. And I can be increasingly grateful for my resilience and happier about my image. I'm starting to think, "I suffer so much, who in my position has time for feeling shame about the thing in this universe that's done me the most favors?"
I remember a woman, who survived being a comfort woman at the hands of Japanese soldiers who'd invaded China, expressed that life is so beautiful that if she could only subsist on wild herbs to see it, she would. This helped me with SI from my trauma and disability, and helped me value my body more.
It's okay if you don't feel this is true for you. There are aspects of each emotional moment you can be introspective about, and you've clearly been very materialistic about what causes your despair. I just hope you're proud of your resilience and are not ashamed if you ever want to show it off body-wise. Because the onus of the bodily damage you suffer is on mass societal failure, not you. While not everyone wants to show off their forms of scars, I try to choose visibility.
Maybe for you right now, the point is not to see that your body is a deeply magical thing, but I think its good to return to that understanding when you feel slightly better in little moments.
good for her not being suicidal i guess but "life is worth enduring horrible torture" is not an opinion i am capable of understanding.
I meant to say her words helped me with SI. But I have breaks between my pain so I really can't speak for having chronic pain at the level where I can never perceive my physical beauty. I'm sorry you deal with that.
I don't like it, but I know for most of my childhood I felt I could never wear a crop top in my life even though I was already thin. Then, 15 lbs less than now, I did it comfortably when I was a little fat. In retrospect, as a child I was the one projecting my own shame on my stomach, and I know I'm doing it now. Especially when someone obese like comedian Stavros Halkias frequently goes shirtless, has a shirtless statue of himself, and describes how he feels absolutely dashing about his looks. But he's immensely confident, with great assertive comebacks to any insult I've heard people tell him at his shows, and I'm not. Maybe I just need to build an arsenal of simple responses to someone acting disgusted at my stomach.
I'm broke atm(probably for a long time.) I'm not serious about buying anything right now, but the next time I come across money way into the future, I will need to buy stuff. I'm most focused on learning how to buy clothing from OEMs. I will not be buying accessories first thing, but I'm still interested in how to window shop ...
I think talking first about the pros of people you want protected, then talking about the actual threat to them and every last one of us, was the right move.
Scarcity minidset has me reeling with panic about shopping. It's a form of expecting bills. I heard buying from OEMs is a great way to shop, but I have no instructions. Trying to figure it out is mentally and emotionally taxing.
Edit: I have stopped trying to learn. Someone please answer the question about OEMs in my last post before I start crying.(Kidding, but not totally kidding.) cri
Are there any eras of beauty standards in China where it was considered attractive to have darker skin or be fat? Are there popular Chinese beauty idols showing either of those things?
I don't quite understand Chinese beauty standards because the pale skin thing doesn't seem to have a connection to white colonialism. Sure it was a signifier that you weren't a farmer and could stay inside all day, but people aren't blind to the fact that dark skin is also attractive.
And at some point in the past, at times of hunger during feudalism that could fall on both poor and rich families, long spans of hunger should've made fat women seem more desirable, right? I feel like these trends should change over time, but from what I've been learning, thin and pale with slender jawlines has been the mainstream beauty standard in China for a long time.
Beauty standards in America are weirdly focused on sharp, severely angled facial features. Round facial features, especially of darker skinned people, are being neglected in beauty shoots that make it on billboards.
I saw this woman with very round eyes and I thought, "She's the opposite of supermodel-looking. Is she ugly?.. No, she's quite pretty. What brainworms led me to suspect that she could be catagorized as ugly?"
Although I know it's not my fault I thought that, I'm still mad at myself. But I am more disappointed at how international luxury brands try to make every supermodel look "snatched" (as in presenting sharp, severe, angled features), especially with risky surgery, when round features are A-okay and another sort of beauty to be celebrated.
Round featured faces should be internationally represented in more glamour shoots. I'd like to see trends where people are accentuating roundness of the eyes with makeup. Atm idk what that looks like.
Maybe it's because I dont read magazines or go out much, but in the whole year of 2025, I can only recall one outdoor beauty advertisement showing a black woman with a round head, nose, and eyes.
Btw, the woman I met ended up being wonderful to hang out with. I feel betrayed by how beauty standards had me questioning her looks as one of my first thoughts of her.
I used to think I was antinatalist. Really I was coping with my fear that I couldn't take care of a baby, and obsessively tried to be optimistic about the benefits of not having one.
In admitting this fear, I opened my mind to reasons others desire having a child. Actual healthy ones. Like passing on resilience so the next generation can grow to break generational cycles of trauma, and further heal in the name of themselves and their entire ancestral line before them. All the way back to the past generation that started in primordial soup. I believe healing ourselves is to heal backwards in time.
