Straight men who embrace their femininity, express emotions in a healthy way and help advocate for minority groups without speaking over them? Big dick energy.
to withdraw one’s feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
1. You are responsible for your own media experience.
2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you – but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.
3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.
4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves – you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine – but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.
5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.
every article written about how libraries are “outdated” or aren’t used anymore is written by someone who has not visited a library in at least 20 years, and probably could not adequately define what a library is if given the chance.
Pictured above is one of the ravens of Masada, in Israel.
Today is Tisha B’Av, the ultimate day of mourning in the Jewish calendar. It’s a cursed day, set in the blazing maw of summer. On this day, over the millennia, the following has happened to the People of Israel:
1. The destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem, built by King Solomon, was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians in 587 BCE. Thus began the initial exile of the Jews from their homeland.
2. The second Temple in Jerusalem, rebuilt by Nehemia and Ezra, was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Jerusalem was razed, and the Jewish people were scattered, exiled once more. This was the beginning of the Diaspora.
3. The Jewish revolt of Bar Kokhbah in 132 CE against the Romans was crushed. Roman commander, Turnus Rufus, plowed the site of the destroyed second Temple and the immediate area around it.
4. The fall of the desert fortress of Masada – the last Jewish stronghold left after the Roman invasion of Israel. The Jews of Masada committed mass suicide, preferring honourable death to being captured and enslaved.
5. The first Crusade began on Tish B’Av in 1096. 10,000 Jews were killed in the first month, obliterating Jewish communities in France and the Rhineland. The total number of Jewish lives taken by the end of the first crusade was 1.2 million.
6. The Jews of England were expelled on Tish B’Av in 1290.
7. The Jews of France were expelled on Tish B’Av in 1306.
8. The Jews of Spain were expelled on Tish B’Av in 1492.
9. On Tish B’Av in 1941, SS Commander Heinrich Himmler received the formal approval from the Nazi Party to commence the ‘Final Solution’, resulting in the capture and slaughter of nearly 50% of the world’s Jews.
10. On Tish B’Av in 1942, the liquidation and deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka death camp took place.
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