Sharks_dale

Personal blog of Aaron Barksdale / instagram & twitter: @sharks_dale / a reblog is not an endorsement

[whattheforkdude]

please unmute this

[failbag]

I’ve never seen high school musical and now I never need to

[bellygangstaboo]

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[sharksdale]

young person: college should be affordable

evil ass old people: this generation is SO entitled!!! back in my day, when college tuition was like 400% cheaper, we just PAID FOR IT. stupid entitled millennials

[drops-of-clarity]

If I collect enough box tops can I pay for my college tuition with them?

[berniesrevolution]

[makecollegeaffordable]

60% of college dropouts had no help from parents in paying for tuition..lowering college tuition will help change this. 

Picture via College Atlas

[whatwhiteswillneverknow]

[theconcealedweapon]

Conservatives: “Quit mooching off the government and get a job.”

Conservatives: “But don’t expect that job to pay you anywhere near a living wage. If you want a job that pays a living wage, go to college.”

Conservatives: “But don’t expect college to be affordable. And don’t expect to actually be able to get a job after you graduate.”

Conservatives: “And don’t expect hiring managers to be fair. If they intentionally make the hiring process inaccessible to disabled people or if they refuse to hire you because you have a non-white sounding name, then it sucks to be you.”

Conservatives: “Why are poor people still complaining? It’s easy. Just get a job.”

[kumagawa]

lmao the pell grant is losing 3.9 billion in funding under trump, this is so devastating. the pell grant is how a lot of black/brown students can afford college since it pays all mandatory fees, this is a huge failure for cultivating educational futures.

[mayahan]

New Classical Paintings Reimagined as Part of Modern-Day Italian Life by Alexey Kondakov

[kingjaffejoffer]

Kap so real.

[lagonegirl]

Airfordable, a Chicago-based, black-owned startup, is making it easier to afford flights so that you can go on a trip without having to pay a huge lump sum.

The startup allows you to pay for your trip in more affordable installments by submitted a picture of your itinerary and travel plans, and after an initial deposit, you can make payments up to your departure date.

Cofounder and CEO Ama Marfo, a Ghana native, said that she was inspired to create the startup while she was attending Drexel University in Philadelphia.

“We have a lot of students using Airfordable to travel home or for study abroad programs. While other users are planning travel based around life milestones such as destination weddings and family vacations. We are covering just about any travel need you can think of,” Marfo said.

source

Flying is expensive… Seems like a great idea for college students. This can be a good service for people with bad credit and want to travel. The fees might be high, but travel might be the one thing that is worth it. I hope it succeeds. 

Black buying power will reach $1.3 trillion in the next few years, I hope that money will be spent at black-owned businesses. 

#BlackBusiness #BlackUnite 

[madamekay]

this just confirmed that 2017 goals will be accomplished 

[vaspider]

Shit! I really needed this. We pay for flights several times a year for my stepdaughter to visit us.

[lucid-dancing]

@awkblqckguy

[awkblqckguy-deactivated20260202]

Hmm.

[freyjapup-blog]

Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

[mediumsizetex]

Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

[silkktheshocka]

This is so fucked up.

[prokopetz]

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

[taxfrauddotcom]

It gets worse.

Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”

Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.

So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.

And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?

Source: http://www.themarysue.com/warner-bros-animation-girl-market/

[king-ly]

WAIT IS THAT WHY I LOST TOWER FUCKING PREP

[parkistan]

Throwback to this iconic tweet

[perfectlyimp3rf3ct]

Like, your mother wasn’t enough?

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

Like women being humans and that alone should be enough you mean?

[npr]

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me it wasn’t like a negative thing. And what I’ve discovered is for a lot of people it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas … I want to show people it’s not elitist to be a deep thinker.

Sasha Velour, in an interview with NPR

(via npr)

[bellygangstaboo]

“Crying racists” is truly the greatest era of art since the Renaissance.

[thetrippytrip]

I love how this 

 1 - provides no sources for its claims 

2 - infantilizes & demeans homeless ppl 

3 - acts like ppl don’t know what they need

One of my friends was homeless for a few months and it was a very DESPERATE time. Your money DOES save lives and that could easily be you. I really don’t think people realize how fast you can be in that same situation. In her case, her apartment burned down, but so many other… things can happen to you to get you in that situation. And she saw so much cruelty and unkindness during that time. I can’t even imagine.