Eclectic Electric Eccentric zwɪndʒ

Because I am a fool, this is a sideblog; I love all of you and we are mutuals in my heart (me following you from my main)

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

a kelpie in the reeds

[fishing-princess]

For thousands of years humanity has selectively bred chickens to have larger breasts and to have to lay eggs constantly. We did it to get more meat and per chicken, but from the perspective of the domesticated chickens they’re sorta living in a very specific fetish scenario

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[i-am-a-fish]

I need to be held for 4 hours but that's my business I don't need to post about that

[llama-sidekick]

I'm at work so I can only hold you on paper

[i-am-a-fish]

oooohjhh I love this so much this is so cute and you are so kind thank you and your art RULES

[creatingblackcharacters]

This is what I meant by how a lot of white supremacy is projection.

"I feel like my penis/my Manhood as a symbol is smaller than Black man's" becomes "Black men have oversized penises and are sexually insatiable beasts."

"I am sexually attracted to, fetishizing, and feel entitled to Black women's bodies" becomes "well she's asking for it, look at how she looks, Black women are always more openly sexual."

"I am afraid of approaching Black men" becomes "Black men are a threat."

"I am afraid of approaching Black women" becomes "Black women are always angry."

"I am not smart enough/not qualifed enough/can't beat my white counterparts professionally" becomes "DEI and affirmative action are letting those Blacks steal my position in school/jobs!"

Your own fears and insecurities about yourself somehow become a reflection of my humanity, when it had nothing to do with anything. And somehow enough people think that and now it's systemic instead of the made up nonsense it always was. Ijeoma Oluo called it mediocrity, James Baldwin called racism the white man's problem, and they remain correct.

[galileosballs]

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.

[bovineblogger]

Saw a brown-headed cowbird yesterday on a drive and while talking to my husband about it I immediately said "NOT even a cow"

the not-cow in question

NOT EVEN a . thats NOT one.

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[ruinedchildhood]

[utopians]

I consider myself a real hater but sometimes you really do go too far with haterism. once I had to break mutuals with someone bc they hated the entire art form of poetry and the final straw was when they started hateposting about soup. The food

[bluestockingbaby]

[meangirlnurse]

i love that one really expensive goth chicken breed

[meangirlnurse]

seriously

goth chickens

[lobstronomousskeleton]

are you kidding? Look at that stare

Death Metal Chickens

[meangirlnurse]

they’re goth chickens and i’ve named every single one of them “sasuke”

[ruhrohrexia]

i wont worry about it i say to myself with the always worried disorder

[thefakehedgehogaroundhere]

this got like a thousand views on tiktok and i based the joke off a moment in the @joy-crimes stream so i think yall will like it maybe

[ilonano]

Visit Original Link

[thefakehedgehogaroundhere]

WHY IS THIS TUNED SO WELL OH MY FUCKING GOD

[soggyskinflaps]

Mustelidae family in a nutshell

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

hey everybody we actually don't have to keep gender roles but make them about gender expression instead of gender identity. yea actually benevolent sexism is still bad if you say that transmascs should be knights for princess transfems or that femmes need the protection and chivalry of butches

[learn-how-to-love]

TERFs make the argument that only people AFAB are targeted by misogyny. TRFs make the argument that only women are targeted by misogyny. Both of these views are wrong. Trans men, despite being men, are targets of societal misogyny due to being AFAB. Trans women, despite being AMAB, are targets of societal misogyny due to being women. Both groups are also trans, which intersects with and adds layers to their oppression. Nonbinary people of all types are also the targets of societal misogyny, since it despises gender incongruence even and especially if you are not a man or woman, entirely or exclusively. It’s actually very simple yet here we are still arguing about it.

[learn-how-to-love]

If it were so simple to gain access to the rights and powers of the patriarchy, feminism wouldn’t need to exist. Indeed, the patriarchy itself wouldn’t exist, because there wouldn’t be a second class by which the dominant class oppresses. What many fail to understand, however, is that simply claiming manhood isn’t sufficient to gain access to the patriarchy, either. All trans people represent an existential threat to the current system of gendered supremacy, and in the case of transmascs it is because we are attempting to “ascend” (in their eyes) to a position of higher power.

For some, the conclusion is that we ultimately do- however, this is false. The patriarchy isn’t simply made up of men; or more accurately it is, but only of the men it personally recognizes and accepts. Trans men are men, but they are excluded from the patriarchy on the basis of our transness. There is a false equivalency drawn between the experience of transfems (who lose access to the benefits of the patriarchy, if they even had them to begin with) and the conclusion that transmascs must gain in return. But it’s not true. Whatever momentary benefit a trans man can gain from being perceived as the “correct” kind of male is fragile and fleeting in the eyes of the patriarchy, and the second it is revealed it is gone. If we truly were accepted with open arms, our transness would be able to be broadcast loud and clear with no issues. Instead, we have to be quiet, primarily out of safety, if we want to even approach the kind of privilege cis men have by default. That is not a gaining of privilege, in fact, we become more marginalized due to our transness.

We lose out on many of the spaces we occupied prior to transition, and we will often be violently ejected from new cis ones should our identity be discovered. This is actually a shared experience between transmascs and transfems, because again, being trans puts us at odds with the cisgender patriarchal system that informs how others see us. And of course, this is only speaking in binary terms. For a nonbinary fagdyke genderqueer like myself, I will never be able to pass as cis male or female for the rest of my life. I will always be perceived as an outsider, primarily by choice as it’s what makes me happiest, but it’s also dangerous. Frankly, any theory made on this topic that isn’t made by/in close communication with transmascs is doomed to false assumptions, which I would hope people would intuit given that it’s just generally true that people who are not in a specific minority group aren’t the authority on what that group experiences. And yet, I already know what the response to this post will be by the people who most need to take it to heart.