For only $20 you too can fuck Satan

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TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CREAM. TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK.

MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.

This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.

Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.

Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.

The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online.

I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.

I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me.

The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.

Reblog to save a vagina.

Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina

AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT

But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.

FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain

AMEN.

It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.

Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑

I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.

Reblogging to save a vag.

It’s almost like the shame and stigma thar surrounds vaginas is a danger to the health and well being of people who have vaginas.

Damn y’all #saveavag

I also want to add to this conversation – if you have surgery of any kind and are given high doses of an antibiotic to thwart off infection, PLEASE ASK FOR DIFLUCAN AS WELL. Antibiotics can throw your shit off and cause a yeast infection. I learned this the hard way after having orthopedic reconstruction, being on a fuckton of meds, and then getting the worst yeast infection of my life. I now request Diflucan scripts after ANY surgery.

Most doctors I know automatically add Diflucan/fluconazole to antibiotics, but I didn’t realize that a lot of them didn’t!

finnglas:

I’m going to give you the best piece of Adult Life Is Hard advice I’ve ever learned:

Talk to people when things go to shit.

I don’t just mean get it off your chest, although that’s good. I mean: Something’s wrong with your paycheck/you lost your job/you had unexpected emergency car repairs and now you’re broke so your credit card payment is late. Like, not just 15 days late. We’re talking, shit got crazy and now you’re 90 days late with compounded interest and late fees and the Minimum Payment Due is, like, $390, and you’ve got about $3.90 in your bank account. Call the credit card company.

I know it’s scary. I know you feel like you’re going to get in trouble, like you’re gong to get yelled at or scolded for not having your life together. But the credit card company isn’t your parents; they’re just interested in getting money from you. And you can’t squeeze blood from a stone or money from someone who doesn’t have any. So what you do is you call them. You explain you’re experiencing temporary financial hardships, and you’re currently unable to bring your account up to date, but you don’t want to just let it get worse. Can you maybe talk to someone about a payment plan so you can work something out? Nine times out of ten you’ll be able to negotiate something so that at least it’s not just taking a constant, giant shit on your credit score.

– Can’t pay your power bill? Call the power company.

– Can’t pay your full rent? Talk to your landlord.

– Had to go to the hospital without insurance and have giant medical bills looming in your place? Call the hospital and ask if they have someone who helps people with financial hardships. Many do.

– Got super sick and missed half a semester of class because flu/pneumonia/auto-immune problems/depressive episode? Talk to your professor. If that doesn’t help, talk to your advisor.

You may not be able to fix everything, but you’ll likely be able to make improvements. At the very least, it’s possible that they have a list of people you can contact to help you with things. (Also, don’t be afraid to google things like, “I can’t pay my power bill [state you live in]” because you’d be surprised at what turns up on Google!) But the thing is, people in these positions gain nothing if you fail. There’s no emotional satisfaction for them if your attempts at having your life together completely bite the dust. In fact, they stand to benefit if things work out for you! And chances are, they’ll be completely happy to take $20 a month from you over getting $0 a month from you, your account will be considered current because you’ve talked to them and made an agreement, you won’t get reported to a collections agency, and your credit score won’t completely tank.

Here’s some helpful tips to keep in mind:

1. Be polite. Don’t demand things; request them. Let me tell you about how customer service people hold your life in their hands and how many extra miles they’ll go for someone who is nice to them.

2. Stick to the facts, and keep them minimal unless asked for them. Chances are they’re not really interested in the details. “We had several family emergencies in a row, and now I’m having trouble making the payments” is better than “Well, two months ago my husband wrecked his bike, and then he had a reaction to the muscle relaxer they gave him, and then our dog swallowed a shoestring and we had to take him to the emergency clinic, and just last week MY car broke down, and now my account’s in the negatives and I don’t know how I’m gonna get it back out.” The person you’re talking to is aware shit happens to everyone; they don’t need the details to prove you’re somehow “worthy” of being helped. They may ask you for details at a certain point if they have to fill out any kind of request form, but let them do that.

