Anti union sentiment always baffles me, especially when the people espousing such would benefit greatly from organising.
Are unions perfect? No.

Asking an ‘artist’ who lifts shit from indigenous communities for profit to contextualize the origin of the work is not some massive imposition. In fact it’s the very least they could do.

This whole ‘but the money doesn’t matter, it’s about le arte’ is a very, very white person thing, because it fails to understand…

Funny how when someone in America even mildly criticises a corporation, people pile on to defend the corporation.

Good for you. I don’t shop anywhere that treats their workers shittily either.

Appropriation is necessarily, inherently disrespectful. It is predicated on seizure, not on exchange. Artists borrow from others with the understanding—and even the hope—that others will, in turn, borrow from them. If you were to borrow the dress patterns of this company for your own, I wonder whether they would…

Ok, done. Yep, never had to piss in a bottle, out of fear for being fired for stepping away for 2 minutes.

Yes I will. I will always have a choice. It may not be a *good* choice, but Amazon can’t force me to give Bezos a single penny. :) Sometimes you don’t have to play the game. And if it becomes something where it is the only legal choice? I’ll break the law. If it becomes something where it will cost me my life? I’ll…

Not really, it's been a cornerstone of journalism for decades. It's the separation of church and state between advertising and editorial.

What indigenous group or pueblo are you from? How do you feel about designs and patterns being take from your people and used to profit a company?

I don’t think they can do anything enforceable, but I do think it’s worth noting that this IS appropriation, even if it has been happening for a long time. My great grandfather was Purepecha from the state of Michoacan in Mexico and he and his siblings were told to stop wearing their indigenous clothing when they went…

for people claiming you can’t copyright a pattern or how “flattered” they are a high end designer stole patterns from indigenous communities, no one is saying not to do it. we are saying, be respectful and give credit where credit is due. simply taking designs created and popularized by indigenous people then making a…

Like....is it that hard to just put a blurb up on the website about the general history behind the patterns and embroidery and how the designer was inspired by them or whatever? It’s not a difficult thing to do and they’d avoid a lot of this kind of backlash. 

Marianne Williamson is an opportunist who uses political campaigns to raise her profile for book sales and appearance fees. It’s disgraceful to use our politics this way. The 2014 congressional run mentioned above was for a district she doesn’t even live in. Her home is in the Hollywood Hills; she rented a condo in…

So so so exhausted by the bullshit “I’m neutral so I’m giving bigots a platform!” bullshit. Then of course there’s the endless nonsense of certain cis writers obsessed with trans people who get to write articles on us all day long with a clear transphobic slant. Blargh.

As a cisgender hetero woman who has no experience with binders, my first thought is, “I don’t know a goddamn thing about this, but I could certainly ask people who wear them if they would be willing to talk about it with me.” And I’m not even a trained journalist. Jesus H.

So the same society that wants women to bind themselves to be skinny says binding is unhealthy, huh? 

I see Jamil’s replies are filled almost exclusively with the usual WASP Evangelical GOP Pro-Restriction crowd with the usual hand-wringing claims that “The Child” could’ve gone to the home of a sweet adoptive couple like those who can’t have children.

In the cold of the German Baltic coast a new species has arrived in the last few years - rheas:

Was the super-challenging other role that idea about getting pregnant to two men at the same time? And it being a romantic comedy? Because yikes. That sounds challenging to watch.

I really like FOTB and am glad it’s coming back. I wish she hadn’t been so public about this. In addition to appearing ungrateful, it’s bad karma to wish for something that would have put so many others out of a job. She should have gone to the show’s producers and writers to see if they couldn’t dramatically reduce…

Confirming what smart people already knew: trump is a shitwit who has never been good at anything or earned anything in his entire life.