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*the racist does something racist*

ABC:

1. When Aristotle Said Women Are Defective Men

“The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities; we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness.”

2. When St. Thomas Aquinas Said Women Are Sperm Accidents

“… A female is deficient and unintentionally caused. For the active power of the semen always seeks to produce a thing completely like itself, something male. So if a female is produced, this must be because the semen is weak or because the material [provided by the female parent] is unsuitable, or because of the action of some external factor such as the winds from the south which make the atmosphere humid.”

3. When Napoleon Said Women Are Just Slaves

“Nature intended women to be our slaves… they are our property; we are not theirs. They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener…. Women are nothing more than machines for producing children.”

4. When Cato The Elder Argued That All Women Are Wild Animals

“Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein…. Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters.”

5. When Pliny The Elder Warned That Menstrual Blood Is Poisonous

“On the approach of a woman in this state, must will become sour, seeds which are touched by her become sterile, grafts wither away, garden plants are parched up, and the fruit will fall from the tree beneath which she sits. Her very look, even, will dim the brightness of mirrors, blunt the edge of steel, and take away the polish from ivory. A swarm of bees, if looked upon by her, will die immediately.”

6. When Plutarch Did Not Approve Of Independent Lady-Emotions

“A wife should have no feelings of her own, but share her husband’s seriousness and sport, his anxiety and his laughter.”

7. When Friedrich Nietzsche Was Basically Just Friedrich Nietzsche

“Finally – woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant – woman needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, being humbled as divine.”

8. When Jean-Jacques Rousseau Said Ladies Only Need To Be Taught About Men

“The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to council them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them – these are the duties of women at all times, and should be taught them from their infancy.”

9. When Sigmund Freud Despaired Of Grown Ladies’ Sexuality

“The sexual life of adult women is a ‘dark continent’ for psychology.”

10. When James Joyce Was A Bit Of An Idiot

“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.”

Americans aren’t told this shit. 

The only thing we’re taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) it’s where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. That’s it. Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isn’t about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, it’s not important.

Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. It’s not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shah’s return to power, and even then you’d be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: they’re racist as shit) by the time they get there. And it’s almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.

She’s 60. She never heard of this.

As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.

He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods.  Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but that’s a side tangent.

And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said “Yeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasn’t surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldn’t they resent us for that?”

And she just looked floored.

“So…” She started, after a few minutes. “What do you think of Trump?”

“I hate him. He’s a coward and he’s going to get good people killed.” He didn’t even blink. “

She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.

“I research things.” I said. “Google is great.” He nodded enthusiastically.

And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, “I didn’t know.”

She lived through it.

We never studied the Vietnam War. Korea. No current events. No ancient cultures. No history of other countries. When 9-11 happened I was in high school, and me and my classmates legitimately had no idea who would attack the U.S. or why. We were baffled. Because we were taught our entire lives that America is always the good guy.

For a great civilian perspective of the Bosnian War in the 1990s, I highly recommend Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic.

American imperialism has destroyed so many lives, and in America we are indoctrinated with propaganda to believe that we free, good, and brave, when in fact it’s the opposite.

Great news guys 🎉 

So if women wear makeup at work we’re “frivolous” and it harms our leadership chances.. but if we don’t wear makeup we are being unprofessional and are deemed less competent.

Hey guys! This is really, really exciting. I’m posting this news on someone else’s behalf. A fellow phile and lover of fic has created an extremely simple to use search engine for for fic: liminalfic.org

“Liminal is a simple search engine for X-Files fic. I noticed how hard it was to search for stories when you couldn’t search for words or even categories (contains the word “duck” and is an NC-17 Krycek/Phoebe Green AU? you know you wish you could find that), and with the fic distributed all across the internet. This fixes that. Note: To avoid archiving against the wishes of any authors, no stories are hosted on Liminal directly–I’m just making it easier to find them. Currently only stories from Gossamer are completely searchable, but I’m slowly adding fic from all the other old sites as well. Enjoy!“ – the creator. 

The phrase “simple search engine” is wonderfully, blessedly serious. Gossamer can be notoriously difficult to navigate.

You can search by episode:

etc. 

You can search for your extremely specific trope:

You can narrow by pairing, genre, and POV. I wanted to find a fic that I read and all I could remember was that it was post-One Son, and that it included the words “pigs” and “forgive”. Holy hell.

I found it.

This is incredible. 

I tend to avoid Gossamer because if I’m looking for something particular, I know it’s not the best archive to give me what I want. This website changes that completely. I’m absolutely psyched to use it.

We’re a unique fandom because of how much we interact with the past. This helps us preserve that connection, and gives us access to great fic we might never have stumbled upon otherwise. 

Give it a whirl!