fandomshatepeopleofcolor:

Why write 15 page essays about “forced diversity”, “pandering” or “the sjws taking over media” when you can just say that you dont think women, POC, lgbtqa and disabled people are real people and the reminder of their existence and them being shown as having real feelings, emotions and their own individual experiences goes against your cis/white/straight/male and able bodied outlook of the world and go

solacekames:

rush-keating:

I think the reason why Sorry to Bother You works in a way movies like Wall Street and Wolf of Wall Street didn’t in the whole “being a rich asshole is bad” message is that it:

– Presents a clear alternative to that message, shows why that alternative is better than being a rich asshole, and gives the protagonist a reason to work toward it that is genuine instead of just hollow moralizing.

– Doesn’t put that much focus on the “lifestyle” of being a rich asshole. There is an orgy scene (CW for that if you’re sex-repulsed btw) but there’s like one tit max from that which isn’t blurred out. Also the cocaine-use is definitely not glamorized. Instead it puts way more focus on the regular everyday characters and what regular everyday people can achieve just by being themselves.

For this reason, I honestly don’t think this movie is that similar to those movies despite the comparisons of it to them.

I don’t think of movies like Wall Street as anti-capitalist at all. They just use capitalism as a backdrop to tell a fairly standard tragic individual-centered story. That backdrop might as well be a crime family or a war—it’s the same kind of static relationship of individual to environment, and the environment never really changes, it just serves as a convenient source for conflict. 

Whereas Sorry to Bother You was squarely anti-capitalist because it centered on individual and collective resistance.

Yeah I dont think those movies are either but it doesn’t stop critics from comparing Sorry to Bother You to those movies. I’m also relieved that, even if Riley was approaching his movie from a socialist angle instead of a capitalist one, he didnt fall back on some of the same tropes used in the above movies because they are tropes. He created something truly unique.

blame-my-muses:

goawfma:

this is an insult

I once applied and interviewed at a bookstore cafe for a barista position. It was way closer to my home, and I had almost a decade of experience working in a coffee shop at that point. 

Got to the interview, and it turned out they didn’t want a barista, they wanted someone to spearhead their new cafe, as the cafe that had been in the store before didn’t want to resign their lease with the bookshop. They wanted to put their own cafe in its place, all new menus etc. They needed someone experienced to train their new staff, to handle window displays, to communicate with the bookstore owners about changes and needs of the cafe, to be able to handle inventory and ordering.

Okay, I had basically done most of that stuff at my previous job. I asked if cafe positions would also be required/trained to work the bookstore.

They would. They would be required to run the book sale counter, stock and reshelf books, and help bookshop customers find things. They would also–despite having an outside cleaning company–have to help maintain bathroom cleanliness. They’d have to take out trash, and clean spills, and vacuum. 

Wow, that’s a lot, I said. Is this a manager’s position, then?

No, I was told, it wasn’t, but there was a chance that after a training period it might become one. And that made me pause, because I’d been working as the front-of-house manager at my cafe, and I knew how much work that entailed, and what kind of money I was making, and it was only the commute that had me looking for a new job.

So I asked what the job paid.

$8. E I G H T  D O L L A R S. Per hour. Barely above minimum. For all of that work. For someone they expected to get an entirely new cafe up and running, and then also do the work of the bookstore and the cleaning company as well. 

I thanked the woman for the interview, said I’d have to talk to my significant other about the impact a four dollar pay cut would have on our finances, and that I wasn’t sure it was the job for me. She asked me to sleep on it, and she’d call me the next day. 

This is a job I was way more than qualified for. I had years of experience doing exactly the things they wanted. It was a convenient location, close to my home–I could walk there if I absolutely had to. I did not go home and talk about that four dollar pay cut and what it would do to our finances. I knew as soon as she told me that not only was it not feasible for us, it was downright insulting. That little money? For a frankly ridiculous list of responsibilities and expectations?

She called back the next day. I thanked her again, and told her in no uncertain terms that my time was worth way more than what they were offering.

And whenever people bitch about Millennials being lazy, not spending money, not buying houses…whatever the complaint of the month is…I think about the very nice lady who conducted this interview, and how confused she was that I didn’t want the job. 

bonestrewn:

when i was younger i kinda found it embarrassing that i liked older women and i felt kinda defensive about it but now that i’m slightly less young i think it’s actually a part of my Gayness that i think i should appreciate? like, you look at straight men and to them women might as well be fucken dead after 30 or 35. but to lesbians women don’t have an expiration date. the qualities of age that repulse straight men as a sign of women’s experience and maturity are attractive to lesbians because we value women’s experiences.

myautisticpov:

downthegenderriver:

autspoon:

myautisticpov:

Maybe I’m just too wary of police… But I gotta say, good intentions aside, the idea of a police database of autistic people is… Not one that I’m comfortable with?

But it’s apparently an initiative quite a few UK autism orgs are working on…

There should never be a database like that of any group of people… There is nothing stopping it from being misused if society takes a huge political shift. Like, I think this can even be abused by officers in the current system.

Who suggested a police database of autistic people?

The org “Autism Hampshire” had one under the title “Autism Passport”, but they redid their website literally last week (in between days I was collecting data for my dissertation, I thought I was losing the plot) and all mention of it has been removed. The page is available through the Wayback Machine, however, and reads:

“The Autism Alert Programme launched the Autism Passport on the 21 April 2011 in addition to the Alert Card and Alert Car Sticker. Autism Hampshire with the agreement of the individual with Autism or their parent if under 16 are able to create a passport for them.  The Passport will be placed onto the Hampshire Constabulary’s Safety Net System and will allow Criminal Justice System professionals access to information and strategies to support the individual.  The creation of a passport will enable organisations and professionals to identify the communication needs of an individual and to improve the service received by victims and witnesses and to ensure that those within the criminal justice system are dealt with in an appropriate manner. Our partners involved in this are the Police, Police Authority, HMCS (Magistrates), DutySolicitors, Youth Offending Team, HM Prison Winchester and Probation.”

I wrote this post after further data collection found that the org “Autism Sussex” had a similar scheme:

“This card is promoted and delivered by Sussex Police. Anyone who has a disability that makes it hard to communicate can register for a Pegasus card. When produced, the card and/or unique PIN number will inform any Officer that this individual needs additional help. The nature of the person’s communication problem, i.e. autism, can be obtained via a police radio call giving access to a secure database. The Officer is given relevant information that may enable reasonable adjustments be made at all stages of the investigation. This may well impact at an early stage on the eventual outcome. The database also holds contact details of two people, who know that person well, e.g. family members or carers. These contacts can act as an “appropriate adult” if not directly involved in the investigation. In the case of an individual with autism, people who know them well are likely to offer the best support.”

And, like, yeah, as I said in the original post, this all seems well-intentioned, and maybe I’m just paranoid, but I don’t think that you can escape the end result of these projects: The police having a database of members of an oppressed, minority group.

What type of liberal bullshit is this???