(Waves this around in executives faces) wow itâs almost like profitable art happens without exploiting workers. Wow. Imagine that
Also itâs good. The movie is good. Itâs nice to see something where you can tell the people working on it didnât just love the movie, but had fun working on it. Let film making be fun instead of detrimental to a personâs physical and mental health
Iâm gonna puke this makes me so happy to read. Idk. I just want more good news from the industry iâm going into
underrated fact: everyone makes fun of house for only having one friend but wilson is literally the same. he’s either flirting with someone, which is surface level socialization, talking to colleagues or patients, which again is surface level, or he’s with house. unless you count his wives who didn’t even know him.
nobody KNOWS wilson but house. we know that because everyone has such a false sense of who he is. house is the only person who can see who wilson is when he’s not putting on a face.
bonus: any real conversation he has with someone who isn’t house, is about house.
“house has no friends haha” “anyway wanna catch a movie later otherwise i’ll just go to my hotel room and talk to no one”
and the closest he ever came to having a truly even-keel, genuine, partnership and relationship with ANY body else…
…was with who even the show refers to as Female House.
Which leads one to believe it was still just… House Projection.
Ozzy: Totally. Well, you’re talking a little bit about this, I think, but could you maybe say how you would define family abolition and kind of what this vision of the future is?
M.E.: Sure, so first I’ll define family. I provide three definitions of family at the beginning, and they don’t cover everything people mean by family at all. The first is a unit of social reproduction. So this comes out of Marxist feminist theory, it’s thinking about how are new workers created, how is a worker sort of fed and clothed and cleaned from one day to the next, right? And recognizing the tremendous role that the household plays in raising caring children, taking care of people during periods of unemployment and illness and disability and aging, and preparing a workforce every single day. And I think this is one of my most challenging arguments in the book, that a free society would not be organized around private households. We might choose to form them, but they wouldn’t be economic units in the way that they are now.
The second definition of family is a sort of normative ideal that’s really deeply tied up with white supremacy, colonialism, and heterosexuality, right? So, some families as being legitimate, being respectable, being approved, and other efforts and people caring for each other not counting as family, right? So, the separation of children in Indian Boarding Schools, what scholars call “natal alienation” during slavery, the long history of Child Protective Services in the family policing system violently intervening, particularly in Black people’s lives, separation at the border…. So these are all like an apparatus of determining whose family counts and whose doesn’t, and inflicting violence on those that doesn’t. And this sort of normative ideal, I also link to the violence within families. The organization of personal domination that really characterizes so many families, and the vulnerability of people within families–– that families are the place we’re most likely to be raped, or murdered, or beaten up, or harmed. You know that family is a site of such tremendous violence. And so breaking, overcoming, and destroying this racial normative ideal, and freeing people from the site of violent constraints they might experience in their families.
And then the third definition of family in chapter three, I talk about George Floyd, calling out to his deceased mother, as he’s being murdered. And that the way we speak of family as sort of our greatest yearnings––our like love, our care, our desire for refuge, and making the argument that like, in order to fulfill this, we’d have to discover something more, something beyond what the family is now, and that we, you know, we turn to family at our most vulnerable. And when we speak of family, for some people we’re speaking of like, our really deep need to feel cared for and loved, even if we didn’t ever find that in our families.
And so part of what I argue family abolition is… so I provide a lot, an overview of a lot of different meanings of what family abolition can mean. But I end up focusing in on three, and they correspond to those three definitions. So the overcoming of the private household as the primary unit of social reproduction and survival. So that who you love and who you happen to be related to, and who you happen to live with, should have no material consequences for your well-being, who you have sex with shouldn’t determine whether you have housing, or food, or health care, right? [laughs] This is ludicrous as a way of organizing a society. And if you happen to be born to transphobes, or you happen to be born to a violent person, there’s actual, respectful, supportive, effective means to address that. And to grapple with that.
Two, that we radically overcome this sort of normative ideal of what counts as family, by radically transforming the regulation of families, by overcoming the sort of systems of racial terror, and they’re destroying them, that do so much harm against certain kinds of care relations. And then three, that the love and care that we look for in families be universal and widely accessible throughout society, and built available to everyone. That we all need it, and we shouldn’t have to only depend on who we’re having sex with in order to find it. We need to build a society built on caring for people and not on the impersonal driving, violence of profit. So generalizing, unleashing and generalizing the care available in the best families as universally available throughout society. So those sort of three definitions are a big part of what I mean by family: the overcoming of the private household, destruction of family policing system, and the unleashing and universalizing of the care that we depend on in the family.
the bravest writers are the ones who make granny characters in scifi and fantasy solely for the sake of having grannies i think there needs to be more old ladies who Fight and Kill
not only because i like the concept of badass oldladies and the destruction of the concept that all girl characters have to be sexually appealing to the audience bc thats fucking annoying as shit, there is literally Nothing funnier than the concept of a granny with a massive sword or death laser. she pinches ur cheek lovingly and then saws someone in half. amazing
when internet people are like âi love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or deathâ
Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!
True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)
Remember: The ââEâ in email stands for evidence.
That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.
But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.
Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: âI just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxxâ Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.
Case 2: You have a schedule you like, youâve had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says âWeâre really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. Itâs just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month.â A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email âIâm happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised.â Documentation.
[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigatedâ for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.
Me; Thatâs illegal.
Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) UhâŚ
Me: Thatâs an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.
HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.
Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.
I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.
HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.
Me: You still havenât given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.
HR: Oh haha yes here you go.
I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Donât even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]
At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like âjust to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I wonât be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.
The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadnât put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for âmissing deadlinesâ because I always had in writing that sheâd pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.
Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they wonât put what theyâre asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.
FSF request: A pureblood Father gifting a brush made of family magic to his newly adopted daughter or brushing her hair or something else of that nature (preferably one that wasn't originally pureblood themselves so this is their first real interaction with this type of magic and family bonds). Just a little girl finally receiving the love of a father and family wholeheartedly.
High Lord Tom Slytherin, who hasnât left his newfound daughterâs side since he Apparated onto the Hogwarts Express, gently guides Lily to the...
always sooo impressed how you manage to answer so many of these, but yes for fsf could we see Peverell!Harry and Luna, because the Thestral scene would be so cool in that context methinks
When High Heir Hadrian Peverell enters the clearing in the Forbidden Forest, he canât fight the smile that curls his lips at the unexpected sight...