Ok this blog is not about politics, but somehow it’s about my life. So here I am, living in Russia, the country with beautiful people: talented musicians, artists, dancers, amazing doctors, teachers and all the other professionals who know how to be a good person and how to do things right.
But the rest of the world judge us just by one politician. Radical, homophobic, aggressive. The world says – that’s their leader as a representation of the nation. So let me show you what our nation is.
Today, on March 26, we had meeting protests against the government throughout the country in 99 (!) cities and towns. People were clamoring against the system and corruption with slogans ‘Russia shall be free’, ‘Russia without Putin’, ‘The criminal has to go to the prison’. In Brazil or South Korea that would end for the government in a fair law court… But what we got as a feedback? When thousands of unarmed russians went to the street to shout out for justice, thousands of policeman and soldiers started to arrest them. There was no exception for women, children or oldman. I was there, in the heart of Moscow, protesting with others.
And here I want to say that it literally hurts me when I see in social networks like tumblr all the hatred adressed to Russia. When you are afraid of russians, when you think of us as rude homophobic savages who barely know what civilization and human rights is. Please, try to look deeper on what happens here. We are people. And we need your support.
As a bonus, photos from another date in St. Petersburg
If we want to survive as a species, we must learn to work together. The Russian people are not the Kremlin any more than we Americans are our White House.
We must not war with each other. We must support each other.
Russia is our sibling as a country. We have aided each other; we have bickered and harmed each other. What one does affects the other. We’re not enemies, yet we have forgotten how to support them.
We must not give in to hatred and pettiness. As our politics continue, there is legitimate fear, I think. We may easily cause great harm to the world if we fight again.
We must not aggressively react to what happens in the news. We must not give in to the fake news, to the propaganda that parties are spewing out.
Please share and connect. If you will, seek a connection to the Russian culture and people. Help support them–spread news such as this. Break down anti-Russian propaganda. Research and keep apprised of Russian news. No, it will not all be heart warming. It will not be simple or easy.
We cannot ignore it. Russia is important to our country and how we CHOOSE to react will determine our futures.
Excuse me for a second for my nerdiness, but this is the point Gene Roddenberry was trying to make with Star Trek. He believed that the success of our planet relies on the WHOLE working together. He explicitly states this in Next Generation, but if we continue to war with each other as we are, we will endanger ourselves, potentially to extinction. Even if it is out of self preservation, we cannot continue to treat Russians as some cheap Hollywood villain.
At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.
At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer.
At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.
At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.
At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook.
At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.
At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.
Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.
Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.
Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.
Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42.
Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.
Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52.
Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57.
Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76.
Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78.
Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow.
writers: how are we gonna top ourselves! we got tons of exciting stuff in store!! at least eleven big bads this season!!!! whos gonna survive who won’t????!! 3 love triangles and 2 quadrangles!!!!
me: I’ll Pay You 5$ To Let The Characters Just Simply Talk To Each Other For Once
My ireland native father once told me that the first time he ever saw people use water for hot chocolate was when he came to america, and said that it was then that he “knew this country was doomed”
ive made a lot of posts that i honestly hate once they started making notes but this one has absolutely taken the cake of “man i really wish i didn’t make this post” because you dont realize how dumb people get when you start food discourse.
however it was definitely a learning experience. for example here’s some things I learned:
-many people who make hot chocolate with water saw this post and somehow thought that my dad literally thinks they’re the doom of modern america and that this out of text quote from a man they never met was personally directed at them.
-Some people literally had never even had the thought of using milk for hot chocolate. literally flabbergasted. ive had people reply, send asks and even DM in multiple variations of “if it not water than what the else?”. Had one dude actually thank me for introducing the concept of milk for hot chocolate. wild.
-There are just some fucking geniuses on this site. So many inanely smart people hitting me up with things like “ummm OP have you ever heard of… lactose intolerance????” and “maybe some people… can’t afford milk?” I never possibly thought of any of that. man i hope yall felt super smart after that. shame yall couldn’t spend some of that riveting world knowledge on googling “lactose intolerant milk alternatives.” the world will never discover what almond milk is.
-some shit about the difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa holy god i cannot care
-fungi fucker is something you can call people.
-apparently i should just do whatever the fuck the aztecs/mayans did. obviously the optimal thing to do in the year 2017 is to emulate empires that fell in the 16-17th century. as you can guess the aztecs/mayans used water for their chocolate beverages. some people also liked to remind me cows and therefore milk were basically unavailable in their part of the world during these time peroids, thus forcing them to use water for their chocolate beverages and despite them knowing this they still use water for their hot chocolate. These people are very smart.
-it is acceptable human behavior to send anonymous messages to people telling their dad to “simmer down” over chocolate based beverages.
OMG this is the best summary of the Tumblr Discourse I’ve ever seen.
