Hot Take But Praise Is A Good Tool For Encouraging Healthy Behavior. Positive Reinforcement Is Good.

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

laios- "im alienation from manhood and from my body"

falin- "im womanhood thats simultaneously eroticized and condemned as monstrous"

THE TRANSFEM APPLICABILITY SISTERS

a long awaited sequel?

So um, completely unrelated to a conversation I was just having with someone who shall not be mentioned…

Exhibitionism, but in text format? Being made to air out your every dirty thought and desire on a public website where people can see it and resonate with it, nod along and affirm that you’re a horny little mess? Sounds… pretty fun…

Wiring that huge essay didnt make me less horny sadly.

Why NOT

siiigh some things are beyond our control

so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

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I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

Waoh

Look at them they are so cuuute!!