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I’ve been gone a long time. Sorry about that. It turns out that law school + running a publication + working part-time + training for long-distance races + having two 30-page papers due the same week eats up a lot of your time. Actually, that hurts just to look at.
I can’t guarantee I’ll be on here more what with finals coming up, but I wanted to check in and let everyone know I’m alive and doing relatively well.
If you don’t have the new Tumblr IM yet and you want it, like this post and I’ll message you. Apparently that’s how it spreads.
Sure, I’ll see if it’ll work for me.
if this 5000 year old tree isn’t too old to realize that its trans neither are you
Lessons filmmakers should take from Mad Max: Fury Road
1. Your oppressive post-apocalyptic world doesn’t have to be physically dark. It can actually be bright and colorful. The audience actually likes to be able to see what is going on.
2. Visual story telling is a lost art that needs to be found again. Seriously, this movie did not have a lot of dialog to begin with but you could have taken it all out and I would have still been able to follow the movie pretty well. Show us, don’t tell us.
3. Physical effects enhanced by CGI are the way to go. It will always have more weight than CGI on its own. Real people doing real stunts in real locations gives a substance that is missed when the same stunts are done in front of a green screen.
4. (and this one is REALLY important) You can have an action movie that centers around interesting female characters that aren’t being objectified and have their own agency and people will see it (and it will be AWESOME!). Also, your male character doesn’t always have to come charging to the rescue, he can even be the “damsel in distress” occasionally.
5. A flame throwing guitar is an excellent addition to any chase scene.
i can’t believe i have to say this but: if a woman talks about being abused or otherwise mistreated by her boyfriend and your response to her is “just stop dating men!!!”, you are victim blaming her.
me, wearing a flannel: I’m Wearing This Because I’m Not Straight
Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season:
They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.)
They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs.
They fire people for having mental illnesses.
Bullshit.
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people are allowed to leave you. people are allowed to break up with you. people are allowed to love you but not want to be with you. people are allowed to not want to talk to you. people are allowed to put their happiness before yours and do what makes them happy even if it does not include you. people are allowed to move on from you. people are allowed to fall in love with someone else. people are allowed to not want you in their life. people are allowed to do whatever they want to better themselves and become the version of themselves they are trying so hard to love. don’t be bitter towards someone who is only trying to be happy.
Painful but true.
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I’m about 90% sure the economy is never gonna “improve”
this is capitalism in it’s final form
this is it honey
except, you know, those companies that do a charitable thing for every thing they sell
that’s kinda new and interesting. benevolent capitalism
Pay attention, class: This is what it looks like when one is unwilling to consider new information.
It’s not new information, though. It’s misinformation.
First, it’s not that new.
Did you know that there was a time in U.S. history—which is by definition recent history—when a corporation was generally intended to have some sort of public interest that they served? I mean, that’s the whole point of allowing corporations to form. Corporations are recognized by the commonwealth or state, and this recognition is not a right but a privilege, in exchange for which the state (representing the people) is allowed to ask, “So what does this do for everyone else?”
The way the economy is now is a direct result of a shift away from this thinking and to one where a corporation is an entity unto itself whose first, last, and only concern is an ever-increasing stream of profits. What you’re calling “benevolent capitalism” isn’t benevolent at all. It’s a pure profit/loss calculation designed to distract from—not even paper over or stick a band-aid on—the problems capitalism creates. And the fact that you’re here championing it as “benevolent capitalism” is a sign of how ell it’s working.
Let’s take Toms, as one example. The shoe that’s a cause. Buy a pair of trendy shoes, and a pair of trendy shoes will be given away to someone somewhere in the world who can’t afford them.
That’s not genuine benevolence. That’s selling you, the consumer, on the idea that you can be benevolent by buying shoes, that the act of purchasing these shoes is an act of charity. The reality is that their model is an inefficient means of addressing the problems on the ground that shoelessness represents, and severely disrupts the local economies of the locations selected for benevolence.
(Imagine what it does to the local shoemakers, for instance.)
The supposed act of charity is just a value add to convince you to spend your money on these shoes instead of some other shoes. It’s no different than putting a prize in a box of cereal.
Heck, you want to see how malevolent this is?
Go ask a multinational corporation that makes shoes or other garments to double the wages of their workers. They’ll tell you they can’t afford it, that it’s not possible, that consumers won’t stand for it, that you’ll drive them out of business and then no one will have wages.
