concept: after a few meetings, miles’ dad finally realizes that spiderman is like. a kid. and not even like a college kid, an actual, legitimate, “thinks dropping his voice actually disguises it” child. after his freak out (he went up against king pin but he’s so small?? rio he said he loved me he’s a baby-) he becomes very determined To Stop Spiderman (From Hurting Himself), but since the kid’s so slippery he mostly just… dads at him from the sidelines, yells encouragements and backs him up in fights and asks him if he’s okay afterwards between lectures on vigilantism and also do your parents know where you are young man? and at some point the double parenting starts to confuse miles and he accidentally calls him dad to his face while in the spiderman suit without even noticing. but jefferson notices and is like. Ah. My Child Now. and Operation: Stop Spiderman turns into Operation: Adopt Spiderman. so anyway he’s currently trying to figure out how to ask miles if he’d be okay with having a brother and miles is currently trying to figure out how to tell his own father that he can’t actually adopt him
There’s a lack of humanity when it comes to “sapphic / wlw” moodboards, there’s a certain objectification and romanticization of dainty, eurocentric imagery. Close ups of two thin hands embracing, wet lips, flower petals against ribcages stolen from straight girls’ instagram accounts. There’s a blatant longing for something we don’t have, instead of celebration of what we do. There’s a lack of nonwhite women, especially ones that don’t fit eurocentric standards of beauty, there’s a lack of butch women, hairy women, fat women, disabled women. Instead, our sexualities are given a nine image photoset of wet grass and thong strings on a thin girl.
Hi ok quick google search says that this is about brexit in the uk (hence the “no deal” name) as the government prepares to deal with that. Still objectively terrifying and NOT OK IN THE SLIGHTEST, but for my fellow US people who had a panic attack reading this here’s some clarification
Thank you for the context, really kind pissed people just put this up with no explanation just to cause a shit show.
yanks: *sees english online* yanks: this is for me right? i own this language? i own online? i’m the centre of the world
yanks:
yanks: oh its not about me? oh,, well, thats oke, just make sure you make that clearer next time, i didnt get that from the context of your,,, *squints*, scottish politics blogs
Ok, but yeah. I want to work more than 15 hours a week. I genuinely love the challenge with what I do. 15 seems, oddly tiny? Where did this number come from?
This is a good response to that question, in case anyone wanted the q&a paired together. 15 would be the social average — some people might work more, some less, but that would be up to them. This is also presupposing a change in the way the economy effectively functions, in the sense that 15 hours would be the social average for necessary labor, and after that point you’d probably see tons of people participating in “unnecessary” labor out of interest. There’s an idea in socialist theory that basically says once you reach a point far enough along after capitalism you’d just start seeing a blurring of the lines between what’s defined as “work” (or as “a job”) and what’s defined as “a collective activity”, especially with regard to the arts, science, etc.
At the very least, a transition towards (eco)socialism will require a vast shortening of the workweek and a reduction in overall advertising/consumption, whether that mean a 15-hour week or a 20-hour week. The main point is that people are overworked, we can meet everyone’s needs feasibly with less hours anyway, and the over-emphasis on extraction and accumulation (which is in part fueled by a tediously long workweek) is having disastrous effects on the planet. We can both accomodate the needs of the planet AND expand the political horizons for the great majority of the population, but it will require the fundamental defeat of capitalism and the establishment of a new ecological workers’ democracy. It’s a big project, but so worth it in the long run.
The 15-hour week presupposes a change in the economy first. Obviously capitalism requires long hours for people to survive, but in terms of pure stats it’s not necessary for society to be working that much. There’s enough resources for everyone, and so much work is pointless bullshit that only exists to line the pockets of the rich. The ecosocialist project demands a new way of looking at and distributing work. Get rid of the bullshit jobs, divvy up the necessary jobs, and we’d free up people’s time immensely to engage in pursuits they actually want to do to contribute to society.
Also, food and housing and such would be guaranteed in an ecosocialist society anyway, so it goes beyond simply reorganizing work. People have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and those will never be achieved for the great majority in a capitalist society.
These were really good additions so I wanted t add them onto the cumulative post
the 40 hour workweek is not as productive as corporate/management wants us to think, and it also leave most people exhausted. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is an absurd amount of time to be working. And judging from statistics, there’s about 50% of Americans who work more than 40 hours a week…
This does not even include time spent commuting or getting ready for work.
Even though our productivity is leagues better than it has ever been, we now have less leisure time than feudal peasants! There is absolutely no reason for people to need to work 40+ hours a week just to support themselves or family.
There’s a lot of “But how will X industry function on so few hours?” And the answer that comes to my mind is that if the price we pay for no one living on the street, going hungry, or suffering from curable illnesses is that movies/video games take longer to make because no one can be coerced into working obscene hours on threat of starvation, then damn, that’s fucking cheap, and I would pay it without hesitation.
“beauty is pain” is perhaps the cruelest phrase we teach young girls imo
I’m sorry you have brain worms and are selfish enough to consider comodification of pain and insecurity as a fact of life, because whilst I couldn’t give a shit if u feel uwu unpretty after you commented this, the concept of “beauty” literally torments, harms, and kills other women. But hey, at least you have self awareness with a username like that.
Idg why people are against busty women in turtlenecks, literally who cares if you have “uniboob”? To whom do you owe separate and defined titties? Only cowards and fools fear the breast monolith
do you ever just suddenly learn there’s apparently a whole Discourse you’ve never heard of before
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