i have been fucked up ever since i took a mythology class in college and learned that the greek mythology we know today is not only deliberately patriarchal (i mean duh) but was put in place specifically to abolish the matriarchal religion that came before it, nearly all traces of which were systematically erased. AND, the reason the modern west is so obsessed with greek mythology specifically is that it aligns so closely with our own patriarchal values. like we are literally taught greek mythology IN SCHOOL, that’s how hugely important it is in our culture. (i mean think about it… there is no real benefit to placing that much emphasis on greek mythology specifically over any other part of history)
learning this literally ruined greek mythology for me lmao
artemis and aphrodite are the classic madonna (virgin) and the whore
athena is deliberately stripped of her femininity in order to be goddess of wisdom, springing fully formed from zeus’ head instead of being born from a woman
hera is the jealous, vindictive ball and chain, etc etc.
and the kicker? pandora was a revamped character from an older myth, in which she created every single thing in the universe, good and bad. she didn’t just open a box and ruin everything by not being able to follow orders. pandora literally means “all-giving”. and in the greek mythology we know today, she’s the first woman on earth and manages to fuck things up for everyone. sound familiar? like eve, maybe?
i don’t have sources because i learned this in a college class like 3 years ago but if anyone has access to their college’s academic database and wants to source this for me that’d be awesome. i haven’t tried but i’m guessing you’d be hard pressed to find info about it on google.
here’s a book i’m reading abt it that i picked up at a half-price bookstore. it’s a bittersweet read. there’s references inside the front cover, too, for further reading.
Thank you for adding this! Reblogging so y’all can see it
This book is the bomb diggety. Bittersweet read indeed.
Greek mythology is deliberately patriarchal (which should be obvious, because it was written by people living in a patriarchal culture, so of course it reflects their values)
myths changed with time
Pandora had another, more positive role
Ancient Greece is given more attention than other, equally deserving cultures
the OP doesn’t have sources
That’s it. That’s literally it. As for the things that this post gets wrong, let’s take it step by step:
1. Pre-Greek matriarchal religion, “nearly all traces of which were systematically erased”
This pre-Greek matriarchy is usually identified with the Minoans of Crete, who depicted many women in prominent positions in their art. Unfortunately, as I’ve outlined before, this isn’t enough to prove that the Minoans had a matriarchal society and religion. What’s more, the Minoan script (Linear A) remains undeciphered to this day. So until the Minoans can tell us about their myths, beliefs, and social hierarchy in their own voices, I’ll be very skeptical about anyone who claims they were definitely matriarchal (or patriarchal, for that matter).
As for their traces being “systematically erased”, I can only laugh. The Minoans (like the Pelasgians, i.e. the pre-Greek people of the Greek mainland) weren’t erased. The Mycenaean Greeks eventually took over Crete, but Minoan civilisation continued to exist, and many cultural and religious elements were incorporated into Mycenaean society - including writing. From an article about an early Mycenaean tomb:
The griffin warrior’s grave at Pylos offers a radical new perspective on the relationship between the two societies and thus on Europe’s cultural origins. As in previously discovered shaft graves, the objects themselves are a cross-cultural mix. For instance, the boar tusk helmet is typically Mycenaean, but the gold rings, which are rich with Minoan religious imagery and are on their own a hugely significant find for scholars, says Davis, reflect artifacts previously found on Crete.
(…) This has led Davis and Stocker to favor the idea that the two cultures became entwined at a very early stage. It’s a conclusion that fits recent suggestions that regime change on Crete around the time the mainland palaces went up, which traditionally corresponds to the decline of Minoan civilization, may not have resulted from the aggressive invasion that historians have assumed. The later period on Knossos might represent something more like “an EU in the Aegean,” says Bennet, of the British School at Athens. Minoans and Mycenaean Greeks would surely have spoken each other’s languages, may have intermarried and likely adopted and refashioned one another’s customs. And they may not have seen themselves with the rigid identities we moderns have tended to impose on them.
