Just gonna reblog this out of gratitude because I actually did forget…
Fffffffff let me get right on that.
and then reblog for the next forgetful son of a bitch
I’m so great full for everyone that is reblogging this. I totally forgot to take mine
I think that there is some sort of unspoken fairy godparent thing where you see this, realize that you forgot your meds, and rebagel it because if you forgot someone else must have. And in our turn we all take care of each other, even if we don’t know it.
Didn’t realize someone had posted this on Tumblr. Cool.
As exhausting as all the blowback I’ve gotten for this (trans women are remarkable able to unify misogynists and radical feminists in their disgust of us), I’ve been really touched by how many people have reached out to say this argument has changed their mind on the subject.
I’m going to keep talking about it until it stops happening, or trans women cease being murdered for triggering male anxieties.
Hey this is super important. Thanks for having the bravery to say it.
reblog guys this is important
This is one of those things where if it wasn’t so prevalent, it wouldn’t be a big deal, it genuinely would be artistic freedom etc, but because it is the norm, every new instance is terrible.
Which is always a really hard paradigm to explain so someone gets it. But I think, if it could be generally communicated effectively somehow, would lead to a massive drop in pushback against anti-discrimination measures from people who are basically good people but who without a sense of how context matters have a tendency to not take problems that don’t apply to them seriously.
Especially problems that require them to accept responsibility and/or feel bad. Important self-defense mechanisms against people in your life walking all over you by making everything your fault engage in social justice situations, and then it’s just like, goodbye. No conversation here.
Full time work should entitle someone to enough pay for rent, food, bills, and leisure activities. Full time work for a full life wage. You put in your 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? You should be able to afford the basic shit you need in life, no matter where you work.
pisses me off that this is considered a radical statement.
I do agree with this but from economic standpoint if you are working at a job like McDonalds as someone flipping burgers and making fries you are getting paid for the amount of skill needed for the job. But if its any other job that requires you to have an actual skill that you can make a career out of then yeah you should be getting paid enough to live a standard life.
If you work FULL TIME you should be able to afford to fucking live. No, it doesn’t matter if it’s flipping burgers, these people contribute to our fucking economy and they MATTER. They should be allowed to be alive.
Jesus fucking Christ do you people hear yourselves?
People like this are why we can’t move on to issues like reducing how many hours is full time, or working out UBI.
We’re going to need to do that. Most people just don’t know what’s coming down the pipeline, without a major change to the structure of the economy, we’re looking at large scale permanent unemployment, even in the “skilled” labor force.
Also? Making food is a fucking skill. Running a fast food kitchen is a fucking skill. Operating a drive-thru is a goddamn fucking skill.
I do not know how to do these things. I have a masters degree and I have no fucking clue how to operate a deep fryer or make coffee drinks. I’d probably not be very good at it, because that kind of hands-on, fast-paced work is very hard for me.
But thankfully, there are people who are good at it, so I can do my job, and they can do theirs, and we can benefit one another by putting our skills to use in different areas. People who work in fast food are not less deserving of comfort and security in their lives just because their skills aren’t valued like they should be. That is a myth developed to deprive people of rights.
My friend works as a medical assistant and I’ve worked at McDonald’s and Starbucks. You know there’s a lot of things you gotta learn in this typa job?
Like in addition to it being physically demanding (standing up for 4-6 hours straight, carrying heavy ice/coffee, constantly getting burned by boiling water and an oven, a lot of reaching and squatting (like a lot a lot I lost 40 FUCKING pounds in a year okay this job demands a lot from the body)), there are actual skills required. Also your skin splits from using so much antibacterial soap.
Do you know what temperature different foods have to be to prevent contamination? If it’s a “cold” or “hot” plate?? Do You know how long food can be out before bacterial contamination can happen?? Do you know the difference between say 1% and heavy whipping cream? Can you teach a chemistry class using milk????? That’s p much what you gotta learn to be able to do. My friend who works as a medic was surprised, because I do more in my day than they do, and THEY told me that. They were shocked how much I actually do; I am on my feet more, talking to more people, I have a working knowledge of food germs food born illnesses and chemistry, I gotta do the same shit with sterilizing my tools the same exact way a doctor sterilizes theirs. Etc etc.
There’s no such thing as an unskilled job. There are only undervalued skills.
“There’s no such thing as an unskilled job. There are only undervalued skills.”
Okay, let’s brake this down. How long does it take to train someone to work fast food? What are the repercussions of that person fails to do their job?
Now, how long does it take to train a structural engineer? What are the repercussions if they fail at their job?
How long does it take to train a plumber? What are the repercussions if they fail their job?
How long does it take to train a ditch digger? What are the repercussions if they fail their job?
