If it doesn’t have a potato base, it’s not a latke.
I’m withholding judgment.
What you’ve got there is a ramen fritter. Fritters are acceptable for Hanukkah, but can you call them latkes? The rabbanim are still in session over the decision.
My people, we have had potatoes for less than a quarter of the time we have been celebrating this holiday, latkes most likely predate our access to potatoes for at least a century or so and probably much longer, it does not have to be made of potato to be a latke.
I’m willing to allow any sort of vegetable, but noodles seem a step too far.
Latkes were originally made from cheese, and later rye, chestnut or buckwheat flour. Potatoes didn’t reach the Ashkenazi world until the late 1830s (though they quickly became a staple food).
(Every year my Latin American boyfriend asks me to make latkes and then tells me to say thank you to South America for the potato. And I oblige because, well, he’s right.)
Actually the person I quoted is trans and identifies as they or she/her. They were saying and gave extensive evidence and direct quotes that a lot of TERF’s were actually using material posted by a fascist to further their anti-trans agenda. So yeah these feminists may not be fascists but they are using fascist propaganda, which is almost as bad.
There’s no point arguing with TERF’s when they just make up crap like this.
Hello, hi, yes, I’m a feminist and cis, and here goes: if you prick a TERF a fascist bleeds.
Is this acceptable for you anon???
I saw some posts a while back proposing a solution to this seeming conflict of ‘comparing feminists to fascists’.
We shouldn’t be calling them TERFs. We shouldn’t be validating their supposed feminism even to that degree, because they aren’t actually feminists.
They are Feminist-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes. Which comes with the convenient acronym of FART.
The problem is, they are actually feminists. Feminism has a very, very long and troubled history when it comes to The Trans Question ™. You can easily trace a direct line of heritage from early lesbian feminist activism to modern TERFs. I can show you very prominent feminists, historically and today, who have said some positively vile shit about trans women.
And as a trans woman and the one who caused this entire round of TERF bullshit, I for one would far rather see feminists acknowledging and owning that history and working to correct it than trying to sidestep the issue by playing No True Scotsman.
This. We don’t validate their feminism when we describe them as TERFs because we’re already talking to people who grew up thinking of themselves as feminists and don’t see themselves as needing validation for that identity. All we do by denying where they came from and what they are is pretend that feminism doesn’t have it’s own history of abuses.
To actually confront them? We confront the fact that feminism has always had problems like this. We accept that the journey to a truly intersectional and diverse feminism has unearthed some mighty bigoted people on our side of the fence and that we need to weed our own garden while we make it grow.
Call a TERF a TERF. Make sure that people know that to a TERF, their need to attack trans women is stronger than their need to fight for women’s liberation. Make sure that people know that you can watch as TERFs happily team up with misogynistic bigots as long as they find common ground in hating trans people. Make sure people know that fascism is where TERFs are heading, because it’s the end state for their kind of aggressively inhumane authoritarianism.
Prick a TERF, a fascist bleeds.
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TERFS LITERALLY WORK -WITH- RIGHT-WING, ANTI-ABORTION, ANTI-LGBTQ GROUPS!
When pet owners talk about their pets it’s guaranteed to fall under one of two categories:
Rover is the sweetest kindest force in my life, my closest ally, my best friend, the family member who molded me as a person who I would absolutely lay down my life for. Please let me show you photos of this perfection incarnate.
Socks is on double secret baby probation now and she’s gated in the living room because she wont stop sneaking out and trying to eat all the towels in the house, like the bastard idiot child she is.
So the essence of grimdark is that everyone’s inherently sort of a bad person and does bad things, and that’s awful and disheartening and cynical. It’s looking at human nature and going, “The glass is half empty.”
Hopepunk says, “No, I don’t accept that. Go fuck yourself: The glass is half-full.” YEAH, we’re all a messy mix of good and bad, flaws and virtues. We’ve all been mean and petty and cruel, but (and here’s the important part) we’ve also been soft and forgiving and KIND. Hopepunk says that kindness and softness doesn’t equal weakness, and that in this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is a political act. An act of rebellion.
Hopepunk says that genuinely and sincerely caring about something, anything, requires bravery and strength. Hopepunk isn’t ever about submission or acceptance: It’s about standing up and fighting for what you believe in. It’s about standing up for other people. It’s about DEMANDING a better, kinder world, and truly believing that we can get there if we care about each other as hard as we possibly can, with every drop of power in our little hearts.
Going to political protests is hopepunk. Calling your senators is hopepunk. But crying is also hopepunk, because crying means you still have feelings, and feelings are how you know you’re alive. The 1% doesn’t want you to have feelings, they just want you to feel resigned. Feeling resigned is not hopepunk.
Examples! THE HANDMAID’S TALE is arguably hopepunk. It’s scary and dark, and at first glance it looks like grimdark because it’s a dystopia… but goddammit she keeps fighting. That’s the key, right there. She fights every single day, because she won’t let them take away meaning from her life. She survives stubbornly in the hope that one day she can live again. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down,” is one of the core tenets of hopepunk, along with, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Jesus and Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Robin Hood and John Lennon were hopepunk. (Remember: Hopepunk isn’t about moral perfection. It’s not about being as pure and innocent as the new-fallen snow. You get grubby when you fight. You make mistakes. You’re sometimes a little bit of an asshole. Maybe you’re as much as 50% an asshole. But the glass is half full, not half empty. You get up, and you keep fighting, and caring, and trying to make the world a little better for the people around you. You get to make mistakes. It’s a process. You get to ask for and earn forgiveness. And you love, and love, and love.)
And THIS, this is hopepunk:
Here I am with more addendums to this post: Seems like a lot of people are saying the word “noblebright” at me, and I just want to be really clear about this: Noblebright is not hopepunk. Noblebright does not espouse the same ideals that hopepunk does. They are two distinct, separate, coexisting things.
Noblebright is Arthurian legends. The world is a good place, people are essentially good. The codes of chivalry are in full effect. People in positions of authority are there because they are wise, prudent, caring leaders. They rule because they deserve to rule. They protect the weak, they uphold their ideals, there’s people practicing chaste courtly love in every bower and garden. Things are fine, and people have adventures in which they triumph because (see: all of the above).
Hopepunk is (as many wonderful people in the comments have pointed out) Discworld: The world is the world. It’s really good sometimes and it’s really bad sometimes, and it’s sort of humdrum a lot of the time. People are petty and mean and, y’know, PEOPLE. There are things that need to be fixed, and battles to be fought, and people to be protected, and we’ve gotta do all those things ourselves because we can’t sit around waiting for some knight in shining armor to ride past and deal with it for us. We’re just ordinary people trying to do our best because we give a shit about the world. Why? Because we’re some of the assholes that live there.
Me, an nb: Cis people can use any pronouns they want for any reason! Men using she/her and women using he/him, as well as both using neopronouns or gender neutral pronouns, are awesome and it’s totally okay!
Some asshole: Actually, sweetie, that’s transphobic and nbphobic. Cis people who use other pronouns are nasty and cringey.
Me: … So anyway, as I was saying, cis people can use any pronouns they want for any reason! Men using she/her and women using he/him, as well as both using neopronouns or gender neutral pronouns, are awesome and it’s totally okay! Get a fucking life and stop policing pronouns! Let people live!
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