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crissle: norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook. I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story. A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right? It is a big deal because i’m a transman. It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview. Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews. At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple. At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person. TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life. This kind of thing is why I never feel too bad when I walk into Target intending to get conditioner and end up spending hundreds. Reason #6,363,647,383 why Target »»»» Walmart all day, everyday for me. I’m all in for a corporation that treats their employees with the respect we ALL deserve regardless of our differences.
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crissle: norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook. I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story. A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right? It is a big deal because i’m a transman. It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview. Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews. At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple. At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person. TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life. This kind of thing is why I never feel too bad when I walk into Target intending to get conditioner and end up spending hundreds. Reason #6,363,647,383 why Target »»»» Walmart all day, everyday for me. I’m all in for a corporation that treats their employees with the respect we ALL deserve regardless of our differences.
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crissle: norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook. I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story. A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right? It is a big deal because i’m a transman. It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview. Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews. At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple. At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person. TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life. This kind of thing is why I never feel too bad when I walk into Target intending to get conditioner and end up spending hundreds. Reason #6,363,647,383 why Target »»»» Walmart all day, everyday for me. I’m all in for a corporation that treats their employees with the respect we ALL deserve regardless of our differences.
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crissle: norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook. I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story. A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right? It is a big deal because i’m a transman. It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview. Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews. At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple. At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person. TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life. This kind of thing is why I never feel too bad when I walk into Target intending to get conditioner and end up spending hundreds. Reason #6,363,647,383 why Target »»»» Walmart all day, everyday for me. I’m all in for a corporation that treats their employees with the respect we ALL deserve regardless of our differences.
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astrolope:

People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.


I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.

A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?

It is a big deal because i’m a transman.

It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.

Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.

At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.

At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.

TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.


This kind of thing is why I never feel too bad when I walk into Target intending to get conditioner and end up spending hundreds.


Reason #6,363,647,383 why Target »»»» Walmart all day, everyday for me. I’m all in for a corporation that treats their employees with the respect we ALL deserve regardless of our differences.

(Source: astrolope)

Say whaaat?!?!?! Read this then tell me that rape culture doesn’t exist!!! As a whole, these results are most disappointing, but particularly those from the female respondents sadden me immensely as they might help explain a lot about why many date rapes go unreported. Jacqueline Goodchilds is a Professor Emerita, Psychology at UCLA. She is affiliated with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. These results were first published in Sexual Violence: Opposing Viewpoints, 2003, print edition.
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Say whaaat?!?!?!

Read this then tell me that rape culture doesn’t exist!!! As a whole, these results are most disappointing, but particularly those from the female respondents sadden me immensely as they might help explain a lot about why many date rapes go unreported.

Jacqueline Goodchilds is a Professor Emerita, Psychology at UCLA. She is affiliated with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. These results were first published in Sexual Violence: Opposing Viewpoints, 2003, print edition.

Brazilian Models Don Brillo Pad Hair to Celebrate Black Women

There have been a rash of these events of late. If it’s not models in ‘blackface’, it’s an attack on Black hair. All are explained under the guise of some sort of tribute or celebration of Black or African culture, but Blacks and Africans never feel the love quite the way it was supposedly intended. Without any regard to the rampant criticism, no one seems to understand the message that this is not OK.

Can someone help me understand why creative directors think it is OK to make Blacks the butt of tasteless shit such as this? I want to truly understand if maybe as a Black woman I’m just being sensitive, thus missing something pivotal.

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