RAVEN//25//SHE/HER//LESBIAN//@godlygaudy is my wife//dont ask me to tag anything unless you’re gonna pay me//im a creepy pervert and my gf loves it
i would like to genuinely request lesbians who are terfs to actually pull your head out of the toilet please. why are you so hateful? why do you think that indulging in the distrustful unempathetic worm in your brain is going to make you feel happier or more at peace? you dont think that putting so much time into shitting on people, your fellow faggots, is going to leave you bitter and gnarled and deeply lonely?
The 2023 Barbie film is a commercial. I’m sure it will be fun, funny, delightful, and engaging. I will watch it, and I’ll probably even dress up to go to the theater. Barbie is also a film made by Mattel using their intellectual property to promote their brand. Not only is there no large public criticism of this reality, there seems to be no spoken awareness of it at all. I’m sure most people know that Barbie is a brand, and most people are smart enough to know this and enjoy the film without immediately driving to Target to buy a new Barbie doll. After all, advertising is everywhere, and in our media landscape of dubiously disclosed User Generated Content and advertorials, at least Barbie is transparently related to its creator. But to passively accept this reality is to celebrate not women or icons or auteurs, but corporations and the idea of advertising itself. Public discourse around Barbie does not re-contextualize the toy or the brand, but in fact serves the actual, higher purpose of Barbie™: to teach us to love branding, marketing, and being consumers.
[…] The casting of Gerwig’s Barbie film shows that anyone can be a Barbie regardless of size, race, age, sexuality. Barbie is framed as universal, as accessible; after all, a Barbie doll is an inexpensive purchase and Barbiehood is a mindset. Gerwig’s Barbie is a film for adults, not children (as evidenced by its PG-13 rating, Kubrick references, and soundtrack), and yet it manages to achieve the same goals as its source material: developing brand loyalty to Barbie™ and reinforcing consumerism-as-identity as a modern and necessarily empowering phenomenon. Take, for example, “Barbiecore,” an 80s-inspired trend whose aesthetic includes not only hot pink but the idea of shopping itself. This is not Marx’s theory on spending money for enjoyment, nor can it even be critically described as commodity fetishism, because the objects themselves bear less semiotic value compared to the act of consumption and the identity of “consumer.”
[…] Part of the brilliance of the Barbie brand is its emphasis on having fun; critiquing Barbie’s feminism is seen as a dated, 90s position and the critic as deserving of a dated, 90s epithet: feminist killjoy. It’s just a movie! It’s just a toy! Life is so exhausting, can’t we just have fun? I’ve written extensively about how “feeling good” is not an apolitical experience and how the most mundane pop culture deserves the most scrutiny, so I won’t reiterate it here. But it is genuinely concerning to see not only the celebration of objects and consumer goods, but the friendly embrace of corporations themselves and the concept of intellectual property, marketing, and advertising. Are we so culturally starved that insurance commercials are the things that satiate our artistic needs?
Recently I learned about tip baiting on gig apps like ubereats and I lost a bit more respect for people. Like really who does that, you understand your literally scamming people. That’s the problem with gig apps they don’t protect their workers at all from stuff like that while their workers are making 3-5$ an hour without those tips.
Tip baiting?
Basically on these gig apps like ubereats you can put in a tip before you get your order so let’s say you put in a 10$ tip, it will show the driver that tip is what they will be getting but after they deliver the food there is a one hour grace period for the customer where they can alter their tip so then the customer will then change it to no tip. There is no punishment for doing this even if your food was delivered perfectly. People do this on big orders or orders where drivers don’t want to deliver it due to other circumstances to “bait” the driver into delivering it then shorting them of their tip.
As a driver you can contact support and sometimes you might be able to get the money back but usually they tell you no.