TL;DR: The Mycenaeans didn’t erase Minoan religion. They liked it, and syncretised it with their own.
The only reason many of these Minoan beliefs vanished was due to the Late Bronze Age collapse, which saw the end of Mycenaean Greece and Minoan-Mycenaean Crete. Many elements of early Greek civilisation were lost, or preserved in fragments thanks to mythology and epic poetry. This collapse was obviously not a systematic erasure, but a widespread destruction of civilisations, caused by foreign invasion, drought and famine, internal revolts, earthquakes, or a combination of the above. Eric Cline’s book 1177 BC: The Year Civilisation Collapsed(2014)is an excellent discussion of the topic.
2. Earlier versions of Greek myths
Any time someone mentions the “pre-patriarchal” or “original” version of a myth, be skeptical. Be very skeptical.
The problem with these “original” myths is that we have little to nothing to base them on. Their reconstruction is a theory - often a modern feminist theory - not a certainty. I should also point out, as @rembrandtswife did, that Lost Goddesses of Ancient Greece is “basically AU fanfic of the Greek mythology we have”. It’s retellings and speculation, not earlier myths that we can confirm existed.
You know what are earlier myths that we can confirm existed? Mesopotamian and Anatolian myths. These have been extensively studied, and it’s been shown time and time again that they influenced Greek mythology - especially Homer and Hesiod. Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon(1997)and Mary Bachvarova’s From Hittite to Homer(2016)are good introductions to the topic. Here’s a recording I made which shows obvious parallels between the Babylonian Enuma Elish, the Hurrian-Hittite Song of Kumarbi, and Hesiod’s Theogony. Looks pretty different from the modern speculative retellings, doesn’t it?
This isn’t to say that there weren’t earlier myths in which women had different, more influential and positive roles. Pandora does in fact fit into this category: her names (Pandora, “all-giving”, and Anesidora, “sending up gifts”), as well as ancient sources (scholia on Aristophanes’ Birds being one example), attest to her originally being an earth deity. Hesiod is well-known for his misogyny, so him transforming her into a mortal woman and giving her a negative role makes sense. However, I would advise against applying this theory more broadly, and taking it as proof that there was a widespread revamping of female deities to make them fit patriarchal ideals. I would especially advise against taking any of this as confirmed fact, when the “original” myths themselves are lost.
3. The Gods as archetypes
I am personally very against interpreting the Gods as archetypes (i.e. Artemis as madonna, Aphrodite as whore, etc). There are far, far more aspects to them than these, and reducing them to single-word descriptions erases the complex reality of Greek mythology (and religion, while we’re at it).
What’s more, these archetypal interpretations are incredibly modern and don’t reflect Ancient Greek perceptions. The idea that Athena is “deliberately stripped of her femininity” because she is not born from a woman, for one, sounds very much like late 20th century radical feminism. (I’d also love to know if Typhon, who was born from Hera alone (see the Homeric Hymn to Apollon), was “stripped of his masculinity” for the same reason.) But more broadly, these Jungian-like archetypes correspond perfectly to 19th century views, which liked to fit the Gods into neat categories. Most notoriously, Apollon, who represented order and enlightenment, was opposed to Dionysos, who represented chaos and madness. Thanks Nietzsche.
I’ve said this before, but to interpret Greek mythology, we need to look for Greek sources. Not the theories of a 19th century philosopher. Not the speculation of a 20th century feminist. If the Gods were viewed as complex figures in Ancient Greece, then we need to study them as complex figures. Simple as that.
