Tom, are there more than 8 women

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

So, there's been discussion around a non-binary version of Yaoi/Yuri to refer to non-binary ships. And I've seen the term "yaori" (or other spelling variations of it), and it just irks me every time I see it. A) People forget that yaoi and yuri are Japanese queer story genre terms, not just funny shipping terms. They're already taking yaoi/yuri out of that context. B) "Yaori" was made up by non-Japanese speakers, and did not make the term with the language in mind. C) If we really want a "Non-binary yaoi/yuri" we should be consulting those in the Japanese queer genre scene instead of making terms up. (which I've found QL/Queer Love, which is the closest we have to a "non-binary yaoi/yuri" so far)

Preach!

White people, when it comes to religion you have to come to the realization that a lot of non-white cultures have a strong connection to religion. Religion isn’t just the thing that your parents used to be homophobic towards you. There’s millions of religions in the world and religion plays a big part in other cultures.

Also, if you were raised Christian or Muslim, or raised not particularly religious in a culturally Christian or culturally Muslim society (aka most societies in the world), your perception of religion and what it means to be "religious" is vastly different from the framework that most peoples and civilizations have used for most of history. Christianity and Islam are both universal religions which view religion as a purely faith-based spiritual belief and practice which you either do or don't follow, and if you do, that's good, and if you don't, that's bad. In both traditions, religion is something that can and should be spread and can be easily mapped onto other cultural and national identities. That's the whole reason why Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world and global forces of imperialism and geopolitical power, because they divorce faith from other aspects of culture in order to gain as many followers as possible.

If someone is violating a boundary of yours, and you know or suspect they are neurodivergent, and you directly tell them, "Please stop doing [specific behavior], you are making me uncomfortable," and they continue to do the behavior, the situation no longer has anything to do with neurodivergence. You don't even need to bring it up when you relay the story, actually.

method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

Also while we're all talking about anti-racism, here's a helpful tip: