this is all shit!

You know what? Screw this. Raging Fangirl is dead.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:35:14 -0400

If you understood what I was trying to say, pretend you don’t.

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: moniquill: raging-fangirl: But if they read the...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:31:42 -0400

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: moniquill: raging-fangirl: But if they read the...:

raging-fangirl:

raging-fangirl:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

But if they read the comments then wouldn’t they learn from them? If nobody’s learning then what’s the point in posting anything at all?

Some people aren’t learning shit, because they refuse to.

But education is a spectator…

I already acknowledged this and I won’t pick out any single race by the history I know of and I won’t dress as anyone of a single race in an attempt to associate myself with other cultures despite my mixed heritage. I am simply saying “we get the point, now give everyone a handshake and let’s go on with our lives while using this knowledge”

You aren’t everyone and you don’t have the authority to speak for everyone.

If you’re done with this lesson, scroll away. You’re done.

Other people aren’t done.

Other people haven’t even started.

Not everyone can be reached from this website. But new comments won’t make the past ones dissapear. The first several comments are still circling around the website and those are the ones that have the most knowledge for the general public.

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:28:22 -0400

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me...:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

And I’m just trying to be auspitice here… I don’t want you to be upset, I value your views and I care about your emotions but I don’t think you need to be so upset about all this… you’re saying that things need to change but being angry and arguing doesn’t change anything. I’m not saying I understand but I want you to be happy and you deserve to find peace in our world…

OH. FOR. FUCK’S. SAKE.

You have just used a homestuck term.

To describe that you’re trying, VERY POORLY, to mediate a situation where NO ONE ASKED YOU.

I will be happy when people stop doing racist shit.

And defending racist shit.

And I’m not going to shut up about it until that happens, because shutting up about it doesn’t facilitate it happening.

Let’s go back in time. Let’s go back to my kindergarten class where kids are doing that stupid hand-over-mouth ‘woo woo’ war cry shit at me. Let’s go back to elementary school, watching Peter Pan at the end of the year and getting reprimanded when I walk out of the room to sit in the hall during the ‘What makes the red man red’ song because I can’t fucking explain to the teacher why it makes me want to cry. Let’s go back to my girlscout troop, where one of the leaders is quoting that movie and saying ‘SQUAW GETTUM FIREWOOD!’ and getting huffy and offended when called out on it by my mother. Let’s go back to my middle school chorus that’s singing Colors of the Wind and listen to all the resultant comments from my classmates AND TEACHERS. Let’s go back to when I was fourteen years old and a car full of college-aged white guys drove by shouting ‘FUCK YEAH, POCAHOTNESS’ and making sexual gestures at me. Let’s go back to last year, when a coworker asked me why I was asking for a personal day and checked ‘Religious Observance’ when she knows I’m not a Christian- I told her it was for a powwow, and she wanted to come. I told her it wasn’t open to the public and she said ‘Then why even have one.’

Then why even have one?

THEN WHY EVEN HAVE ONE?

When people dress like this, they perpetuate stereotypes about native people, AND THEY UPHOLD AND COSIGN ALL THAT SHIT.

And then you have the fucking nerve to tell me that I just shouldn’t let it bother me. That I shouldn’t try to educate the people who are hurting me about my pain. That I shouldn’t try to take actions that will make it stop and prevent future generation from having the same painful experiences.That I should just get off the internet.

FUCK. YOU.

You do not give a dull fuck about me being happy or having peace, you just want me to stop talking about it.

Let me be very clear about this: I don’t want you to be happy. I want you to feel uncomfortable. I want you to feel upset. I want you to feel sad and angry. Because then maybe you will also attempt to change the shitty things that are happening, and cease to defend the people who are doing and perpetuating them.

I don’t care how you feel.

I care about what you do and say.

I used a Homestuck term in an attention to diffuse the anger into humor and it didn’t work. I apologize for that. I’m not saying it shouldn’t bother you, I’m saying that it might make you feel better if you forgave them… might… I don’t really know you or your psychological history.

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: moniquill: raging-fangirl: But if they read the...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:21:10 -0400

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: moniquill: raging-fangirl: But if they read the...:

raging-fangirl:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

But if they read the comments then wouldn’t they learn from them? If nobody’s learning then what’s the point in posting anything at all?

Some people aren’t learning shit, because they refuse to.

But education is a spectator…

I already acknowledged this and I won’t pick out any single race by the history I know of and I won’t dress as anyone of a single race in an attempt to associate myself with other cultures despite my mixed heritage. I am simply saying “we get the point, now give everyone a handshake and let’s go on with our lives while using this knowledge”

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:12:33 -0400

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me...:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me as a person. I try to remain anonymous on my blog. Never saying my real name or posting a real photo… I just so happen to reblog fandoms they like or have a similar sense of humor…

You are really, really, REALLY…

I’m not trying to make this about me, I was just giving you more information since your assumption was incorrect. I hope i dont upset you when i say this, but perhaps you’re accidentally making this about you when it’s about a whole culture?

You do realize that I am attempting to address the whole culture, one tiny example at a time, right?

And I’m just trying to be auspitice here… I don’t want you to be upset, I value your views and I care about your emotions but I don’t think you need to be so upset about all this… you’re saying that things need to change but being angry and arguing doesn’t change anything. I’m not saying I understand but I want you to be happy and you deserve to find peace in our world…

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:04:27 -0400

Moniquilliloquies.: raging-fangirl: Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me...:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me as a person. I try to remain anonymous on my blog. Never saying my real name or posting a real photo… I just so happen to reblog fandoms they like or have a similar sense of humor…

You are really, really, REALLY…

I’m not trying to make this about me, I was just giving you more information since your assumption was incorrect. I hope i dont upset you when i say this, but perhaps you’re accidentally making this about you when it’s about a whole culture?

moniquill: raging-fangirl: But if they read the comments then wouldn’t they learn from them? If...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:02:07 -0400

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

But if they read the comments then wouldn’t they learn from them? If nobody’s learning then what’s the point in posting anything at all?

Some people aren’t learning shit, because they refuse to.

But education is a spectator sport, which is why it’s best done in a public forum.

So you’re making am example of the person who was wrong instead of giving that person a chance to grow and learn from their mistake?

moniquill: raging-fangirl: I’m not trying to, I really am...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:51:37 -0400

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

I’m not trying to, I really am sorry… but maybe it’s possible that everyone’s taking this a tiny bit too seriously?

Have you considered that maybe the best role for you to take in this situation is to sit and listen attentively, rather than add your own opinion? I mean I know that you’ve probably been told your whole life that everyone has an oipinion and everyone’s opinion is valid and important, but let me clue you in on something: That’s not actually true.

Sometimes, you’re wrong.

And sometimes, it doesn’t really matter what you think about something.

No, I am not taking too seriously the fact that someone in the DIY tag is posting tutorials on how to make props to help kids engage in racist play. That shit needs addressing.

I doubt the OP meant any harm from it…

No fucks given.

If someone accidentally runs over my foot with their car, my foot is not less broken because ‘they didn’t mean it’ nor will it be magically healed in the event that they say ‘I didn’t know!’.

Racism isn’t a yes/no switch. It’s not a thing you ARE. It’s not about you being a racist person.

It’s about you having done a racist thing.

You can do so in the best intentions, or in total ignorance.

Racism is not in your intent.

Your intent is immaterial in how racist your actions are.

This isn’t about you BEING a racist. It’s about you DOING A THING that is racist.

Your intent doesn’t change it. Your ignorance of its meaning doesn’t change it. It’s got nothing to do with you as a person and everything to do with the meaning of your action in the context of sociocultural history.

this website usually embraces other people’s thoughts, opinions, and emotions, but every now and then it seems like people try to make others feel bad when they’re wrong.

Hold the fucking phone.

Sit down, because I’m going to lay some serious life-changing advice on you.

When someone tells you that you’ve done something wrong, it’s generally not because they’re trying to make you feel bad. It’s because they want you to STOP and NOT DO THAT AGAIN/ANYMORE. Your feelings are not the center of the conversation.

I don’t give a dull fuck about how you FEEL about being told that you’re wrong.

I care about what you do and say and how it impacts the world.

Everyone makes mistakes, right?

Yes. And until they’re corrected, they’re gonna keep making the same ones.

I am correcting people who are mistaken.

I hope this doesn’t seem like I’m saying it’s okay, because it’s not. I just think that maybe they already learned the truth…

They demonstrably have not.

But if they read the comments then wouldn’t they learn from them? If nobody’s learning then what’s the point in posting anything at all?

moniquill: raging-fangirl: moniquill: raging-fangirl: Perhaps...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:40:32 -0400

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

Perhaps this would be better if instead of interracial the oc put historical? Would that be insensitive?

Nothing. Would. Make. That. Outfit. And. Playhouse. OK.

NOTHING.

Because it is not based in any real history or culture; it’s based entirely on Hollywood caricatures of ‘Indians’ that have no basis in reality and serve only to erase and replace the real experiences of real people.

Okay, I’m sorry… I’m going to go back to hiding and not post my thoughts online anymore… I’m really sorry… I’m a terrible person…

This, that you’re doing right now?

This is white tears.

Because you asked a question that displays

A: Profound lack of understanding of the problem and

B: Racism, that you have learned from the culture you were raised in.

You received a clear, concise answer with an explanation.

And you had a large self-effacing emotional response to it, that your followers will probably lavish praise and sympathy upon you for.

Look at this comic (source: http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/06/rush-to-aid-of-crying-white-instigators.html )

And read this link:

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/white-womens-tears/

When you ask a question, and get an answer you don’t like, it is not appropriate to try to focus the situation back to yourself and how bad you feel about the question that you asked.

Also, the few followers I do have don’t follow for me as a person. I try to remain anonymous on my blog. Never saying my real name or posting a real photo… I just so happen to reblog fandoms they like or have a similar sense of humor…

moniquill: raging-fangirl: moniquill: raging-fangirl: Perhaps...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:34:48 -0400

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

Perhaps this would be better if instead of interracial the oc put historical? Would that be insensitive?

Nothing. Would. Make. That. Outfit. And. Playhouse. OK.

NOTHING.

Because it is not based in any real history or culture; it’s based entirely on Hollywood caricatures of ‘Indians’ that have no basis in reality and serve only to erase and replace the real experiences of real people.

Okay, I’m sorry… I’m going to go back to hiding and not post my thoughts online anymore… I’m really sorry… I’m a terrible person…

This, that you’re doing right now?

This is white tears.

Because you asked a question that displays

A: Profound lack of understanding of the problem and

B: Racism, that you have learned from the culture you were raised in.

You received a clear, concise answer with an explanation.

And you had a large self-effacing emotional response to it, that your followers will probably lavish praise and sympathy upon you for.

Look at this comic (source: http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/06/rush-to-aid-of-crying-white-instigators.html )

And read this link:

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/white-womens-tears/

When you ask a question, and get an answer you don’t like, it is not appropriate to try to focus the situation back to yourself and how bad you feel about the question that you asked.

I’m not trying to, I really am sorry… but maybe it’s possible that everyone’s taking this a tiny bit too seriously? I doubt the OP meant any harm from it… this website usually embraces other people’s thoughts, opinions, and emotions, but every now and then it seems like people try to make others feel bad when they’re wrong. Everyone makes mistakes, right? I hope this doesn’t seem like I’m saying it’s okay, because it’s not. I just think that maybe they already learned the truth…

Oh my God, I’m probably going to make a lot of people angry with that last post…...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:32:56 -0400

Oh my God, I’m probably going to make a lot of people angry with that last post… I’m really sorry, I should know better than to state my opinion. I’m a terrible person and I’m going to hell…

I’m probably going to get angry mail for saying this but a lot of the time when a lot of...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:21:44 -0400

I’m probably going to get angry mail for saying this but a lot of the time when a lot of people leave angry comments on a post it seems like the original poster didn’t mean any harm… this community comes together for the exchange of thoughts and opinions but when there’s a disagreement it seems like people gang up on others to make them feel bad…

moniquill: raging-fangirl: Perhaps this would be better if...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:03:53 -0400

moniquill:

raging-fangirl:

Perhaps this would be better if instead of interracial the oc put historical? Would that be insensitive?

