Regardless of your gender or sexuality, reblog this and tag your most hetero male trait. Mine is either obsessing over my Altima or sitting around watching TV shows about air disasters.

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

Goes insanely hard

To provide further context from what I understand the bill wanted to take the rights guaranteed to the Maori in said treaty and expand them to all New Zealand citizens. The issue with that is that it sort of defeats the point of the protections of the treaty.

The Treaty of Waitangi is not even that good of a treaty. But it is better than any treaty the Crown signed with indigenous peoples

And it absolutely was not meant to be

The treaty as written screws over Māori, and was written in Te Reo Māori and English with deliberately misleading translations to Te Reo Māori. I'm not an expert by any means, but basically the Te Reo Māori version has clauses that promise much more independence and sovereignty, while the English version does not

However

The English version promises them rights as Citizens

From what I remember from University 10+ years ago, this clause, this sentence, was added last minute by the writer of the treaty. Like, right before the big signing at Waitangi.

And the Crown was PISSED

Because now they had a legally binding document that promised, in their own language, to treat Māori with the same rights as they would English. Which was absolutely not the goal. The goal was to trick Māori into signing away their lands and that honestly still did happen. The treaty was not a good faith proposal by the Engliah.

But its still better than anyone else got, and it's better than no treaty. And because nowadays we can't just ignore the Te Reo Māori side of the treaty, the government's of the past few decades have been honouring Māori sovereignty, honouring their stewardship of the land, and undoing a lot of the bad faith "sales" or straight up stolen land.

Except our current fuck nuggets, who want to make Te Reo Māori an endangered language again, and steal back that land because they want to mine on it and sell it and they hate that Māori stewardship is so environmentally focused and not profit driven.

So, in a way, the current government is more true to the intentions of the Crown who initially came up with the treaty.

But since those guys were colonising bastards, I don't see "honouring" them as anything good.

Even with criticism of the treaty, without it, Māori would lose a lot of protections to their lands, their culture, their language, and as a country we would go backwards to a time when they were even more discriminated against

Toitū te tiriti

Uphold the treaty

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PROMPTS

31 prompts for 31 days of December! Reminder that you do not have to participate every day. You can join us for 1 day or 10 days or 20 days or all 31, if you want, but no pressure. We're here to spread the love and have fun!

Day 1: First fic you read/first fic you remember reading

Day 2: a fic rated G

Day 3: a fic not on AO3

Day 4: a comfort fic

Day 5: a romantic fic

Day 6: fic for a ship you don't normally read

Day 7: the best of your OTP

Day 8: rec a fic that was recced to you

Day 9: a WIP

Day 10: a fest/event fic

Day 11: an underrated fic

Day 12: A fic from your favorite author

Day 13: a rare pair

Day 14: a fic rated T

Day 15: a fic over 50k

Day 16: a podfic

Day 17: a fic that makes you cry

Day 18: a fic that makes you laugh

Day 19: fanart

Day 20: a fic with fanart

Day 21: a fic rated M

Day 22: a series

Day 23: a crossover or AU fic

Day 24: Holiday (vacation)

Day 25: Holiday (national holiday)

Day 26: a fic under 5k

Day 27: smokin' hot fic

Day 28: a fic over 100k

Day 29: a fic rated E

Day 30: fic on your TBR that you're most excited to read

Day 31: Most recent fic you loved

CHAPPELL ROAN for SNL

To the people in the OTW Tumblr Inbox asking about how the OTW is responding to the American Election.

This is a separate post (and not a response to a specific message) because we all need to see it.

Folks have been asking Support (through the form) as well as the other social media mods, and we have now been given the following to tell you.

<3 Mod Remi

Janusz Grabiański

in a medieval groupchat nobody would make fun of your typo they would just assume that its a new spelling youre going with and roll with it

#the fyrste roul of inglesh is too hauvve fonne and to thine owne sylf be truoel (via @grand-theft-carbohydrates)

lily evans being a nickname person is so special to me. not only do we canonically have “tuney”, “sev”, and “wormy”, but she literally married into a friend group with secret code names.

and there’s literally no limit to her nicknaming ability. I mean, we’re already pushing it with “wormy”—a nickname for a nickname. so why stop there. “jamie”, “pads”, and “moons” when she’s feeling affectionate. “monty” and “effie” for her in-laws. “jimmy” when she just wants to fuck with james. “harold” when it’s three in the morning and she’s sleep-deprived and harry won’t go back to sleep. need I go on.

