Taming Wild

Twenty Two. I might be a slave to Capitalism, but in my mind, I'm fighting, biting, and clawing every second. Until then, I'll be taming wild to keep my job.

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Still Slavery, but Fun-Fun Sillytime

They should mail you balloons whenever you make a student loan payment, and/or a button. It would make economic slavery seem so much less daunting. And plus, with all the buttons, you could open up a button store and sell the buttons to those who didn't pay their loans, thus perpetuating their debt, but decreasing yours. Provided the market for student loan payment buttons is as booming as statistics show...

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Shit My Brazilian Boyfriend Says In English

I love my baby, meu gostoso, ALL the way. But fuck all if he doesn't say the darnedest things in English! He is learning, and he is much better in English than I am at Portuguese, but still--I can't help it! I'm a hater and my baby is a damn right comedian with every cute grammatical mistake!!

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Baby, it's so cold... I'm turning to rice. (Ice)

Baby, I argued with the girl at work and she told me to grow a pear! Why I gonna grow a pear for?! And in this weather the pear tree cannot even survive! (Grow a pair)

.... Those new shoes are yours? The ones you posted on Facebook? .... They are so ungly. I cannot believe you can wear them outside! (Ugly)

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I am teasing my boyfriend, but that doesn't mean you can! :P No malice intended to other Portuguese speakers learning English, because he teases me the same way in Portuguese!

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Nipples and Nipple Holes

Theoretically, everyone has nipples. But does everyone who has nipples also have nipple holes? Do men have nipple holes? And if someone does not have nipples, do they still have the holes? Just curious.

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Judging without Context

DISCLAIMER: I'm whining right now. If you don't care for it, move on. If you read and complain about my whining, move on even faster. And don't say "don't whine; do something", because I am doing something.

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I am an artist. I put myself into my work. I direct all of my energy into everything I do. And it does not become my work, but just work. It is divorced from me when I decide I am finished--when the process of creation is over. But don't you DARE see just look at it and take to the my inbox, telling me that what I did was offensive because you saw the word "pussy."

Yes, I called men pussies, but if you read the work, you would know that I am likening men to big cats--lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and kittens. Yes, I used "pussy" because it gets attention, but the point is for you to take that attention and READ the piece, not see the title and decide it's derogatory toward women. The piece is a deconstructive essay, and to be completely honest, it is examining men in a way that they are usually never examined. It takes a hold of the gender binary and flips it, allowing sexually disenfranchised (women and gay men) to pick apart the "more powerful sexual agents" and turn them into two dimensional pieces to be easily consumed.

Of course, there is more work to be done and it isn't completely finished, but seriously, you only saw the poster. You didn't read the whole thing. Piss off.

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Chicago.

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What's a man to a great man? What's a great man to a king?

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I'm still a product of my society in some ways.

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You Think I'm So Cool... BUT I'M NOOOOTT!!

I'm not cool or thrifty.. I just buy clothes I like from the second-hand store because I'm too poor to buy them first-hand at the fancy stores.

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Our liberation is intersectional, intergenerational, queer & trans-inclusive.

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Sometimes you just have to shine...

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The religious idea of god cannot do full duty for the metaphyaical infinity

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I went to a prestigious college. Thanks to loans, I am now poorer than my non-college friends who work at Arby's. Sure, the credentials will land me an amazing job, and name-dropping my school will get my foot into doors that others could only dream about.

But I don't want to perpetuate a society of consumerism kept rolling by a constant desire of want, want, want... I just want to be free.

Call me a little whiny hipster who doesn't know anything if you want, but I know that life is more than running on a wheel to keep in rotation an oppressive system that will take from me much more than I am willing, or comfortably able to give.

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And sometimes.....

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Why I Created this Blog...

I cry.

I cry that embarrassing tearless dry-heave-sob that you can only hear if the walls are thin and the cat's being quiet for the first time.

How is it that I work as a marketer?

This is such an irony.....

I'm an artist and a writer... I'm good at wrapping lies in pretty packages.

People don't need the shit I sell; I only believe in maybe 10% of the artists that come through into our warehouse.

"Driving up sales" is the topic of the next team meeting we're having tomorrow.

School has taught me to look at it as a challenge; I see it all as a game. Get more praise if I get the answers right; AND I FUCKING LOVE GETTING ANSWERS THE FUCK RIGHT!

But anyway, I'm in the middle of totally downsizing. Loans, rent, bills, and escapsim... I need austerity. The time to be a child is completely over; as a marketer whose job it is to appeal to the childish impulsiveness of customers, I personally cannot afford to succumb to the same techniques I employ to promote the economic slavery I am against for myself...

So I created this blog to help tame the dissonance of having an anti-late capitalism consumerism value set and a job that is literally the exact opposite of that.

UGH!

[thisisprivilegeprivilege]

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My privilege brings all the boys to the yard and they're like, it's more privileged than yours.

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Wage slavery refers to a situation perceived as quasi-voluntary slavery, where a person's livelihood depends on wages, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. It is a negatively connoted term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor; highlighting unequal distributions of behavioral enrichment by focusing on similarities between owning and employing a person. The term wage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops), and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy. The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their "species character" not only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution.

Wage Slavery | Wikipedia

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I feel like this quite often...