i do care if someone hires someone to clean though like you canât just throw that out there as if it isnât well known that those people that are hired to clean your home exist because theyâre poor. wash your own dirty dishes
I understand what youâre saying, but you also seem to be ignoring the fact that people who are hiring these poor people to clean their houses are giving those people jobs. If they werenât hiring them to clean their houses, these people may not have a job at all.
i donât agree with this logic. i donât think we need to settle for a job or nothing, is the same to be said for women who work under slavery like conditions in clothing factories in poor countries? why canât we fight for change instead of accepting that some people just have to be maids
Before she moved in to take care of her, my aunt hired a maid to come to my disabled grandmotherâs house once a week to clean for like 2-3 hours and paid her $80 every time she came over. Thereâs no way my grandmother, who had a bum hip from a car accident and hobbled around with her walker (back when she could even walk), could clean her own house. Maids provide an invaluable service, especially for the elderly and disabled, and they shouldnât be eliminated just because you think their jobs are somehow not good enough for anyone to be doing. Many jobs like housecleaners, gardeners, etc., are great for people who may not speak the local language, who may have had a limited education, or who came here as adults with limited opportunities. My grandfather, who could speak four languages fluently but his English sucked, became a janitor at the age of 58 to support his family when they first came to America, and his kids always advocated that you should treat blue-collar and traditionally low-paid workers with respect because those jobs are valuable and even someone who cleans toilets is a person who is trying their best. Basically, we shouldnât try to eliminate these jobs; they should just be better compensated.
The lady that cared for my grandma (elderly, disabled and with severe dementia) was vital to⊠well, everything. She cooked, cleaned, kept her company, reminded her of her meds and helped my aunt by taking care of my grandma when my aunt had to leave for work. And yes, she did the âless dignifiedâ work of helping grandma bathe and wipe herself. But you know what?
She loved her job, and she loved my grandma. When my grandma passed away, she was devastated. As of now, she is currently caring for another elderly person while studying to be a nurse, and cares for them like theyâre her family just as she did my grandma. She enjoys doing this. Taking care of people is her thing, and she does it with passion.
Last but not least, of course - my dad and his siblings paid her a full-time wage (even though sheâd leave at night when my aunt got home), plus health insurance, plus her meals and anything else she mightâve needed while on the job.
No work is either demeaning or rewarding in itself - the way one is treated while doing it is what makes it so.
I know you're not really intending to post about Happiest Season but I'd appreciate your insight if you wouldn't mind talking about it? I was really excited about it but now I'm not so sure. I've read a couple of comments that said it's super negative and full of homophobia and not the joyful movie we need right now. Buzzfeed did a whole article, which I haven't read to avoid spoilers, but the headline implies the same thing. Do I want to watch it? Is Dan alone worth it?
yeah, i certainly donât mind talking about it. mostly i said that i wasnât gonna post a lot about it because i donât want to spoil anything for people still waiting to watch it, nor do i want to turn my blog into a happiest season free-for-all, but iâm def happy to give you some thoughts about it. iâm gonna put it under a cut anyway just in case...
iâll start by saying that i largely agreed with the buzzfeed review, just to let you know up front that i am not gonna say you should unreservedly give it a go.
i think my issues with the movie (of which there are many) can be largely boiled down to three Big Things, that iâm gonna try to make as unspoilery as possible here.
1.) the family in this movie is mean. (most of them at least.) they outright and intentionally choose over and over to be cruel to each other, sometimes viciously and violently so. that was a way bigger problem for me than their sort of casual homophobia. i mean you at least know going in that thereâs probably going to be some homophobia, right? thereâs obviously a reason she hasnât come out to her parents, so you can expect that thatâs probably going to pop up on occasion throughout the movie.Â
the outright cruelty of the family was a whole different story. i donât feel like you really get that from the trailer at all (i actually just rewatched the trailer, and basically the only times theyâre remotely nice to each other in the movie are whatâs shown there), so it was a bit of an unwelcome surprise. i donât personally enjoy spending 102 minutes watching people just be relentlessly and actively unkind. like david and alexis are obviously mean to one another sometimes, as siblings occasionally are, but even in s1 when that was at its most prevalent, they would still have moments of levity between them or moments where theyâd come together to roll their eyes at their parentsâtimes where itâs clear that they do actually love each other and are on the same side underneath it all. but there pretty much arenât any moments like that with this family, where you really feel like they actually care about each other, and that, for me at least, makes for a pretty joyless watching experience.
