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Alex-Quan Pham is a Vietnamese queer, gender non-conforming femme warrior. In past lives, they have been a turtle, a palm tree, and a river nymph. Their full-time job is resisting the colonialist, capitalist, white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy through writing, learning, loving, and healing.
Wage Slave wrote:In past lives, they have been a turtle, a palm tree, and a river nymph.
A man is reportedly suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for exhibiting paintings portraying Jesus Christ as a blond-haired white man.
Justin Renel Joseph, 33, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that four masterpieces exhibited in the museum are the product of “offensive aesthetic whitewashing” in their portrayals of Christ.
Mr Joseph, who is acting as his own lawyer, argues the “racist” paintings depicting an "Aryan" Jesus should be removed and that their inclusion at the attraction was an “extreme case of discrimination”.
He claims Christ had “black hair like wool and skin of bronze colour” and that, as a man with the same physical traits, he felt “rejected”.
The offending paintings causing him “personal stress” were ‘The Holy Family with Angels’ by Sebastiano Ricci; ‘The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes’ by Tintoretto; ‘The Crucifixion’ by Francesco Granacci; and ‘The Resurrection’ by Perugino (below).
The museum defended its inclusion of the paintings, calling them “important, historically and artistically”.
Metropolitan Museum spokeswoman Elyse Topalian said: “When they were painted, it was typical for artists to depict subjects with the same identity as the local audience. This phenomenon occurs in many other cultures, as well.”
Court papers reportedly say: “The implication that someone who possesses physical features like the plaintiff could not be the important historical and public figure of Jesus Christ... caused the plaintiff to feel, among other things, rejected and unaccepted by society.”
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wagyl wrote:If he thought he was rejected and unaccepted by society before, his litigious nature will not encourage society to change its mind.
By the way, the linked artwork is The Holy Family with Angels by Sebastiano Ricci.
Takechanpoo wrote:Jesus should be drawn as an arab guy whom european do hate as fuck.
Worried about the low sex drive of giant pandas in zoos, scientists have tried many things to get them in the mood — not least Viagra and “panda porn.”
When all else failed, they have often had to rely on artificial insemination to ensure the endangered black and white creatures have cubs.
A study last week suggested the answer may be a lot simpler and, perhaps, more obvious — let the pandas choose their own mates.
“Giant pandas paired with preferred partners have significantly higher copulation and birthrates,” researchers noted in the journal Nature Communications.
Generally, pandas in captivity are presented with a mate chosen by scientists based on the animals’ “genetic profile.”
The goal is to minimize inbreeding and expand the DNA pool. But the result is often frustrating, with the animals having to be coaxed through human intervention to show even the slightest sexual interest in the mate thrust upon them.
A team from the United States and China ran a test at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Sichuan Province, to see if being allowed to choose their own partner might make a difference.
Male and female pandas were housed in enclosures with animals of the opposite sex on either side. They were allowed limited physical interaction with their neighbors through cage bars.
Scientists measured the animals’ “mate preference behavior,” which included different forms of playfulness and bond-forming, as well as sexual arousal. “Negative” interactions could include signs of aggression or a mere lack of interest.
The animals were then introduced to each other for mating — with preferred and non-preferred partners.
“The highest reproductive performance was seen when both males and females showed mutual preference,” the researchers found.
The authors said their study was the first to “rigorously examine” the effects of mate preference in giant pandas. “The future of conservation breeding will not take place in a test tube,” they wrote.
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Grumpy Gramps wrote:This shows, how far from the simple realities of life scientists sometimes are. Mainly when it comes to animal behaviour, they seem to be surprisingly ignorant.
Coligny wrote: a Brazilian Jew
wagyl wrote:Coligny wrote: a Brazilian Jew
The Ghosn family are Maronite, so about as Jewish as Pope Francis, but you are welcome to live in your continued fantasy world. I'm not exactly sure whether your fantasy world is any nicer than the real world, though.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:wagyl wrote:Coligny wrote: a Brazilian Jew
The Ghosn family are Maronite, so about as Jewish as Pope Francis, but you are welcome to live in your continued fantasy world. I'm not exactly sure whether your fantasy world is any nicer than the real world, though.
Swarthy and successful is close enough for Coligny to round then up and ship them off to the Germans like like any good Frenchman would.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:This shows, how far from the simple realities of life scientists sometimes are. Mainly when it comes to animal behaviour, they seem to be surprisingly ignorant.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:This shows, how far from the simple realities of life scientists sometimes are. Mainly when it comes to animal behaviour, they seem to be surprisingly ignorant.
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