I think each kind of animal has a spirit. When I think of the human spirit and how much health in the world it has the potential produce, I think just about every surviving generation is just this great soup of advancing potential. However many generations of an ancestral line suck and seemingly should not reproduce, one member of a future generation can turn things around. I want these things for people. I have such high hope for humanity. Also, I like to think of how many people out there are neat, and are artists at creating wonderful new people. I may never have a baby but I like that others have them.
Anyone else want to share why they think natalism could be done healthy and for the good? I blocked out my exploration of this topic for decades, and I'd really like to hear about yours.
It is unbelievable that a single celled creature has ended up being humans that can draw pictures, create and play games, play music and sing, garden, domesticate animals to lovingly bond with, etc... More humans please!
There's a few I've seen. I love to see Uzo Aduba for example. But it's not enough to me. I want the actual ratio of very round/sharply angled faces that society has in Hollywood and everything Hollywood touches. Magazines and billboards. (Fuck ads, but if you're going to put them places, don't neglect to represent all sorts of beauty.)
Oh, I thought you meant birth names, like Henry, Jane, and John.
I've heard of that first one for women. For the ones aimed toward adults, I think it's only appropriate for those who are in the middle of actively consenting to reclaim being called these names as a kink. It's creepy any other time.
I have not heard those ones for children that is creepy as hell. Why I feel like this has "the straights are not okay" vibe?
Mao Zedong was born on 26 December 1893 in a middle peasant family in Shaoshan Valley, modern day Xiangtan County of Hunan Province, under the reign of Qing Dynasty Emperor Guangxu. From the age of six, Mao worked on his father's land and at a later age served as the family account keeper, performing farm work alongside the ...
blob-help Even though I don't research it, I have a fascination with ways people are colorblind. It's less about knowing why they are. It's more about me finding it endearing that they'd see a multiple colors from a packet of candy differently than me.
Unfortunately a colorblind person once harmed and traumatized me, and they're the only colorblind person I've met. Seeing what colorblind vision looks like online makes me love how interesting colorblindness is... But then I remember the person who harmed me.
I wish I'd just meet a cool new colorblind person because it'd help me reclaim it. How else can I reclaim my fascination and endearment for colorblindness without yet meeting a new colorblind person?
Haha see? If it is colorblindness i think that's cute. I think I heard some people see less red tones than others because during evolution we were conditioned with different levels of ability to see redness in fruit. Indicating a sign of a sugary boost and ripeness in things like red berries.
FYI you might already know this, but you can get a colorblindness check if you're curious enough.
Years and years of struggling with quitting because my brain never really hit the zone where smoking itself seemed unappealing and now somehow out of nowhere the stench is absolutely disgusting. Like my boyfriend comes home smelling of cigarettes and its so intensely gross i have to breath through my mouth. The offer of a ...
I love the smell, but I'm not willing to have a nicotine addiction for it. These people could use a sweet cotton candy perfume. And maybe normalize fruity perfumes for adults. Clearly, with all these vapes, adults are highly interested in sugary and fruity scents.
But at what cost?
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Sippin on dumb fuck juice
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What's socially helped you have less arrested development? The level of lonliness it took for me to try to stop someone from becoming a Nazi(so I could have them as a shitty friend) was so sad.
I'm learning that trying to turn a bully into a friend is such grade school shit. It arrests your development, and I want to know about the ways it does. I'm embarrassed I wasted my time thinking of how to talk to liberals who seem set on being right wingers. ...
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About fatphobia, how do you stay proudly loving your body and showing yourself off despite other's self-projections of their own insecurities onto you?
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How do you shop from OEMs(original equipment manufacturer) and buy only one item at a time? Have tips for buying from OEMs efficiently? It sounds empowering, but I'm unsure how to do it.
I'm broke atm(probably for a long time.) I'm not serious about buying anything right now, but the next time I come across money way into the future, I will need to buy stuff. I'm most focused on learning how to buy clothing from OEMs. I will not be buying accessories first thing, but I'm still interested in how to window shop ...
Humans are part of the ecosystem.
Ecofascism ...
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What do you dislike about people with martyr syndrome/a martyr complex?(According a therapist I spoke to, it can be called both, a syndrome and a complex.)
Some of them use it as an excuse to downpunch, to abuse others performing less than them. Like shitty managers. It annoys everyone around them. ...
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Finally hit the ideal quitting smoking phase. The smell of cigarettes is now absolutely revolting.
Years and years of struggling with quitting because my brain never really hit the zone where smoking itself seemed unappealing and now somehow out of nowhere the stench is absolutely disgusting. Like my boyfriend comes home smelling of cigarettes and its so intensely gross i have to breath through my mouth. The offer of a ...