im in a really bad media diversity class where the professor was trying to make a point to us about stereotypes so he was like “when you think of frankenstein you probably think of a big green monster right?” and then when everyone in class was immediately like “no it’s the scientist” he pretended he didn’t hear us
Millennial culture is knowing Frankenstein is the scientist.
Woke Millennial Culture is, however, ALSO knowing Frankenstein was the monster.
Maternity and paternity leave is really important, paternity leave is, I think, a really important part of equality. Normalise the idea that men will raise children, be these men hetero or gay.
All parents need time to bond with a new baby, and time to acclimate themselves to all that’s required to care for one.
On top of forming a connection with their child, this can help to simplify distribution of labor when it comes to childcare. This way, there isn’t just one parent doing everything most of the time and then one confused parent in over their head anytime the other hands the baby off so they can go shower, get some food in them, go shopping/to a meeting, etc.
ALSO a woman will need weeks and months to heal from the birth. My husband always felt so guilty about leaving back to work just two weeks after the baby was born with BOTH our kids, because he knew I was still figuring out breastfeeding, getting used to the new baby, far too tired to clean/cook, etc. He obviously helped out outside of work, but that is so much to ask of anyone to work 9-5 and then play homemaker on top of that. Fathers need rest and time to enjoy the baby too.
It’s honestly ridiculous that fathers are expected to only spare a few weeks (at most) post-labor. The mother just went through one of the most physically traumatic episodes the human body is capable of, she’s not going to be bouncing back to normal after a few weeks. It’s a critical time when the father is needed more than ever to ease the adjustment period.
I’ve seen people complain that paternal leave is a “scam”. Certainly a lot of companies seem to think so. But the truth is that our culture is so consumer/work based, that career and money is everything, that we (a) assume that any attempt at paid leave is gimmicking the system, and (b) that parenthood is not a reasonable thing to prioritize over making income
Fathers are often portrayed in media as helpless with children or unable to empathize as well as mothers. And you know what? There’s some truth to that because of how society depicts men’s roles in parenthood since the early 20th century. Their job is to make a living and discipline. Not spend time connecting to their offspring.
Let fathers bond with their kids. It starts at the beginning. Spare them at least a month to get to know their son or daughter. Let them enjoy getting to know each babies’ unique personality outside of late-night wake-ups. Without paternity leave, they must choose between being a good husband and father, or putting bread on the table.
Seems like democrats can only win by cheating. All these “found ballots” are fricking ridiculous, you can’t get more obvious.
The Republican wins but oh no we have to recount because we found all these mysteriously uncounted ballots and oh look now the Democrat wins 🤔 how odd
it reminds me of when I was in DC on a school trip, and it was a trip that my school was on with like 15 other schools around the country, and we had a mock Congress and we debated and voted on a bill that was very dividing.
The people who had a more liberal view on the bill, who wanted to pass it, were extremely vocal and all their arguments were emotionally-based and at one point what seemed like a good chunk of the crowd of 150 kids cheered very loudly even though the people running this mock congress explicitly told them not to. And then they did it again after being reminded not to.
The people who had a more conservative view on the bill were quiet. One of my classmates stood up and said some very incorrect things and it was incredibly painful. Another one of my classmates, a debate team member, stood up and explain very tactfully how the bill is unconstitutional.
(What did I do? I sat in the back of the room and cried bc I’ve been on tumblr long enough to know that this mock Congress was gonna stir up drama and conflict. And it did.)
When it came time to vote, people raised their hands on either yes or no, and the like, 25 leaders went around the room and counted hands. At the end, they announced the results.
It was around 80-70 against the bill.
All the people who supported the bill gasped and freaked out and were super confused. All the people who voted against the bill stayed quiet. One of the people who spoke in the mic earlier for the bill stood up and asked for a recount. They recounted.
90-60 against.
At another point during the trip, my small group of about 15 kids from around 5 different school were playing an icebreaker game called trainwreck. It’s like musical chairs; there’s one person in the middle, and if they say a statement that is also true for you (i.e. “I have blue eyes” or “I’ve never been to Hawaii”) you stand up and try to find a newly empty chair. If no one stands, it’s trainwreck, and everyone has to stand up and find a new chair.
Well, this one (white) gal who was extremely vocal about her liberal beliefs was in the middle, and she said “I’m a liberal!”
No one stood. Not a single white person, Latino, Asian, or black person. (And we had at least one of each in that group.) She was thoroughly shocked.
I think in today’s day and age, with social media and celebrity advocates and the news and etc etc, that a lot of people forget that there are people with conservative beliefs that aren’t the Big Bad White Men they diss on TV. And when it’s shown to them, when the votes say “Hey, we’re silent but we’re here”, people don’t believe it. Because how could there be so many “””bigots and racists and etc””” in the world to vote against what the media and celebrities have made into the popular and trendy and acceptable and seemingly majority vote?
It’s because when we say we’re conservative, we get hate for it. My classmate got locked out of her hotel room by the two girls from other schools that she was sharing with because of that mock Congress vote against the bill.
So a lot of us stay so quiet, they don’t believe it when our voting speaks.
I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”
him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books
me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect
him: [self-destructs]
You’re a monster
As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.
flashback to about 40 years before the Civil War. there was a widely-present but oft-overlooked class of white Americans who were too poor to own slaves, and too expensive to hire (because…slavery). they were described by other classes as ignorant, degenerate criminals.
much like the slaves, they were treated as cannon fodder in the war, and absent conscripts were hunted with dogs.
after the war, freed blacks were considered “humble, quiet, and hardworking” while the impoverished whites were called “illiterate, vicious, worthless barbarians”
this is not to undermine the injustice of slavery – racial or otherwise – in any way, but I do think if white privilege wasn’t even a thing before the Civil War, it’s certainly not a thing today
This entire article is fascinating but
Can we stop romanticizing the confederacy now? The people I’m talking to know who they are
Wide Spread Interests 