3. Ask questions. “Is there anything we can do about X?” “Would it be possible to move my payment date to Y day instead so it’s not coming out of the same paycheck as my rent?” The answer may be “no.” That’s not a failure on your part. But a good customer service person may have an alternate solution.

Anyway! I hope that helps! Don’t just assume the answer is “no” before you’ve even begun. There is more help out there than you ever imagined.

100-Year-Old Life Hacks That Are Surprisingly Useful Today

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People don’t often look back on the early 1900’s for advice, but what if we could actually learn something from the Lost Generation? The New York Public Library has digitized 100 “how to do it” cards found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes.

Back in the day, cigarette cards were popular collectibles included in every pack, and displayed photos of celebrities, advertisements, and more. Gallaher cigarettes, a UK-founded tobacco company that was once the largest in the world, decided to print a series of helpful how-to’s on their cards, which ranged from mundane tasks (boiling potatoes) to unlikely scenarios (stopping a runaway horse). Most of them are insanely clever, though, like how to make a fire extinguisher at home. Who even knew you could do that?

The entire set of life hacks is now part of the NYPL’s George Arents Collection. Check out some of the cleverest ones we could find below. You never know when you’ll have to clean real lace!

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Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”

AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE

so that’s the function of a rubber duck

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.

I use this for writing, actually. Explain what I’m doing and what I want to do and the different ways i can get to point B from A, as well as the different problems, amazingly working them out as I explain why I could or couldn’t the different things. I love the Rubber Duck theory.

Former programmer, can confirm. We didn’t have a duck in our office so our other programmer, who I shared a space with, used me as a duck proxy. (For the explaining, not the throwing.)

There was more than one day where I’d casually hear “Hey can you be a duck for a minute?”

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The native Maori people of New Zealand have tattooed their faces for centuries. They had a complex warrior culture before the arrival of Europeans, and suffered under early colonialism, but have experienced a cultural revival since the 60′s.

The marks are called moko, and are etched with chisels instead of needles to leave grooves along with the ink. The true form is sacred, unique to each person, and distinct from European tattoos that mimic that traditional style.

There arent many pictures non combat related that look this badass

Actually most
Tā moko are done with modern tattoo equipment these days, but some people get them done the traditional way. And, as others have said, they’re not for Non-
Māori, as they have specific meanings and significance. If you want a tattoo with Māori

style, you can get a
kirituhi. These avoid any designs associated with particular tribes or famous people you’re not related to.

Kirituhi is a Māori style tattoo either made by a non-Māori tattooer, or made for a non-Māori wearer. Kirituhi has mana of it’s own and is a design telling the unique story of the wearer in the visual language of Māori art and design. Kiri means ‘skin’, and tuhi means ‘to write, draw, record, adorn or decorate with painting’.

Kirituhi is not restricted to only Māori people, and it is a way for Māori to share our cultural arts with people from around the world in a respectful manner, and for non-Māori artists to enjoy our beautiful art form as well. I happily do kirituhi for my clients around the world and it is a privilege to do such work for them.

Kirituhi is no lesser an artform than moko, however it is different and I believe these differences must be acknowledged and respected, so that the integrity of our taonga Māori – moko, is maintained around the world.

Moko is uniquely Māori and it is strictly reserved to be done by Māori, for Māori.

If either the recipient or tattooer do not have Māori whakapapa, then the resulting design is a Māori Style tattoo or kirituhi, NOT moko. The word moko originated from the Māori atua (god) of volcanic activity and earthquakes, Rūaumoko – therefore the origin of tā moko is divine and sacred – to me this is no small thing, nor should it be dismissed.

As my mentor once told me, ‘moko is about 99% culture, and 1% tattoo’.

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I read your post and I’d like to help you get started. Please talk to me about how vegetables aren’t real, because that sounds like an interesting af conversation.

thecrackedamethyst:

Well let me tell you.

Everybody and their cousin has experienced the argument “is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable” at some point in their lives. It’s a fun bit of trivia, and let’s know-it-all’s speak condescendingly, or at least they did like 10 years ago. “Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad”. Whatever.

