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Two older men just walked by my window.
Old man 1: Do you really think Amy is manipulative?
Me: (Oh this sounds juicy. Who is Amy. What did Amy do.)
Old man 2: I don't know. I think Laurie is a liar though.
Me: (The plot thickens, keep talking boys)
Old man 1: I don't think Amy should have burned Jo's papers, but I don't blame her for marrying Laurie. I don't think she's a puppetmaster. Jo said no. How is Laurie a liar?
Me: (shocked pikachu face)
George Tiller was murdered 13 years ago today (May 31 2022)
People noting this anniversary reminding me again that it is such an insane failure of the pro-choice movement that we do not as a nation think of George Tiller as a civil rights hero and additionally a martyr at the level of MLK Jr. or a Kennedy. So, you know, do your part, etc.
āIt is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with complex health issues and come to decisions that are appropriate for them.ā ā George Tiller, MD
āIt is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with com
wayback machine version of the linked piece above, since the PRH website one seems to no longer work
youāll be a teenager in the early 2010s watching with fascinated horror the rise of gamergate and r/mensrights and be like āwow this is fucked up, good thing itās just onlineā and then it will turn into the entirety of mainstream politics for the rest of your life
This is real, btw. Steve Bannon observed gamergate and realized there was an audience of young men who could be radicalized via internet meme culture. MAGA intentionally targeted younger men for recruiting.
More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.
This might be my favorite
This is mine
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and itās not to watch the shoppers. See, we canāt actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didnāt exist in my household. Itās normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
āWhat the hell, Iāll take another,ā says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. Heās not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. Heās not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadnāt spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldnāt have spent any. I go home. I donāt own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.Ā
Iām not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlandoās walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (ācast membersā) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even āfaceā characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
"The word pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the Parliament of Hell" is an all-timer etymology. Oh yeah did you hear that Mrs Higgins's dogs got loose at the village fĆŖte? It was like a vast golden edifice in which fallen angels debate their strategies for vengeance against god, yeah.
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āWhen I started Stargate, I got the part, I was SO thrilled to have this INCREDIBLE character, to be playing someone in the military. I had SO much respect, to be playing someone whoās so smart and so liberated andā¦ I thought āYes!ā I had to weeks to move from Toronto to Vancouver. I flew out there, I had my first wardrobe fitting. And one of the things that was inā¦ THE thing that was in the wardrobe room was a very low-cut tank-top and a push-up braā¦ And I turned to the custom designer - whom Iāve worked with since, whoās wonderful - and I said āWhatā¦ What is this?ā And she said āWell.. they wanna see what you look like in it.ā And I said āā¦but thisā¦ NOBODY in the military, no captain in the US airforce would wear thisā¦ while her male counterparts are wearing crewneck t-shirts andā¦ I cā¦ I canāt do it!ā And she said āWell, they just wanna see what you look like and take a picture andā¦ā I was like āā¦ā. And I PANICKED because I thought, I had just been given this AMAZING opportunity - I didnāt know it would last 10 years but I knew it was gonna be a kick-ass show - and I was likeā¦ āI canāt do itā¦ā And I started to cry and I said āYou have to go upstairs and tell them Iām not doing it. And if it means that they recast the part then recast the part but youāve cast a smart woman and youāve cast somebody who has NEVER tried to get a job based on her looks or her body, Iāve always played strong, smart women, Iā¦ I canāt do it. So if they wanna recast the part I totally get it but Iām not playing THAT version of this character.ā But Iām saying this while Iām blubbering because Iām suffering that Iāve just lost maybe the best job of my careerā¦ And so she said āOkayā and I said āIām sorry, Iām sorry, Iām sorry, Iāve NEVER been difficult, I donātā¦ but I CANāT do that!ā So she went upstairs and she came back down and she said āOkay, no problem.ā And I said āOkay, so whatās my costume?ā And she said āWellā¦ā And I said āJustā¦ What are the guys wearing?ā So she handed me a black T-Shirt and the BDUs, which is what my character would wear in the field with her male counterparts, and thatās where we went from there. But that to me was the defining moment ofā¦ And I STILL cry about it because I still remember that young woman on the verge of breaking into theā¦ new something big, being petrified that she was gonna loose it, butā¦ I knew that I couldnāt play the TNA version of Sam Carter.ā
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yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
#i literally crack up everytimeĀ #at least ten of the notes are from me
Yes, Sam Altman really said that (the intelligence is utility quote). The response to this absolutely cannot be meek acceptance.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words āHappy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!ā in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
I think the battle is long since lost on what the ā-codedā suffix means, but I (old movie guy specifically invested in queer coding) seem to be unable to let go of how annoying I find the fuzzy popular use of the term. This is probably a flaw in my character.
Coding is intentional, itās a way of communicating indirectly with the audience through a shared language of signs. Thatās why itās called coding, because itās communicating in code. It isnāt when a thing reminds you of another thing.
[Video description: Gritty is turning the crank on a flagpole to raise the Progress Pride Flag. He gesticulates angrily that the flag is not blowing in the wind, then gestures offscreen. The flag begins blowing. As Gritty begins raising the flag more, the camera pans out to show a man in a suit and sunglasses, looking like a stern Secret Service agent, is holding a leafblower that points at the flag. End description.]
when people defend theĀ āCis white guy is defaultā thing like āHeās meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!ā kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL Ā ādefaultā you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year. Ā
#give us the middle-aged gender fluid Chinese protagonist that we can all relate to and project onĀ (via @mr-and-mr-pavus)
The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.
They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.
Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.
10/10 post bringing it back for 2026