Nothing. Would. Make. That. Outfit. And. Playhouse. OK.

NOTHING.

Because it is not based in any real history or culture; it’s based entirely on Hollywood caricatures of ‘Indians’ that have no basis in reality and serve only to erase and replace the real experiences of real people.

Okay, I’m sorry… I’m going to go back to hiding and not post my thoughts online anymore… I’m really sorry… I’m a terrible person…

Here, have a picture of Lyra as a praying mantis I found on...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:55 -0400

Here, have a picture of Lyra as a praying mantis I found on google

amethystandsapphire: raging-fangirl: theywillliveagaininfreedom...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:49:44 -0400

because bow ties totally didn't exist before doctor who nope

wow how dare people watch a film for an actor

u can't wear these shirts because ur not a true fan

highlighting a well-known quote from a book is totes grounds for telling people to kill them selves

how dare people blog about things that i don't like??

can u not

didn't u know? u have to be in the fandom if u like thing

my thing! mine! what do u mean it's for the general public to enjoy?

amethystandsapphire:

raging-fangirl:

theywillliveagaininfreedom:

Stop.

Dude, you hate hipsters more than what is a healthy limit… please calm down before you cause yourself physical damage… if you need to talk I’m here for you, okay?

No, if you read the titles of the pictures, each one is calling out people who act like that as bad. That it’s okay to be a hipster, or not be as well-versed in a fandom as you, or to wear certain types of clothes.

I can’t read the titles… I’m on a phone… I’m sorry for being such an idiot…

mishasminions: MY CHILDHOOD

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:49:09 -0400

mishasminions:

MY CHILDHOOD

theywillliveagaininfreedom: Stop. Dude, you hate hipsters...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:40:17 -0400

theywillliveagaininfreedom:

Stop.

Dude, you hate hipsters more than what is a healthy limit… please calm down before you cause yourself physical damage… if you need to talk I’m here for you, okay?

moniquill: thirteen-twelve: warmskin: native-detroiter: jdows...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:36:43 -0400

moniquill:

thirteen-twelve:

warmskin:

native-detroiter:

jdowski:

moniquill:

elecbubble:

tyrianterror:

epitomestrain:

fearisdead:

moniquill:

dreamalittlebiggerblog:

Even though I don’t have kids myself, I am such a fan of encouraging interactive play. This T-shirt teepee and DIY Indian Girl Dress tutorial from Natalme is too cute for words.

NO, DO NOT DO THIS.

WHITE PEOPLE, STOP.

This is how racism starts.

This is how stereotypes are formed in the minds of children.

This is the start of the path that ends with hipsters in war bonnets frolicking in fields half-naked, carrying bottles of booze and getting self-righteously angry (And refusing to learn. And continuing to be angry) when they’re confronted.

When you dress your children up as busted stereotype caricatures and call it ‘imaginative play’.

When you only speak about Native American people in the past tense, in certain contexts. When you only mention them as pertains to White history. When you depict them in stereotypical ways. This is how it starts.

Depictions like this are hurtful. Dressing up in redface is hurtful. Wearing ‘war paint’ is hurtful. Dressing up as another race by wearing terribly stereotypical caricatures of what you think that race looks like is not appropriate. Teaching your child that this is what they should think of when they hear ‘Native American’ HURTS REAL NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE. It creates, in the mind of your child, a stereotype, a caricature, of what Native people do/should look like that erases us in reality and removes us from their perception of the modern world. It turns ‘Native American’ into someone wearing beads and headbands and feathers and face paint. It turns an ethnic, racial identity into a costume.

