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wikilifeadvice

make your own foot scrub

pochowek

feet are pretty hard to make

dont call me a scrub ever again

wikilifeadvice

please stop making me read this

pathologising

can we kiss please please please I promise you I won't poison you again please

gh2ir

delirious--mistakes

silentwalrus1

shirkers2018dirsanditan

the way people log on and boldly defend prostitution is straight up insane. imagine its 1855 and people are saying we should abolish slavery and you’re like, but some people don’t mind being slaves, some people get paid! how can you criticize slavery when you offer unpaid apprenticeships?

cam1lla

where is that post that was like “if tumblr existed in the 1800s people would call abolitionists ablest because they ‘can’t work on their own’ and ‘need’ their slaves”

shirkers2018dirsanditan

SKDK IVE NEVER SEEN THAT

vacuously-true

Hey tumblr friends, in case I haven't told you lately, I have no idea what the FUCK half of you are on about and I WISH I didn't know what the rest of you are on about. Great work. Keep it up.

nudityandnerdery

drasticemotions

My last 3 brain cells bopping to the 1975 at 3am be like:

iliveinnowhere

mysharona1987

obiwankenobii

Unskilled means requiring no training. It’s an objective statement that doesn’t have a negative connotation. An unskilled job is poorly paid because it can be done by anyone without any special skills.

orwellsunderpants

There are no jobs that require no training. There are no jobs that require no skills.

I worked as a dishwasher at a dorm kitchen when I was in college. Dishwashing is usually called an “unskilled” job, but someone had to train me to load the machine, how to run it, and what to do with the plates and things when they were clean, and I needed to learn how to do this efficiently so that the kitchen didn’t run out of plates during mealtimes. All of those things were skills I had to learn.

I worked on a sandwich line for a summer when I was in college. Food service is usually called an “unskilled” job, but someone had to train me how to make the sandwiches, how to prepare the salads, and how to prepare the desserts. I had to learn how to work with the folks in the prep kitchen, with the wait staff, and with the other people on my line. I had to be trained how to open and close, because sometimes I would get those shifts. I had to learn how to work quickly and efficiently so that our customers would get their meals in a timely manner, and so that everything was prepped and clean for the next shift. All of those things were skills I had to learn.

That whole “special skills” thing? It’s classist and probably racist.

Unskilled jobs are poorly paid because the employers can get away with it, and that’s pretty much the whole reason. They are permitted by our capitalist society to exploit workers, especially those workers who are most disadvantaged.

“Unskilled” workers make our food, take care of our kids and our elders, stock our grocery store shelves, clean the spaces we use, and do hundreds of other things that make our lives easier. “Unskilled” jobs require a fuckton of physical labor. Don’t those things merit good compensation?

Every job requires skills, every job requires training. And every job should be respected and have dignity, and should pay people enough to live on, and then some.

ladythatsmyskull

Look how fast the world economy crashed once the ‘unskilled’ labor had to stay home in the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic.

moonybyte

“Unskilled” simply means “you are expected to figure out how this works in less than a day” instead of “no worries, we teach you over 3 years how to use excel and a copy machine”.

When I sorted bills for my university, I got paid really well cause while I was only part-time, the job itself is not deemed “unskilled”. Despite me literally just sorting stuff by numbers. Look at a number, put it between other numbers. All day every day. I even was allowed to have as much coffee and tea as I liked from the office kitchen for free.

When I worked for Subway for a month, I had to learn within 2 hours:

exactly where and how to cut the bread to make both sides equal

what sauce to recommend with what topping

how much topping to scoop per half

what all the breads, toppings and stuff are called and being able to rattle them down on command

how to use three different vegetable cutters

how to use their oven (that thing has like 9 buttons that all do different shit and none of the buttons got ANY symbol or word on it, all are just black)

what the day’s special was for every day

what the price for stuff was without looking at the sign or being at the cash register

when to change the gloves (all the time, for every little shit)

I also had to go to a 2 hour food sanitary training before hand to give me a certificate so I was even allowed to work at Subways.

The fact that I got paid much better for doing stuff that some simple AI could do in triple the time is obnoxious. The fact that people think that if my full-time job would be “working in an university office” would be prestigious while a full-time job as a sandwich maker is “uneducated” is disgusting.

just-stop

godh8er-deactivated20220626

the hunger is insatiable and ever-expanding: the more you feed it, the bigger and more encompassing it gets.

avicecaro

if they can’t say fuck on tv they shouldn’t be able to say bitch or slut either. if your kid starts saying fuck it means they picked up a funny word that shows strong emotion. if your kid starts saying bitch and slut it means they’ve already learned it’s okay to call women these things. which is really worse?

vulvaluv

literally i hate when i hear a song on the radio and it bleeps out “shit”, “fuck”, or even “PISS”; but not “bitch” or “whore” or “slut”

guerrillatech

pisshandkerchief-deactivated202

Holy shit that's so cool

saint-laurel

Do you love the color of the sky speedrun

seranavolkirad

Tan France is BUYING A BABY

lasdelaintuicion

Disgusting

jolakottinnn

he's done it before, he even talks about it in one of the episodes of queer eye, when he was talking to another gay kid: "don't worry you won't have biological children yourself, we got a wonderful surrogate! :)"

nah, Tan, you bought a baby and exploited the reproductive abilities of a woman bc u believe you are entitled to a child and to the labor of women (yeah even if you're gay), and you're doing it again... also that fucking photo... as if the child is his lol, fuck off, male.

magnetictapedatastorage

Almost every day I think about how if you raised a daughter exactly, precisely like a son, it would be seen as vaguely progressive, but raising a son exactly, precisely like a daughter would be seen as sexual abuse.

magnetictapedatastorage

Imagine a 12 year old boy being taught to shave his legs.

magnetictapedatastorage

I’m using this specific example because it only seems abusive when applied to boys. For girls, you could say “Well, it’s annoying, it’s unfeminist, but it’s not abusive because it’s not abnormal. We’ve all been there. It could be worse.” The problem is that something being common or ‘not as bad as it could be’ does not make it right. That’s why what is “annoying” or “discouraging” for a girl seems “horrifying” or “abusive” for a boy.

It’s shockingly un-shocking to teach a child, a non-teenager, to remove the hair from her legs. But for boys, it screams “pedophillic grooming”, brings to mind a nauseating image of a pre-teen boy with no idea what he is doing or why it is deemed necessary, it creates the idea of a leering adult who simply wants the boy to look prepubescent. There is no normalization to hide behind. By doing this to a human being (that is, a boy) we defamiliarize it, unmask it, and can finally begin to understand how deeply sick girlhood is.

subaruseventhsister

I hate that my brain still defaults to feeling a horrified sympathy for this hypothetical boy, because it’s a sympathy that I’ve been made to forget to feel for living girls. And that’s despite the fact I talk and think about this problem all the time. That’s despite the fact I haven’t shaved for years.

Being raised a girl is a deadening of all the instincts that protect your sense of being alive and human for yourself.