You know the “fortnite dances” as people are referring to are like, all popular dances from hip hop artists that were taken without credit, acknowledgement, or royalties right?
Black artists specifically
Almost every single one of them were thought of by black people and artists, then fortnite trademarked then without credit. This is literally cultural appropriation.
I dunno if they trademarked them but they ABSOLUTELY monetized them with no royalties paid out. Like I still don’t support bothering little kids over Fortnite dances or whatever the fuck but check this out:
Even the dance that is often classified as THE Fortnite dance was straight up stolen from black actor and performer, Donald Faison. He improvised the dance for an episode of Scrubs in 2006.
That was the genius of compassionate conservatism as party strategy: a small helping of moderate rhetoric at the top never prevented the hardest-right elements in Bush’s party from getting their way on social issues, even as the gentler tone helped woo a broader base of support for the president.
If you think the timing of Trump’s proposed transgender ban–that is, his administration wants to erase transgenderism from the US entirely, to say nothing of your ungendered friends over here–is a coincidence and not a calculated effort to gin up conservative votes in the weeks before they are likely to lose the House and several governorships–
I mean, if you don’t think that, I want to give you the benefit of the doubt–maybe you were too young to notice that this kind of thing works?
This gifset shows how Gabriella gives Ariel a sign name based on her long hair, notice how she use the first letter of Ariel’s name in sign form (letter ‘A’) to ‘write/draw’with both hands the hair of our favorite redhead.
In Deaf culture and sign language, a sign name (or a name sign) is a special sign that is used to uniquely identify a person, just like a name.
Name signs come in all forms. Some are based on the person’s birth name or initials. Some are based on their physical features or personality traits. And other name signs might be based on the person’s interests.
We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.
1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.
2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking
3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.
4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.
5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.
This is not to be contrary, but from a genuine desire to understand… why not take free stuff? The company isn’t making money from it.
For example, McDonald’s is giving out free cheeseburgers on the day scheduled for a strike. Why not go in en masse, demand your free cheeseburger, and overwhelm them with orders that they can’t fulfill quickly. Loudly complain that they should have been prepared for the demand created for such a promotion and ask why more people aren’t on shift right now.
Again, I accept that there may be a flaw in my logic, but can’t see it myself? Help me out?
Companies, especially large multinationals, often give out free products to maintain a stronghold on market shares. When workers strike, their power lies in showing their employer that they can’t operate without them, and that they will lose money and customers if their business doesn’t reach people. When McDonald’s doesn’t give you a free hamburger, they think you will go to Burger King during the strike, get used to it and maybe never come back. Multinationals can afford to move their vast amounts of capital from region to region very easily, and will give away free products to try to limit their loss of customers during a strike. By not taking those products, you helping the workers leverage their only source of power, which they will use to negotiate fair wages, cost of living adjustments, breaks, overtime wage structures, holidays, extended benefits and an equitable grievance structure.
When you don’t engage at all with the company, you are helping these workers have time with their families, pay their rent, have healthcare, and set wage standards across industries. Even better, the less you engage the faster the company will cave, the faster the strike will be over and workers will be back at their jobs pulling a paycheque.
As a butch lesbian, I HATE when ppl call me a stereotype. I CANT be a stereotype Bc I EXIST! A stereotype is a fictional manifestation of conflated ideals abt a specific group of ppl. But I’m not fictional!! I’m in This Bitch!!! Just say u hate lesbians and go!
Also – making a lesbian character butch isn’t a Stereotype either. Making her predatory and obsessed w str8 girls is a stereotype, bc that’s a concept non-lesbians invented. But butch lesbians just exist.
To make a lesbian character butch is actually powerful bc it’s making it undeniable that she’s gay. it’s showing men a woman and saying very clearly “she’s not for you!” And that’s not a lesbian stereotype! That’s a lesbian truth!!!
Non-lesbians can and should reblog
TERFS DONT TOUCH! NONE OF U ARE VALID AND IDC ABT UR OPINIONS!!!
I’m going to establish myself as a writer who never writes straight relationships. Then, one fateful day, I’m going to introduce a straight couple. I will make them the healthiest straight relationship ever without ever saying they are a couple. I’ll keep it subtext most of the time. Still, they will be as well developed as my plethora of gay-ass characters. Then, just after subtext becomes maintext and they’ve finally admitted their feelings for one another and given in to those feelings
ugh 