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male privilege is…

pinkgloomyspriteevermore:

abovtmaleprivilege:

aboutmaleprivilege:

male privilege is not having to wear a bra or heels to work, in hot weather and or special occasions to look “respectful” or “socially appropriate”

You don’t have to wear heels to work, dummy. If you do have to, well, that’s your fault for working in a place that requires high heels.

I wish we would stop freaking out about human bodies so we could not wear a bra if we want to. But their hands are tied on the matter. Get a thin bra and suck it up. -ModS

Well that’s uncalled for! Who are the hell are you ModS? Calling the submitter a dummy is really rude. That’s bullying! Yes, it would be great if people could go braless without judgement but many times that isn’t the case. It’s because of the patriarchy in the western world that women are expected to wear heels and bras to work. In many cases being attired in a way that your supervisor deems unacceptable may land you into trouble at work. It can also lead to general public scrutiny. Also that jobs comment….that really makes me wonder if you really thought about any of the words you wrote. If you think the submission has nothing to do with male privilege, you clearly lack reasoning skills.

It’s also super simple to just get a new job that fits all your preferences in the current economy!

(via all-about-male-privilege)

reallyfoxnews:

I was just driving behind a Prius driven by an older white guy with a bumper sticker that “Keep Honking, I’m Reloading.”

I feel like this whole picture is a really good/horrifying depiction of America.

I saw one that said, “Gun is control is hitting every part of the body.”

Yeah.

And how is that working out for us as a country?

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Also, I found this one, which I actually like:

stfuconservatives:

Far Below Minimum Wage

Thousands of adults with Down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities work in Ohio at jobs that pay less money than a teen-age baby sitter earns.

Some clean hotel rooms for 40 cents an hour. Others sew table linens for 79 cents an hour. Some assemble automotive parts for $2.15 an hour or answer telephones for $3.75 an hour.

The majority don’t earn half of the state minimum wage of $7.40.

A little-known provision in the 73-year-old federal wage law allows employers to pay less than minimum wage if adults have disabilities that limit their productivity.

The Fair Labor Standards Act once dictated how little was too little to pay a worker. But today, there is no floor, clearing the way for some to earn as little as a penny an hour.

[…]

At least 14,600 developmentally disabled Ohioans earn less than the minimum wage for the work they are doing. The number is likely much higher, but wage information is not public in 18 of Ohio’s 88 counties.

Statewide, there are about 21,000 disabled Ohioans who receive services through their counties and are employed. About 70 percent work in sheltered workshops, quasi-industrial settings that resemble factories.

The counties that run sheltered workshops bid on jobs with government agencies and private companies for contract work, such as assembling Christmas packages for prison inmates, bagging stuffed animals and inspecting baby-food jar lids.

Worker pay is based on productivity. A disabled worker who can perform a task at 30 percent the rate of a nondisabled worker would earn about a third of minimum wage - $2.22 an hour.

More than 80 percent of the low-wage work force earns an hourly wage of $3.70 or less.

My aunt in Ohio had severe developmental disabilities and her job when she worked was to put together pens. She occasionally did janitorial work as well. This pen company employs (only?) assembly-people with disabilities and then pays them by productivity. I don’t know what the actual pay is.

blackamazon:

nickminichino:

Apparently even the “I Want a Latina Girlfriend” San Diego billboard has Jessica Valenti saying “but what about the white people?”

I’m sorry but I’m breaking teh embargo maybe it’s a bitter day maybe it’s teh shit news. 

I did as much research as I could find and I don’t know that Roxane Gay is or is not LATin@ but I’m gonna go with no 

but

it’s not funny

Two NON LATINAs don’t get to be ” funny” and uncritical about this shit.

Especially not two feminists with NO and I mean NO link to why this is kind of creepy and disgusting.

This isn’t blanket rape culture, this isn’t blanket sexism.

This isn’t your damn joke. This is why folks say awful nasty things about Latina’s thatd eny them jobs.

healthcare 

decency

and protection from law.

He advertised for a partner the way you advertise for a good morgatage BECAUSE these women are LATINA, not cause their women.