4. Why we are taught Greek mythology, aka “the reason the modern West is so obsessed with Greek mythology specifically is that it aligns so closely with our own patriarchal values”
Actually, no. If you think Greek mythology aligns closely with our own values, then you’ve been reading retellings and Mythology 101 books, not the original texts. (Or, alternatively, you’re very confused about what modern society’s values are.) Here is an abridged list of gender-related values from Ancient Greece that we don’t share:
female identity is tied to weaving
rape can only happen in the countryside or in deserted places
men who cry openly are still manly
marriage is between a 15-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man
funerals are women’s business
it’s okay to have gay sex if you’re a top
wearing boots and being a shopkeeper is unmanly
and more
The more you study Ancient Greece and read the texts themselves (preferably in the original language, so as to avoid as much modern bias as possible), the more you realise how different the Ancient Greeks were from us. This is a foreign culture with foreign values. Yes, a lot of it is familiar, too - much of European civilisation has its roots in Ancient Greece, hence why it aligns with a certain number of our values. But claiming that the ideas promoted in Greek mythology are virtually identical to our own is doing a disservice to the rich, unique culture that was Ancient Greece.
So why do we focus on it so much, as opposed to other cultures? Unfortunately, this is because of how history played out. Ancient Greece highly influenced Rome, which went on to conquer most of Europe; many countries went on to claim it as their ancestor, from the Ottoman Empire to the Napoleonic Empire to Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, other cultures which had influenced Ancient Greece itself (and therefore modern Western culture) disappeared: the Hittites of Anatolia had been virtually forgotten since the Late Bronze Age, Mesopotamia was on its way out by the first century AD, and Ancient Egypt by the beginning of the Middle Ages.
As a result, a lot of emphasis is put on Ancient Greek (and Roman) culture when in reality, we don’t owe much more to it than to the Sumerians. I absolutely think that we should study other cultures more. I also absolutely think that the fact we don’t has nothing to with patriarchal values.
5. Sources, aka “I don’t have sources because I learned this in a college class like 3 years ago”
Okay, so I have nothing against people taking electives in college and posting about what they learnt. By all means, do so. But it becomes a problem when people start reblogging without fact-checking or thinking twice about information that is presented without sources, by someone with very little experience in the field, and lathered in rhetoric.
Speaking of rhetoric, other people have pointed it out in the comments, but the person who shared the Lost Goddesses of Ancient Greece book is a TERF. This obviously doesn’t mean OP is a TERF as well (I had a look through their blog and they seem not to be), but you may want to think about what ideas the LGoAG person is encouraging here, as well as what could appeal to a TERF in this post, and consider whether that’s something you want to align yourself with.
TL;DR: Don’t believe something just because it appeals to you. Check out my Layperson’s Guide to Online Research for more details on how to fact-check.
This was a really cool post, but I disagree with a lot of what @sisterofiris says. They admit themselves that Hesiod was a rampant misogynist, but he wasn’t the only one. When you’ve got the big epics that everyone’s going to read and point to being written by jerks like
Aeschylus
– who turned Athena into this awful mouthpiece of patriarchal hand-waving and mansplaining if there ever was one – (on top of almost every other antagonist in the Oresteia being a woman, too, mind you, with Agamemnon of all people turned into a victim, lol) – and then say that there wasn’t a system of male hegemony at work, then I dunno what to tell you.
And there are examples in the myths themselves of the matriarchal cults being taken over by patriarchal ones – forget about retellings, when even the regular ones tell on themselves. You mentioned Apollo, so why not look right at the Oracle of Delphi, where Python (a female serpent and chthonic entity) is slaughtered by the male folk hero (a la Tiamat, since you mention Mesopotamia). Delphi was Gaia’s shrine first, for Mother Earth, but was usurped by the male solar god, who in and of himself represents the younger generation of Olympians usurping the older cult of the Titans, with Apollo replacing Helios for no good reason (not to mention everything going on with Apollo vs Hermes swapping roles left and right). (As well as the fact that the Olympians were originally Eastern deities, where patriarchal ideas and ideals traveled with the cults that were introduced into Greece from places like Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc. Usurpage, all the way around. But I digress.)