Which brings up the point, that botany and culinary sciences are very different. Botany is the study of plants, culinary is cooking and how things taste. Botany is science, and it has rules (kind of), where cuisine is full of guidelines that are completely cultural.

Tomatoes are a fruit. A fruit is how many plants have babies, and are made in the ovary of a flower. I have a diagram.

Armed with this knowledge we can know that tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans, peas and peppers are all fruit.

“Now”, I ask you, “what are lettuce, and cabbage, and spinach, and kale”?

“Vegetables”, you say, assuredly.

“Yes, but, what are they?”

“…vegetables”, you say, slower, and louder this time, not quite sure what I’m wanting from you.

No. They are leaves.

What are carrots, beets and radishes? Roots. What about celery and rhubarb? Stems. Potatoes? Tubers (food storage for the plant, and where new plant babies will grow from). Garlic and onions? Bulbs (also food storage). Mushrooms? They’re not even a plant, they’re a fungus, in the kingdom of fungi, which is somewhere between the plant and animal kingdoms.

“Vegetables” is just a word for plants that we eat, that doesn’t have enough sugar to be a fruit, and not enough flavour to be a herb or spice.

Botanically speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. They’re just different parts of a plant that happen to be edible.

There are other plants, normally considered weeds, that can be “eaten like a vegetable”. Dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, purslane, can all be cooked and eaten, making them vegetables, at least to the people to treat them as such. It’s all very cultural, and biased, and based on nothing but what people think it is. Therefore, they are not a real thing, it’s just a concept.

Popular superstitions and taboos in Malaysia | Malay Mail

southeastasianists:

For most Malaysians, growing up with certain superstitions or taboos
are a norm, whether they are founded in logic or just customary beliefs.

Some of us would dismiss them as urban legends but for others, it is a part of daily life.

Seeing
that we are in the seventh lunar month and many in the Chinese
community observe the Hungry Ghost Festival, Malay Mail takes a look at
some superstitions that are still being bandied about.

Stay in at night

Children
and women are often advised to stay home when night falls as the
roaming spirits during the Hungry Ghost Festival are believed to be out
in full force.

Spirits are more likely to be “attached” to the innocence of children and pregnant women.

For those who are still out at night, avoid standing under shady trees or empty bus stops.

Keep reading

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i’m reading a book on spider biology and here’s some things i’ve learnt so far

they can’t move their eyes so when they need to focus on something they move their retinas independently of the rest of the eye instead and i can’t precisely pinpoint why this creeps me out but it does

i mean just look at that

they have two main eyes and the rest are secondary

which deeply upsets me because there’s quite a few six-eyed spiders and this wasn’t weird when it was just going from a larger number to an arbitrary smaller number, but knowing that they’ve got six because they decided to jettison their main eyes and run on backups is much much weirder

wolf spiders have the best goofy little monster faces. this isn’t
strictly

a biology fact but it’s still true

big spiders have 30-40 heartbeats per minute and lil dudes can have up to 100

their arteries run from the heart, into the chest, and down their legs, and then they open up and dump their blood in their feet. just right in there. let it slosh around. that’s all you need from a circulatory system, right.

their blood sloshes around and eventually winds up at the lowest point of their bodies, where their lungs slurp up all that loose blood and shove it back into the heart

instead of being made in bone marrow or anything, their blood cells just bud directly off of the heart muscle into the bloodstream

they can taste with their feet but not their mouths

god spiders are weird

thanks to this post i just looked up spider anatomy on wikipedia (actually i did a search for “spider organs” on duckduckgo and that’s what came up first) and it was even weirder than i imagined, their heart looks like WHAT? and did i misunderstand the diagram or do they have intestines running down all their legs? anyway a+++ would recommend

i get the gist that if there’s something that makes you go “that can’t be right” wrt spiders, it absolutely is right

mgd is midgut branches and lmao yep they poke down into the leg segments sometimes (or, as in friend jumping spider in fig b, up surrounding the eyes…….)

their hearts are just tubes! big tubes! so big that you can see them from the outside!!

there’s so much happening inside spiders, who authorised this

Most arthropods have /hilarious/ circulatory systems because a significant chunk of it is “toss the organs in a pool of oxygen enriched blood and hope that works out”

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A How-To Not be Antisemitic/How-To interact with Jews Guide for Christians/Christianized folk.