Someone of these things are not like the other, some of these things a little more important then the others.
“If you work full time you deserve a living wage”
No you dont. You deserve to be paid according to the value you bring to the job/company/economy. If you do not want to upskill and increase this value, that is your problem.
Capitalism is inherently immoral, exhibit A.
I still can’t quite fully fathom that there are people out there saying that even if you work a full-time job, you don’t deserve to be paid enough money to survive.
It boggles my brain there are people out there who acknowledge that there are kinds of jobs that are essential for businesses, that there are positions that need to be filled in order for a business to function properly and sanitarily- such as fry cooks and janitors and wait staff- but still hold the position that the people working those positions DON’T DESERVE TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER THEIR BASIC COSTS OF LIVING.
Even if a person moves to a better job, that job still needs to be done. Someone is still going to be hired to do that job. Someone is still going to be in poverty doing that job, even if they are working full-time at it. Someone is still going to need government assistance in order to NOT DIE because that job doesn’t pay them enough money to feed themselves and their family, keep a roof over their heads, and cover the other costs to keep them in reasonable health. So your tax dollars are going to support them instead of their cost of living being covered by the business who employs them because without that support the streets would be full of homeless, starving, desperate people.
Don’t you think that the better way of keeping the streets empty of homeless, starving, desperate people would be to require that minimum wage, which was started SPECIFICALLY to ensure that those doing “unskilled” labor would make enough to live on, pay an amount that allows them to do so? Rather than paying so low it requires additional money from the government to avoid that outcome?
Because I guarantee you, if you think you’d be fine with cutting welfare to people who don’t make enough to live on even though they’re working full-time jobs, the riots that will ensue when those people are forced to find other means to ensure they and their families survive will change your mind pretty quick.
People who are working a full-time job should not be paid so little by their employers that they are living in poverty. End of story.
People who aren’t capable of working a full-time job also need to be taken care of rather than be forced to live in poverty. End of story.
There isn’t a single person out there, even those I despise, who “deserves” to live in poverty conditions.
Nobody deserves to live that way.
That there are those who DO work full-time hours- at grueling, exhausting jobs- and STILL legally get paid so little they’re living in poverty is disgusting, particularly in a society that claims to be as advanced and enlightened as the one we live in.
That you think the people employed in positions you personally undervalue literally don’t deserve to live is pretty gross, too.
…Especially when a lot of aspects of your day-to-day life depend on the people working in those positions doing their jobs, and doing them well.
@pfcanimal
“Okay, let’s brake this down. How long
does it take to train someone to work fast food? What are the
repercussions of that person fails to do their job?”
Challenge fucking ACCEPTED asshole.
So a fast food worker takes anywhere from twenty to thirty hours to train. In that time they have to learn:
How to operate the point-of-sale. This is a LOT of data crunching. They have to know where to find items in a computer interface, usually touchscreen, and fast. I’ve worked with six or eight different point of sales and it’s not easy. Then you’ve got system updates that fuck with your spatial memory of where orders live.
You’ve got to teach them proper sanitary procedures. Where and when to wipe down, and with what. Certain sanitizers will make people VERY sick if they’re not rinsed off of tools, but you must sanitize your tools. Sweeping a floor? Dude can you sweep a fucking fourteen-table floor in ten minutes or less? I can do it in six minutes, if there’s nobody in the dining room, and I can do it with getting the corners too.
They have to know how food borne illnesses work, and how to prevent their spread. They have to maintain temperature for ALL their ingredients. They have to operate very dangerous equipment. (A deep fryer improperly operated can cause third-degree burns or worse.) They have to lift anywhere from 10-50 pound boxes regularly.
They have to learn all of this, usually in the space of four to six shifts.
The repercussions of them failing at this? An outbreak of food borne illness in the working population, the youth population, and the elderly population, because fast food is a universal point of contact for these demographics. Every time you eat a burger, you’re trusting that these people did their job right.
“Now, how long does it take to train a structural engineer? What are the repercussions if they fail at their job?”
Four to eight years degree in field, and that means they’re learning a fuckton of math. These are the people who have to not just understand, but live and breathe their profession. A structural engineer builds roads, bridges, and buildings. Infrastructure is important, and these people keep it running.
If they fail at their job, death and dismemberment may happen, property damage is pretty much a guarantee, and hey guess what, how often is it the structural engineer that takes the fall for that shit?
A shitty structural engineer is someone who does not understand that the people doing the ‘menial’ labor on their construction sites are in fact some of the most important. A more expensive education means that yes, they get paid more, but that does not mean that other peoples labor is devalued by proximity.
How long does it take to train a plumber? What are the repercussions if they fail their job?
