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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)

My gf can drive, can yours?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Nah, his gf is too young to get a driver's licence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What GF would ge have?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

How did you know he's from Saudi Arabia, the only country who had that law that has nothing to do with islam?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Dude's probably living in the west, enjoying what the west have to offer, and never look at the middle east 💀

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

This has to be bait.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's like keying your own car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Society just got a tiny bit worse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Either that's ai image or dude is rocking some concealer

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a makeup enjoyer but I think that's eyeliner on his lower lid, no?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It's called kohl, and it's been around as eye protection from the sunrays and bacterial infections for a long time. Nowadays it's kind of a cultural holdover more than anything for both men and women in Middle Eastern and North African countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Good to know that when I'm doing my raccoon eyes, I'm getting an additional layer of protection from the sun!

I always just assumed those cultures, along with Captain Jack Sparrow, just did it because it looks cool.

The more you know! 🌈🌟

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oooh, ok. That's interesting, I've noticed it for years on other people and always wondered. So is it actually touching the eye, then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It honestly depends on the person and culture.

Like if you look at Ancient Egyptian or Mesopotamian art, they are depicted with it around their eyes (like eyeshadow + concealer today). Greeks probably wore it more like eyeliner, if we go by amphora depictions.

Modern day you have people wearing it just as a thin line around both eyelash lines, or on the waterline (the inside part of your eyelash line that touches your eyeball). Some people just do the outer corner of the eye, some draw dots on the eyelid. A lot of these techniques may have had cultural/tribal importance too that have been lost to time, but the aesthetic remains.

I don't know how people do it the waterline though, my eyes tear up just thinking about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You've helped detail what I thought was just a trend in makeup, thank you. I haven't ever put makeup on myself, outside of a few plays when I was a kid/teenager, so I'm right there with you.

Do you happen to know what it's typically made of? I'm reading it's traditionally made by grinding up stibnite into a powder, but I'm also wondering if that's true because stibnite is supposed to be toxic. I would imagine it would be bad to put on your eyes like that, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Stibnite is the traditional ingredient, but I'm not sure if that's used nowadays (at least I hope not!) I know in rural communities homemade kohl can have a charcoal base. But I think most are just using store bought stuff which (hopefully) adhere to product safety standards!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some people legitimately have eyes like that. You turn him up if you just Google "Lost actor with the eyes".

Nestor Carbonell

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

But those are just dark eyelashes, I'm talking about the solid black line sitting on their lower lids.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hope someone has realized this... But the fact that there is a comparison of middle east women's rights with United States women's rights is extremely concerning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Or the treatment of homosexuals

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

IDK man I get to choose not to black bag myself for easy government rendition, at least for now. Can women living under men implementing Islam say the same?

(Of course not, they don't get to talk outside the home, silly!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Then why you move here bruv