like the rest of media ]and the world, basically], the ad industry is run by men. so is the beauty industry [the ceo’s of elizabeth arden, l’oreal, ulta, revlon, paul mitchell, nars, the miss universe pageant and several others are men].
men are the driving force behind media that is toxic to women and they are the ones who profit off of it.
on the ground, it may appear that women are the ones doing this to each other. that is a result of internalized misogyny, which women at times perpetuate due to the pressure to perform in a patriarchal society.
but do not think for a moment that women are behind this entire industry. do not think that women are the reason for this, do not think that women profit off of this, and do not think that mothers want this for their daughters.
I keep hearing that women are ‘catty’ to each other but men will openly berate women’s looks and not get called on it.
This is some NEXT LEVEL nerd-ing and I nearly cried reading it.
I don’t get it
Please explain ;_;
There is a star trek TNG episode where Picard encounters a race that doesn’t speak in actual structured sentences but conveys ideas through story parralels. The ones referenced here are “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” - cooperation, “Shaka, when the walls fell” - failure and Temba, his arms wide/open" - signifying a gift.
OK, but here’s what’s awesome/hilarious about this.
The whole point about why communicating with the Tamarians was so frustrating was because all of their communication was contextual. The problem wasn’t that Picard couldn’t understand what words they were saying (the universal translator worked fine) the problem was that he didn’t understand what THOSE WORDS TOGETHER HAD TO DO WITH ANYTHING.
Why is this hilarious/fascinating to me? Because this is essentially what people are doing today with memes. They are posting pictures and writing sentences THAT MAKE NO SENSE WITHOUT PRIOR CONTEXT.
If Picard beamed down right now, and you told him that Data is a cinnamon roll… you are a Tamarian.
“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who will represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?"
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts …
Will not be fully free until all its citizens are free”
Every time I see this, I just picture these two being the people that everyone they know hates... but they end up bonding and move into a condo together and they're best friends because they both hate everything else in the universe.
I love the transphobia in the comments too. ‘MEN DON’T NEED TO UNDERSTAND MENSTRUATION.’
Oh really? How about the dudes who menstruate?
Also ffs, get over it. I don’t need to understand fucking football the way that it should be important for someone to understand the basic biological processes of my body. At least enough to know ‘get this fucking brand, and my wife/enbyfriend tends to have back cramps so she might appreciate the heating pad to put behind her on her chair… ‘
cleolinda: they carry away his literal garbage fires
tamaro606: the most charming man gets the most charming droid, the literal trash manchild gets trash collectors
cleolinda: When that dude was clearly terrified that he was about to be sabered, there was actually a tiny crowd of roombas in the background arguing over who would get to clean up
tamaro606: oh god, they are his darkside Minions
cleolinda: I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
cleolinda: *TANTRUM* “hooray!”
cleolinda: I am going to put all of this on tumblr tomorrow
tamaro606: lol
This is literally what we talk about, like, all the time. We are deep thinkers.
This post made me realise something both important and hilarious.
How come Luke Skywalker became a mythical figure in only thirty years? While he’s still alive and doing stuff?
The best explanation for this is that Luke, as in Mark Hamill, does not fit the image of a traditional hero, the alpha male that turns back time and fixes things, that protects, etc.
In other words, one would believe that Han Solo would be the legend and not the “short for a stormtrooper” Luke Skywalker, who is also so very gentle and friendly.
This can also become hilariously meta, since Luke Skywalker was baptized as “whiny” by the fandom because this is how he was firstly advertised:
UM…
I MEAN…
WHO…
…THE FUCK…
…ARE YOU????
?????????????????????????????
…not THIS kid, lemme tell you.
Luke Skywalker should have been a He-Man type of character, if the original poster was anything to go by.
Kinda like this:
YES, THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE EXPECTED, I SWEAR. THIS WAS THE TYPICAL FANTASY HERO BACK THEN. HE EVEN HAS THE FUCKING HAIRSTYLE WITH THE BLOND HAIR AND EVERYTHING.
SO DAMN ALPHA, CARRYING A SWORD.
THAT’S FUCKING HERCULES AND LUKE SKYWALKER POSES LIKE HIM, JESUS.