Can someone tell me why non-native people think that it is remotely appropriate to dress their children up like this?

^^^

Tell me why you put white people…

because we’re the assholes who do it? we’re the same culture that decimated their population, and therefore it’s extra awful when we steal and mock their culture for our own amusement?

There is nothing wrong with dressing up like that. The problem is how parents teach their kids. There is always going to be racist ppl in this world. It’s how a person is brought. But there’s nothing wrong with a child dressing up like that.

No.

You are wrong.

That child is dressed up as a racist caricature and is thus being taught to embody and forward stereotypes that hurt NDN people.

Unless you’re operating on a premise that’s there’s nothing wrong with raising your children to think it’s fine to hurt others (maybe you are, maybe you’re fucking horrible, I don’t know) then THAT IS WRONG.

Let me break it down:

If hurting people = wrong, then racism = wrong because RACISM HURTS PEOPLE.

Not fucking hard.

Uh…so my daughter can’t go as Pocahontas or some other non-white person for Halloween without you screaming racist ? I know it’s a Monday but folks need to take a deep breath….. -_-

no she can dress up as Pocahontas. but that’s not what Pocahontas wore.

white people shenanigans

This may be the dumbest fucking thing i’ve ever read. It’s not fucking racist you dumbfucks. It’s child’s play.

Racist, racist child’s play.

Why do you think those things are somehow mututally exclusive? That children can’t play in racist ways? That children can’t innocently mimic racist shit? That children can’t be fucking hurtful without meaning to or knowing why they’re hurtful and that thier innocense doesn’t make thier actions any less FUCKING HURTFUL?

Kids who are playing like this need to be told to stop, because they’re hurting people.

I’m gonna go ahead and quote myself from a post about Disney’s Peter Pan and Pocahontas and why they’re hurftul; see if you can make the jump from ‘movies about Hollywood Indians and kids dressing up like that:

“Kids like that grow up and write stories like this.

I’m not worried about watching Peter Pan or my kids/kids in my family watching it.

I’m worried about kids in other people’s families watching it. I’m worried about them internalizing the shit they saw, and growing up and making decisions based on that. I’m worried about the first thing that, say, a job interviewer thinks when I say ‘I’m Native American’ being a momentary flash of Tiger Lily and Peter Pan standing on a drum while he does that fucking ‘War Whoop’ bullshit that kids in grade school used to make fun of me. Because that was their first and most memorable introduction to what Native American means.

Media. Matters.

So yes, it’s important to criticize it, openly and loudly and often.Yes, even the ‘classics’ you loved as a child. ESPECIALLY the classics you loved as a child, because you’re looking at them through nostalgia goggles and passing them unfiltered to a new generation.

You don’t want to be dragged under a bus?

Sorry. You need to see the underside of that bus, so that you can see what’s wrong with it before you decide to drive it through busy traffic. A bus accident doesn’t just hurt YOU.”

Perhaps this would be better if instead of interracial the oc put historical? Would that be insensitive?

Sometimes I write pornyfic: super-aggro-crag: amethystandsapphire: super-aggro-crag: why don’t fat...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:26:37 -0400

Sometimes I write pornyfic: super-aggro-crag: amethystandsapphire: super-aggro-crag: why don’t fat...:

super-aggro-crag:

amethystandsapphire:

super-aggro-crag:

why don’t fat people just eat less and move around more

why don’t people who don’t actually know what those fat people do with their lives shut up and not act like they’ve cured fatness more?

speaking from…

What’s with this asshole?

"If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:18:39 -0400

“If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.”

- A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via brute-reason)

Exactly.

Be honest: You don’t give a shit about rape victims.

You don’t fucking care.

You make excuses for the rapists all the damn time.

This is about policing women’s bodies and telling them to just ‘shut up and stop complaining about your rape because you deserved it’

(via sourcedumal)

Honestly I think the main reason people blame the victims is because they’re scared. They want to think they’re safe by not doing these things. It’s not that they don’t understand, it’s that they don’t WANT to understand.