But the fact that a company can give away one item for every item sold shows you what a lie this is. A one-for-one giving model represents double the cost of labor and materials for each unit that is sold for revenue. Doubling wages would only double the labor.
So why are companies willing to give their products away (and throw them away, destroy unused industry with bleach and razors to render them unsalvageable, et cetera) but they’re not willing to pay their workers more?
Because capitalism is the opposite of benevolence.
“Charity” is by definition exemplary, above and beyond, extraordinary, extra. “Charity” is not something that people are entitled to. You give people a shirt or shoes or some food and call it charity, and you’re setting up an expectation that you can and will control the stream of largesse in the future, and anything and everything you give should be considered a boon from on high.
On the other hand, once you start paying your workers a higher wage, you’re creating an expectation. You’re admitting that their labor is more valuable to you than you were previously willing to admit, and it’s hard to walk that back.
Plus, when people have enough money for their basic needs, they’re smarter and stronger and warier and more comfortable with pushing back instead of being steamrolled over. They have time and money to pursue education. They can save money up and maybe move away. They can escape from the system that depends on a steady flow of forced or near-forced labor.
So companies will do charitable “buy one, give one” and marketing “buy one, get one” even though these things by definition double the overhead per unit, but they won’t do anything that makes a lasting difference in the standard of living for the people.
Capitalism has redefined the world so that the baseline of ethics is “How much money can we make?” and every little good deed over and above that is saintly.
But there’s nothing benevolent about throwing a scrap of bread to someone who’s starving in a ditch because you ran them out of their home in the first place.
This is one of the best anti-capitalist posts on the entire site.
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Question to transpeople
Before transitioning was there anyway to make it easier to deal with dysphoria? Also is it normal to want to transition but then worry about what it would be like then not feel so sure about it?
Any help appreciated, I’m just trying to work things out :)
First of all, these questions are totally normal when you’re considering transition and figuring all this stuff out. My advice (ymmv) is take it at whatever pace feels comfortable for you. It’s OK to feel unsure, or scared, or like you want to stop or like you want it all done tomorrow. Read a lot, research different options and give yourself time to process stuff. I would research something, think about it for a while and then get on with work or study or whatever so my unconscious could mull it over, and then it would pop back up to the surface when it felt ready.
WRT managing the dysphoria I dressed masculine in a way that felt comfortable for me. I wore soft materials that felt nice to combat how weird my dysphoria made my skin feel somedays. I was too large-chested to bind but a combination of a really supportive sports bra and slightly oversized flannel shirts helped a lot. I often felt a need to dress ‘super manly’ to balance out how female my body felt. As I’ve transitioned and had top surgery that’s calmed down a bit but either way is OK.
Also try out new pronoun or name options in your head or with people close to you who are supportive. It gives you a chance to try stuff out and can really help with dysphoria - my birth name was a huge source of discomfort for me.
Most of all: be kind to yourself :)
Onward, steed!
This happened and humans still think they are the only intelligent life form on earth…
PLEASE STOP TREATING THIS AS CUTE.
These pictures of frogs and other animals are almost certainly staged, often with the result of the animal being distressed. Frogs do NOT naturally ride on beetles, and that open-mouthed gape is a stress signal in these animals. Here’s a link with more information, and a pertinent quote:
Take for example the recent viral photo of a frog riding a beetle. The images suggest the frog is riding the beetle “rodeo style”, and the frog’s wide mouth suggests it may even be shouting “Yee-haw” like its’ cowboy counterpart. However, the truth is, the image has almost certainly been staged and amphibian experts, such as Jodi Rowley, have weighed in on social media, suggesting that the “mouth agape” posture displayed by the frog is only ever seen in times of extreme distress.
Every time you reblog these photos, you are reinforcing the idea they are funny and worthwhile, when in fact they are perpetuating animal cruelty.
It gets worse than just a frog posed with a bug against its will. Some animals are placed into refrigerators to chill them and make them easier to manipulate (cold blooded animals hunker down and quit moving when they get too cold) and I’ve even seen animals physically tied to off-screen posts, or having their limbs held in position with fishing line and wire that’s later edited out with photoshop.
Unfortunately a lot of the really high quality studio style “cute” photographs of animals like snakes and frogs or whatever interacting are staged in such a manner. It’s hard to tell what’s been cruelly staged and what’s not, but a decent rule of thumb is that if you see a frog sitting on a snake or a bug or whatever and its being touted as “two unlikely wild animal friends having an adventure,” it’s probably a hoax created with abused petstore stock.
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