Is “stuff designed to make you wonder if you’re having a stroke” the new meme?
Day: February 5, 2018
Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money.
Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death.
Absolutely. And this idea that people should live up to some sort of predetermined standard you have is really uncool – there is no standard for if people should be allowed to be alive.
You shouldn’t give anything because you expect a result, you should give because it’s a basic human value to nurture other souls and foster community.
I always like to offer them food first and if they don’t take it, they’re scammers. If they take the slightly smushed cereal bar from the bottom of my purse, they’re probably really homeless and I give them what change I have. Unfortunately some people pretend to be homeless to take advantage of the goodness of others hearts.
Wow you’re a real do gooder. Total hero. People who can’t eat cereal bars don’t exist. Homeless people are not allowed to need anything besides cereal bars. Everyone knows homelessness cures allergies and food intolerances too!
Do you know how regularly I turned down food when I was homeless bc people were offering me endless amounts of food and is had enough to eat!!! I didn’t want anymore fucking food because you are one of some billion people pulling this shit all the time!!! But shockingly, a lot of the time I wanted fucking tampons or a bed to sleep in that night or enough money on my tram ticket to get to my psych appointments/volunteer job/work
Like you aren’t filtering out any “fakers” lmao trust me there are way less people “faking” homelessness than everyone likes to make you think (and yes, some people begging aren’t homeless, they might have somewhere to live but no money to pay for literally anything else they need!!! And no way to make that money!!!! So yeah sometimes people begging on the street are just there bc they need to make money and unless they literally say “this is where I’m sleeping tonight” they aren’t lying or faking shit and if they are its probably because they??? Have to???? Because otherwise assholes like you think they don’t deserve any support??????? But 90% of what you’re accomplishing is just deciding who you think is Worth autonomy and Worth support and Worth things that are basic fucking human rights.
Okay but I have a question because hrowing up I was always told not to give homeless people money because theres the chance that they could use it to buy drugs or alcohol instead of something they need. Now Ive never really bought into this idea because mostly whats its doing is blaming homeless people for their homelessness which is awful but I’ve always just been conditioned to be scared to give monry because of this concern and told that tiving toiletries like tampons and other necessary items and food is better. Is this something I shouldnt worry about? Instead of putting together bags of toiletries for when I see homeless people should I instead just offer money?
Yes. Homeless people are sentient human beings capable of making their own decisions.
Bringing this back around because it’s really cold out there so please give money to homeless people if you have it.
give homeless people money, the myth that homeless people have to be forced to make the right decisions was begun bc lawmakers wanted voters believing that homeless life was cheery and pleasant and it was only Those Degenerates suffering due to their own bad choices BC THEY DIDN’T WANT TO INVEST IN FIXES THAT WOULD MAINLY HELP THE POOR, and you now fucking stupidly believe it’s “common sense” that people are not coping with pain or cold, but are in fact having fun and will continue choosing fun over being alive bc ???. give money punks
You know what else you can do?
Ask the person “what do you need?”
Maybe it’s money. Maybe it’s food. Maybe it’s the spare blanket in the back of your car, or the gentle fiction of letting them wash your windows for a couple of bucks if that’s what they want to do (we talk a lot of shit about capitalism on this site and a lot of it is true, but it’s also true that sitting around doing nothing sucks, and you can do someone a lot of good by letting them have a simple piece of work so they feel like they’re contributing to something). Maybe you have a book and they’d like something to read! You don’t know! ASK!
A lot of homeless people, you can do them a world of good just by sitting down and talking to them. The number of people who make me want to cry because I call them sir or ma’am and they just stare, like it’s been so long since someone’s shown them that basic sign of respect that they don’t even know how to respond to it anymore, is incredible.
I guarantee, if you ask them that question, and you’re not an asshole about it, they will tell you. Then, if you can help, you help. And yes, sometimes help means “I don’t have what you need. But I do have a smartphone, and I can look up people who can help you.” That is a resource some homeless people may have–there are smart TRACfones now, what the fuck–but a much greater number probably do not. Information is also a thing you can donate.
Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money.
Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death.
and it’s condescending garbage to give things people they might not need instead of money they can exchange for suitable goods and services because you have some patronizing idea that you know what’s best for them more than they do.
Pro-tip to young trans guys:
If a stranger misgenders you, please please please do not ever utter the phrase, “I’m a man.” It sounds very unnatural and immediately sounds overly defensive.
My advice? Just look at the person like they’re an idiot and, in the deepest voice possible, say, “Uh. Alright, then.”
Just act as though they made a huge and obvious mistake, and don’t get flustered. If you’re comfortable with it, handle the situation with humor and say something like, “Man, I know I’ve got a babyface, but I didn’t think it was that bad.”
People are saying that you should be unapologetic but the keyword here is “stranger”. You could be in danger if the person is transphobic, and you have no way of knowing their stance if you don’t know the person. So writing it off casually ensures the most low risk way of making your gender known.
Posting this again because of the new information added on.
list of go-tos for getting misgendered at work (I’ve never had a customer not apologize, or not believe me):
1. “Oh, uh, I’m a guy” with a slight chuckle
2. “I’m a guy, by the way” a few sentences after the mistake
3. just ignore it – if someone calls out “miss” or “ma’am” to get your attention, just ignore it and act like you’re not used to hearing it at all (if they call out again, act confused and then go to 1 or 2)
One of my cis best friends works at a major retailer and gets misgendered all the time. He’s got facial hair and most other go-to male sex characteristics. He gets called ma’am by other dudes. People literally just don’t pay attention at all; don’t freak out when they slip up, or it looks out of place.
my best strategy was getting offended. you know, like a cis person would.
not wildly. don’t escalate. but a simple are you fucking kidding me look helped a lot, then if necessary some kind of strong correction that indicates they have made a shitty mistake and you’re either pissed about it or letting them off this once.
i don’t know how well this translates to anyone else but i am small and unimposing and it worked for me.