2.) while i empathize with harperâs situation (i mean, looking at her family, i wouldnât want to have to come out to them either), i do not empathize with her as half of this relationship iâm supposed to be rooting for.Â
there are definitely quite a few people who have said they feel seen by what harper is going through in not being able to come out to her conservative family and who have liked seeing themselves and their struggle represented in a very real way. and i think thatâs obviously totally valid, and i appreciate that the movie gives voice to those kinds of stories in a way that makes people feel like theyâre seeing themselves on screen.
but this isnât just supposed to be a movie entirely about harper and her struggles with her family. this is billed as a romantic comedy. her relationship with abby should be the central focus of the movie. sure, obviously theyâre hiding a secret so theyâre not just going to be openly making out in front of everyone or whatever, but in the private moments, the quiet moments, the tiny little moments where it should be like, yes, you, i love you and iâm so glad youâre here with me even though this situation is hard, the movie often runs almost the entire opposite direction. even if she feels like she canât choose to come out right now, harper can choose to at least treat abby with the sort of kindness and love that is clearly missing from her family situation. but she doesnât even spend most of the movie treating abby with the level of care that the friend/roommate sheâs supposed to be pretending to be deserves, and so instead, i spent the majority of the movie actively rooting for abby to leave.
now, is there a place for that kind of story? sure. if you want to write a movie about how having to hide who you are is making you push away even the one person youâre supposed to love most, there can certainly be value in that. but thatâs not a romantic comedy; thatâs a different movie entirely.
which brings me to my last point...Â
3.) the fact that itâs marketed as a holiday romcom is terribly misleading. this movie is not a holiday romcom. there is hardly any comedy in the movie (itâs mostly in danâs scenes tbh), even less romance, and certainly very little that iâd consider holiday cheer. yes, as you can tell from the marketing, it has the happy ending you would expect from the genre, but getting there is largely painful and doesnât, in my opinion, feel at all earned.Â
ultimately, i think if you go into it expecting a family drama with a few funny scenes and a sprinkle of a romantic side plot, that will help some. i mean, i basically knew that from seeing what people were saying beforehand and still didnât enjoy the majority of the movie, but i definitely think it helps to temper your expectations if youâre going to watch it.
now, is it worth all that for danâs parts of the story?
his scenes were certainly the most entertaining and likable parts of the movie for me. john is the one thing that i think is exactly what youâd expect from the trailers, and dan is great in the role, of course. and he does give one very lovely, i think very dan speech toward the end of the movie. but is it worth sitting through all the rest to watch his parts? đ€·ââïž only you can really decide that. if what iâve told you above hasnât made you not want to watch, go for it. and if it has, iâm sure that soon enough someone will put together a dan supercut or will just have gifâd all of his scenes, and youâll be able to see just those parts and forget the rest. or if all else fails, put it on and fast forward any time he isnât on screen...
