Aries: You say Tomato,I say what are you doing in my house?
Taurus: Rock the Night (Or Day depending on your availability).
Gemini: Public Masturbation is so fun it should be illegal.
Cancer: Things will never be the same (I’ve applied to much ketchup to this hamburger).
Leo: Hugs, one man Biker Gang.
Virgo: Climbing the Ladder of success, up to the roof of Buttsex.
Libra: I bet I can eat more Pancakes than you.
Scorpio: Did I fucking say you could stop partying?
Sagittarius: There’s nothing wrong with making an honest living by selling illegal drugs.
Capricorn: Every time you masturbate an angel gets it’s thing.
Aquarius: Surfing for Puss and the Tide is high.
Pisces: Rock all Night, Fish all Day.
hi okay if you don’t know any hijabis/muslims personally, you might be wondering how it “works” and im here to answer ur questions!!
Q: Do you like.. wear it all the time?? (re: do u shower in it?? do u sleep in it?? when was the last time u sAW UR OWN HAIR??? )
A: Nope! To put it simply, we wear the hijab when we are around strange men. And by strange I mean men who are not directly related to us. That means I can show my hair to women (does that include trans women & nonbinary women? thats up to the individual hijabi). It also means I don’t have to cover from my brother/father/uncle/grandfather/child. I would have to cover from my male cousins because you can technically marry them (note: this is only one of the reasons we cover! it’s not only to cover from possible suitors lol. Just bc I wouldn’t marry a gay man, doesn’t mean I don’t have to cover from him. The quran says to cover from men and not from women. that’s pretty broad and open for interpretation. I keep it simple for myself- I cover from all men regardless of their sexual orientation. I don’t cover from women regardless of their sexual orientation. This could differ from one hijabi to another). I also would not have to cover from my husband if I were married. Lastly, we don’t have to cover from any young boys who haven’t been “through puberty” yet. I guess it’s up to the individual to decide when that is as well.
Q: It seems kind of sexist to me that men don’t have to wear hijab, but women do…
A: Actually, men have their own hijab. (It’s not the turban you may see some men wearing, they are Sikhs, an entirely different religion.) Men have their own modest dress code to follow and are expected to follow the same rules the women do action-wise. Remember that equal does not have to mean identical. It wouldn’t make sense to ask men to cover their boobs or women to grow beards (we’ll come back to that later).
Q: I always hear about women being forced to wear it… That’s oppression and wrong.
A: I completely agree. “There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion” (2/256). That’s taken directly from the Quran. Forcing someone to wear the hijab is a sin. Furthermore, many Muslims believe that hijab is not required/is only preferred/is optional. There’s a lot of interpretation involved in religion. It totally depends on the person and their own beliefs.
They way a Muslim chooses to wear their hijab also differs from person to person. Some women choose to cover their entire body. Some wear abayas (the black dress) and niqabs (the veil that covers the face). Some wear a simple scarf to cover their hair and dress “modestly” (this, again, depends on your interpretation of what modest means). Some just cover their hair. Some show a some of their hair. Some wear turbans. Some dress modestly, but don’t cover their hair. Some only wear it on certain occasions. (more here on the diff types of cover)
For men, some choose to grow beards (many believe this is just “sunnah” which means it is preferred, but not compulsory). Lots of men don’t follow the rules set for them. That can be due to personal beliefs, but I won’t deny the misogyny apparent in the Muslim culture (note: culture, not religion) probably has a lot to do with that.
Q: Do women only wear hijab for religious reasons?
A: No. I mean, that’s probably one of the most prominent reasons women choose to cover their hair, but there are many different factors. In many cultures, hijab is considered a thing of beauty. It’s a fashion statement. It’s tradition. It’s a part of their identity. It keeps them in-tact with their religion and it identifies them as a Muslim to other Muslims. The reasons are endless, but I think you get the picture.
Q: I heard hijab is just keep men away.
A: As @angrymuslimah put so eloquently: Hijab is not to prevent men from looking at women or “protect them” from men. Hijab is not for men, or to help men control themselves – it’s for women themselves, to empower women. Men in Islam have a responsibility to lower their gaze and respect a woman no matter what she is wearing or what she looks like.
