My wife vs. neoliberalism, story includes anti-poor attitudes
we had a good conversation about this last night. She says she's sick of people being asked either to pay for or to give their volunteer work for stuff that should just be paid for as a public good.
She's also someone who has had to trot out the difficulties she grew up with as a poor kid just so some well-paid professional would approve a scholarship for her. She says it's gross the way they do this ritualized feeding off of lower class misery. She calls it emotional vampirism. If the money is there, why humiliate people? Just give it to them.
trilingual twitter joke, +
this is a masterpiece https://twitter.com/FreyjaErlings/status/1184989182034362369
When people use the term snowflake unironically, just remember they're quoting Fight Club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society and become radicalized. and that Tyler Durden isnt the hero but a personification of the main character's deep insecurities, and that his snowflake speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.
@fluxom_alt Get that computer a SKIRT
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own