grades dont determine your intelligence or ability to hold a job
grades dont determine your intelligence or ability to hold a job
grades dont determine your intelligence or ability to hold a job
They don’t evaluate your ability to follow through assigned projects in a timely and effective matter? They don’t help determine your ability to learn and apply complex instructions and ideas? Hmm. I must be thinking of something else… Like reading Tumblr or watching TV on the internet. Maybe reading webcomics? Oh, well. Maybe I should just quit school already and get a job in retail again.
People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
Christians claiming to be oppressed by homosexuals is simultaneously one of the saddest and most hilarious things in the universe.
I am literally crying at that story. Target has my business for as long as they make choices that are so powerfully right in a world full of wrongs that they can make a person cry. Friends, please spend your hard earned money conscientiously. Always.
Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??
The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.
No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.
oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY
It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)
Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.
I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!
Surprise, everyone! I spent the entire day working on this for you-I hope you like it. For all non-Homestucks following me, my sincerest apologies, this is probably going to be quite odd.
Regardless of your fandom, I hope y’all enjoy!
Remember, my tinychat will open at 8pm CST tonight! I can’t wait to see you there! (Link: http://tinychat.com/nblees) P.S. thanks to sandsiblings for suggesting this ridiculous escapade! She is the bomb diggity on every level.
I'm Rin.
I'm a person doing things in a place. I've lived in a lot of places. By odd coincidence I was born with lady parts (and exclusively lady parts) in my crotch. I like video games, anime, music, hiking, cycling, and a poop tonne of tv shows. You'll notice I type and presumably speak in proper non-Webster English. I have an accent.
If you want to contact me, always do so. I'm relatively friendly. I'm also intensely nervous around people. I don't quite get social interaction, so I WILL be awkward and probably make us both uncomfortable. Somehow people still talk to me despite this, though, so I encourage it.
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