About two years. They have to learn the construction codes, the tools, the flow of water in the city. They have to be aware of structural integrity, they have to be aware of materials and costs, and they have to be able to measure multiple pieces accurately. Can you re-plumb a house? A school? Can you replace a septic system, a toilet, a sink?
If these people fail at their jobs, the least of the repercussions is property damage. If they fail on a big enough scale? Oops your water supply is contaminated with sewage.
How long does it take to train a ditch digger? What are the repercussions if they fail their job?
For a really good company: About six to eight weeks. This includes the operation of heavy equipment, safety gear, and reading survey lines.
Ditch digging is heavy labor. Without the proper equipment and oversight of the company (That’s the company being monitored, not the employees) you’re looking at injured people. If you think that risking injury isn’t worth proper pay, then buddy have I got a job for you in the middle east.
Ditches are essential to the drainage systems of a city. Shitty ditches mean that if your drainage system downriver backs up, then you’ve got flooding. If you’ve got a muddy construction site, you’re not gonna get very far. Ditches also serve as micro ecosystems for riparian area fowl and fauna, since we just built on their fucking river.
Also, the people digging these ditches are still people.
Someone of these things are not like the other, some of these things a little more important then the others.
How important is your job, that you feel that anyone not doing the same thing you do isn’t worth human dignity? All of these jobs seem pretty important to me, buddy.
Also: It’s ‘Break’ not ‘Brake’ this down. Go back to fucking grammar school you entitled capitalist-worshiping tool. If you’re making shitty spelling mistakes like that, you can’t be very good at your job.
I’d like to add that, thirty hours is the maximum of time the fast food workers are ALLOWED to learn all these necessities. Just because this is the current standard doesn’t mean it’s the time that should be allocated for teaching – it’s that short because the work is undervalued and a lot of time pressure put onto these people, and moreover fast food companies don’t want to pay for teaching personal so they have to learn on-shift and then swim or sink.
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light and maybe punch a few of these “people deserve poverty” ignorant motherfuckers at the same time.
Anyone who says ‘people deserve poverty’ has a) never worked a minimum-wage job, and b) does not understand how FUCKING IMPORTANT minimum-wage jobs are.
Please stop giving away so much personal information about yourself.
It doesnt seem like it but your blog is visited by hundreds of people with hundreds of different intentions weekly (or hell daily if ur a popular blogger). And posting your height, age, gender, privileges, all of your triggers, gives away a lot of information that you may regret posting later on.
The internet is a very scary place. Full of people who could do you harm with that sort of information.
You all have to understand that nothing on the internet is ever truly deleted or gone. So you REALLY have to be careful about what you post and say.
A lot of you are keen to posting opinions online and as we all know on the internet opinions are going to anger a lot of people.
People could potentially track and harass you. It is a very dangerous world full of messed up people. And as minors you should all be very wary of who you trust online and think twice before you post something. Just posting “please dont follow if youre _____” isnt going to help from that.
ALSO
@ 14 year old side of Tumblr
Please stop posting your skype address.
I know it’s tempting to make new friends. And I know that faceless people are easier to talk to. But it’s dangerous. And we’re not trying to parent or berate you. We just want you to be safe.
Trust me.
Down the road you’re gonna realize you made a lot of dumb mistakes trying to be friends with the world. The world isn’t made of all friendly people. And I truly adore your optimism. I’m the same way.
But I’d rather you learn in a safe setting then after putting yourself in harms way.
Love,
the 21 year old side of Tumblr.
Signal boosting the hell out of this.
Protecting your privacy is a learned skill. It doesn’t come naturally, particularly on a media designed to allow you to connect with others. And we all want to connect with others.
But it’s an important skill. Gain awareness early, make good choices, do not put yourself in a position where days, months, years, or decades down the line someone will use your own data against you.
This is not about stranger danger, this is not about the older tumblr generation “not getting it” and adopting a helicopter parenting approach to their younger tumblr siblings’ online shenanigans.
This is about the older generation having experienced rapid changes in technology first hand and knowing that none of us can know what to expect next, that none of us can predict what uses people, businesses and governments will come up with next for your data.
We don’t know. You don’t know. And in many cases, they don’t know. Yet.
Look up the term “precautionary principle” on Wikipedia and aim to apply it. Protect your data, protect yourself, protect your future self.
For any of my younger followers.
And another big thing. The fact that you mutually follow each other means nothing. By all means talk to people but you’re NOT automatically friends. They’ve done nothing to earn your trust and you don’t know what they actually want. Don’t assume that everyone is automatically good and trustworthy.
I need all of my followers to see this. I don’t want y’all hurt.
as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.
There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared.
Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually.
If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)
“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”
“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”
“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”
“Cool.”
It’s not hard.
You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.
this is a good post.
Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.