please tell me you all know the only reason he brought back lexa was to take advantage of your passion for her, to boost his viewership, and amplify his chances of getting his shitty prequel green-lit? please tell me you understand that? he used all of us. this is not a win, my dudes. heâs manipulating the lgbtq+ community one last time for his own selfish fucking purpose, and he needs to be called the fuck out on it, not praised. god, iâm literally raging.Â
Listen I hate to be THAT person, but we canât let Jason off the hook for that Clexa BAIT at the end. Because thatâs all it was. Bait. An attempt to calm us, shut us up, make us forget the fact the entire final season and everything about it was trash and out of character. It was Jason going âIâm going to PRETEND to give the Clexa shippers what they want in order to appease them about the fact that I already killed and buried the gay ship and ruined the final season out of pettiness and spite!â
Because that wasnât even Lexa. That was the âJudgeâ or whatever. It took her form because it takes the form of someone the tester loves. Same being that was Abby for Raven. So yes, Clarke truly loved Lexa! WE ALREADY KNEW THAT. But Lexa didnât come back from transcending like Clarkeâs friends because Lexa was already dead. Just like Bellamy, who got murdered by Clarke meaninglessly, couldnât come back to be with her. Or any other person who died before this episode. They are all wherever dead people went before the transcendence. That judge isnât gonna be hanging around in Lexaâs form either, it only came to explain things to Clarke.
So no, we shouldnât cut Jason ANY slack. He didnât even throw us a fucking bone, he threw us a rubber chew toy disguised as a bone hoping we wouldnât remember heâs still a trash show-writer who buried his gays, kills characters out of spite and desire to be âunpredictableâ and made the female lead act out a scene of losing her child not long after the actress herself actually had a fucking miscarriage.
[ID: A series of tweets by @/Jane Prester that read,
âIf you are trapped inside by the smoke and watching your air quality steadily decline- here is somethung you can do right now to make things slightly better.
Get every spare pot/pan/container/bucket you have and fill them halfway with water, place these everywhere in your house you have the space to safely do so. The idea is to create as much watery surface area as possible- the water will gradually absorb smoke particles and clean the air. Itâs small, but if you have enough surface area it can make a *very* meaningful difference over 2-3 hours.
Another thing you can do is run a hot shower until your bathtub is 1/2 filled up- leave the batroom door open. The rush of humidity into your living space will knock many of the smoke particles down onto the floor. (Do this every few hours as needed as needed).
I know how it looks but this set up has kept the air quality in my bedroom basically normal for the past 3 days. Itâs an improvised solution- but itâs one that works surprisingly well and doesnât require much in the way of materials.â
The end of the series of tweets is followed by a picture of many containers of water and a fan, domonstrating the set up described. /END ID]
The filmmakers stated that ICE threatened to subpoena raw footage and âthreatened legal actionâ if scenes that negatively portrayed their policies and actions were not removed.Â
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I LOVE THAT THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIES ARE SUCH A TRAINWRECK I LOVE THAT THEY HAD ALL THE MONEY AND TIME AND POWER IN THE WORLD TO MAKE IT PERFECT AND INSTEAD OF DOING THAT THEY HIRED THE GUY WHO WROTE BATMAN V SUPERMAN
SURE THEY MADE MONEY BUT THATS JUST THE BOX OFFICE
IF THEY WERE GOOD THEY WOULD BE MAKING MONEY 50 YEARS LATER THEY COULD HAVE HAD A CULTURAL PHENOMENON BUT THEY GOT IMPATIENT AND GREEDY AND ALL THEY HAVE TO SHOW FOR IT IS A LARGE BUT EVER-SO-TEMPORARY PAYCHECK AND REYLOS AND NOTHING ELSE
THERE ARE RUMORS THAT THEYRE GOING TO MAKE THE NEW TRILOGY NON-CANON AND TRY AGAIN AS IF THEY DIDNT ALREADY HAVE THE FAILURE HAMMERED INTO THEIR SKULL LIKE A RAILROAD SPIKE
YES! STRUGGLE WORMS! STRUGGLE FOR MY ENTERTAINMENT! STRUGGLE AND KNOW YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH
I LOVE THAT THEYRE NOT EVEN BAD IN A FUN WAY LIKE THE PREQUELS ARE I LOVE THAT THE NEW TRILOGY IS JUST BLOODLESS AND WEAK STRIVING SO HARD TO BE EVERYTHING AND ENDING UP A BLAND WASTE OF TWO HOURS THAT SLIDES OUT OF YOUR MIND LIKE TEPID OATMEAL OFF A PAPER PLATE
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