I appreciate the perspective. I’m very much exploited by my place of employment, so the idea of not being treated like replaceable, disposable, human garbage is kind of a foreign concept to me. That includes my previous fast food and retail experiences, as well. I’m “liked” because I keep my head down and don’t make a…

I appreciate the perspective. I’m very much exploited by my place of employment, so the idea of not being treated like replaceable, disposable, human garbage is kind of a foreign concept to me. That includes my previous fast food and retail experiences, as well. I’m “liked” because I keep my head down and don’t make a…

Neither is particularly effective

No, I understand that aspect of it. It was more the pandering part I found very insightful. I tend to find pandering to be cheap and manipulative and it tends to turn me off whatever I’m being sold, but that attempting to manipulate a group that’s normally not addressed at all is, in itself, an inclusive act is an…

being pandered to as a customer base when typically you are a afterthought is actually a much nicer feelings

My gut kinda echoes his sentiment, as I don’t get what says “mammy” beyond the races and ages. However, I might just not see it, and I’d love to hear your perspective on what makes this racist, and how you could portray a black woman breastfeeding a white child and avoid these connotations, in your opinion.

Thanks for the response! This issue is sometimes (consciously or unconsciously) presented as “boys look out for each other” and I’ve never found that to be the case, in my experience. I also obviously don’t want to write off or dismiss female perspectives, because clearly a lot of women have to deal with a lot of…

Fair enough, perhaps I’ve never worked in a setting where your ability to schmooze is more important than the actual work you do. Sounds very high school drama. Am I right in assuming this mostly refers to office work and the like?

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/news/2016/9/new_study_suggests_women_do_ask_for_pay_rises_but_dont_get_them/
I just read the above article, and the quote

I’m genuinely trying to understand,

I’m genuinely trying to understand,

My main point here was that people tend to oversimplify the issue so they can argue against it: “but why don’t companies just hire more women to save money” (lol really?!)

Literally every boss will try to fuck you over and get you to take as little money as they can get away with.

Sailor Moon is what made me fall in love with anime way back in the 90's. That, and Attack No. 1. Keep your Narutos and Dragon Ball Zs, Sailor Moon will always be my first.

The term for military gear is “tacticool”. Things that look neat and pass for functional, but wouldn’t actually be very good in practice. Snake Eyes in the GI Joe movies would probably be a pretty good example.

If the band offered to let you say something into the microphone for $5, then blamed you for them being off-key because what you said distracted them so much, then yes, I would blame the band.

We’re really lowering the bar for what a “victim” is, huh?

Think of it like DC creating MEGACOOLDUDE and telling you that MEGACOOLDUDE is your favorite character for four (FOUR) years, while MEGACOOLDUDE acts like a huge, unlikeable douche throughout. He beats all the bad guys (easily), but there’s never any stakes, he never takes anything seriously, he’s not relatable, he’s…

All of these are correct. In addition to this, they also invariably make a big, back-patting, masturbatory show of creating new, diverse characters to replace old fan-favorites, then don’t put the quality into the work itself. Compare it to DC, who don’t throw a press conference to go “look at Batwoman! She’s a…