gyro zeppeli.

The entirety of the blue section is all of the International section on Europe (interestingly it's got Turkey at the end.)

That yellow box? ALL of Africa.

Just size comparison and context, that orange section is Japan. One singular country vs an entire continent. Every time we say "African" versus having specific European countries and cultures to reference... That's not coincidental!

1) why are you using the very real exploitation of Africa to try to explain away the racism of the action that is not bothering to treat an entire continent as worth knowing about or visiting?

2) who are the ones telling you that Africa is a wasteland, and what goal might there be in doing so?

3) for whom is this exploitation STILL happening? BY whom, even?

4) do you think that you, a visitor to this place, will be a victim of said exploitation?

The entirety of the blue section is all of the International section on Europe (interestingly it's got Turkey at the end.)

That yellow box? ALL of Africa.

Just size comparison and context, that orange section is Japan. One singular country vs an entire continent. Every time we say "African" versus having specific European countries and cultures to reference... That's not coincidental!

There are tons of bookstores around my university- which makes sense, of course- and you'll get hundreds about European culture, war, history, people, plans for the future, everything, down to like, idfk, bike history in Denmark or something.

You go to the brown people section- I remember excitedly looking for 'Pakistan'- and there were two.

real question: have you actually been outside. like ever. because if you go outside for more than a few minutes you might find something interesting 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

"portrait of a woman wearing a turban and a pearl necklace."

Marcos Beccari (Brazilian Artist, born 1987)

Because, if you don't know, when homosexuality was taken out of the DSM in 1974 it was immediately replaced by a new disorder called ego dsystonic homosexuality. This "condition" basically stipulated that homosexual desire was a disorder, but only if the patient was distressed by their sexuality. This compromise disorder was obviously introduced because while they couldn't go on pretending homosexuality was intrinsicly disordered, they couldn't let go of that idea completely and it wasn't removed until over a decade later in 1987. But asexuality and aromanticism are still seen this way. Asexuality is still in the DSM under the name hypoactive sexual desire disorder, which stipulates that lack of sexual desire is a disorder, but only if the patient is distressed by their sexuality.

Both disorders' diagnostic criteria warn that people who are happy in their sexuality should not be considered disordered, but this only serves as tacit admission that it was never a disorder in the first place. A true disorder is a disorder regardless of how the patient feels about it. Anorexia is a disorder even if the patient is adamant that they're happy and healthy. Chronic depression is a disorder even if the patient says they're fine. And while this has been acknowledged with regards to homosexuality, it still hasn't been acknowledged with regards to asexuality.

And this perception of asexuality is imbedded within the wider culture as well. When people hear someone, be it a fictional character or a real goddamn person, say they're not attracted to anyone or interested in sex or romance, often their immediate thought is "Oh, there must be something wrong with you." Some of them will back off if you say "Actually I'm aro/ace" but some of them won't, and even for the ones who do, their first thought was still that there's something wrong with you that needs fixing. And they only thought your lack of interest was acceptable with the excuse of labelling yourself asexual/aromantic like it's a necessary hall pass.

It got pulled from Target's roster with a quickness. This is what happens when you either 1) lack historical, cultural, and racial awareness or 2) you just don't give a shit. Because ANYBODY who knew better would know why this wasn't okay. The designers, the photographers, the advertisers- literally ANYONE in the lineup for this product should have caught this before it hit the store (but Target stopped their DEI initiative, too "woke").

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