like feminist is not an identity. feminism is an ideology and our ultimate goal is women’s liberation, and feminist can describe people who believe in this ideology and work to accomplish its goals. i feel like maybe if people would stop using it as an identity label, it would be easier to accept that sometimes individual actions aren’t feminist because they don’t do anything to move us closer to liberation and that’s okay. your life doesn’t have to revolve around the singular goal of women’s liberation. that would be fucking exhausting.
I’m loving the “well now i will discriminate against homophobes!” responses but I think there’s a disconnect around how nasty small town politics works (the jikes are still funny fyi keep making them, they are not in any way bad). The store owners in shitty small towns know they legally can’t refuse service, so they maintain a paper thin plausible deniability by not saying it, but dragging their feet and being hostile if you try to shop or eat at their establishment or use their service. They make it unpleasant but rarely impossible. Often this is still enough to run people out of town and make living there too difficult. Now, they have been given the go ahead to go nuts. They can post “no service for x” signs. They (think they) can call the law. They can just tell anyone they think is associated with lgbtq people to leave or else instead of pretending that all the waiters are busy. The tow truck driver knows he is allowed to leave you on the side of the road now. It’s going to be taken as a mandate, and a lot of people who were hanging in but not having fun are going to find it impossible to live where they have been living. I think it’s fine and funny to try to make that true for bigots in more accepting areas too, but this is going to be hell on small town America.
There is this tension where there will always be a person for whom what is generally a convenience or luxury is a need, but everyone treating that thing as a personal necessity when it isn’t is not sustainable or prosocial, and because we live in a culture that values convenience above almost everything, it’s difficult to ensure it’s easy for people who do need the thing to get it while also making sure it’s not exploited to the detriment of the environment and human society. And the answer is to completely reform the culture but can that be done in a timely manner. See.
I have had my pronounciation of where I am from corrected by pretentious weirdos so many times too like y'all shut the hell up
The saving grace of summer and it’s armpit weather has always been that i can breathe just fine, no allergies, no asthma, for like 3 months. But now it’s as difficult to safely do anything as it is in winter when it’s like 2 degrees. Hate it.
it’s so so so true that men, especially middle aged white men, are the most likely demographic to throw a tantrum at customer service workers, especially if those workers are women. and it’s also so so so true that their tantrums are often actually dangerous and violent rather than just annoying. and even when they are miraculously happy with the service, they’ll still sexually harass you or otherwise act inappropriately so often. but when men act out of pocket people just shrug their shoulders and tell you to accept that “this is just how they are”, or blame you for it.
in every single customer service job i’ve worked, the vast majority of problem customers were men, despite how invested the internet is in pretending otherwise. but women are a much easier target for a lot of reasons, especially if it involves a convenient excuse for bogstandard misogyny, so g-d forbid we ever actually talk about it. :)))))
More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.
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