On One Hand I Do Understand The Concept Of A Job Having A Relative Value In Terms Of Hourly Wage Based

On one hand I do understand the concept of a job having a relative value in terms of hourly wage based on required qualifications, ect, but on the other I absolutely do not understand the way some people talk about how someone is undeserving of payment above a certain value based on what job they do.

We are literally selling hours of our lives in order to afford basic survival necessities. If we want to eat, we first have to sell hours of our lives and skills and labour. If we want to sleep in shelter, drink clean water, have access to medicine and healthcare and transport, we literally have to sell part of our lifetime to working.

And often, its not a small part. I know people for whom an 80 hour workweek is just. Normal. And they're still only just making it by. I know people who are working two jobs alongside their partner's job(s) just to afford to run a small, minimal, two-person household.

Humans aren't meant to live life like this, period. No matter your political stance or perspective on class. Absolutely everyone should be able to have a healthy balance between time spent working and time spent actually living. If you have to choose between eating, doing laundry or getting more than 5 hours sleep between shifts, there's a problem. If you're pulling 60 hour weeks and still barely affording your bills, there's a problem. If your health is declining because you have to work so much just to live, there's a problem.

If your argument is that people need to 'be worth their pay' and not that people should be paid enough that they can do more than just afford the bare basics needed to survive, you are part of the problem.

I don’t see why someone writing stuff for a noncon kink is bad, like, it’s a fantasy. Sure, they can also write out the characters acting out a scene (and some people do!) but also… both of those play into a fantasy it’s not immoral, but if someone just writes noncon, it’s immoral and they must actually be a rapist or want to be a victim or something. I don’t know if it’s just anti-kink stuff in general or what.

Its because a lot of people can't differentiate between fictional actions and real ones. Because someone has to write/create those fictional actions, many people assume its the creator acting via fiction, whereas the truth is simply that its the creator creating something fictional.

Characters "acting out" rape is acceptable to certain people because nobody is actually getting raped, and consent is being given to roleplay actions and emotions. This makes those people comfortable because they humanize fictional characters and consider them to be "protected" by real laws and stipulations. The characters are people, so their lives must reflect those of people in real life. Thus, rape is bad.

By the same simplistic explanation, someone writing a fake rape scene isn't actually writing about rape. They're writing about characters enjoying the contributing aspects of the roleplay. Control, size and strength kinks, trust, ect.

However someone who is just writing about rape, in their mind, is sourcing their enjoyment specifically from the rape itself. From those same things, but they're no longer individual, they're just rape.

Essentially they ignore the fact that they're the exact same thing and dictate that the given consent makes the difference.

This is just an FYI but no matter what issues you're an activist for or a supporter of;

Its okay to need moments or days where you simply don't talk about it.

Its okay to say; "I need to step back for a little bit to recharge and focus on the positives."

Its okay to tell someone you can't be their ear right now because you need to rebalance yourself and focus on your own wellbeing. Its okay to tell people you just want to enjoy this moment or this day and not focus on terrible, awful things.

Moments of happiness and peace are just as important as activism and engagement.

I know that it seems funny, but please stop bringing overly sexual and invasive signs to concerts. Especially if you know the artist is someone who's hypersexualised by the media or know they're not comfortable with being sexualised. If an artist has to call you out (even lightly) on a sexual sign, you should know you've crossed a boundary and are being inappropriate.

Signs telling them you masturbate to them, think about them while having sex, signs about how you want to touch them or things like 'cum on (my face) Harry' might be funny to you, but they're exhausting, uncomfortable and often just disappointing for the artists who are trying to have a good, fun, meaningful show and are trying to have a happy connection with their fans.

Find some other way to get noticed. Its not funny and its not fair.

Honestly if anyone tries to tell you the racism and antisemitic overtones in the Harry Potter books were accidental, remind them she is a fan of Matt Walsh.

As in, Matt “women are most fertile at 16 and teen pregnancy is only an issue because men aren’t responsible enough to marry them” Walsh.

Matt “abortion is evil and arranged marriage is great” Walsh.

Matt “besties with Ben Shapiro and part of alt right news site The Daily Wire” Walsh.

That guy.

JKR isn’t a feminist. She isn’t even a lib. She’s an alt-right Tory.

The film she’s referring to is Matt Walsh’s “What Is A Woman” which if you’re so unlucky you may have seen trailers of the past couple years on YouTube. It’s more or less just him asking queer people to define what it means to be a woman and getting mad at the answers they give before cutting to him narrating why this is delusional nonsense destroying western society or whatever. The whole thing is predictably disingenuous as you may expect, but what’s most important here is this:

“What Is A Woman” is a film you can watch only on the daily wire’s website, and (at least at the time these tweets were made) was only viewable if you were a paying subscriber.

Let me say that again with emphasis,

JKR is, or has been, subscribed to at least one alt-right propaganda site.

You don’t just accidentally stumble upon that, and even if you did, you wouldn’t stay there long enough to pay them money if you were a feminist because half the weirdos who post on the daily wire post anti-feminist garbage, and I’m not even just talking about the forced birth whining or whatever, Brett Cooper has stated before that she would rather lose her right to vote than lose the right to own firearms. Ben Shapiro is a rampant slut shamer. Jordan Peterson spews incel rhetoric CONSTANTLY.

So can we, if but for a moment, stop pretending the ONLY criticism of JKR is that she’s transphobic. It’s not. It isn’t. This isn’t even the only alt-right creep she’s on friendly terms or even openly a fan of. If you want a full commentary on JKR flirting with the alt-right, there’s a video here with screen shots and such. Most if not all of the tweets are still up if you want to verify that this guy didn’t just make them in photoshop.

And if you want some specific examples of the blatant racism, fatphobia, pro-authoritarian, transphobia, homophobia, and good old fashioned misogyny in the Harry Potter books that you can point to the next time a TERF starts a tirade about how JKR is actually GIRLBOSS FEMINIST or whatever to remind them that she isn’t JUST transphobic, there is a very long and extensive video that covers the basics so you don’t have to re-read all of the books just to prove to yourself you didn’t imagine all of that bigotry.

I was actually going to make a compilation of all of this myself before I happened upon these videos in my recommended list on YouTube, I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth here.

[neither video requires looking at the screen as it is just audio commentaries with any images included just being supplemental]