funny thing about talking about capitalism/communism is if you don’t explicitly say ‘capitalism’ or ‘communism’ and take out the marxist jargon people will agree with you 90% of the time
Just last night I got my amazingly conservative air marshal cousin to talk about how we need to break up the banks. Its amazing how anticapitalist people can get when you start from where they are and don’t use the phrases they’ve been trained to reject
It’s seriously ingrained in people to reject radical ideas without even examining them.
in the 1980s, in a survey, 50% of people thought the phrase “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” was in the Constitution
If men stopped working…the world would continue on.
If women stopped working, then things would get ugly.
What?
there has been an instance where this happened. it was 1975 and icelandic women decided not to work for one day.
working as in cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, doing chores and so on, not only “not showing up to your workplace”. women did nothing that day, except showing up in reykjavik and protesting for gender equality, equal pay and equal representation in parliament, you know, cool stuff.
you know what happened? havoc. men were left with food to cook and children they never took care of to pick up from kindergarden and entertain for the day. they went en masse to the food shops buying sausages because they could cook nothing else, they had to bond with children they never spent more than a couple hours a day with. they struggled combining their work day and the domestic tasks they had to sort out. and this just for one day.
iceland in 1975 stopped working and things indeed got ugly. so ugly that women in the following decades became woke AF and soon it happened that women became president, took half of the seats in parliament and achieved one of the best living environments in the world.
is your astonishment solved now?
More information here and here on Iceland’s Women’s Strike, and some information here about Iceland’s first female president, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. The goal of the Women’s Strike was to get people to notice how undervalued women’s contributions to daily life and society were.
i bought a fashion magazine for the bus because they had a thing about aubrey plaza and then this :(
finally, another problematic fave. i cant believe i thought this celebrity wasnt a transmisogynist because she has been completely silent on anything related to transness but now i can confirm it. which celebrity who i dont assume is a transmisogynist is next
Just in case anyone was still in doubt after the shit on Parks and Rec.
Fucking relevant to my previous post. This shit makes me hate myself because I really liked and respected her.
all the cis women who reblogged that post about aubrey plaza being bi better reblog this one too
Quick update - this seems to be inconsistent. It only seems to happen on iOS, but it doesn’t happen for everyone on iOS. If you fancy helping out join the conversation on Twitter!
I figured I’d post this because I don’t see anyone else talking about it and it bothers me. If you didn’t know, Pokemon Go is the latest in the long running series of games from Nintendo (although Go is actually made by a developer called Niantic). It’s also the first (I think) to run on your phone. Needless to say, it’s a huge hit. And it looks like a ton of fun - pretty much everyone I know is playing it.
my roommate and i are moving into a new residence (our apartment is under new management and the leasing office has worsened a lot) and im stressed out about finances wrt the move? im thinking about reopening donations?
please like this post if the church reopening donations would be ok with u
there’s gonna be a full moon on the 19th so i’m gonna go out at night and see if a lot of clefairy spawn? apparently the pogo takes moon phase into account and clefairy literally swarm at the full moon in canon so like… i wonder…
