He’s scent marking the hell outta that boy. So this is basically the equivalent of him saying “MINE, MINE, MINE, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!”
I love how in the third gif he dies that little wave of his paw like “C’MERE YOU”
I have a random question. So I keep on seeing an argument that the Japanese stole the Hanfu from the Chinese? However, I feel that during the time the “Kimono” was adopted, it was because China was a very large and superior nation that held much dominant power in the region (not necessarily in land but in their cultures) and because it was adopted by the upper class, it then started to become a very popular form of clothing. Much like how ‘western clothing’ has become popular around the globe. Not quite assimilation but not quite stealing like we can see when people use stereotypes to define a person or their clothing? That’s what I feel but does anybody have any other thoughts?
Yep, it’s not stealing and it’s not assimilation, it’s simply cultural influence. Throughout most of history China was massively more powerful and influential than Japan—huge country versus small island chain, after all.
The problem is that Eurocentric history teaches us to see East Asian countries as either a) completely isolated entities b) one conglomerate racist mass. No shades of gray, nothing in between. Us Asian-Americans are usually taught the same thing, unfortunately. When it comes to European countries, we’re trained to apply a lot more subtlety.
Nobody asks whether the English stole their alphabet from the Italians, for example. We get taught a more complicated view of history where Rome was the center of power and cultural influence in Europe for a long time, there were overlapping spheres of influence over the last two millenia, many European cultures and proto-nations imitated Rome and learned from them whether they were under direct Roman control or not, but then things changed. Yet I constantly have to hear the most nonsensical questions about Japan “stealing” kanji from China. It shouldn’t be that hard to understand, but since we’re taught that Europe is totally exceptional and every other geographic cluster in the world is not allowed to be as complicated as Europe these misunderstandings keep coming up.
i agree too. the power dynamics during WW2 and the first sino-japanese war are a whole different can of worms, but the evolution of the kimono and kanji from chinese cultural influences occurred in a world where china was in the indisputably more powerful position.
there is also the fact that imperial china had a very strong sense of being the centre of civilisation and sinicisation of non-han people- getting them to adopt chinese culture- was a deliberate means to entrench the empire. and that cultural power emanated outside china proper too. in that context, it would be rather odd to describe non chinese people absorbing chinese influences as ‘stealing’.
call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.
This isn’t a new idea; it’s a second- and early third-wave feminist one.
I mean, yeah, it’s true there are unnecessarily gender-segregated sports and competitions of all varieties.
The problem is sports where physical strength and speed are unconditional determinants of success. Humans do in fact develop dimorphic secondary sexual characteristics, including stark differences in muscle mass, among various more aspects applicable to sporting prowess (for example, lung capacity).
In elite training, even minuscule differences in physiology produce a sizable impact. Men and women are different enough, physiologically speaking, that individual ability hardly matters when paired in competition. While the difference isn’t quite what I’d call “inherent,” it’s undeniable. The hormones behind such effects and compounds that promote said hormones’ production are banned as performance enhancers for a reason.
For boxing etc. where weight classes already exist, it’s vital to note women and men of similar size aren’t comparable in terms of muscle mass or strength. Training doesn’t do much to bridge that gap. (Unless you’re looking at an elite female boxer versus some untrained dude, I guess.)
Top competitors in most realms of sport, as per what the above posters are suggesting, would end up exclusively or almost exclusively men. Women wouldn’t be able to qualify as Olympians.
For a quick and easy example, these tables below (via Wikipedia) show men’s and women’s mile records:
You’ll see women’s record holder Svetlana Masterkova is significantly slower than Asbel Kiprop, man #25. In fact, Masterkova’s world record is bested on a regular basis by high school boys who’ve had fairly limited training.
Even figure skating’s jump-derived scoring would need to be overhauled, or again women wouldn’t survive as top competitors.
Let’s say a handful of professional soccer teams reach out to include one or two women. Where strategy and teamwork are concerned, each individual player isn’t required to be as fast as possible, kick at maximum force, et cetera. However, most women who play at present on top women’s teams are going to be SOL. The odds that those who remain on “non-gendered” teams are derided, harassed and end up relegated to an almost mascot-type role are 1/1.
Eliminating women’s athletics means eliminating women from athletics.
For most sports, your Divisions 1–3 will end up primarily if not entirely men’s domain. Divs 4–10, assuming such exist, will begin to include a greater proportion of women. Divs 18–20, finally, may be all women. Who’s funding Division 20? Who’s funding Division 4, even? Who’s its audience? Where is women’s prestige? Is that supposed to be irrelevant?
The overall effect is a raised, if not insurmountable, barrier to entry. Fewer women will be involved in competitive sports to start. You’re looking, from there, at a knock-on effect on young girls, their interests, their world-views.