I have some time before I go to a meeting. And in general I get a lot of asks, mainly from Christian folk, saying, “Hey @realsadjewishhours is this or is this not antisemitic?” “How do I interact with the new Jewish folk in my neighborhood without being antisemitic?” “Is it okay for me to celebrate Passover, Hanukkah, Rose Hashanah when I’m not Jewish?”

So I’m going to write up this helpful guide, I hope it is useful and informative. So let’s get started.

1. No, you cannot celebrate Jewish holidays, unless an actual Jewish person has invited you to do so. I know, bummer. Jewish holidays seem cool right? And they ARE cool. But Christianity and Christianized folk have had a long history of essentially being culture vultures when it comes to Jewishness. And it’s never ended well the Jewish mysticism Kabbalah and the Talmud (I even have a post about this that was recently posted if you need any proof) is a good example of this. Goyim have twisted, and destroyed the essential meaning of many many Jewish beliefs or cultural items. Once upon time Judaism/Jewish culture as a whole was never this closed off from the rest of world, we invited Gentiles to learn about our religion and many times participate, but due to thousands of years of oppression in order to survive our communities and religion were protected and guarded from outsiders.

Regardless of your intention, or you admiration of Jewishness, you are being complicit in the destruction of our culture by taking our holidays and celebrating them outside of our communities. It is absolutely, a hundred percent, okay to participate as long as a Jewish person’s ASKS you and not the other way around. (Though be mindful it is not your place to question or challenge the way they celebrate their holidays)

Do not ask or pressure your Jewish friends into allowing you to celebrate the holidays with them. Ever. It is not your place to ask. It is their’s.

2. Do not critique our religious books.

I’ve explained this is a previous post before called “Is it Antisemitic for a Goy to critique Judaism?” Where I explain though, theoretically it should be possible to critique Judaism without being antisemitic, that 99.99% of critiques from goyim are A) antisemitic conspiracy theories B) a generalized statement about Abrahamic religions that simply have nothing to Judaism and are clearly from a Christianized or Muslim POV. And sometimes C) just plain wrong.

Judaism is complex, so incredibly complex that many religious Jews themselves don’t have a firm, sound grasp of it all. A Rabbi once said, “For every single Jew, there is a different belief of G-d,” or something like that. Even the 13 Basic Principles of Judaism don’t encompass for many, if not most, religious Jews what Judaism and its beliefs actually are. So for an outsider, a Christianized one, nonetheless to try and pretend they know even a little bit about our beliefs as a group, and try and attempt to critique them almost never ends well.

Its also complicit in the Christianized supremacy that resides in the West. Again like I spoke of about the Talmud post I had recently posted, y’all “critiqued” our religious books in the Middle Ages, an event dubbed the Attack on the Talmud in which you labeled it a heretic book, used the few passages that spoke of Jesus as examples for anti-Christ sentiment, and then went to burn them in certain provinces. The attack on the Talmud, and Christian Middle Ages writings against it soon became a big part and contribution to us being mass expelled from European countries.

I understand that some sects of Judaism do indeed have issues, but that is just simply not your place to critique it, not without being complicit in Christianized supremacy. There are many secular and even religious Jews willing to challenge the issues in the Jewish community. It’s not your fight to fight stay out of it.

3. Stop using the term Pharisees, and Synagogue of Satan. They are antisemitic.

This should be obvious. Pharisees in particular has a long history as being used against us as a whole group. The term Pharisees, regardless of whom you are using it against and what definition you are using has a history of Antisemitism described in this article. The article goes on to explain the history of how Pharisees was used to describe Jews in general, and had a negative connotation ascribed to it by German scholars. The Synagogue of Satan has a near similar history to Pharisees, a term used to describe a small amount of Jews, being used negatively to describe all Jews (except Synagogue of Satan has always been antisemitic unlike the term Pharisees)

4. Stop Scheduling events on Jewish Holidays and Sabbath

It’s not hard to ask your Jewish mutuals and friends which holidays they take off for or celebrate like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, etc. It’s normal for us to KNOW to not schedule things on Christmas and Easter. But many tend to forget there are other religions that MUST take off for certain days, like for observant Jews, we CANNOT do certain things on Saturday and Friday Evening, and Yom Kippur And Rosh Hashanah. All you have to do, prior to planning something is ASK and look up in advance the dates of important Jewish holidays. It never hurts to do a little research for your friends especially those in marginalized groups. If they don’t celebrate it and they say no to celebrating it then feel free to schedule something that day but if they say yes, please do not schedule something that day.