You want that kind of reputation , promise me you’ll take the other stuff too. The degradation , the lack of money, teh struggle

or

You’re *wink wink * nuge nudging at the fact taht well we never have to deal with that right !! Aren’t we so lucky

There are plenty of things to find humor in for you but when Latina’s are CONSTANTLy being treated as hot spicy for sale ass you don’t DO THAT to other women out of one side of your mouth

and then come out your mouth about rape culture for another.

I saw that billboard posted online last week and my immediate emotional response was a wave of disgust. How can people look at that sign and not feel dirty? Why would I want to increase the list of people he’s fetishizing and looking to catch as a pathetic attempt at a joke? It’s time to take this asshole’s creepy-ass billboard seriously as a starting point for a conversation, but not one dominated by the people who think it’s a hilarious meme or people who think they’re being left out by not being targeted by this man. Am I wrong to think that people don’t advertise for partners if they view those partners as equals? (I’m sorry if I’m out of line adding to this post, I’ll delete if so.)

(via karnythia)

thisisthinprivilege:

Thin privilege is being able to take the elevator to the second floor because of an injury, and not being called a lazy fatass for it.

(laughatalex)

I’ve had foot surgery four times and I am an expert at exaggerating my limp getting off the elevator so people don’t judge me as much. ::sigh::

martymcdamnyoufly:

aboutmaleprivilege:

Male privilege is thinking that this is an acceptable way to deal with your assistant (possibly) chatting too much at work because evidently paying her salary means you own and control her:

could it be

someone not doing their job

and actually getting reprimanded for it???????

could it be

that as a boss

you talk to your employees about performance problems

instead of publicly shaming them??????

or forcing other employees

to pay cash

to be allowed to talk to your assistant????????

p.s. don’t ever be a boss.

(via zacharycondom)

fervidcapharnaum:

aboutmaleprivilege:

Male privilege is standing up and yelling down at women in heated debates to silence them. I’ve seen this often and only from men an only at women. Just because you’re louder doesn’t mean you’re right.

I got this not too long ago. In class, in front of maybe 20 people and the teacher. I was pointing out how the marketing for a baby-products brand was very sexist because exclusively aimed at “mothers”, and a guy in the back of the class suddenly cut me off, yelling in the loudest and most threatening voice he could muster something along the lines off “OH MY GOD WE GET IT YOU’RE A FEMINIST NOW JUST. SHUT. UP. AND STOP TRYING TO MAKE YOURSELF IMPORTANT. YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT BUT WOMEN SPEND 9 MONTHS CARRYING THEIR BRATS SO THEY’RE DAMN WELL GONNA BE MORE CONNECTED TO THEM”. And then heavy silence. No one said anything. Not even the teacher - he just resumed his lesson like nothing happened. I am NOT one to let myself be crushed easily, but in this case it was just so unexpected, sudden and violent I was petrified. I sat there shaking for the whole rest of the class, then at the break I had to excuse myself to go to the bathroom and cry a few tears of shock. People came to confort me - women AND men telling me I was right to point this stuff out, and he was a shithead for reacting like he did - but I don’t think anyone went to HIM about his shitty behavior. And a few of the guys comforting me were still like “well, I see where he is coming from though, your constant feminism can get on my nerves too” (oh, sorry for THAT, your majesty).

There was no way I could just take that shit without saying anything. So in the same afternoon, I calmed down, gathered my wits and went over to this asshole. He was sitting, speaking with a friend. I planted myself in front of him and stood above him, making my posture as intimidating as I could muster, drawing from typical male power stances - basically crushed him into his seat; and calmly, coldly, I told him how much of a shitstain he was and how I NEVER wanted him to address me this way, or any other way, again. He was shocked. He didn’t dare to stand up. At first he was laughing uncomfortably and then he was very still until I was finished. It was probably one of the most empowering moments of my life - for the first time, I felt that I could be powerful, even scary, to a man if I just let myself be. If I just let myself forget about the well-ingrained notion that against a man, I would always be weaker, smaller, non-threatening. In Persepolis, the author writes : “Always yell back louder than your bully”. They are so used to you just plying and giving in, they won’t see it coming.

He never pulled the same crap again to my face - although he has been going around spewing shit about me behind my back, to my friends even.