They won’t kill Bambi’s mom in this one. Instead she’ll identify as a he/him and the movie will be about Bambi transitioning.
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Oh no, they’re absolutely correct about Roman Africans.
The Roman Empire had several African emperors (notably Septimius Severus, born in Leptis Magna in modern-day Libya), multiple pretenders as well as some very powerful noble families that provided a plethora of powerful military leaders and officials (called equites or knights), including, ironically, governors of Roman Britain. While some of them did trace parts of their lineages to provincial nobility from the Italian peninsula, they were for the most part product of local African elites.
How did these native peoples of Roman Africa look like for the most part? Well, we have very good idea thanks to archaeological finds and DNA analyses, Fayun mummy portraits (a collection of almost thousand wooden paintings depicting middle class citizens in a remote Egyptian outpost) and most importantly we know who their direct descendants are.
Imazinghen people and their Algerian brethren of Kabyle survived a lot of misfortune since their heyday when the Numidian king Jugurtha defeated successive Roman consular armies more than two thousanda years ago. As said above, they thrived in the Roman Empire but it all unravelled in the chaotic centuries that followed the fall of the Western Empire with the Arab invasion, establishment of the First Caliphate and centuries of discrimination. The fact that they converted to Islam more than a millennia ago didn’t help them that much.
Nowadays, their only claim to fame is sports, as arguably two of the best French football players in the last 25 years are Kabyle North African tribesmen - Zinedine Zidane and Karim Benzema.
It’s kind of mind boggling to think that Africans as dark skinned as these two once patrolled the northermost fringes of Roman Empire in Britain. commanded legions and provided rank-and-file officials to govern vast swathes of conquered territories.
Now, that looks delicious
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I had sushi “tacos” last night. Calling them that would probably make my Mexican family members angry, but they were damn good regardless.
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Nice! Like an open faced roll, or unroll!
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I went to the fridge, grabbed a gallon jug of whole milk and had a couple swigs and it tasted different. Still holding the jug I went into the other room and asked my wife why we had skim milk. We never buy skim milk. She busts out laughing. It was a gallon of water from the shelf underneath the milk.
I has the dumb.
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There is really something deeply wrong in this country:
Sole-Smith recommends keeping your language as neutral as possible at meal and snack times. “Don’t call certain foods ‘bad,’ don’t shame processed foods, and don’t tell your kid to limit certain foods,” she says. “Make sure they know that all foods are okay to eat as long as there’s not a medical reason to avoid them [like an allergy].”
Somehow the worst and most potentially damaging advice is now right? I suppose not trying to get diabetes is not a medical reason to avoid certain foods. These weirdos have gone from everything is OK in moderation, which is still BS, to eat whatever you want in any amount you want. I wish I could say this is just some fringe virtue signalling but sadly, it is becoming mainstream thinking.
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It would be racist to not facilitate kids’ ability to access porn.
It gets better. If a teacher catches a student looking at porn, she needs to report herself to child protective services as a perpetrator.
Many fitness “pros” are spreading this even faster than the fat activists. Not sure how they rage against “diet culture” then turn around and sell $400 fat loss plans (diets), but some manage to do it.
“It’s okay to be fat! Fat is healthy! You’re beautiful just the way you are! Now buy my low-calorie eating plan which is definitely not a diet because diets are bad and probably racist or something.”
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That title alone makes my blood boil.
It’s amazing how the word “culture” can be added to anything to suddenly make it a bad word.
Maybe those of us who are sane should push back with the same manipulative language trick and come up with something akin to, I don’t know… any of these: obesity culture, lazy culture, love-handles culture, weak culture, skinny-fat culture, entitled culture, coddled culture, adult-baby culture, addict culture, chubby culture, etc.
I couldn’t have said this better, and have nothing to add, but wanted to quote it again because it’s so profound and well written. Hopefully someone as eloquent as you will write a book about the insanity.
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I am so sick of the trope “95% of diets* fail”. No, studies show the complete opposite. Calorie restriction diets always work and it doesn’t matter if its Keto, vegan, paleo, carnivore - weight loss is the same when calories are equated (there may be other nutrient issues with certain diets, but that’s beside the point). It’s compliance on the part of the dieter that fails. It a disingenuous statement.
“Diet culture” to the extent it is a thing, is only a thing because as a society we have eaten ourselves into such a poor state it needs to be addressed somehow. I wonder how much health outcomes would improve just taking ultra processed stuff of the shelves.
Like for example - if you want candy/cake - buy the ingredients and make it yourself. It’s almost guaranteed you will consume less calories then buying it.
*caveat: Well designed diets - not “detoxes” and the like.
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I couldn’t agree more. Those who use the term diet culture don’t believe in personal responsibility. Everything is society’s fault.
That’s why I respect people who are obese and own their circumstances. My parents for example wouldn’t be caught dead using the term “diet culture” or blaming it for their weight problems. Why? Because they accept responsibility.
They’ll never change their eating habits, but they’re never going to be phony victims of diet culture.
Exactly. And it’s up to the individual to figure out what leads to long term compliance.
That’s a really good point. Dieting never would’ve become popular had we not been in a position to need diets so badly.
Ironically, the people warning about diet culture think that eating disorders only occur when parents worry about their weight. The exact opposite happened in my family. My siblings and I saw what obesity looked like so we all figured out different ways to avoid becoming them.
Excellent strategy.
Good addition!
If you aren’t shotgun blasting the toilet bowl 6 times a day, how do you know its even working!?!
“I’m doing a cleanse…”
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The irony of this is immeasurable.
The battery dumps will even things out, no?
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