And Hera’s my trigger, don’t even get me started. But I will say that her instances of parthenogenesis were often described (by Hesiod!) as anact of rebellion and strife against Zeus’ philandering, despite the fact that she’s the goddess of childbirth and really should be expected to just pop out babies, because as the goddess of motherhood that’s what she does. And yet each time she does it (on her own), the kid comes out wrong, first with Typhon, then with Hephaestus (even Ares is an effed up individual!). Typhon wasn’t stripped of his masculinity, no, but that’s because he wasn’t even considered a person, he was a monster and a plague upon the world; the only chick who’d have him was Echidna! XD Yes, Hera had her own agency and autonomy, but every time she tries to one-up her scrub of a husband, the myths give her the brunt of the consequences – like the failed plot to bind Zeus, or all of her persecutions of his mistresses. Meanwhile, every time Zeus decides to have a baby (even from himself, like Athena & Dionysus), it’s wonderful, Zeus is fertile and virile!, mpreg FTW, eff the fact that that’s supposed to be Hera’s job, and he’s got zero respect for her – and thus the reader is compelled to seer her as the villain every time, too.
But whatever. Enough about mythology, or I’ll be here all night.
Aside from all that, why do we focus so much on Greece? Sure, “history happened,” but actually, we’re taught about Greece (and Rome) so much because the Renaissance happened. Vasari & the boys were mind-blown when places like Pompeii were discovered in the 1500s, inspiring art and architectural revivals; on top of all of that Greek & Latin literature coming in from the Muslim world after their own scientific and philosophical revolutions during the middle ages (which inspired Copernicus and then Galileo, and all the Humanism that lauded the works of antiquity and strove to emulate it all – that’s why Classics, Philosophy, Math, Chemistry, etc are all disciplines now.). After Theodosius I banned all paganism, tore down the temples,
smashed the idols and burned the writing, and then the medieval schism split Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy for good, Europe literally forgot about the old Roman roads and concrete, and certainly no one was thinking about Ancient Greece, until the Renaissance had it all coming back to them like the Celine Dion song.
But this all came on the heels of Christian revolutions and reformations as well, which also affected gender norms and stratification – just like in Ancient Greece, some of the most influential women in society were cloistered priestesses/nuns. The so-called ‘enlightened’ men of early-modern Europe could barely handle having Elizabeth on the throne with no husband around, and she had to spout that same Athena-drivel about having the mind of a man and not being raised by my mother makes me fit to rule, never mind the fact that I’m just a strong independent woman who don’t need no man blah blah – just to keep the vultures off her.
I’m going off on an entire tirade over here, dang.
But it’s equally irresponsible to just hand-wave everything aside as if the patriarchy isn’t a thing that happening or hasn’t happened, as it is to cry wolf.
@murfpersonalblog This is, as you pointed out, a complicated subject.
“Greek mythology” isn’t the same as “ancient Greek religion”. No one in ancient Greece religiously thought that Zeus had no respect for Hera. Every year, the ancient Greeks celebrated the anniversary of the wedding of Hera and Zeus, the Theogamia. The religious epithet Gamêlioi (presiding over and protecting marriage) was applied to both Hera and Zeus. Hera was a respected goddess, and many temples were dedicated to her; those at Samos, Olympia, and Argos were especially renowned. To clarify something you said, Hera is the goddess of marriage, not childbirth; Eileithyia and Artemis are the goddesses who assist women in childbirth.
And yet, ancient Greeks managed to enjoy myths and plays that portrayed the goddesses and gods in a light that seems unflattering to modern eyes. People who study these things are still trying to figure it all out.
I love your tag #read a dang history book. The historical method uses “primary sources and other evidence, including the evidence of archaeology, to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past.” (X)
Which is why, though you see the myths of Apollo defeating the Python as proof that a patriarchal cult took over a matriarchal cult at Delphi, as a student of ancient history and religion I require more evidence, such as inscriptions, historical accounts, and archaeological findings. I know mythology sometimes tells us things contrary to other evidence; for instance, mythology says that the cult of Dionysus was somehow regarded as “new”, even though evidence shows the cult of Dionysus to be as old as that of the other ancient Greek deitis. I spent several hours diligently searching for comfirmation that Gaia had been, at an earlier time, the main focus of worship at Delphi, and the only evidence I came up with, aside from myth, is a 4th century BCE inscription and a reference from Plutarch to a temple dedicated to her, and a 5th century BCE statue base inscribed with the name “Ga” found at the Kastalian Spring. (X) It doesn’t seem like much basis for a “takeover”.
