brave and steely-eyed and morally pure and a bit terrifying… /testimonials /evil /leet .ask? .ask_long?
This overwhelming support of letting people be whoever or whatever they feel like being is a slippery slope
to…? Pray tell, what horrifying precipice shall we tumble from if we - gasp - let people call themselves whatever they damn well please?
Some people might call themselves something silly! Other people might be mildly inconvenienced! Truly, a reign of terror.
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3 months ago · tagged #nothing to add but tags · 103 notes · source: funereal-disease · .permalink
Nothing irritates me more than how undervalued secretaries are. Especially when it gets dismissed as “answering a phone”.
No, being a receptionist is “answering a phone”. A secretary basically coordinates all the information in an office to ensure that everybody has what they need to do all their jobs properly. And occasionally does some bits of those jobs, too. (I’ve done stuff like some aspects of accounts receivable, accounts payable, IT and tech support, sign construction, and stationary and form design, among other weird random things.)
And there’s just so many issues that I get inflicted on me or my mom by the local social services agencies that could easily be solved by them hiring a competent secretary versus forcing their various field agents and other workers to handle their own paperwork and information organization piecemeal.
And yet the secretary is often considered the most expendable person in a place, seen as easily replaceable via foisting the paperwork and information organization onto said separate workers. Which inevitably actually results in all sorts of messes because unsurprisingly your specialists have to spend so much time on their specialized jobs that they often skimp on the behind the scenes organization part. And then they’re missing their appointments, screwing up the customers’ paperwork and information in numerous ways, having the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, and so on.
Seriously, stop it, people. Hire a secretary. We need the work, and trust me, you need us doing that work, because you’re driving us insane as customers with how much your non-secretaries fuck up doing the secretarial work, which then results in them fucking up their work more often.
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3 months ago · tagged #specialization of labour: it exists for a reason #nothing to add but tags · 39 notes · source: jeysiec · .permalink
Etiquette For People Who Aren’t Attracted To Trans Women
On Tumblr there has been a slight flareup of the “is it okay to not be attracted to trans women?” debate. So I have decided to write up an etiquette guide for the “not attracted to trans women” side, in the hopes that we can compromise on “people who are not attracted to trans women continue to exist, stop being such freaking douchebags”. (I am not a trans woman myself, although this is based on…
This just became the official guide for thousands of people.
3 months ago · tagged #yes good #nothing to add but tags · 31 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink
3 months ago · tagged #nothing to add but tags · 14,341 notes · source: fieldofblackbirds · .permalink
cbiscuitblog can you comment
SURE. LET’S TRY THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK
Let us go then, you and I,
- At first, I thought this was just a terrible horse name, but then I thought: this is a racehorse, probably. ALL IT DOES IS GO. 9/10
When the evening is spread out against the sky
- Too much. Any horse named this is going to either read sad books about the fucking ocean all day or build a time machine to go back to the time of cowboys and shit. And then probably get cholera and die. 2/10
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
- FUCKING HEAVY METAL. But the ‘like’ makes it awkward. How would you even announce that? “Like, a patient etherized upon a table is at the gate? Like a patient etherized upon a table is raring to go. It’s a photo finish, but like a patient etherized upon a table won!” Rubbish. 8/10 for making those fucking announcers suffer.
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
- Okay but imagine a racing your horse through the empty streets of london against a fucking RACE CAR. FAST AND FURIOUS 18: THE HORSENING. 7/10
The muttering retreats
- No. No. No. No. No. No. No. The only possible benefit of this name is that it might confuse your opponent racers. YOU DON’T RETREAT IN A RACE. YOU BRAY AS LOUD AS YOU CAN (probably) AND TAKE TO THE FUCKING FIELD. 0/10
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
- I like this one because it rejects the horses lineage. Nah, this isn’t a fucking purebreed, I just put two random horses that were drunk at a bar in a goddamn hotel and watched what happened. Yeah. That’s right. I watched. 9/10
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
- What? I just… that’s not a name. that’s a series of nouns adjectives conjunctions prepositions and punction-things. I do like oyster tho. 5/10
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
- Okay, I like the streets, but tedious? Really? No. Your horse isn’t tedious. All horses are FUCKING RIVETING. 4/10
Of insidious intent
- Yep. 10/10
To lead you to an overwhelming question….