5. Do NOT call your Jewish friends Bloodthirsty, Money Hungry or compare them to Lizards, and Goblins, Trolls, or Sorcerer/Witches. Yes, even if it’s a joke. Calling Jewish folk or comparing them to these things is antisemitic. Even if you don’t intend for it to be. These caricatures in fairy tales and fantasy genre have been heavily Jew coded many since the Middle Ages. We have a long history of being compared to these things in fiction, unless they explicitly state they are comfortable being called any of these. Then. Do. Not. Call. Them. Any. Of. Those. And money hungry comes from the belief that we are bankers and control all the money and the wealth. And bloodthirsty comes from Blood libel theory.

6. Ask them if they keep Kosher. If so, when ever making something or giving them food make sure it’s Kosher. Do not lie about your food being Kosher or not.

Regardless of any religious beliefs, or dietarian regime you have for your personal self it is always important to make accommodations for those in your life, especially concerning food. For the Jewish People, Kosher allows us to be observant Jews who thrive on adhering to Jewish Law, not all Jews keep kosher but many of us do. Again, asking is important and the easy way to find out. Don’t assume based on how you they dress or act if they are observant or not and thus do not keep kosher. Not only is rude to assume something about something but you can’t pinpoint what an observant Jewish person looks like, nonetheless one that keeps kosher. Please, it seriously important for you to be honest about your food and it’s preparation. Do not lie to make us feel included that the food is kosher. It is also not a laughing or joking matter to lie, either. Keeping kosher to many Jewish people is a fundamental part of being Jewish. Lying about your food being Kosher does not allow us to do that it and to lie is a great misuse of trust.

7. Stop trying to explain our ethnicity, religious, or culture to us.

Seriously, we know. We know about our own shit. You will never know better than us about our own stuff.

8. Don’t ask about the Israel/Palestine conflict. Regardless if you say “I support Israel” or not.

We don’t care that you support Israel. It is exhausting to constantly talk about the I/P conflict especially for those that have little or nothing to do with Israel. The I/P conflict is complex especially with the fact it is a known fact Jews and Palestinians are both native to the land. Human rights abuse is never acceptable, making a place inhabitable and not allowing people to thrive in a place they existed for so long is unacceptable. But we do not have to talk about the conflict with you, and you are not allowed to have our thoughts whenever you wish. You don’t have the right to determine which of us is a “Good Jew” or “Bad Jew” based on what solution you exactly support.

9. Stop trying to practice Kabbalah

This especially goes out to witches, If you aren’t Jewish, stop. Yes, this includes the Christianized variants of Kabbalah, the art stolen by our people. I shouldn’t have to explain this so I won’t. If you understand that Jewish culture belongs to Jewish people, and yes, we do not want to share it with outsiders who have no interest in converting then you should understand why, exactly, we don’t want you practicing it.

10. If you cover your head it is not a Christian tichel. It is not a tichel at all.

A tichel is a Yiddish word for head covering. Unless you live in Israel where the official language is Hebrew and byproduct, it’s dialects, there is absolutely no reason to call your head covering by a Hebrew dialect term. In fact there is absolutely no reason for you to use or cling to Hebrew/Yiddish/Ladino etc. terms when you are not Jewish. Its not antisemitic per se to use Hebrew, but is a bit of a culture vulture thing to use Hebrew, especially terms that have some religious significance in a sense, when there is absolutely no need to and you are in no way Israeli or Jewish.

11. Stop dismissing the Old Testament as “not important” and saying no one follows that” in order to show your support for LGBT folk or in any such form.