It needs to be clarified, too, that competitive chess isn’t gender-segregated in the sense implied above. The WCC is open to women and men; women can participate in it and in WWCC games. Various levels of women-only tournaments exist to serve as outreach programs to get more girls and women interested in what is considered by society to be a male pursuit, and as voluntary reprieves from sexism in competitive chess. Calling women’s tournaments themselves sexist is grossly disingenuous.
The World Chess Championship’s open model would be acceptable, I think, even wise, to apply more broadly to sports. Women who want to compete against men should get that opportunity. Trans competitors whose hormonal states and/or genders don’t conform to traditional dimorphic standards should be able to participate in sports and
not be misgendered or required to abstain from events early on in HRT. And in situations where no girls or women’s teams exist, for example in (American) football, those who want to play shouldn’t be barred.
Eliminating women’s sports, though, is backwards and phony egalitarianism.
you can tell that op and 9/10 commenters on this post have never played sports beyond elementary school gym class and have never spoken to a female athlete in their lives, also not surprising that all those in favor are males who have no actual care invested in any of this, but are just looking for SJ brownie points, hence calling women’s leagues sexist, rather than like, hard fought rights that female athletes have poured blood sweat and tears for and still to this day are fighting to keep alive.
Desegregating sports is the very last thing any female athlete would ever want because it would completely destroy women’s rights to play sports. Instead of destroying women’s leagues for some laughable and extremely misguided attempt at “inclusion” and “equality”, just support women’s sports the same as mens and let women play the way we want to play, and let us play in men’s leagues if we want. It’s not that hard.
” Why is nobody talking about the fact that the Florida shooting was an anti-Semitic hate crime except
for Jews? The school was more than 40% Jewish. The shooter was a part
of a white supremacist organization, actively and openly hated Jews more
than anyone else, would beat up Jewish kids, etc. The head of the white
supremacist organization made a public statement that the organization
had nothing to do with the shooting but if he had to guess why Cruz did
it, it was because the school was predominantly Jewish. “We’re not a big
fan of Jews,“ Republic of Florida Militia leader Jordan Jerub stated in
an interview with The Daily Beast. “I think there were a lot of Jews at
the school that might have been messing with him.”
It seems like only Jewish news sources are reporting on this and the
comments on the articles by non-Jews are sickening. People are saying
that "Jews want to be oppressed so badly. He shot up the school because
they expelled him, not because he hated Jews.” People are saying we’re
“appropriating struggles of people of color” by claiming that he killed
Jewish kids because he’s a white supremacist. I’m sorry, why can’t we
acknowledge that someone shot up a Jewish school because he was
anti-Semitic without it taking away from the struggles of other
minorities?
When Jews say we are oppressed, people often respond
with “show me real hate crimes against Jews and then we’ll believe you
when you say you’re discriminated against,” but then someone who talks
about wanting Jews dead shoots up a school that’s mostly Jewish and
people still refuse to acknowledge that it’s a real hate crime.
The Jewish community is not a large one. I know people who knew some of
those kids, who went to Jewish summer camp with them, whose parents were
family friends etc. Fuck anti-Semites and fuck people who shoot
children and fuck people who refuse to acknowledge that people are
targeted, assaulted, and even killed for being Jewish on a regular
basis. According to the FBI, 1.7% of Americans are Jewish, but last year
54.2% of religiously motivated hate crimes were against Jews and 11.5%
of overall hate crimes were against Jews.
If your intersectionality doesn’t include Jews, you’re doing social justice wrong.”
This was a disgusting racist act. Racist against us. I hope those victims’ souls are at peace.
This might come as a shock to some of you but saying “I’m not informed enough on this particular topic to have an opinion” is about 100 times more respectable than being misinformed
Jordan Jereb, captain of the Republic of Florida, said Cruz “was part of our organization.” ROF hosted a “paramilitary” training session in the Tallahassee area that Cruz attended, Jereb said. “He probably used that training to do what he did yesterday. Nobody I know told him to do that, he just freaked out,” Jereb added.
The Anti-Defamation League said the group describes itself as a “white civil rights organization fighting for white identitarian politics” and seeks to create a “white ethnostate” in Florida.
“I know he knew full well he was joining a white separatist paramilitary proto-facist organization,” Jereb added. “I know he knew that much.”
Jereb speculated that Cruz may have allegedly committed the massacre out of hatred for Jews or women.
“There’s a very real sense of feminism being a cancer. That could’ve played into what he did, but we have female members of RoF,” Jereb said, adding that “we’re not a big fan of Jews. I think there were a lot of Jews at the school that might have been messing with him.”
The gun lobby, and the Republican Party it controls, have accepted as a matter of necessity the ongoing deaths of hundreds of children as the price that they are prepared to pay for the fetishization of weapons.
Death By Catchphrase 