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Senator Elizabeth Warren

(via scientificphilosopher)

SIT DOWN DON YOU FAT MOTHER FUCKERRRRRRRRRR

A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.

And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.

Recently a museum in Boston came under a lot of fire for allowing visitors to wear a ‘kimono’ (it was featuring a painting my Monet of a girl – a white girl – in a kimono, and the museum had replicas made that guests of ANY RACE could wear to mimic the painting, Pageant-of-the-Masters style). After protests and heated debate, the museum closed the event.

I was living in Japan at the time, and out of all the *actual* Japanese people I asked, not a single one was offended by the event. Rather, they were excited that people half a world away were showing interest in their culture, and were sad that visitors could no longer enjoy the event.

This party, though somewhat silly in application, is an attempt at experiencing and appreciating another culture. The mom who put this together is not an expert on Japan, but she did her best. She got a lot of things right: there are few things Japan loves more than tea, Pocky, and sakura. 

Where do you draw the line for who is “allowed” to learn about Japan? If the girl were of Japanese descent, would that make it ok (even though her citizenship would be the same as the girl from the photo)? If one of the girl’s parents were from Japan, then would it be ok? 

Are you only allowed to make pizza if you live in Italy? If you’re an Italian immigrant? How do we decide these things??

You can’t say you want to dismantle racism and then in the next breath make rules – based on race – for who people can wear, try, or eat, especially when the intent is obviously to have fun experiencing a culture (as opposed to having fun by making fun of a race or culture, like blackface does). 

Is men in beauty ads the next step for the makeup industry?

Recently Maybelline posted a photo of a beauty blogger on its Instagram - not uncommon. The difference: This blogger happened to be male. Manny Gutierrez joins a growing number of male beauty bloggers with a belief that makeup is ungendered. Will someone like Gutierrez join the likes of female models on makeup billboards? Mic decided to ask male beauty bloggers for their first-hand perspective.

ITS SUPER FUCKING CUTE

OH BY THE WAY THE MAIN CHARACTER IS TRANS

LOTS OF ANIME/MANGA HAVE SUPER FUCKING TRANSPHOBIC VIEWS ON TRANS PEOPLE

BUT THIS ONE IS PRETTY FUCKING POSITIVE AND ACCURATE

DID I MENTION SHE’S MARRIED TO A GUY THAT LOVES AND ACCEPTS HER!?

UNF LOOK AT THEM CORRECT PRONOUNS

HOLY SHIT THEY’LL EVEN ANSWER FUCKING QUESTIONS IN BOTH AN INFORMATIVE AND MEGA FUCKING CUTE MANNER!

LOOK AT THAT SUPER FUCKING ACCEPTING ASSHOLE. LIKE HOLY SHIT TAKE ME YOU FUCKING STALLION. BEST CONFESSION 2016

I’D SAY I FOUND MY NEW HUSBAND BUT THESE NERDS DESERVE EACH OTHER

HOLY SHIT AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER THEY ALSO GO OVER VARIOUS THINGS IMPORTANT TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY

GO READ HANAYOME WA MOTODANSHI

Here I was, just eating a cup of applesauce under the 14-year-long assumption that the reason a small infant was able to remember something was because this was a fictional world of magic, but no, now this entirely reasonable and somewhat less terrifying bubble has burst and I’m never going to recapture that innocence. 

THE GREEN THAT HARRY SAW!

I was always under the assumption that he was remembering seeing it as a one-year-old, even though as an Education Major I know that people usually can’t remember that far back but I was just like, hey, he’s magical and maybe Jo just stretched the suspension of disbelief

But now

What if the green that Harry always saw, especially when the Dementors were around, was the small part of Voldemort’s soul reliving that moment that, as someone else pointed out, is probably the worst moment of his life.