That doesn’t mean you’re wrong about the patriarchy from a political view, because the patriarchy is insidiously entwined in ancient culture and subsequent interpretation. It’s important to differentiate the biases of an earlier era from the biases of subsequent interpreters. In mythology, it’s also important to determine why a particular myth was told and, while “the patriarchy” might be “an” answer, it’s not necessarily the “only” answer.
Fact-checking the rest of your post:
The rediscovery of Pompeii was in the 1700s, not the 1500s. (X)
European scholars gained access to ancient Greeks texts preserved in libraries in Constantinople and translated them into Latin in the early 1200s. Renewed access to these works wasn’t exclusively from the Muslim world. (X)
Arithmetic and geometry were part of a Liberal Arts education as far back as the 500s. (X)
The Roman roads weren’t “forgotten” - they were still being used in the Middle Ages, and some still remain in use today. The recipe for concrete was lost until the 1400s. (X, X, and X)
It’s well-known that eastern Mediterranean cultures were in close contact and influenced each other in the Bronze Age, and that “ancient Greece” stretched into Asia Minor but, while there are some similarities in mythology, know of no reliable source that shows “the Olympians were originally Eastern deities.” If you have such sources, I’d like to see them.
due to this event, it’s more important than ever to support water protectors and pipeline activsts. here is the official website for the unis’tot’en camp so you can educate yourself on the issue. also please donate if you can.
it’s more important than ever to help support indigenous water protectors and anti-pipeline activists. please do what you can - anything helps.
Hey all, I’m finally breaking down and asking Tumblr for help. If you can donate, please do if not, can you please signal boost? Every penny counts.
After being in excruciating pain for the past day (today is 1/8/19) and unable to properly work, I went to an emergency dental visit. I have always had weak teeth and I was told about a year ago that it might have to do with another medical condition I have.
When I arrived, they told me that I will need not one, but two root canals - possibly due to an old filling not being properly done. I’m going on Thursday to see of this is in part their fault but I don’t think anything will come of it. I’m also going to get a definite quote about how much it costs but I’ve had one from my area before.
These root canals typically cost $1000 a piece even with my family’s insurance. I have $800 in my bank account now, which was supposed to go to college, and no way to make up that other $1,200.
Please help me pay for this dental work. I’m in so much pain that I can’t see straight and I’ve had to pull over whole driving. For right now I was prescribed pain medication for two days but that is not a permanent fix and I can’t drive or go to work when on pain meds so I can’t make that money. I can’t get rid of this pain until I pay for the root canals.
If you want to donate to me directly I do have a PayPal and venmo account but since it has my full name attached, I can only make it available to certain people. If you message me off anon, I’ll probably say yes!
on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism
Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.
1. we are right to criticize the many problems in higher education
2. fascists manipulate people into hating anyone involved in higher education for supposedly looking down on them and being worthless to the “real world.” as a result, funding for education is cut, especially for the arts, no one listens to historians who point out that history is repeating itself or speak out against the regime, freedom of speech is lost in favor of the party line, and/or climate change kills us all since no one listens to scientists.
3. therefore, when we criticize higher education, we should be careful not to contribute to fascist tropes that claim that having knowledge is bad/smug/out of touch/useless to society.
What’s also similar is how there are a group of people, who go to the same schools, work in the same kind of companies, and hang out with each other, who often advance this idea that they’re the elite because they deserve it.
There will be people who will want to mobilize you against this group for their own benefit, often calling them “elitist” and “out-of-touch”, but the things that they propose will only benefit them and their cronies. Don’t get played.
So while fascism will use popular feelings and sentiments against “the elite”, we should all be careful that the policies and people we support aren’t using us for them to gain absolute power, because if they do, we’re screwed along with everyone else.
