#double standard

[sickofthis666]

Thinking about the gay panic law legal defense in america. Homophobia aside, it's just so insane to think about when you’re a woman.

I mean, women are supposed to deal with sexual harassment and sexual assault our whole life, like it's part of our job (one we didn’t sign up for). And suddenly you're telling me that there is an actual fucking legal, accepted reasoning defending men who lose their shit, who use violence in self defense when they get sexually harassed and sexually assaulted themselves? When the tables are turned on them?

Can you even imagine women being allowed this level of leniency and self preservation? To be legally supported to use violence and even lethal force again a man because he made sexual advances to you that you didn’t want? That made you fear for your life?

If anything women doing this would be more legitimate because a man has more chances to physically defend himself successfully against another man, while it's not the case for women against men.

Men know about sexual assault and sexual harassment. They know how much it sucks. They just don't think it matters when it happens to a woman, or that women were put on this earth to endure it.

[profeminist]

Cartoon by https://www.instagram.com/vulgadrawings

AGGRIEVED ENTITLEMENT

looks like this:

[The single panel comic has a pink background. A white man with short brown hair wearing a white collared shirt and black pants is sitting on one end of a wide wooden bench. His arms are crossed and he is staring straight ahead, his legs splayed out to either side wider than his hips. To his right stands a woman with dark hair and brown skin wearing a green vest over a lilac long-sleeved shirt and black shirt. She is gesturing with one hand at the bench, smiling as she looks sideways at it.]

Woman: I THINK I DESERVE TO SIT ON THIS BENCH TOO!

[Below the first drawing, the woman is now sitting on the opposite end of the bench, her hands on her closed knees. She is looking sideways apprehensively at the man who has fallen onto the ground. His arms are flung out and he looks horrified.]

White man: OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN PUSHED OFF! THERE'S NO ROOM FOR ME ON [Underlined text.] MY [End underlined text.] BENCH ANYMORE!

See also: human conversation.

"Men perceived the discussion as being equal when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time."

[archiveofaffinities]

Dennis Hopper, Double Standard, 1961

[sentinelleblr]

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, took exception to Hegseth's comments. "Pete Hegseth is a f***ing liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could've gotten our pilots killed," Duckworth said in a news release Wednesday. "He needs to resign in disgrace immediately."

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

After seeing so many Amy posts, I gathered my courage and started reading the parts about Emma and Amy in The Essential Supernatural, knowing fully well it'll make me angry.

I wasn't disappointed [derogatory]

While they try to figure out how to actually kill the Leviathan, Sam and Dean battle a kitsune (…) The kitsune, Amy, was Sam's childhood friend, and when they were young she killed her own mother to protect him. So when Amy kills some lowlifes to save her sick kitsune son's life, Sam lets her go with the promise that she will only feed on corpses. Dean, however, figures once a monster, always a monster, so he ganks her behind Sam's back. (…) They even have to fight Dean's daughter. After a one-night stand with an Amazon results in a child with a supernatural growth spurt, Dean finds himself face-to-face with his monster offspring—who's been indoctrinated to kill her own father. Dean gives her a chance to walk away, but Sam kills her without hesitation, pointing out that Dean did the same with Amy. The brothers' rule is nonnegotiable: you kill the monster, plain and simple.

–The Essential Supernatural

There's so much to unpack here.

Like... not naming Emma? Saying Amy was Sam's "childhood friend" (they didn't spend that much time together) and calling Emma an offspring? Putting on the same level a serial killer and a kid who harmed no one yet?

My bad, Amy only killed some lowlifes.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

[goodgrammaritan]

"Why is it if a woman says yes to sex once, she's meant to be up for it anytime? Nobody believes saying 'I'd like spaghetti for dinner' means 'I want to live under an eternal rain of spaghetti.' Everyone pretends this is a confusing issue because they want women to keep putting out."

Odd to think if she slept with Octavian to get something, people would count that as her sin, not his. Nobody would condemn the king for taking what a woman only offered because she was desperate. The king couldn't be ruined.

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

[cynicalclassicist]

Can't remember where I saw this on Tumblr, but I found it on Bluesky and am putting it out.

