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lynati:

zombieabbyka:

dramalibrarian:

apersnicketylemon:

howprolifeofyou:

purest-rain:

bogleech:

mysharona1987:

Like, you want janitors and McDonald fast food workers and cleaners.

You just don’t want them to make a liveable wage and have healthcare and be treated like proper human beings.  

People who work in an air conditioned office all day sincerely do believe that those jobs are both less important and not as exhausting.

a job being ‘exhausting’ doesn’t make it important, janitors and fast food workers are paid less bc their job doesn’t take any real skill – like basically anyone can do it

not everyone can be a lawyer or a doctor or run a successful business, those people worked hard and learned new skills and gained useful knowledge so their end job would pay more and not be physically exhausting

stop shitting on people who earned a good life because you aren’t being given one for free

ugh

I work in a hospital. It’s also the worst flu season in recent years in my hospital. You know whose job is one of the most crucial for EVERYONE, doctors and medical staff included? Janitors. Go ahead and try to have a safe working environment, ESPECIALLY in the medical field, without them.

Tell me, do you know how to best create a medically safe work environment? Because I sure as fuck don’t, but the janitors do, and they know this while being on their feet and performing manually exhausting tasks for 8+ hours straight surrounded by caustic chemicals.

Same goes for fast food workers. Do you have any idea how much knowledge and physical work goes into working in a kitchen? Wanna tell me you put out grease fires, what temperatures different foods are stored in, and how to keep a safe working environment for both customers and workers in a job surrounded by hot oil, ovens and chemicals? Not to mention, again, being on your feet for 8+ hours in a hot kitchen being yelled at by customers constantly.

I promise you that these people do a more difficult and oftentimes more important job than a large portion of office jobs I’ve been in.

Fun fact: In my neck of the woods, hospital janitorial staff union wanted a pay raise. Their workers were struggling. The hospitals laughed at them, so they went on full strike.

The hospitals were in crisis mode within an HOUR.

Surgical rooms were not being cleaned, toilets and patient rooms were not cleaned, garbage was not picked up, instruments that get reused were not being cleaned (i.e. scalpels, patient beds), laundry wasn’t done, floors were not clean, biohazard waste wasn’t collected.

The hospitals folded the next day and the union got EVERYTHING they asked for.

Now, you may not work in a hospital @purest-rain but wherever you do work, just imagine what might happen if… suddenly no one cleaned. No one picks up the trash in that fancy office. No one vacuums or sweeps, or cleans anything. Nothing. Not the toilets, not the offices. It might take a little longer, but pretty soon, those fancy law-offices look pretty gross, don’t they? Especially the bathrooms. I’ve cleaned bathrooms, I know exactly how disgusting people are when they use a toilet they don’t have to clean.

Stop shitting on low-wage workers just because you don’t understand how important their job actually is. You cannot simultaneously demand a service, while dehumanizing the person who provides you with it, and demanding they not be compensated fairly.

You cannot simultaneously demand a service, while dehumanizing the person who provides you with it, and demanding they not be compensated fairly.

The fact that so many people are getting so defensive about this is disgustingly sad. If you think “anyone can do it” then YOU do it. The job is necessary for your convenience, so fucking be a little more goddamn appreciative.

Also, I suspect those who assume that the only people making poverty-level wages these days would be surprised to learn just how many “skilled” jobs, including those that require college degrees, are part of what we’re discussing.

And that given how many jobs *period* require college degrees, shitting on janitors and fast-food workers and such for not “earning themselves a better life” is synonymous with shitting on anyone who simply *couldn’t afford* to go to college in the first place.

kindbloodedarlanna:

i-eat-men-like-air:

rainnecassidy:

the-punk-prophet:

bogleech:

fandomshateblackpeople:

railroadsoftware:

punkslostintherain:

railroadsoftware:

nypost:

NYU students who back Trump afraid to show their faces. 

“They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.”

good

no, not good. because if we hate them as much as Trump and his supporters hate certain groups, we are no better than they are.

yeah I am

“if you hate these bigots you’re just as bigoted as they are”

This “we’re no better than them” mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.

Hate is not the problem. At all. Hate can be constructive. Hate can be defensive and come from righteous outrage.

The problem is irrational hate towards innocent people.

Hating a racist is COMPLETELY fucking different from hating a race. A whole race didn’t do anything wrong. A racist did. Hating the racist is 100% proportionate, justifiable retaliation.

Fucking. Mic. Drop.

The reason that hate groups like the Klan have been driven so near to extinction is because of this exact thing. It became unfashionable to be publicly racist, and the backlash against those kinds of groups became unbearable for them. It drove them out of the limelight and into the very fringes of society.

This postmodern “hating the hate makes you just as bad” bullshit is what’s allowing them to re-prosper.

Fuck that.

Expose them. Make them lose their friends. Ridicule them in classes. If you can get away with it, beat their asses. Show them what it means that we will not go back to that way of life again. It’s time for the racists to be the ones who live in fear.

Hating bigotry does not a bigot make.

Imma just leave this here

platovevo:

platovevo:

i feel like part of the weirdness with gender on this site is that like…. cis is a useful term and social locator and i want to be clear i’m not denying that but cis women do not relate to gender the way cis men do and people on here kind of know that but also don’t really talk about it which muddies the ideas of both what it means to be cis and what it means to be a woman

a couple people asked for elaboration so this is very cursory, but

womanhood is inherently unpleasant. it’s a social location relative to patriarchy that is constraining and harmful, and while of course there are a multitude of individual experiences that fall under womanhood, i think it’s safe to say that most women, cis or trans, are conscious of some degree of discomfort with it. this runs the gamut from comparatively “minor” things like chafing under compulsory femininity to more overtly harmful things like fearing and/or surviving rape, abuse, intimate partner violence, and so on. women of color specifically are often coercively masculinized and denied their womanhood because much of “femininity” is constructed around whiteness.

and yet there’s often an idea on this site (i almost always see it perpetrated by well-meaning cis people) that all trans people must be miserable in their experience of gender and all cis people must be at worst indifferent to it and at best delighted about it. that’s really just a completely misleading and oversimplified dichotomy, and one of the ways in which it breaks down is that cis women overall are just way more likely than cis men to be unhappy in our experience of gender and alienated from it to some extent, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still in the social position of being cis. (i don’t have time to unpack this as it relates to nb transmisogyny-exempt women.)

this is obviously also harmful to trans people, who then become viewed only in terms of pain and suffering, and are frequently expected to demonstrate how miserable they are in order to access things like medical/legal transition or basic compassion. 

again, this is really bare-bones and it’s not the only way in which the suffering/not suffering dichotomy fails us. for instance, men of color, particularly black men, don’t get afforded “easy” cis manhood or masculinity the way white men do; even cis manhood is not as simple or unified as some people on here think. if cis just meant “completely loves their assigned gender and is never unhappy about it, excluded from it, or forced into it” there would be far fewer cis people. basically, these terms are useful because they convey information about a person’s relation to certain power structures, but sometimes people try to turn them into intrusive psychological evaluations and it’s not effective.