Sara Jacobsen, 19, grew up eating family dinners beneath a stunning Native American robe.
Not
that she gave it much thought. Until, that is, her senior year of high
school, when she saw a picture of a strikingly similar robe in an art
history class.
The teacher told the class about how the robe was
used in spiritual ceremonies, Sara Jacobsen said. “I started to wonder
why we have it in our house when we’re not Native American.”
She said she asked her dad a few questions about this robe. Her dad, Bruce Jacobsen, called that an understatement.
“I
felt like I was on the wrong side of a protest rally, with terms like
‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘sacred ceremonial robes’ and ‘completely
inappropriate,’ and terms like that,” he said.
“I got defensive
at first, of course,” he said. “I was like, ‘C’mon, Sara! This is more
of the political stuff you all say these days.’”
But Sara didn’t
back down. “I feel like in our country there are so many things that
white people have taken that are not theirs, and I didn’t want to
continue that pattern in our family,” she said.
The robe had been
a centerpiece in the Jacobsen home. Bruce Jacobsen bought it from a
gallery in Pioneer Square in 1986, when he first moved to Seattle. He
had wanted to find a piece of Native art to express his appreciation of
the region.
The Chilkat robe that hung over the Jacobsen dining room table for years. Credit Courtesy of the Jacobsens
“I just thought it was so beautiful, and it was like nothing I had seen before,” Jacobsen said.
The
robe was a Chilkat robe, or blanket, as it’s also known. They are woven
by the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples of Alaska and British
Columbia and are traditionally made from mountain goat wool. The tribal
or clan origin of this particular 6-foot-long piece was unclear, but it
dated back to around 1900 and was beautifully preserved down to its long
fringe.
“It’s a completely symmetric pattern of geometric
shapes, and also shapes that come from the culture,” like birds,
Jacobsen said. “And then it’s just perfectly made — you can see no seams
in it at all.”
Jacobsen hung the robe on his dining room wall.
After
more needling from Sara, Jacobsen decided to investigate her claims. He
emailed experts at the Burke Museum, which has a huge collection of
Native American art and artifacts.
“I got this eloquent email
back that said, ‘We’re not gonna tell you what to go do,’ but then they
confirmed what Sara said: It was an important ceremonial piece, that it
was usually owned by an entire clan, that it would be passed down
generation to generation, and that it had a ton of cultural significance
to them.“
Jacobsen
says he was a bit disappointed to learn that his daughter was right
about his beloved Chilkat robe. But he and his wife Gretchen now no
longer thought of the robe as theirs. Bruce Jacobsen asked the curators
at the Burke Museum for suggestions of institutions that would do the
Chilkat robe justice. They told him about the Sealaska Heritage
Institute in Juneau.
When Jacobsen emailed, SHI Executive
Director Rosita Worl couldn’t believe the offer. “I was stunned. I was
shocked. I was in awe. And I was so grateful to the Jacobsen family.”
Worl said the robe has a huge monetary value. But that’s not why it’s precious to local tribes.
“It’s
what we call ‘atoow’: a sacred clan object,” she said. “Our beliefs are
that it is imbued with the spirit of not only the craft itself, but
also of our ancestors. We use [Chilkat robes] in our ceremonies when we
are paying respect to our elders. And also it unites us as a people.”
Since
the Jacobsens returned the robe to the institute, Worl said, master
weavers have been examining it and marveling at the handiwork. Chilkat
robes can take a year to make – and hardly anyone still weaves them.
“Our
master artist, Delores Churchill, said it was absolutely a spectacular
robe. The circles were absolutely perfect. So it does have that
importance to us that it could also be used by our younger weavers to
study the art form itself.”
Worl said private collectors hardly ever return anything to her organization. The federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires
museums and other institutions that receive federal funding to
repatriate significant cultural relics to Native tribes. But no such law
exists for private collectors.
Bruce
and Gretchen Jacobsen hold the Chilkat robe they donated to the
Sealaska Heritage Institute as Joe Zuboff, Deisheetaan, sings and drums
and Brian Katzeek (behind robe) dances during the robe’s homecoming
ceremony Saturday, August 26, 2017. Credit NOBU KOCH / SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE
Worl
says the institute is lobbying Congress to improve the chances of
getting more artifacts repatriated. “We are working on a better tax
credit system that would benefit collectors so that they could be
compensated,” she said.
Worl hopes stories like this will encourage people to look differently at the Native art and artifacts they possess.
The Sealaska Heritage Institute welcomed home the Chilkat robe in a two-hour ceremony over the weekend. Bruce and Gretchen Jacobsen traveled to Juneau to celebrate the robe’s homecoming.
Really glad that this is treated as hard hitting news, no really, I am
The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
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