[sickofthis666]

It's funny to see people say this about Gaiman now when they spent years doing it to JKR without shame...

[tiredgirlvent]

In 2016 UN security general ban ki-moon acknowledged concerns about bias against Israel.

That's amazing 👏

The UN has been biased and anti semitic towards Israel.

They have accused Israel of genocide multiple times by countries that were experiencing genocide in their own countries .

Hypocrisy much ?

Double standards much ?

Israel has never committed genocide or ethnic cleansing it is a bold face lie 🤥

They targeted Hamas who built tunnels underneath them in some of the most heavily populated areas, hospitals ,schools and hid there knowing the IDF was coming for them for what they did on Oct 7th 2023

They used their own people as human shields and these people who were being used as shields Supported it .

Unbelievable!

Israel was targeting Hamas not civilians in some of these other countries sudan , Indonesia and others ( who accused Israel of genocide) actual genocide was taking place. Christians in sudan beheaded , sunnis against Kurds , and so on .

Double standards

Yet despite all this the UN has targeted Israel more than any other nation .

It is disgusting

They are biased and they are liars .

UNRWA took part in Oct 7th with the slaughter of innocent people at the nova music festival and with the kidnappings and stupid enough to film it !

Hostages were held in Gazan homes .

The UN is corrupt

The UNRWA should be brought up for actual war crimes ( not the fake ones that are against Israel) but real war crimes !

The UN should be shut down

It has become a disgrace from what it used to be !

[profeminist]

“Can we all agree that cooking & cleaning is a basic life skill and not a gender role??????” 

- @unknwns0ul (page deactivated)

[eretzyisrael]

The UN’s decision to suspend humanitarian aid operations in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Sa'ada governorate, after the kidnapping of eight more UN workers on January 23, is a stunning betrayal. This decision not only ignores the brutal reality facing millions of Yemenis who are dependent on life-saving aid, but it is a clear case of the UN itself punishing the innocent—something it has vocally condemned when it comes to Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Guterres’s stance has been loud and clear when condemning "collective punishment" in the case of Gaza—an accusation that is not only unsubstantiated, but now seems even more hypocritical. The true collective punishment is happening right now in Yemen. The UN is punishing Yemen’s most vulnerable, denying over 21 million people vital aid because of the actions of a terrorist organization that has been kidnapping UN and humanitarian workers for months.

What’s perhaps even more outrageous is the almost total media silence on this issue. No international headlines, no spotlight on these workers, and no outcry from the same world that so vehemently criticizes Israel’s actions. These kidnapped individuals—who remain nameless and faceless in the eyes of the global community—are not even officially referred to as hostages by the UN itself. Instead, the language used to describe them is sanitized and distant. They are merely "detained," as though they were arrested by a legitimate government after committing a crime. But these people are victims, kidnapped by a violent, illegitimate terrorist group.

This double standard is impossible to ignore. The UN has spent over a year falsely condemning what it calls "collective punishment" in Gaza while, in Yemen, it is enacting the same kind of punishment against millions of innocent civilians that it supposedly stands against. These humanitarian workers deserve recognition, accountability, and an urgent response. Instead, they are left nameless, erased from the narrative, as the world watches in silence.

It is time for the international community, and the UN, to stop playing politics!

[arinewman7]

Double Standard

Ed Ruscha

[dragoneyes613]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Marcellus, the character in Hamlet who uttered those words, couldn’t have been more right. Things are indeed askew in Denmark – and in most of Europe, for that matter.

Earlier this month the Muslim community went berserk with rage over several satirical cartoons that Muslims felt maligned Mohammad and disrespected Islam. Apparently, it’s acceptable for Muslims to trash the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, destroy revered ancient Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, and desecrate Jewish burial sites whenever they get their hands on them, but woe to anyone who dares look at Islam the wrong way.

Throughout the Arab world there have been calls to behead those responsible for publishing those cartoons. The more moderate only demand that hands be chopped off. Western embassies and buildings housing humanitarian organizations have been attacked and demolished, and European products are being boycotted.