Q: Can women ever take the hijab off for safety reasons? (ie: heat exhaustion/possible attacks by islamophobes)
A: Totally! You’re obviously never supposed to compromise your health for anything, regardless of your religious beliefs. I once got asked if it would be okay for a women to remove her scarf when playing soccer in serious heat and my answer she could if she wanted to (again, she can do wtvr she wants), but playing soccer is optional. there’s a difference between wanting to play soccer and really having your life in danger. If hijabis choose to wear the hijab while playing soccer in 100 degrees, they’re badass and props to them for sticking to it even when it got hard, but that’s kind of the point of hijab. Again though, your health always comes first.
Q: I see hijabis sometimes and I want to compliment them/tell them it’s pretty, but I don’t want to be disrespectful.
A: It’s totally okay to compliment us! Please do! I live for the validation of strangers! For real, though. Just think about it this way, if you can say it to a non-hijabi and not offend her, you can probably say it to a hijabi. You can compliment anyone on their scarf regardless of wear it is on their body.
Q: Can I wear the hijab if I’m not Muslim?
A: There is no specific way to wear a hijab. there is no specific fabric. We get our scarves from h&m and forever 21 like everyone else. There is nothing that identifies a hijab as a hijab except the wearer. So if you want to cover your hair for your own religious/personal reasons, you can do it! That doesn’t make it a hijab! The only thing that makes it a hijab is the wearer labeling it as a hijab. As long as you aren’t doing that, you’re not being disrespectful or appropriating our religion. (wearing it out of respect if you’re in a mosque or a predominately muslim country is also okay!)
I would however, advise against wearing it as a fashion statement. It’s not a style or accessory.
/So this got really long and I’m stopping here but I haven’t even really made a dent in the hijabi discourse. If yall have any more questions, you should ask your friendly neighborhood Muslimah! I promise, we won’t be offended, we just want yall to know the truth.
When I was about ten years old, my dad called me into his home office for a moment. There was a bunch of incomprehensible code up on his computer screen.
“Press the enter key,” he said. I did. “Thanks,” he said. “I couldn’t bear to do it myself.”
And that’s the story of how I sent out one of the largest spam email campaigns of the 1990s.
okay so I’ve thought about this before and actually concluded that laziness is, in the very least, a capitalist concept. it creates a negative aspect of your time not being used “productively”, with productivity obv being defined within work-labor parameters. honestly, I’ve tried to imagine what, in a post-capitalist world, laziness might look like/be defined as and as it stands now, it wouldn’t be the same/wouldn’t exist as a concept at all due to the entirely new relationship of the laborer to the products of their labor etc etc.
I get what op is saying here; “you can’t get up and do work? negatively reflects on you” is a really ableist concept. creating this idea of morality based in ability to produce by capitalist (ie ableist, “able-bodied” being defined as ability to produce/exist under capitalist standards etc) standards is inherently ableist, and ultimately untrue; as a side note, this is an example of how morality is subjective, used to direct the masses under capitalist ideals etc etc those are my thoughts
ok this is the most tumblr thing I’ve ever seen
that’s another thing I’ve been thinking about, how people say “tumblr thing” as if this website with millions of users has a single, amorphous set of beliefs/interests/forms of analysis when in reality, your view of tumblr is what you put on your dash. so that can range from fandoms, to music stuff, to anarchist praxis, to photography of castles in southern Austria.
and it’s gotta be obvious to ppl who say “this is such a tumblr thing” so I wonder, what’s the purpose of saying it? is it the quickest way to acknowledge/shoot down something without having to utilize any critical thought? to rely on some stereotype created by people who, in often times are anti-social activism and are in the positions of power often required to sit in that position, in order to brush off an analysis instead of considering it?
it’s a really fascinating phenomenon that is replicated in a number of platforms. merely dismiss a statement as being too much of a “thing” and suddenly, there’s no need to actually think about it. you’ve crossed it off as having met certain parameters, ie having any subject matter having to do with things you don’t like, and thereby shown your disdain without ever actually having to present a thought as to why. interesting
seems to me like…
we address the very real systems in place outside of the internet: ‘most tumblr thing i’ve seen’ ie these critiques aren’t ‘irl’
we address things that are on the internet: ‘they’re just trolls’, ie what you critique isn’t ‘irl’
Paul Lafargue wrote ‘The Right to be Lazy’ in 1883, arguing that productivity is ableist and classist and that the practice of laziness is anticapitalist, roughly 130 years before tumblr ever existed.
Which is probably the most tumblr thing that the tumblr user with the tumblr url “fuckinstupidaf” dot tumblr dot com has ever seen
“this is the most tumblr thing I’ve ever seen” is the most tumblr thing I’ve ever seen…
