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my BYF; basically '''pro-shippers'''/'''anti-antis''', terfs, and bigots can fuck off.
A lot of criticism of delivery apps focuses on the fact that they offer convenience and variety, which I find much less compelling than criticizing the fact that the apps often send their contractors on fetch quests from Hell.
There are real labor problems here. Base pay is often insulting. Customer tips carry too much of the burden. Workers need better protections, more transparent algorithms, protection from arbitrary deactivation, and actual recourse when the app or a customer screws them over. Car-dependent delivery is also an environmental and infrastructural problem, though in a denser city I’d still be doing this work; I’d just be doing it by bike.
But when people talk about delivery work, I rarely see them talk to actual delivery workers. I see a lot of abstract arguments about convenience, consumer decadence, “hustle culture,” and internalized neoliberalism. Meanwhile, when I’m out working and waiting in restaurants for orders, the other Dashers I meet are usually people who only speak Spanish, people who read as neurodivergent, visibly physically disabled people, or some combination of the above.
I have not met this mythical Disco Elysium poor ultraliberal hustlegrinder-wannabe people seem to be arguing with. Maybe that archetype exists somewhere. If it exists among any kind of gig worker, it would probably be rideshare drivers. But most of what I see looks less like “rise and grind” and more like “this is one of the few forms of work available to people who need flexibility, low barriers to entry, limited managerial surveillance, or a way to work around language barriers, disability, burnout, chronic illnesses and injuries with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, caregiving, résumé gaps, or discrimination.”
That does not make the current system good. It means the current system is filling a real gap that a lot of supposedly better systems do not even acknowledge.
As a disabled person who is burnout-prone and demand-sensitive, contracting as a delivery driver has given me an unprecedented level of financial flexibility. I can work when I have capacity. I can stop when I’m deteriorating. I can build my day around my actual body instead of being trapped under a manager who thinks “reliable” means “able to perform the same way every day no matter what.” That matters. It does not cancel out the exploitation, but it is also not fake just because it is politically inconvenient.
And delivery itself is not some inherently decadent evil. Sometimes people live alone. Sometimes they are sick. Sometimes they are disabled, exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, overloaded, or recovering from something else - perhaps the stress and fatigue induced by their own job. Sometimes they need medicine, groceries, or a meal that will actually unplug their sinuses instead of whatever generic community-care slop someone thinks they should be grateful for. Humans are allowed to need specificity. “Food” is not the same as “the food I can actually eat right now.”
A serious labor critique would ask how to make delivery work safer, better-paid, less tip-dependent, less car-dependent, less algorithmically punitive, and less precarious. It would ask what kinds of flexible, accessible work should exist for people who cannot thrive in conventional employment. It would ask how cities could support bike delivery, worker cooperatives, public infrastructure, and real protections without simply replacing one bad system with a moral sermon about how nobody should ever want takeout.
But a lot of the discourse does not do that. It treats convenience itself as suspicious. It treats wanting flexible work as false consciousness. It treats the needs of disabled people, immigrants, and other people who can't fit into traditional employment structures as details to be swept aside in favor of a cleaner political image.
I guess the opinions of delivery workers only count when they are politically convenient.
actually pigs shouldn't be at pride even outside of uniform. fuck those guys
if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig
I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.
The sexuality of a police officer is cop.
The gender of a police officer is cop.
When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.
If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.
"why don't trans women do any domestic labor" is right up there with "why do trans women never date each other" in terms of questions that show that you know nothing about trans women. except in this case the idea that trans women don't do domestic labor is instrumental in maintaining the social hierarchy that keeps trans women doing domestic labor. the idea that trans women are male-socialized and therefore predisposed to exploit the domestic labor of people who are female-socialized keeps trans women in the insecure position of having to prove themselves by taking on historically feminine domestic roles. the reification of economic feminist analysis into biological/socially-essential categories presents the perfect opportunity for tme partners & roommates to benefit from exactly the type of economic exploitation being criticized.
I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀
if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old
"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane
one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."
the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."
you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"
#and its like. 'what if ive decided its comfortable to be in the box' it is always going to be more comfortable to be in the box #they will reward you for staying in the box and punish you for trying to leave it #that doesnt mean the box is like. a good place to be — @butchfaith
not to sound like a crazy sjw but parents putting little girls in frilly dresses/lavish clothes and telling them not to run, climb, play in dirt, etc lest they ruin their outfits or somebody look up their skirts is one of the most direct ways we as a society teach girls that they are only ornamental and cut their childhoods short
This is excellent but I would like to add: schools with uniforms for the kids usually require girls to wear dresses/skirts. So not only are kids getting that sort of message from their homes, they’re also learning it at an institutionalized level at school.
thank you fantastic addition!!
i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.
ID: digital art of two women riding a bike. one is pedalling, the other is standing on the back with her arms on the other's shoulders. the bike's basket is filled with colourful followers, and there are butterflies flying behind the bike. end ID.
ID: screencap from Taskmaster series 5, in the studio. Bob Mortimer asks "Have you ever seen or eaten a wind-dried puffin?" end ID.
Taskmaster S16E02
ID: eight gifs from Taskmaster series 16, in the studio. Greg says "I hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd take this opportunity to quickly answer some questions from the general public. Here we go.
Do I watch the show back? No, my physical decline is upsetting to me. Do I wear these socks by choice? No I don't. It's a novelty format point forced on me by those more excited by contrived board eccentricity.
Three: Is Alex actually tall? No, he's just over five foot. Four: Why do I keep insulting him? Because he's had a soft upbringing and it has made him weak." end ID.
ID: three gifs from Taskmaster series 16. Lucy Beaumount pulls a sword from a stone, then asks "In the legend, what did he do once he had the sword?" off-screen, Alex says "He ended up throwing it in a lake."
Lucy jogs over to the bathtub, throws the sword in, then jogs away. end ID.
ID: screenshot from Taskmaster series 5, in the studio. Bob Mortimer is saying "I personally think they should reverse the toilet." Aisling and Mark are looking mildly baffled, Sally is laughing, and Nish is doubled over in laughter. end ID.
What's today's category, please? They've had to bring in the most narcissistic thing.
ID: ten gifs from Taskmaster series 10.
Greg: "What's today's category, please?"
Alex "They've had to bring in the most narcissistic thing."
Mawaan Rizan: "When I was 16, I made a shrine of myself."
Greg: "Okay, we've got a give pointer."
Mawaan: "Basically, we had Hindu landlords and they had a whole temple in their house. I went to my Muslim mum, I was like "Can I make a temple?" She was like, "No, you can't picturize God." So I was like, "Who's next in line from God?" So I made a shrine to myself."
on screen is a collage of various pictures of a young Mawaan.
Mawaan: "It's a lot of me. That's me on my shoulder."
Greg: "And what else was in your shrine?"
Mawaan: "Like, a little candle and stuff that would light."
Greg: "You would sometimes look at a shrine of yourself, by candlelight?"
Mawaan: "We've all been there." end ID.
ID: four screenshots from Taskmaster series 5.
Nish Kumar, entering the lab: "Hi Alex, what's up?"
Alex: "What you do mean?"
Nish: "What's going on with your life?"
Alex: "Oh, we're doing Taskmaster."
Nish: "Oh, yeah." end ID.
ID: screenshot from Taskmaster series 5. Nish Kumar, standing in the corridor of the Taskmaster house while protectively holding a candle, yells "Oh, you bubbly fuck!" end ID.