Are you really shitting on Martha for getting a Vaccine in a hospital wing she helped build? She’s a 79 year old woman, last I checked that put her at the front of the line. she’s also encouraging others to get it and no doubt some of her followers are probably anti-vaxers that need to see their icons get it.

I’m not “lucky” to have held senior roles, I’m light-skinned. I’m cisgender. I’m conventionally feminine in a way that is constantly culturally affirmed. I’m thin and able-bodied and always have been. I’m not “lucky” to have gone to college. I’m from a middle-class home. I was raised by people who talked to me about…

Teaching her how to do something can simply mean, you know, just showing her how to use a can opener. It takes 10 seconds and is a great lesson. In fact, no joke, I remember when my own dad showed me how to open a can of diced tomatoes. Guess what, it worked, because afterwards I always could open cans and am now a…

Just so. Her only hope is from a governor who has no interest in running for any office, ever again.

Molly: Your feelings of overwhelming dread are precisely why the phrase “May you live in interesting times” is considered a curse, and not the prayer it first appears to be.

I don’t get it the hate directed at her. Eat the Rich and all that, but she’s an employee of Disney. Many employees at various levels of a corporation are granted perks. I guess the lesson here is to demand x-many all-access pass in your multi-million dollar contract (which earns the company billions)? They probably…

It’s smacks of yet again reminding the black woman (and her family) that no matter how “accepted” she thinks she is, she will never be part of the in-group. The in-group that a white man of her extraordinary value to the company would belong to without question.

This times a million! Saying they never do this was such a lie! 

This. I have friends who work in various roles for Disney (from Imagineers to other corporate roles) and they basically all get more passes than they know what to do with. It basically costs Disney nothing (in the grand scheme of things) to give out park tickets as an incentive to staff, so it’s especially stupid to…

There are two sides to this. Yes it is petty of her. But it is also VERY disrespectful towards her. If that executive had any fucking sense his answer should have been “We will get you as many passes as you want, and by the way can we get you a personal park guide and maybe some pictures of your family having a great…

To me, it breaks down into two different issues:

As someone who has worked in environments like Disney/ABC, I can definitely understand it. What people don’t understand is that working in that kind of corporate environment is basically like having to endure thousands of papercuts every day, only to shut up and do it the next. At some point, you get so sick and tired…

With some history of the Disney corporate environment, I don’t think this was about the ticket necessarily, but about Disney’s rigidity. That company is a fucking nightmare to work for (truly evil) and, as mentioned, that was probably the straw that broke the back of a camel that was already getting physical therapy…

Below please find my response to a commenter over at TheRoot who co-signed up with the exec that implied she has enough cashish to purchase her own passes.

He’s the classic “whoever is in power doesn’t really affect me” well-off straight white dude. Since he isn’t much personally impacted by who’s in power, he can not really care and pretend that both sides are equally bad/good. 

I would be surprised if someone whose only political donations have apparently been to Democrats is truly a partisan Republican. But this piece is absolutely loaded with tells about someone with an enormous amount of privilege, particularly this idea that “unity” is in and of itself one of the most important values…

Not really. I don’t know the guy, but I do know reality on planet Earth.

“It does seem odd that discrimination against an employee gleaned by snooping on them outside the office is not wholly illegal across the board regardless of pregnancy status.”

Also — and in no way supporting Disney’s position — if he sent his wife any email from work, sent his wife any email / text from a work device, put any doctor’s appointments in his calendar at work (private or no)... that’s not hacking. Disney is able to just see that shit.

Ok, off the top... Bamtech was originally part of major league baseball. I’m assuming for the streaming of baseball games. This branched out to the Olympics and even e-sports. Blah blah blah. This is not a backwater operation from go. I’m sure they’ve got some HR, IT, and a plethora of policy by the time Disney moved…