yellowstoneten:

sushinfood:

crippledcuriosity:

itsfondue:

Isn’t it nice how people twist their religious scripture to suit their weds but when it’s used against them it’s suddenly not okay

I talked to a monk about this quote once (we have mutual friends, and he came to a New Year’s Eve party at my shared art studio). He said this isn’t even talking about homosexuality. That the bible never actually says homosexuality is wrong. What that passage means is this:

Women were treated as subservient and it that you shouldn’t treat other men as subservient, like they are beneath you. It is not talking about homosexuality. If it was, it would say it outright since the bible lists other things outright.

I take the word of a monk who have studied the bible extensively more than a self proclaimed Christian.

Beauty.

Further commentary on Biblical attitudes towards gay sex…

Cultures in the ancient Mediterranean didn’t really have the concept of “homosexuality.”  Sex was sex, and they didn’t really sort people based on which gender of partner they preferred.  The key distinction when it came to sex wasn’t man vs. woman, it was penetrator vs. penetrated.  Penetrating someone sexually was believed to express superiority/dominance over the penetrated partner, so there were quite strict social conventions governing who could top and who could bottom.

It was okay for a man to have sex with a woman, because men were socially superior to women (and the notion of pegging hadn’t really occurred to them, or at least not to the upper-class men who wrote the texts that survive today).  As for male-male sex, it was okay for older men to top younger men, upper-class men to top lower-class men, and free men to top slaves.  In each case, the penetrative act was believed to reinforce the existing social status.  Reverse any of those, though, and the sex act was considered horribly perverse.

Which brings us to the ancient Israelites.  They did in fact prohibit any male-on-male sex, but their reasoning in doing so was very different from modern homophobes’ interpretation.  Israelite culture was considerably more egalitarian than that of their larger neighbors.  All Israelite men were equal before Yahweh, so it wasn’t okay for one man to debase another by sexually penetrating him.  (Debasing women, on the other hand, was entirely acceptable to them.)

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glitterandmetal-yt-da:

No matter how many times I see this, I still can’t decide whose face is the best.

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cookiecarnival:

<sup>“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
- Walt Disney</sup>

emerald-city-or-bust:

fishwrappedblog:

We know that Ke$ha has been in rehab for the past few weeks for an eating disorder, and we know that Ke$ha’s issues started when her team criticized her weight, but what we didn’t know was just how bad things were. Thankfully, Ke$ha’s mom, Pebe Sebert, is around to tell all kinds of truth about the situation, and this latest truth she told is probably the saddest, scariest truth of all:

“I’ve watched my beautiful, self-confident, brilliant daughter be berated and ridiculed for her looks and weight to the point that she almost died. The doctors told me her blood pressure and sodium levels were so low, they’d never seen it that low except with someone who’d had a heart attack or stroke. They said it was a miracle she hadn’t already dropped dead on stage.”

And another sad story:

"One time on a conference call, Sonenberg [Ke$ha’s former manager] was screaming, ‘You need to lose weight! I don’t care what you do … take drugs, not eat, stick your finger down your throat!’ Ke$ha was just weeping. She drove around afterward thinking about killing herself.”

How can people be so awful? If this guy really did tell Ke$ha to do drugs to lose weight and/or “stick your finger down your throat,” then what kind of person is he? It’s one thing to dislike a person’s choice of clothing — what’s up, everybody — but it’s a whole different ballgame to tell someone to disregard her health because she’s maybe a few pounds too heavy for your personal taste. That’s absolutely disgusting.

One more thing from Ke$ha’s mom:

"At this point, she doesn’t care if she ever makes a record again. She just wants to be healthy and happy.”

You do whatever you need to, Ke$ha, and we’ll love you regardless. Forget the douchebags. Stay awesome. 

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I don’t really care for her music, but goodness that’s terrible.