you too will become quite unbearable

when i was born they rushed all the nurses into the room. called the whole hospital. Here’s the baby that doesn’t cry they said

we love to applaud performative masculinity

I was a stoic

this is my favorite fuckin comic ever I have never seen something capture the experience so well

all i will speak of on that divorced man poll is that not once does asgore stick a gun in his mouth

Basically what I'm getting from the present "giving 100% at work" Tumblr discourse is that a lot of people have fairly narrow notions of what blue-collar versus white-collar jobs actually entail. There are in fact manual labour jobs where a significant chunk of your average work day consists of Fucking Around, and conversely, there are desk jobs where you crunch eighty-hour weeks for years on end until you suddenly drop dead from heart failure at age 32. It's absolutely true that you're more likely to end up in a No Fucking Around Allowed situation in a blue-collar occupation, but you can't tell whether or not someone is in that position based purely on whether or not they work in an office. Shit, call centre workers are white collar on paper, and the kind of fuckery a lot of call centre workers are subjected to involves genuine human rights violations.

[ID: First image is a screenshot of tags that say "Anyone who says manual labor jobs can't be hours of fucking around has never seen half a dozen construction guys standing around one (1) member who is halfheartedly poking at smth with a shovel for like an hour." Second image is a photo of ten people in work clothes standing around a hole that an eleventh person is digging, with construction tools scattered around. The workers standing around are labeled, in Hungarian, humán-erõforrás manager (human resources manager), marketing-manager, logisztikai-manager (logistics manager), kommunkációs-manager (communications manager), biztonságtechnikai-manager (safety technology manager), IT-manager, projekt-manager, bellsõ ellenõr (internal auditor), PR-manager, and termékfejlesztés-manager (product development manager). The worker digging is labeled Sanyi (a nickname for Alexander). End ID.]

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.