Dragonstaff
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- Comment on Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster 1 day ago:
How specifically similar to this instance does the erasure of Black women need to be? Yes, Black women are dehumanized all the time. It’s common for movies to turn Black people into animals and objectify Black women in any number of ways.
That is what is offensive about the fan edit. In the original movie poster she is a person. Her eyes are meant to connect with the viewer. The fan edit specifically takes that away from her.
- Comment on Asian Beauty 1 day ago:
I met someone with a “Man shall not lie with another man” tattoo.
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That verse is literally the previous chapter to the “don’t get tattoos” verse. Why did he think one was important enough to get tattooed while ignoring the other?
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He really chose to get that tattooed?!
There was no way a conversation with this guy would go well, so I’m going to be stuck with these questions forever.
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- Comment on Anon sells girl scout cookies 4 days ago:
Perhaps “nobody” is slight exaggeration. But I guarantee that more people would buy Girl Scout cookies for $5 than a mystery box for $200.
- Comment on Anon sells girl scout cookies 4 days ago:
Nobody just gives away $200, and buying a “mystery box” from an anonymous stranger is the same thing.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 6 days ago:
Granted, I think a human stomach is more difficult to traverse than a frog, and it’s more likely that it came in the back door. I’m just not willing to rule it out.
- Comment on Still true I am sure 1 week ago:
Or the store just got their Dasani shipment. Or they ordered twice as much because it’s so popular.
Sometimes jokes are funny as long as you don’t think about them too much.
- Comment on Anon has a plan 1 week ago:
They’d probably just turn back into grizzlies eventually.
- Comment on Anon has a plan 1 week ago:
I’m not saying this will definitely reverse the Earth’s polarity and doom all life on earth, but do we really want to take that chance?!
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 week ago:
Tell that to Chelsea Manning.
Sure, the US is mostly freer with information than a country that is unabashedly authoritarian. But ask Ron DeSantis what he was doing at Guantanamo, or the CIA what they did in Latin America. If you don’t think the US hides plenty from its citizens, you haven’t been paying attention.
Our Tianimen Square was Kent State, or maybe the MOVE Bombing, or all of the documented police violence against protesters and marginalized people. Fat lot of good it does that we can talk about them when nothing changes.
I think it makes more sense to hold our government to account than point out the flaws of people we don’t like.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 week ago:
Americans will post a meme about Tianimen Square while eating a Chiquita banana.
- Comment on the flies 1 week ago:
Thanks, yeah that is an interesting point. I suppose any sort of experimentation becomes a bit more ethically dicey when the scientist can’t have informed consent from the subject.
- Comment on Science fact 1 week ago:
Thank you for your service.
- Comment on the flies 1 week ago:
The treatments were black-and-white painted stripes, black painted stripes, and no stripes (all-black body surface). Recorded fly-repelling behaviors were head throw, ear beat, leg stamp, skin twitch, and tail flick. Photo images of the right side of each cow were taken using a commercial digital camera after every observation and biting flies on the body and each leg were counted from the photo images. Here we show that the numbers of biting flies on Japanese Black cows painted with black-and-white stripes were significantly lower than those on non-painted cows and cows painted only with black stripes
Black paint was not as effective as black and white paint.
- Comment on the flies 1 week ago:
I think most vegans agree that factory farming is abusive. I would be interested to hear a case that the paint itself is abusive.