Here’s how this is gonna go down. You go to a person’s ask box and ask them to be your prom date. On October 21st, 2012 you will dress up in formal (prom) attire and post your picture. Instead of buying corsages you will reblog your date’s prom picture. REBLOG THIS POST TO MAKE IT HAPPEN! [photocred]
this is ancient, a relic, a fossil, welcome everyone to my museum
Reblog to spread this. This isn’t something to keep silent on.
I would never want somethin like that to happen! Hell, i condemn it. But … I try to at least keep myself informed a little bit. Are there any good sources for this?
Sources above are accurate and working. I have listed the above sources in chronological order, as well as adding sources I have found. The sources found by fandoms-of-a-tired-ravenclaw are marked with an asterisk (*)
This article links to many, many other articles and pieces about the camps, some of which are governmental sources. All the links work. One wants you to make an account to access it, but I have it saved. PM me if you want to see it.
Internet Sleuths Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps, The Atlantic.com- (Sept. 15, 2018) – This article talks about the treatment the Uighurs get in the camp and talks about the risks some Chinese people are taking to find out the truth. It also goes over some of the solid evidence debunking Chinese claims that the camps do not exist, eyewitness accounts aside.
So you’re writing numbers on people and you don’t think “oh this is like the Nazis” you should be shot
I could only find one source for this and I don’t know how reliable it is, but here it is.
This is a reply from the original twitter post. You remember when we used to think “how could people let this happen” when we learned about Nazism?
This is how.
“But then I thought, ‘Hey, but what if the numbers get washed away in the rain or during a bath? Or they could be forged so the kids get ahead in line! What we really need is something more permanent.’”
I don’t think you can talk about makeup politically without talking about economic oppression. Women are expected to spend thousands a year on cosmetics (and other stuff likeclothing, health supplements, etc) when men aren’t. This isn’t just because of social pressure, it’s required by employers implictly or explicitly the majority of the time. Women are expected to put in an extra hour, if not more, work every day for no compensation before they even leave the house. Class society props up everything else
I think this really heavily applies to a lot of other appearance-related purchases as well, which you did mention but I think it is worth emphasising.
Men can wear the same suit for a week and no one will bat an eyelid, but a woman wearing the same outfit for multiple days in a professional setting is seen as unprofessional, not to mention that most women’s clothes are more expensive and less practical, especially when it comes to pockets, which requires us to get bags, which again is more cost.
Yeah absolutely!! Thank you for this addition! Stuff like this is why eliminating the wage gap between men and women won’t actually eliminate gendered economic inequality (especially when women are expected to be the some caregivers of children which is even more unpaid labour)
The expectation that women spend all of this additional money and devote all of this additional time also serves to further stratify women across class lines. These expectations put women who are already economically disenfranchised at a even more pronounced disadvantage. It further solidifies class barriers for women and makes it even harder for women to accumulate wealth or overcome debt, which increases women’s economic dependency on men and makes their labor more exploitable.
I literally asked a dude once how much $ worth of makeup I had on (I was wearing a more natural look as well, not full glam by a longshot) and he said something like “idk $45?” And when I told him the combined cost of all the products I was wearing was over $200 his jaw dropped. He couldn’t believe it.
And so many men will jump to say, “well I don’t think you (or other women) need makeup!” But if we actually go without it, we get told things like “you look sick, are you okay? You seem run down. Are you tired?” And it’s been proven that women who don’t wear makeup are less likely to get hired, to get promotions, or to be seen as professional. Men can pay lip service all they want to how they “aren’t like that” individually, but internalizations exist, and as a social group men are the ones enforcing a social hierarchy based on beauty onto women.
The pressure to spend money on beauty products increases as women age because we are taught we are only valuable when we are at our most beautiful, which is when we are very young.
Also important to mention the cost to Trans Women! Makeup, wigs/extensions, nails, padding, body contouring clothes, etc. They have to maintain this look more than cis women to pass (not passing can mean death, literally) or to minimize dsyphoria, and they have added costs that cis women do not have, while they are a hugely disenfranchised group.
Oh and before people say that I’m buying makeup that’s too expensive, you need to consider how makeup companies are driving the prices up. And how communities like Instagram are increasing the pressure on women to have perfect MUA level products and application. Not too mention many cheaper products contain harmful heavy metals like lead, don’t work well, cause acne or inflame skin. There is a price tag to looking good and it’s incredibly high for women.
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