I can’t help but think the West is getting a preview of what life in Europe will be like in the not so distant future. Nominally Christian Europe is in free fall. Due to secularization and the rejection of Catholicism and traditional Protestantism with their restrictions on premarital relationships, birth control, and abortion, non-Muslim Europeans are failing to reproduce themselves in a significant manner. Their Muslim counterparts, however, who for years have freely been immigrating to Scandinavia, Germany, France and other European ports of entry, are having children – lots and lots of children.

It’s just a matter of time before Christian Europeans become a minority in their own countries. And a despised minority at that. In what can only be considered an extraordinary irony, Christians will be the new “Jews” of Europe, especially as the real Jews of Europe, with their keener perception of the approaching storm, begin leaving in greater numbers.

Even now, when the practitioners of Islam have yet to become the majority in their respective Western counties, they freely “express” their dissatisfaction with regional or federal governments – as they did in France with weeks of rioting after two Muslim youths were electrocuted while running from the police.

Sooner or later (I think sooner), native-born Islamic fundamentalists in countries like France and Denmark will start making demands – that all women be covered from head to toe, for example, or that all newspaper articles and television and radio programs be filtered through Muslim censors – along with threats that their governments better comply lest they suffer the chaos and destruction the world has already been witness to.

Kristallnacht, when Jewish-owned properties and synagogues in Germany were smashed and set on fire by frenzied mobs, will seem like a mild precursor to what Islamic fundamentalists are going to do to their soon-to-be “minority” neighbors.

A malignancy has overtaken the body of Europe, and the continent’s days are surely numbered. Honestly, I’m not exactly shedding tears for Christian Europe, birthplace of the Crusades, the Inquisition, pogroms, ghettos, blood libel, forced exile, massacre, and of course the culmination of it all, the Holocaust.

Despite Europeans’ past horrific treatment of Jews, I would be at least somewhat more sympathetic to Europe’s fate if not for the fact that ugly antisemitism has again become fashionable among Europeans – non-Muslim Europeans.

And one can’t blame the resurgent Jew-hatred on ignorance or lack of education – indeed, it’s not the ignorant or the uneducated who are fostering the hostility but rather the academics in their ivory towers and the journalists in the print and broadcast media. In institutes of higher learning, in newspapers and magazines, on television and radio, the truth is being distorted and bias is being implanted, with millions influenced negatively against Israel and Jews.

Murderers of Israeli children are called militants, snipers who shoot at cars are labeled freedom fighters, and Israeli retaliation after busloads of citizens are blown up is characterized as aggression and a threat to the “peace process.” There are calls for academic and economic boycotts of Israel (it’s ironic that Denmark is presently the target of an Islamic boycott, since it was Denmark’s largest trade union that was the first in Europe to advocate a boycott of Israel, in March 2002, just a month after 135 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacks). Even Russia, a country that has suffered tremendously from Islamic fundamentalism, is making overtures to Hamas.

The brutal colonizing countries of Europe that decimated and abused the native populations and plundered the natural resources of the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Africa are pressuring Israel, a literal sliver on the map, to give up lands it acquired, not by aggression but in self-defense against enemies that have been determined to annihilate it since its birth.

The double standard is alive and well across the ocean. Old World bias against the Jews is apparently so ingrained that the Europeans still haven’t figured out they’re picking on the wrong Semites.

And that’s why this child of Holocaust survivors can’t get too distraught over the likely fate of Jew-hating Europe. Ultimately, you sleep in the bed you make for yourself.

To the future “Jews” of Europe I say: Welcome to my world.

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

Season 7 Dean: loses Cas, Emma, Bobby, Sam… he can't even rely on small pleasures of life like food or Baby or sx

Before that, there are: his childhood, his 40 years of Hell trauma and Alastair chasing him on Earth, Mary hunting, one year being miserable because Sam and Bobby lied to him and he kept mourning his pseudo child death for nothing, Cas lying to him too, is proven he was poison for Ben and Lisa… etc, etc.

And during season 7, he's told to suck it up, he isn't a person, he should force himself to smile to not burden anyone.

He has to carry the weight of his brother who is allowed to have a breakdown for his one year Hell trauma. Then his best friend comes back and he too is allowed his own breakdown. But not Dean. Dean has to carry the world and can't talk about how hard it is or he'd be accused of whining.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]