[Image has text from the linked article which reads:
CALL-OUT CULTURE AS RITUAL DISPOSABILITY
Feminist/queer spaces are more willing to criticize people than abusive systems because they want to reserve the right to use those systems for their own purposes. At least attacking people can be politically viable, especially in a token system where you benefit directly by their absence, or where your status as a good feminist is dependent on constantly rooting out evil.
When the bounty system calls for the ears of evil people, well, most people have a fucking ear.
When I used to curate games, I was approached by people in that abusive community who pressured me not to cover a game by a trans woman. Their reasoning was blatant jealousy, disguised under the thin, nauseating film of pretext that covers nearly everything people say about trans people.
When I rejected their reasoning and covered the game, the targeting reticule of disposability turned toward me. What can we learn from this? Besides “lofty processes in queer/feminist spaces are nearly always about some embarrassingly petty shit,” it’s about the ritual nature of disposability, which has nothing to do with “deserving” it. Disposability has to happen on a regular basis, like forest fires keeping nature in balance.
So when people write all those apologist articles about call-out culture and other instruments of violence in feminism, I don’t think they understand that the people who most deserve those things can usually shrug off the effects, and the normalization of that violence inevitably trickles down and affects the weak. It is predictable as water. Criminal justice applies punishment under the conceit of blind justice, but we see the results: Prisons are flooded with the most vulnerable, and the rich can buy their way out of any problem. In activist communities, these processes follow a similar pragmatism.
Punishment is not something that happens to bad people. It happens to those who cannot stop it from happening. It is laundered pain, not a balancing of scales.”]
(emphasis mine)
The majority of US workers live in “employment monopsonies” where there is little or no competition for workers
In Labor Market Concentration, a new working paper from economists at U Penn, U Navarra and the Roosevelt Institute, researchers analyze a large US government data-set to determine how many workers live in markets where there is effective only one or two employers, a situation called “monoposony” (when a single buyer has a monopoly).
The researchers find that the majority of US workers live in these markets, where there is no competition for their labor; in these markets, wages are artificially suppressed because employers do not have to bid against each other for the same workers.
This is an important data-point in the ongoing debate about anti-trust and competition in capitalist economies. When the Chicago School economists gutted anti-trust enforcement in the USA, they did so on the basis that the only reason for governments to interfere in markets was when monopolists used their power to raise prices – but not when they colluded to sabotage new market entrants or suppress new products or services, and certainly not to prevent them from thwarting workers who wanted to get raises. The theory was that labor markets are “naturally competitive” and do not warrant consideration by regulators.
This is, in part, what the minimum wage is for. This is what OSHA is for. This is what the social safety net is for.
They are the counterbalancing force against issues and circumstances like this, where the basic theoretical dynamics of capitalism don’t work, either because they damage they would inflict on a society are too great or because the necessary prerequisites for capitalism to operate don’t exist.
If you live in an area where are no jobs, where you have no real competition among employers for labor, then you have no choice but to take the job offered, regardless of the health risks, the low pay, They are what keep people from having no other choice but to work for next-to-no pay in dangerous places with no benefits, because each individual needs a job but jobs don’t need each individual.
“Just find another job”, my ass.
“They Want Docile” | How Nursing Homes in the United States Overmedicate People with Dementia
Who feels like crying today?
“They Want Docile” | How Nursing Homes in the United States Overmedicate People with Dementia
Slavery existed in America longer than it has been gone.
Hurston’s newest book (being released this year in May!) is called Barracoon and it is about this man.
Pro-tip to young trans guys:
If a stranger misgenders you, please please please do not ever utter the phrase, “I’m a man.” It sounds very unnatural and immediately sounds overly defensive.
My advice? Just look at the person like they’re an idiot and, in the deepest voice possible, say, “Uh. Alright, then.”
Just act as though they made a huge and obvious mistake, and don’t get flustered. If you’re comfortable with it, handle the situation with humor and say something like, “Man, I know I’ve got a babyface, but I didn’t think it was that bad.”
People are saying that you should be unapologetic but the keyword here is “stranger”. You could be in danger if the person is transphobic, and you have no way of knowing their stance if you don’t know the person. So writing it off casually ensures the most low risk way of making your gender known.
Posting this again because of the new information added on.
list of go-tos for getting misgendered at work (I’ve never had a customer not apologize, or not believe me):
1. “Oh, uh, I’m a guy” with a slight chuckle
2. “I’m a guy, by the way” a few sentences after the mistake
3. just ignore it – if someone calls out “miss” or “ma’am” to get your attention, just ignore it and act like you’re not used to hearing it at all (if they call out again, act confused and then go to 1 or 2)
One of my cis best friends works at a major retailer and gets misgendered all the time. He’s got facial hair and most other go-to male sex characteristics. He gets called ma’am by other dudes. People literally just don’t pay attention at all; don’t freak out when they slip up, or it looks out of place.
Happy Halloween everyone,
so this year for Halloween simply went as my self, lol jk, but honestly i was the supreme as always so just your eveyday male witch and i think it turned out pretty well.
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Ooh and if anyone is located in San Diego and wants to do a coven shoot with me just DM me on here or instagram, thanks guys.
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