Sophie, the girl, is given a spell and transformed into an old woman. It would be a lie to say that turning young again would mean living happily ever after. I didn’t want to say that. I didn’t want to make it seem like turning old was such a bad thing — the idea was that maybe she’ll have learned something by being old for a while, and, when she is actually old, make a better grandma. Anyway, as Sophie gets older, she gets more pep. And she says what’s on her mind. She is transformed from a shy, mousy little girl to a blunt, honest woman. It’s not a motif you see often, and, especially with an old woman taking up the whole screen, it’s a big theatrical risk. But it’s a delusion that being young means you’re happy.
Hayao Miyazaki, on what attracted him to Howl’s Moving Castle
The Auteur of Anime by Margaret Talbot: “The New Yorker” (January 17th, 2005)
beauty standards are all bad but one that sticks out to me is the idea that women should be free of body hair, because literally no-one has naturally no body hair like what are we trying to emulate here?
oh, except children
oh
Boom. I’m pretty sure this started because of sex workers in France – shaving to appear younger because then they could charge more, since young girls were more valuable to their clientele, especially if they were virgins. And from there it spread until it became a beauty norm in the West. Rising hemlines and sleeveless dresses in the 20s probably went a long way to making it mainstream.
*Pinches bridge of nose*
Tumblr…I get that you can’t go a day without doing this crap but it isn’t even eight o’clock in the goddamn morning!
And since I’m exhausted and this is exhausting, I’m making this history lesson short:
SHAVING HAS EXISTED SINCE 30,000 BC AND HISTORICALLY, MEN HAVE ACTUALLY SHAVED MORE THAN WOMEN!
So why did they all start shaving?
A number of reasons, none of which are linked to pedophilia you complete and utter—seriously tumblr what the hell?
These reasons include but are not limited to:
– Religious Reasons
– Convenience (it’s sort of hard to maintain body hair in the BC’s.)
– To keep lice and other bugs from jumping ship
– To keep germs from spreading
– What do you do if you have literally only a river nearby in which you bathe but you also have this body hair that keeps getting coated in dirt and grime? Simple. You remove the body hair. Dirt and grime rolls right off your smooth skin. Crisis solved.
It’s worth noting that people shaved different ways, including plucking, straight up pulling out your individual hairs with your bare hands because you were that much of a badass, and using various rocks/glass to shave.
Then you have Alexander the Great who was more paranoid than Alastor Moody and was like, “People could grab our beards during battle!” and so he made himself and all of his soldiers shave.
Then Julius Caesar came along and was like, “I look horrible with this beard but what do I look like without it? D a m n. Okay new fashion trend.” And everyone in Rome plucked out all of their body hair which sounds extremely painful and probably led to him being stabbed 23 times.
But that’s the point. Even back in BC, it became a fashion statement, created by men for men, specifically one of the most influential men in history.
And in the last two thousand years of history, body hair has gone in and out of fashion, sometimes seemingly overnight. In fact, hair in general has gone in and out of fashion, which is why people eventually started wearing big giant wigs so that they could just take it off and put it on depending on the morning.
So then in the 1900s (essentially yesterday as far as history goes) these magazine companies came along and were like, “Ladies, you know how men have spent the last 30,000 years or so going through this trend of stripping all of their body hair off for the sake of fashion because smooth skin looks badass just look at Caesar? Have you c o n s i d e r e d?” Now with that being said it’s important to know that flappers in the 1920s still rocked leg hair if they wanted to because they didn’t care they were too busy being badass.
But you know, flappers were the outliers. People who followed fashion now had these magazines saying that the newest fashionable thing was this. Razor companies picked up on this fashion trend in the mid-1900s and were like, “Oh yeah. Shaving everything is awesome, women. You should shave everything and you should buy our razors to do so.” And since it’s historically proven that people follow trends, women shaved everything for decades and still do. Give it a few years and suddenly looking like Cousin It from Addams Family will be the newest trend.
Now obviously this simplifies things because yes, there are extremely sexist men out there who have bought into these capitalistic fashion trends and somehow have gotten it ingrained that yes, in order to look sexy, women do need to shave because gosh gee golly dee this newspaper says so. But it’s no different than men seeing an ad for makeup or a new dress and being like, “Jiminy Crickets, Sally, you should try this.”
Were women forced to undergo trends due to internalized sexism (thinking they needed to be better than other women) and blatant sexism (men weighing in on what is sexy or not)? Absolutely. Are we still forced to undergo those trends? Eh, no, not really, but some people really want us to. And that sucks.
But the point is that shaving does not not NOT have pedophilic roots.
tl;dr: Shaving does NOT have pedophilic roots!
(Actually, I don’t care if it’s too long, go back up there and read because you all need to learn something.)
Sources:
– Being a History Concentration which gives you the power of knowing random history facts while forgetting your mother’s name.
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