Poor people have shitty lobbyists
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Jon Stewart (via anticapitalist)
If you had to sum up the entire wage disparity and income inequality argument in a single sentence.
-Joe
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BAD GIRLS TO DO LIST: masturbate in a public washroom, write your name on the wall, spit, laugh at stupid boys and make fun of their appearance, say fuck a lot, piss in alleyways, get in the pit, say NO when you want to, say GOD YES when you want to, be true to yourself, talk about rape, make fun of your boyfriend’s favourite band, dress like a slut, comment on your own body odour, compliment yourself and other girls, stand up for yourself, don’t let people tell you how to live, cause a scene, climb fences, start crying to get out of things, insist that you control the music on your own tape/cd player, sit with your legs open, get drunk, fall over, do anything you want, do what you’re not supposed to do, admit to liking Courtney Love, admit to liking Paris Hilton, roll around in the dirt, climb hills, scream and yell, talk about your period loudly on public transit, support yr fellow badgirls sluts bitches skanks dykes whores but don’t let anyone (even another girl) push you around, love yourself through and through, tell everyone how pretty you think you are, start fights with old men, be pro abortion and loud about it, skip rocks, sleep in a tent, eat a whole cake, sing riot grrrl songs for hours, steal skateboards from boys and give them to girls, make girlmixtapes, play guitar even if you don’t know how, especially if you don’t know, have the sex you want to have, break shit, swear like a sailor, remember that punkrocknroll belongs to you!
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canuckjacq:
Just a blog post about all the bullshit surrounding what Cynthia Nixon said about how she chose to be gay.
Excerpt:
You know, if someone turned to me tomorrow and said, “Hey, great news, Jacq, I can make you straight,” I’d punch their fucking lights out. I’m happy being queer. I’m not very happy with the world around me, but I’m happy with me, and my marriage and my life. Why would I change that? I wouldn’t care if they had empirical evidence of an out and out “cure” for the gay. I don’t want it. I’m making that choice right now. Nothing to do with how I was born. Everything to do with not thinking that being queer is a bad choice to make.
Reblogging for reasons and stuff.
Biological determinism can bite me. Insisting that gay people are “born gay” caters to the idea that no one would choose this, because it’s intrinsically awful. And, of course, no one chooses to be harassed and discriminated against, but what’s so awful about being LGBTQ? Nothing. It doesn’t make you a bad person, you don’t go to hell, and the negative consequences are external, from a fucked up society and power structure. I don’t really think I chose to be queer, but if I did, would that really be so bad?
Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.
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(via thechocolatebrigade)
Sadly, this is a PC version of what you usually hear. “Bitch” or “lesbian” are probably more common than “friend zone”, but the latter response is more insidious, as the people who fall back on that excuse tend to feel self-righteous about it.
(via slaneofthought)
Or “slut” anyway, if she said “yes” to someone else but not you.
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anticapitalist:
Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss
Mass Incarceration in the United States
For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a mere brush, encountered after a kid’s arrest, say. For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones. More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today—perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system—in prison, on probation, or on parole—than were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.
“Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”
Was reading some weird little smarmy thing with too many dick jokes about masturbation in prisons (and how it’s regulated and punished) in Slate. The ways it talked about prison rape were weird. The ways it *didn’t* talk about the racism and classism of the correctional system were appalling.
Anyway, the topic, combined with this post, and the cultural notions we have about black men’s sexuality, form a really disgusting picture of the way we treat poor people and people of color in this country.
“It was never, ever my intention to rely on public assistance in any way,” said Clark, who is black and unmarried with no children.
Clark was recently entertaining a guest in the Bronx apartment she shares with her uncle when the dinner conversation turned to food stamps. The guest emphatically stated that his tax dollars should not feed people who prefer welfare over work.
She asked the guest if he had enjoyed the pasta with homemade pesto sauce. He had. “Do you find me a lazy person?” Clark asked. Not at all, the guest replied.
“Well,” Clark said, “you just ate a dinner that was purchased with food stamps.”