Anonymous asked: I keep seeing the pro life argument of "You consented to pregnancy when you consented to sex" and... no???? Consenting to intercourse for a small portion of a day is not consenting to something taking up residence in my body, using up my nutrients, and wreaking havoc on my body for 9 months
When you have sex with the knowledge you can get pregnant you’ve 100% consented to this happening
You don’t get to just kill children because you make bad decisions
Then riddle me this:
What the actual fuck is the point of using contraceptives?
Don’t you think people who WANTED and CONSENTED to pregnancy,,,,idk wouldn’t use those things? Hmm? Does that make any iota of sense to you?
“The knowledge that you may get pregnant” doesn’t mean jack shit if you’re actively avoiding getting pregnant by using protection and other contraceptives. And even then accidents happen? Just say you want to control AFAB bodies and go.
And fetuses aren’t children lol. You don’t get to control other peoples’ choices because of your inflated sense of moral importance.
-mod Aleksandr
People use contraception to reduce their risk of pregnancy. But no contraception is 100%, and that is a known fact. People take risks at their own will, if it fails they have no one else to blam and a child does not deserve death because of it.
Why do you want to control the bodies of children who’s lives will be ended because someone else made a bad decision?
But even that doesn’t make sense. People have been reblogging this again and again and proving as much.
Would you say that driving a car is consenting to being killed by a drunk driver? I mean, no amount of precaution is 100% effective, and that is a known fact. Driving is taking a risk at their own will.
Is going swimming consenting for the water to drown me? I mean, no form of flotation device is 100% effective, seeing as how people drown all the time, and that is a known fact. Swimming is taking a risk at their own will.
And I’m glad you asked about controlling peoples’ bodies. A pregnant person has the bodily autonomy that a fetus does not have because the pregnant person is a fully autonomous being. The fetus relies on the pregnant person to sustain its existence. NO ONE (here, suspending my own disbelief and pretending that a fetus is a person) has the right to use your body to sustain their existence, legally speaking. My cousin cannot demand that I give him my kidneys in order to sustain his life because I am an autonomous being.
The fetus, on the other hand, is non-autonomous. It doesn’t get a say because it isn’t a person, and it leeching off of the pregnant human being’s bodily resources when it is not wanted.
People use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. If an accident happens, it’s not their fault because it’s, guess what? AN ACCIDENT.
And holy shit, having sex isn’t a “bad decision”, if you want to. It’s not some terrible, horrible crime like pro-lifers like to pretend it is. Sex isn’t a bad word. It’s not out to hurt you. And you don’t get to decide how/if/when other consenting adults partake in it. Literally every single thing you do in this life has some sort of risk associated with it. The same is true of other people. BUT you only have control over what you do with your own body. Period. Stop trying to interfere with other peoples’.
When I first saw the coin with the tiny sword, I didn’t know it was a modern piece, or who made it. It’s nice to see an attribution for Roman Booteen’s work – it is amazing and he should be known.
ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.
So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?
Well I have a new hero.
Her whole wikipedia article is gold
“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”
“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“
“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”
“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”
“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”
“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”
“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”
“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”
If you guys didn’t see some white girl posted a montage of her colonizer experience in Hawai'i and has been getting dragged for days now lmao I’m not gonna link it cause it’s just her and some other haole girls she met her literally dancing on graves and sacred places and showing off her dirty hair.
But I did a little thread on why these romanticized ads of our home harms us (not super in depth but touches on some important points). And I was a lot nicer about it cause I actually do care if you come to visit and I’d actually prefer that everyone leave us alone forever but colonizers gonna colonize and settlers gonna settle 🤷🏽♀️
Doesn’t this seem at least a *little* xenophobic?
Me: think about the ways you harm indegenous people when you occupy our land
Yall: If you won’t let me come to your land and colonize it, you’re xenophobic
Learn what real xenophobia is. Central Americans seeking asylum are dying at the U.S. border because of white American xenophobia.