But noooope. He “betrayed” the muscular alpha-male type of protagonist that was popular in the terrible fantasy films of the 80s, by being a boy who needed time to evolve and even then, he never became was the audience was used to seeing in the action protagonists. ROTJ Luke is a far cry from anything the 80s spat out in regards of its main heroes and Luke suffered for his differences (but he did become one of the greatest heroes of cinema anyway).
What if the mythical state of his being in TFA is inspired by the same notions the people in the Galaxy far, far away have for someone who is a “hero” and a Jedi, no less. Everyone expects a towering powerhouse and instead it’s average-height Luke, the farmboy-turned-pacifist-Jedi.
It’d be hilarious is Luke could slip amongst people who openly gossiped about him in front of him, because THAT skinny kid? No way he’s THE Luke Skywalker!
To Luke Skywalker, destroyer of toxic masculinity since the 80s. Bless.
I like this. I always figured poor Luke was used to hearing “You’re Luke Skwyalker? I thought you’d be taller” whenever he met a new person.
We’ve spent so much time wondering what Luke might say that we’ve ignored the likelihood Rey’s going to blurt out “I thought you’d be taller.” (Or “I remember you being taller.”)
Another interesting factor is wardrobe. I was talking with a friend who’d complained about the prequels putting all the Jedi in Obi-Wan’s desert robes. He had figured that Obi-Wan only wore that because of the desert, and that Luke’s ROTJ clothes were how Jedi really dressed. Which is a reasonable assumption.
However, since the prequels establish otherwise, we can probably assume that anyone whose heard legends of Jedi would expect an old wise dude in a robe.
So you have Luke wandering around, youngish, big eyed, and in stylishly cut black, and folks aren’t going to put it together. Until of course he acts. And when he does act, it will be in the usual Skywalker over the top fashion.
So no one’s really going to remember the normal dude they saw before hand, they just remember the crazy somersault off the balcony/force choke eight space lizards part of the encounter.
So since they don’t recognize him normally, and only remember the crazy shit, his legend grows exponentially.
…
It does make it really funny that he’s wearing normal Jedi Master robes when he meets with Rey, considering that we’ve never seen him wear them before in movies or supplemental material, and from the sound of it, he’s going back to stylish black…
I think he dressed up specifically to meet her. Aw.
I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”
I’m just imagining this super ripped guy called Brutus being like ‘YESSS!!! I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE FAKE PROSTITUTE!! Now is my time to shine!!’
Let's be honest, once she learns his secret, the only change is that she starts asking herself "How has this ridiculous superhuman disaster not died yet?"
Before she learns about his secret identity, Lois Lane
thinks Clark Kent is a goddamn mess
She goes to his place to work on a joint article and it
takes her like half an hour to find out that Clark lives in an absolutely
nonfunctional house
She has to change a lightbulb but there are no stools, no
sufficiently high chairs, no way of reaching the ceiling unless you find a way
to climb the walls. “How the hell do you change your bulbs?” she asks. Clark
mutters something about misplacing the footstool and helps her drag the table
from the kitchen to the living room.
Lois watches Clark make lasagna and has to physically
restrain him from pulling the tray out of the oven with his bare hands. “Are
you out of your goddamn MIND?” she yells, scrambling to pull him away on time. “What
are you DOING? WHERE ARE THE OVEN MITTS?” and Clark is just like “Right…..oven
mitts…….. I think I lost them with the uh. footstool” both he and Lois pause
for a moment to engage in a riveting game of Mentally Punch Clark
Lois runs into the bathroom to put on a disguise and yells
out, “Where do you keep your razor?” There’s a gust of wind and Clark comes
back with slightly windswept hair. “I got it!” he says with unwarranted
triumph. “It’s right here. The razor I use.” Lois looks at it and it is CLEARLY
recently purchased and never used and she’s just like. I don’t even care
anymore
For weeks she just assumes Clark is missing some crucial
element in his home and starts stacking her own things all over the place. Lois thinking Clark has no clue how to take care of himself while Clark is Eternally Tormented and has to find ways to keep his identity a secret while living in close quarters, and the slow burn mutual pining roommates AU of my dreams begins
Oh my god this is amazingly awesome! Yes please lol
Lol! Omg, yes!!
I literally can’t stop laughing at the lasagna scene, oh my god! LOL
@kookygeekpalace this seems like something that’d be in your fic
“How has this ridiculous human disaster not died yet”
They have a chronic physical or mental illness that causes pain, depression, or other serious symptoms. They don’t have access to medical care, and self-medicate.
