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New Anne Frank play ignores her Jewish identity
The play is set in modern times and makes no mention of the Nazis or the fact that they murdered the teenager
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WHAT THE FLAMING FUCK Y’ALL
The director has made inflammatory statements about Jews and the Holocaust before (effectively accusing us of ‘playing the Holocaust card’ for sympathy) and also fabricates a sexual assault in the play that maligns a real-life Holocaust victim because, and I quote, “The diary itself contains no drama.”
Imagine being so depraved that you think it’s justified to paint a man who was murdered in the Holocaust as a sexual predator just because you’ve decided that Jewish people trying survive the genocide your ancestors perpetrated against them isn’t “dramatic” enough for you.
what the actual fuck
Clothing is prosthetic fur.
It’s true, but you don’t gotta say it.
No, seriously. This is important.
Like… think about the social model of disability for a second. You have people who are disabled and, say, need to use a wheelchair to get around but they can’t because everyone insists on building stairs everywhere because the vast majority of people are just fine navigating steps. Except for the people who can’t who are turned into second-class citizens.
Now, if everyone used wheelchairs everything would be ramps and using that chair would no longer be an actual disability because the world would be made in order to accommodate it.
Anyway, people talk a big talk about how this is totally different because wheelchairs are for addressing a physical limitation. Except, it’s not, really, because the human body can’t really tolerate anything cooler than the tropics at night without getting awfully uncomfortable without wearing clothes.
Without clothes human beings wouldn’t be able to inhabit 90% of the places we do but we can because we all wear our little fur prosthetics and live in a culture that accommodates and supports the use of those prosthetics (laundromats, closets, ect…) so we don’t even notice that we have these limitations until we forget to wear our clothes when we leave the house.
… and then we get in trouble real fast.
I Died In 2010 and Was Replaced By Someone With Absolutely No Motivation and Complete Emotional Unavailability, a conspiracy thread
*whispering* Psst! Hey! *waves* Hey, c'mere. I need to tell you something…
People are allowed to have hobbies they’re bad at and still enjoy them
*whispering again* OK, that’s it. Thanks. *climbs back into the bushes*
*whispering from a nearby lamppost*
psst… that doesn’t just mean you should respect other people, even though you should… it also means it’s okay for you to pick up a hobby and be bad at it, so long as it makes you happy!
*slithers back up the lamppost*
*peeks out from under a sewer grate*
you are allowed to be proud of your hobby and proud of yourself for doing it, even if you’re ‘bad’ at it. you get to decide what progress is, and whether or not you are worried about making progress at all. you are not required to “get better” at your hobby. you do not have to defend your hobby ability to anyone. the only people who would criticize you for being proud of yourself are nasty sewer trout people, that’s why I am down here, I will eat them. so don’t you worry about them.
*lowers sewer grate*
*from beneath a pile of sleeping cats*
you are also 100% allowed to have a hobby you ARE good at and not turn it into a for-profit enterprise. success is not solely measured in dollar signs. don’t let them take away your joy.
*resumes aggressive snuggling*
At New York Awards Show, Orthodox Jewish Teen Star of Hit TV Series Thanks ‘Hashem,’ Says Religion Is the ‘Core of My Identity’
Jewish teen actor David Mazouz, who plays a young Bruce Wayne in the Fox series “Gotham,” was honored on Sunday night for his accomplishments as an Orthodox Jew.
The 16-year-old received the award among other honorees at the 5th Annual Jew In the City All Stars Awards Show in New York, which celebrated the success of observant Jews. In his acceptance speech, Mazouz thanked his rabbis for teaching him “what a moral compass should look like,” his parents for instilling in him important values and “Hashem for bringing all of this into my life.”
The actor — who attends a Jewish high school in Los Angeles — also called Judaism “the core of my identity” and talked about the role religion plays in his life. He told the 500-person audience, “If anybody was to tell me to write a list of the adjectives that I think I am I could write pages and pages because like everybody here I could identify that I’m a member of countless institutions, but Judaism is always at the very top of my list.”
He added, “Now more than ever I think it’s crucial to remember and reinforce the gravity of our unity as Jews. I am a proud Jew doing things in the world. To me a Jew is a person, among other things, that makes it his or her responsibility to go out to the world and to bring light. Someone who counteracts negative stereotypes by helping people everywhere and like my upbringing has taught me, I wear that badge with more dignity than I’ve ever worn anything.”
Mazouz further discussed his Jewish life in a video that played before he was given the award. The actor revealed he does Skype with a rabbi to help him with his Jewish homework, his favorite subject is Talmud and he loves Shabbat. He said he had even described the day of rest in such great detail to some non-Jews that they were now interested in trying it out. Mazouz also told the audience he felt very “at home” with Judaism and that he turned to religion when unsure of what to do in a situation.
He also retold stories of how he has become the “rabbi” or “halachic authority” on the set of “Gotham.”
He explained, “One of our set dressers is named Ari. He came up to me and said, ‘You know I’ve talked to my family and they’re celebrating [the Jewish holiday of] Shemini Atzeret, can you tell me what that is?’…My rabbi was saying you’re gonna be in situations when you’re with others who don’t know [about Judaism] and you’re gonna be the authority and I was thinking, yeah, that’s already happened to me. That’s absolutely true.”
some good news i’m sure we all need right now
Mental illness is global.
America has a very unique problem with guns, violence, and toxic white men.
Reblog every time there’s a mass shooting
been reblogging this very frequently