Many of our holiest of scriptures are in what you call “the Old Testament” known as the Torah, that we follow and hold dear to this day. You are not in the place to dismiss our scriptures, especially since you quite generously were given to them from the Jews who were known as the Jesus Movement. From the Talmud and other scriptures there has been a long history of Christians denouncing our scriptures calling them heretical works. When dismissing our scriptures you burned our holiest of items and scriptures all the while exiting us from our lands. Plenty of queer Jews exist happily all the while praying and adhering to such scripture you try to dismiss. Find actual better ways of combating homophobia without being antisemitic,

Please.

12. Stop with the fucking shofar

Well, I didn’t think this was particularly big issue. But apparently as Ellen invited a goy onto her show who blew the shofar, and was found to be apart of a weird Christian sect that appropriated Jewishness, this needs to be said:

Stop blowing the fucking shofar. Stop using shofars. They were NEVER important and Christianity and have extreme importance in Judaism, especially for high holy days. The shofar has extreme religious significance, you blowing it for seemingly no reason diminishes that. If you want to blow something so bad go blow an instrument… or something else of a different nature.

13. Stop saying “Jesus was Jewish too!” to try and excuse your Antisemitism or relate to us

Really? Fucking, really? I’m not stupid, no Jew is stupid. We KNOW Jesus if all biblical accounts of him are correct he was Jewish. This does not mean: you can’t be antisemitic or relate to us religiously. For nearly a thousand years Christians have been able to successfully separate Jesus and other Jews, due to the belief that he is quote on quite “G-d’s son” he hasn’t really considered to be “Jewish” by Christians for the longest time. Infact y’all said and I quote “Jews are responsible for Jesus’ death” for hundreds of years as if Jesus wasn’t Jewish himself. You put up a Jesus V. Jews narrative for thousands of years. Don’t pretend that him and us are viewed the same when it comes to our Jewishness. This also leads me to another point: this hundred percent means that you cannot share in Jewish customs regardless if your “Messiah” is Jewish or not as for reasons stated above.

14. Do not set up Christian/Christianized Atheist information/conversion stalls/groups, whatever the fuck you call them, near Synagogues and Jewish centers.

I really don’t think I have to explain this. Attempting to convert Jewish people to Christianity or Christianized Atheism is cultural genocide. I’m pretty sure even most of the worst Christianized folk know that by now (probably not, but just here to remind you again, that yes, attempting to convert us to any belief system is BAD)

15. Don’t ask “how exactly are you Jewish?” For any reason. Unless they offer up the information, it’s none of your business.

Whether it’s in good faith or not (and for most of the time it definitely is NOT in good faith) don’t ask how someone is Jewish or how goyim like to phrase it “Are you Jewish or JEWISH Jewish?”

Many of the times when this asked it is to gauge just where the line is concerning Antisemitism, or what they can or can’t say without getting in trouble. It’s also another way to act like converts aren’t “Jewish Jewish” whatever the fuck that means. Seeing how exactly one person is connected to Jewishness and how much they are is, yep you guessed it, creepy.

16. Don’t buy/collect obvious Jewish things (such as antique Torah scrolls, siddur, Talmud, Kippah, Prayer shawl, etc.)

I know this one may seem out of the blue but it’s really not. Many evangelical Christians like the owners of Hobby Lobby, have been found to be buying Jewish things keeping them outside of the care and hands of Jewish people.

There is a specific way to take care of all the things above, a specific way that only a Jew can do, I’m glad you find our cultural mesmerizing I’m glad you find it interesting. But these things need be in the hands of Jews, because they are for Jews and by Jews. A Christian or someone Christianized simply cannot take care of these items like we can.

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I think that’s it at this time! If any Jewish people wish to add something or discuss one of these points I’m open and willing as long as no tokenization is taking place.

Not at comfortable with goyim adding on but they can reblog this post and any additions that have specifically Jews adding something to it.

Personally I’m comfortable with my goyische friends asking if they can celebrate a holiday with me, if they ask respectfully (I trust them to do so). I absolutely understand, though, why a lot of other Jewish people aren’t okay with it.