Thinking about how if MCGA gets an adaptation is gonna be either A. toned down/altered to accommodate the sheer amount of violence OR B. it’s gonna be book accurate but have such funny CGI
Like Hearths magic? Alex shape shifting? All the giants and large beings that appear? JACK???
police cars at the university of michigan protest yesterday organized by the campus chapters of SJP and JVP. As soon as students started entering the Ruthven building, around 4 pm (it closed at 5) loads of police started showing up and barricaded half the students inside the building. We counted over 50 cars, from our campus police to police from other campuses to state police and rangers.
They were immediately violent; they shoved us out of the way at the entrance and refused to let people cross through the doors in either direction while students were still confused as to what was happening and why they were being separated from their friends. One police officer pushed a girl to the floor and pulled her hijab off.
The last people were let out at 10 pm. By then, frost had already formed on the cars, but many of the protesters stuck outside hadn’t left. I was shivering until well after midnight even after i got home and piled on blankets.
the funny thing abt male privilege is that I'm not even a man and still have male privilege bc I have a beard and present generally masc but there are some out there who would argue for me that people look at me and see a woman because I am afab and thats just silly and bioessentialist I think idk what world they're living in tbh
as gen z’s I want all of you lovely lovely people to teach children about how some people wear different things and look a bit different from them and that it’s okay
because tell me why I was in Penneys just now with my sister, just browsing through the jewellery (im wearing an abaya, not covering my face just hijab because I didn’t feel like getting all dressed to go shopping so I slipped on my abaya to make it easier before I headed out)
my sister however is much younger than me and looks like any other kid, I walk towards this rack of jewellery, where 2 children and their mother I’d say are talking excitedly about something, tbh idrc I just wanted a look at those flower earrings I spotted and this kid, a little boy, goes silent, instantly shuts his mouth and looks up at me terrified,
like sir, what did I do? He looks so genuinely upset and scared to be seeing me, his mom isn’t saying anything and neither does his sister until I get uncomfortable and try talking to my sister about the jewellery so they know I don’t mind them being there, eventually I feel so bad that I’m scaring this kid so much that I move out of the isle.
I don’t blame the kid at all, (only a bit, because that side eye was fucking nasty) but the parent should’ve continued talking or just moved them or even told them not to stare? Like mind u these are the most white Irish kids ever but ye okay they should know other people but themselves exist.
I don’t know if they’re uneducated, Islamophobic, internally racist, or just scared of me because I’m not pretty, like literally at times like that I wish I was born prettier so strangers around me wouldn’t have to be so uncomfortable when I dress in my culture, because I see pretty people in public being praised for that but I always feel shamed.
No I totally get you! It really really didn’t feel right to me as a Muslim too! It was borderline uncomfortable which is why I’ve only seen scenes of it. //
Girl this is what I’ve been saying for so long!! They portray muslims as these terrorists and barbaric people. And with muslim countries, it’s always portrayed as a “low income” country, or as poor individuals who are homeless?? Like wtf? I honestly hate it when movies do that and it instantly makes me hate it. And what I also see in some movies is that the man always has like an underaged wife or something💀 or when the woman is ALWAYS ‘oppressed’ and she takes off her hijab. Don’t even get me started on how badly they represent us. A quick google search shows how a muslim prays, yet they still mess it up💀
It just shows how the west sees us and it honestly saddens me that that’s how they see us since we’re nothing like that. If they honestly just took the time and effort to idk visit a mosque and talk to the people there, they could see that it’s a peaceful religion. It can be one person who goes on and does something bad and they instantly blame the ‘muslim community’.
Like sometimes I’m so scared to walk past certain places since I wear a hijab and a abaya. I get so many weird looks especially from elderly white people😭 I’m already scared walking alone in London and then I’m reminded of the fact that I wear a hijab and abaya. Because people WILL hate us for no reason, I seriously knew someone who hates muslims, why? because they’re barbaric people who are trying to “take over the world”. ??? I don’t even know what that means tbh😭 I mean I know a lot of kids who get it passed down from their parents and probably half of their opinions are also from them.
Oh my GODDD I literally agree with everything you’re saying!!!
I am Muslim but I don’t wear hijab so I didn’t quite realise how much they HATE us… like when I lived in Pakistan I had NO CLUE the west hated us so much and thought we were some backwards people when really we’re not at all!
I know it must be 10000x harder as a hijabi Muslim, it’s like they already just see you as oppressed bc that’s what is shown to them on TV. It’s just so unfair and dumb and Hollywood KEEPS making more content like this…
I actually wrote an essay about this in my second year of university, wherein the west measures how “progressive” and “modern” a Middle Eastern or Muslim woman is based on whether she’s wearing a hijab and abaya or not. And i analysed this magazine cover, I think it was from Time magazine or something like from 2009 issue, where it was talking about how Middle Eastern women are so educated now and the cover literally showed a woman in Niqab as the “before” and a woman in a blazer and skirt with a briefcase as the “after” LIKE WHAT???????
No wonder everyone in the west thinks Muslims are backwards and barbaric and bad, it’s what their media and culture teaches them.
does wearing your hijab ever get uncomfortable physically? just from the tightness of it. I'm not sure how tight a hijab is because i've never worn one myself, but i had my hair in a bun all day with a bandana over top (bad hair day reasons) and I totally had a headache by the end. or does wearing it daily just mean you've gotten used to the feeling?
thanks :D
i think i have mostly gotten used to the feeling. actually, when i first started wearing it (cause i wear chiffon hijabs) my issue was that they werent tight enough. they kept slipping off and id have to keep bolting to a corner and crouch down to fix it while my friends / family stood around me protectively. or just hold it awkwardly until i got to a bathroom
nowadays, i think the only reason id get a headache is if its hot out and i go out in a hijab. i tend to wear lighter materials but god does it get hot.
i do sometimes get an issue when wrapping my hijab (i do it like the girl in this video except i dont tuck in the loose ends the way she did) when i pull it too hard around my head, it ends up leaving a red line below my chin if i wear it like that. i used to do that regularly (to make it look neat + in an attempt to make it not slip off) and i still have a faintly visible mark on my neck from that lol.
nowadays, tho, i make sure to rewrap it if i feel like its too tight <3
A problem with being white and attracted to people is every time I’m attracted to someone not white I’m like “what if that’s rude and I’m fetishizing someone without realizing it.” So i just never talk to them for fear of them thinking I’m a creep.
Meet Solam! She’s a quantum physics major who joins Wild Ventures after her classmate Gab (Gabbro) talks her into it. She’s excited and ready for adventure!
Some Facts:
Solam uses a text-to-speech device as well as sign language; I’m not sure if she’s mute or has trouble speaking or something else, but she gets by well enough.
She plays piano! She brought a keyboard from home and set it up in her dorm room as soon as she could.
Her favourite animals are goats :) Some of her other favourite things are science, mysteries, and learning.
Solam is fairly tall and has a habit of walking on her toes.
muslim men will talk nonstop about how islam granted women rights and then will try to bend over backwards to take them rights away from women. what do you mean zina is okay if men do it ??? throw your phone into the ocean