don’t @ me but growing up gay and closeted there’s this constant feeling of happiness and love being so fundamentally out of reach that when you even see it happen, gays publicly fully happy in their love, there’s a deep yearning and attachment that happens because there right there is irrefutable proof that you deserve to be so thoroughly known and cherished by someone you feel the same about and even with all of the baggage you carry from years of internalized homophobia you can’t help but feel hopeful for that long-term, lived-in, hear-it-in-my-voice, as-long-as-you-both-shall-live, kind of love that seemed so unattainable for so long and it makes my chest hurt in the best way
If u wanna know the difference between culture appropriation vs appreciation? Literally just look at what Angelina Jolie is doing —
Her visit to Pakistan? Everyone remember that?
Oh yeah, and she got a RIDICULOUSLY painful traditional tattoo from Thailand, done by monks like how it’s meant to be done.
And remember when she ate bugs in Cambodia while explaining that when Cambodians were starved of food, they relied on insects?
THIS is cultural appreciation
The difference is if it’s shared. Mass made fake dreamcatchers from china? Appropriation. Dreamcatchers made in-house at a native american couple’s shop? Shared. Purchasing the former is unethical because it has nothing to do with actual native americans. Purchasing the later is ethical because it is made and shared by actual native americans that are purposefully sharing.
It’s clear that this lady is being purposefully involved with people who belong to the culture, and isn’t just wearing a costume for lolz.
it’s so difficult not being able to use milennial humor in a corporate setting. like i made a mistake today and i wanted to tell my supervisor it’s because i suffer from Dumb Bitch Disease, but do you think that would fly?? fuck no. i gotta say shit like, “sorry for the misunderstanding!” i can’t wait till the workforce is made up entirely of millennials and i can say “sorry i drank idiot juice for breakfast this morning” and my coworkers will be like “oh worm.”
i taught my boss the meaning and usage of “yeet” after i accidentally let it slip in the office and a day later he walks up to my desk and says “i just yeeted you an email” with a completely straight face and i nearly bowled over
oh to be a powerful lesbian sorceress living in the snowy evergreen forests of some slavic country, reviled by village elders as a wicked, seductive temptress for spiriting their wives and daughters away to come live with me in my log cabin where we pick berries and mushrooms and roast them with meat over campfires and sleep together on piles of bear and deerskin furs
oh this post is anti TERF btw. my forest sanctuary is trans inclusive and you can die mad about it.
not to be reformist but i just realized requiring employers to treat a commute as time on the job would probably make american cities profoundly more habitable
I am having trouble understanding. Can you, or someone else who knows more about this please provide further explanation?
if employers were paying for commute time (as is standard in several countries), spending less time commuting would be incentivized. cities would be more compact and take less time to traverse than across urban sprawl. i also interpreted it to mean that cities would also have more diverse transportation infrastructure, instead of the heavily-trafficked slog of the freeway. efficient public transport, walkability, etc.