I'm guessing people are voting for whatever option they have the least ability in at the moment.

posts about the alt-right pipeline being compassionate towards young men while radical leftists shun and shame them are not fucking saying "the men are becoming violent because feminists are too mean!" and if that is your takeaway you need to get off tumblr until you've better honed your critical thinking skills.

those posts are talking about how effective the language and approach you take in your activism can be. this is literally cult deprogramming 101. if someone is being taken in by a violent or dangerous group, that violent or dangerous group is usually offering them compassion and solace while working hard to convince them everyone else in the world is their enemy. you are under no obligation to coddle or act compassionate toward these men and their violent ideologies, but if you have the means to try, it is something that you can do to make a tangible difference.

radicalized people are often only one loving friend or family member or external voice away from being de-radicalized. of course that is not always the case, but it very often is. a lot of y'all rightfully understand that you do not carry the burden of being that voice, but a lot of y'all also have a lot of internalized ideas about morals and punitive justice and have simply written off these people as deserving of only the worst and not worth saving.

ten years ago, my grandmother was a fox news watching republican who voted red in every election and very well could have fallen down the qanon rabbit hole if not for me and her daughter challenging her compassionately, walking her through hypotheticals that validated her feelings & proving why they were false, & being patient with her despite our extreme division in political ideology. it was frustrating fucking work! but i decided i wanted to do it, because i could see the horizon and i could see me making a difference!

"misogynists have been saying feminists are too mean for years, get new material" that is not the fucking POINT. the point is that you, feminist, can be the compassionate voice that guides your brother, your father, your cousin, your grandfather away from fucking becoming or staying a nazi. you can show them compassion and companionship. you can be the woman they think of when their alt-right bros try to convince them that women are the enemy. and you can choose to crystallize that image of yourself so wholly in their mind's eye as worth protecting that they may very well choose to reject those harmful ideas.

it's not saying you HAVE to do it! it's saying you CAN do it! don't you 'firebomb a walmart' people all love taking change into your own hands? where the fuck is that energy right now, huh?

i saw this right after and OP turned off reblogs but LITERALLY!!! LITERALLY.

i know the punitive justice obsessed "kill all abusers" ass catholics on this fucking website don't want to hear shit like this but love is literally the answer. fix your heart or die

I willn always think about how a couple years back i, in begrudgingly helping the obnoxious kids in my science class with their homework to just get the class back on schedule, ended up positioning myself as Nerd With The Right Answers. this ended interestingly because when we get to the section of bio where we go over intersex people and i say "lmk if you have any questions on the homework", *they actually trusted me enough to express their confusion and expect a real answer*. Now, did i actually get them to understand fully? No, they couldn't get past their "biology says there's only two genders" cult programming. But the seed is there and the progress was made and the next time this concept is introduced to them, maybe by someone who used to be in the alt-right and knows their talking points and can specifically refute it, they will be open to understanding.

being the Nerd With The Right Answers was interesting because i was definitely being used, i am pretty sure i was mocked behind my back by them and i only helped because my teacher was overworked and the curriculum was so boring i had nothing else to so except explain what an atom is to a whole grown 17 year old, but it put me in the position to do some good cult deprogramming. One time a kid asked me "why do you wear a mask if covid isn't real" and i was like "not even gonna talk about the covid thing but i personally wear a mask because im immunocompromised so if i get a cold i might end up in the er and that's really scary for me" which, didn't challenge what theyd been told about the existence of covid but I'll be damned if the next time they meet someone wearing a mask they hesitate before harassing them.

Deprogramming extremism is difficult, it requires repeated reinforcement, politeness to people who don't deserve it, and sometimes personal connections with bigots and you are totally valid to feel uncomfortable with these things. If you can at the bare minimum say stuff like "no i don't want to sit with you because you said you hate me and i am respecting your very obvious desire for space from me" instead of "no i don't want to sit with you because you're a homophobe" it leaves the protective barriers down for someone else who has the energy to field the nonsense questions