Dress For ... what?

Dress for success?

Dress for the job you want?

Dress for the dress code?

Dress for what you get paid?

Dress for what you can afford?

Dress for what makes you comfortable enough to work a whole day?

 

 

And of these outfits, which one shows how competent and professional I am at my job?  Which one shows customer satisfaction after dealing with me? 

 

Neither.

 

Clothing can't denote intangible traits, but the corporate world sure acts like it can. "You gotta spend money to make money".   That's wrong.  And it's just another facet of the "keep the rich rich, and make damn sure the poor stay poor" design that has been imposed on American Society.  I have resigned myself to my talent and skill never being valued because I don't look the part and can't afford to look the part wallet-wise or health-wise.

 

 

Reference: The Spoon Theory

 



Aircon Saga 3: Return of the Son of the Struggle with Stupidity

My boyfriend and I were discussing where we'd move in when he comes down to Atlanta. I asked him if he'd mind living where I am now.

He said he'd prefer not given the trouble I've had with this complex.

I don't know what I was thinking. Between the fact I've been robbed here, and the fact that the so-called "security gate"  has not been closed for upwards of two years, a simple Twitter search for #lightbulbsaga should've been enough to remind me.

But no, the universe wanted me to really get the message.

The a/c was out a week ago. I called a week ago, but then Dragon*Con came up, and when I got back it was not fixed, resulting in me not being able to sleep or do much else due to being baked alive.

So yeah, will be glad to see this complex receding in a rearview in the next nine months.

Score One For The Women's Health Team!

Discovered on Twitter (thank you Jake Tapper)  that the Obama Administration has rescinded Bush-era conscience rules that allow doctors/pharmacists/paramedics etc to deny women health care based on their consciences.

A Little Poem From My Uterus And Me

In case you haven't heard, the GOP is doing the  "ask for a spaceship when all you want is a skateboard" thing.  That means they make demands that are extremely outrageous  and back down on them, so that they seem reasonable and conciliatory when they ask for something not quite as outrageous.  And so they can say what  big meanies the opposition are for not acknowledging how accomodating and flexible they've been.

Examples, you need, examples I got:
House Republicans Try to Redefine "Rape"

Georgia bill turns woman into criminal if she has a miscarriage (which Utah tried before, and so did South Dakota) but cannot prove it was a miscarriage.  She will be investigated and if the investigators are not satisfied, charged with prenatal murder, a charge which carries the death penalty.

As if having a miscarriage is not horrifying and traumatic enough by itself -- any woman having one and not having a doctor sign off on the fact that it was just  nature/God's will/an unfortunate accident  will be potentially eligible to be put to death for something she could not control.

My sister has a beautiful little girl about to turn three.  She had a son who went to Timeheart three months after birth.  She is about to give birth to another little girl in the next 60 days.   Every one of her pregnancies was wanted.  And every pregnancy she's had has been a high risk pregnancy; giving birth to my nephew nearly killed her.

She's had a tubal pregnancy and least one miscarriage in her life.  If this bill were to become law, she'd be considered a murderer if she were here and had another miscarriage.  They'd call DFACS on her and take my niece away from her. And jail her when she's already suffering from the loss.

But worse yet?  If a woman has a miscarriage because she was mugged or abused or otherwise injured by an outside party?  They don't get charged. The woman does.

The GOP wants us to be outraged by these ridiculous, misogynistic laws, so that when they offer some other law to punish women for being sexual and for wanting the choice of what to do with their own eggs and their own bodies -- it will seem much more reasonable, and will likely go through without much pushback.

Keep your eyes and ears open.

PUSH. BACK.

SUMMER OF ACTION!!

I go on rants about stuff like this in the Health & Beauty Aids aisle of Wal-Mart.  My friends, and random strangers, all find it very entertaining. 

Watch That Itchy Enter Finger!

Potentially triggery: click past the jump with caution please.