Between their low-paying third-shift job, caring for their children, and caring for an older, ailing relative, they average three hours of sleep a night. Uppers help them stay awake at work.
They live in a home where a roommate, significant other, or relative smokes weed frequently. They breathe a lot of secondhand smoke. They would like to move out, but first and last month’s rent is too expensive.
They have a serious addiction. They’d like to stop, but they don’t have access to drug rehab programs that work.
They have an addiction. They are not ready to quit yet.
SNAP benefits can only be used to buy food. Millions of Americans depend on this program to feed themselves and their families. Drug testing is expensive for taxpayers. It is invasive and humiliating for the people on these programs. It is also ineffective. People on public assistance have a much lower rate of drug use than the general population.
If you live in the United States, pleasefind your representative and email them to let them know you oppose H.R. 4540. It only takes a minute.
This is not the way to deal with drug use. Starvation is torture, not a treatment program.
- They live in a state where medical or recreational marijuana is legal, but it’s recently been ruled you can still use a marijuana test to discriminate against/not hire/fire someone who tests positive, since it’s illegal at a federal level still. So maybe they are taking legal marijuana for a chronic condition, or just because it’s legal and they like it more than a beer after work, & lost their job or have kept their job(s) but are now failing the SNAP test.
Isn’t that a fucked up loophole?
Why is it that these bills always ignore the fact that the person receiving SNAP is often not the only person eating?
My mother smoked a lot of pot when I was a kid. It was cheap, she had friends who would provide her with it, she had gone from being a trophy wife to a single mother of three with serious emotional issues, and she was doing physical labor to make ends meet. She was in physical and mental pain. Pot helped. But even without that justification–even if she was just getting high because it was fun–my sisters and I deserved to eat. Saying “sorry, you tested positive” wouldn’t have just starved her. It would have left three little girls who were already food insecure (because SNAP is not enough) starving. How is this a reasonable thing to want to do, as a civilized society? “Sorry, kid, you popped out of the wrong womb and your mother did a drug, so no eggs for you this month.”
Our foster system is overloaded. Taking children away from their families is not the answer. Allowing their families to eat is at least a help.
And yeah, women want white collar jobs too. Go figure - A diverse population of women, with different abilities, interests and levels of education, are all fighting for the right to seek diverse forms of employment. Fighting for equality in one sphere doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about the others.
Just because you aren’t paying attention to the feminist movement doesn’t mean that the feminist movement is nonexistent.
Many jobs such as these (although I don’t know that this is the case for these exactly) have been denied to women based on the idea that doing a particular type of labor or being in a particular environment would be too harmful to women.
And by “too harmful to women” I of course mean “too harmful to their uterus.*”
Like, there was a case back in the… 80s, I think? where some women worked at some sort of factory or plant or something. (I’ll be honest, I don’t remember a lot of the details of this— Google, however, informs me that I was right and it was in the 80s).
Anyway, there were hazardous materials in the plant. And, using laws that were intended to protect pregnant women, the company basically realized, “hey, wait a minute, we don’t need to have any women working here and we can get away with it!” Because, see, hazardous materials like that are bad for fetus.
So the company basically told a bunch of women “you can’t work here anymore because you can have babies and it’s not safe for you.” But, you know, one thing they could do would be to get sterilized, and then they could keep working there. So women did— women who would not otherwise chosen to have been sterilized got sterilized because it was either that or lose the jobs that they desperately needed.
Stuff like this gets ignored all the time. I hear the argument all the time “well women can’t be drafted…” Well, first off, let’s set aside the whole issue of the draft because that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms. But you’re acting like there aren’t any women who would want to volunteer to be in the military. There are plenty. Only lots don’t because they’re discouraged from it or aren’t allowed to serve in the role they want. Or they do join but often leave because of severe sexual harassment and even sexual assault.
Saying that women “don’t want” these jobs is ridiculous on multiple levels— but what it does do is work to affirm the idea of women as illogical, weak, and “naturally” not suited for particular jobs.
*It is important to acknowledge that being a woman =/= having a uterus. However, such associations are made and utilized in this particular discourse (i.e. people equate being a woman with having a uterus, and that gets tied up in the discourse surrounding excluding women from jobs).