- WHAT QUESTION ARE YOU LEADING ME TO, HORSE? HOW YOU LEARN TO TALK? I DON’T WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU LEARNED TO TALK, HORSE, THERE ARE THINGS MAN WASN’T MEANT TO KNOW. 7/10
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
- This is perfect is you have a fucking weird horse. 8/10
Let us go and make our visit.
- Only really appropriate if you use this horse to go meet up with friends. You’re just sitting with your room and they’ll be like, “I want to go see Jeff, but I don’t know how to get there!” And you’ll be like “LET US GO AND MAKE OUR VISIT” and your horse will buRST THROUGH THE FUCKING DOOR WEARING A FUCKING BEAUTIFUL-ASS CAPE 11/10
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3 months ago · tagged #literally lolworthy #nothing to add but tags · 63,361 notes · source: boosthouse · .permalink
a lot of SJ is weirdly soft on privileged people. like “oh, cis people have to do a continual process of unlearning transphobia overcoming the social conditioning of an entire society! it is so difficult!” no, actually, not being a transphobe is not that hard, it’s just that a lot of cis people don’t do it
i think this is the first time i’ve seen you criticise sj for not being stereotypical sj enough
MOAR STALINZ PLZ!
The hardest thing about not being a transphobe is that I am a trans person myself and still am 100% confused about why certain things/people are being called transphobic.
If even I, a Smol Oppressed Tran, am confused about What Makes Something Transphobic in a fair number of cases, how exactly is Clueless Average CisJoe supposed to tell?
I’m 100% this too
And moreover I have some beliefs/ideas that help describe my trans experience and the experience of some of the people I know, but are VERY LOUDLY AND AGGRESSIVELY denounced as “gross” and “transphobic” by a vast, representative swathe of the internet ~trans community~.
Fuck that.
The way I personally conceive of these things, the OP and the last two reblogs are not necessarily opposed?
Like, I think there is this tension between versions of SJ that tell privileged people to “just listen to marginalized people” and versions that tell them “unlearn your privileges, educate yourself, level up in non-oppressiveness”
I favor the former versions, because they can deal gracefully with the fact that marginalized people don’t actually agree about everything, and because the latter often turns into this never-ending Mundum-like injunction to become more and more “aware,” which leads privileged people to develop very specific beliefs about these issues and connect these beliefs to their self-worth (”I understand these complexities, so I’m possibly not a piece of shit”), and then get angry if and when these models don’t fit reality (”if your experience doesn’t fit my headcanon, then maybe I am a piece of shit”)
I’m not trying to say the problems mentioned by the last two posters are all the fault of cis people – not that I would know – but I do think the spread of these very complex, restrictive, difficult-to-understand versions of concepts is related to some people’s need for an ever-ascending scale of ways to be more “aware.”
4 months ago · tagged #basically this #steel feminism #nothing to add but tags · 134 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink
GANGSTER: i run an illegal gambling operation and i need a tough name for that
CHILD: bookie
GANGSTER: no, see, i’m a tough criminal who -
CHILD: BOOKIE
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4 months ago · tagged #it me #nothing to add but tags #death cw · 769 notes · .permalink
also IMO extremism only comes off as violent because the violence of moderates (e.g. about half of US foreign policy) is aggressively normalized
4 months ago · tagged #nothing to add but tags · 154 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink
“I do not support drafting women and forcing them to be combat soldiers,” Mr. Rubio said.
“the idea that we would draft our daughters, to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close contact – I think is wrong, it is immoral, and if I am president, we ain’t doing it.” said Cruz.
…congratulations? you are 50% of the way to the really really obvious conclusion?
4 months ago · tagged #steel feminism #nothing to add but tags · 251 notes · source: theunitofcaring · .permalink