October 2010
11 posts
“And furthermore, the little tips and lessons in the face of a machine as...”
– A commenter at Food for a dollar — Feministe (via notemily)
i always thought of coupons as something rich people use anyway—cuz coupons in my area are for name brand stuff—and the coupons just barely bring down the name brand to the price of the off brand stuff.
(via radicallyhottoff)
well, the...
“Privileged people will demand facts. Statistics. Your stories about oppression?...”
– Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics (via amberlrhea)
so true.
(via so-treu)
Weight.
Last week, I got a call from my mom about my brother, who is a high-school senior and is currently applying to colleges. He had started the Early Decision application for his first-choice, Ivy League school when he realized that he had never taken the SAT II subject tests they required. Somehow, that requirement had slipped past his checklists, past the guidance counselor unused to working with...
“I often think of the rhetoric used to describe people in challenging...”
– Red Light Politics: A thought on language use vis-à-vis “privilege”
Reblogged for truth.
(via thesciencegirl)
Tumble DC 25: Ryking on privilege →
robot-heart-politics:
ctrain:ryking:
Jonathan, I’m pretty sure this Ryking character is saying white privilege and male privilege do not exist; they are merely philosophical diversion tactics employed by non-white and non-male people. Do you really agree with that?
Perhaps stating that the privilege argument is derailing to more important arguments is a slightly better argument than the...
Emily Post would call this tasteless.
meghancakes:
You’re not supposed to talk about money, right? But I’m going to talk about money.
I am tired of being poor.
I am tired of working hard at a job I don’t particularly like, that utilizes few of my skills and none of my education, only to earn not-quite-enough to live on. Not that my salary is unreasonable; only that student debt is utterly drowning me. I live in the cheapest...
“The generally accepted explanation of why many Americans, even those that are...”
– The Paradox of Middle-Cass Aspiration (via azspot) 