"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas" (original) (raw)
FARSCAPE : PRAYER
→ Just Crichton. Only ever… Crichton. Just him.
love episodes where the plot is “Character tries to take a vacation, but, despite everything, their job exists over there too”
doctor gets caught in a medical emergency on the beach, ghost hunter happens to board a haunted airplane, you just can’t go wrong
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“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”
Happy Black History Month!
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Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It’s going to be vitally important.
Reminder that keeping porn legal means that pornstars have legal protections that they will lose if porn is made illegal. Reminder that keeping porn legal means there are legal standards that can be put in place and enforced which results in better safety for all who are involved in porn’s creation.
Reminder that porn will never stop being a thing. It just won’t. If it’s made illegal, then it will continue to be created and distributed - its just that it will now be done under the table, and with no safety regulations or protections for anyone.
Yes, the hard-right’s ultimate plan is to use porn as a gateway from which to attack queer people, but even if that wasn’t their plan, you should want to protect the legality of porn anyway.
Keeping porn legal means that the chances of sexual assault on those who work in the industry are reduced, and means that victims of assault are able to pursue legal action against their attackers. Keeping porn legal means that human trafficking is decreased, and it gives victims of human trafficking a legally supported escape route that would be lost if porn were made illegal.
Keeping porn legal means that anyone who is involved in making it - regardless of whether theyre making it simply because they want to, or because they’re financially desperate – is granted a measure of protection that they otherwise would not be. People love to raise the “but porn is made by desperate people who sell their body to survive,” but a) some people make porn because they like it, and b) someone who is desperate enough to sell their body will do so regardless of whether it’s legal or not. But when it’s legal, that desperate person has far more protections and is less likely to be taken advantage of than when it’s illegal.
Keeping porn legal protects people. Making it illegal will harm people. It’s that simple.
“But it’s demeaning!”
That’s a you problem. No, really - it’s your opinion is that sex work is demeaning, but I’ve had some really demeaning jobs that were legal and “proper”. Just because a job involves sex doesn’t mean it has less value than being a salesperson, or an accountant.
In areas where prostitution is illegal, human trafficking victims are less likely to be believed and will even be given back to their captors by police. There are countless accounts of cops arresting someone for prostitution, being told they are trafficking victims, accusing the victim of making that up to get out of being charged, and then letting the pimp bail them out and take them back to be trafficked again. Making a job illegal means police have a built in excuse to not believe people who are being abused in that job
Everyone else is right, they’ll start with porn and then come after queer people, but it wont stop there. In 1915 the Supreme Court declared that movies weren’t covered under freedom of speech because they were “too influential and needed to be regulated” which eventually led to the Hays Code. It banned queer people and severely limited the type of roles women and minorities could portray. The code banned interracial relationships and white slavery, but not other forms of slavery. Leena Horne said she lost out on roles for mixed race characters because producers went with white actresses out of fear of the review board rejecting their movies. It forbade “licentious notice” of a woman’s body, which made productions cut down on how often women were in scenes to prevent accusations that male actors had lust in their eyes. Much of the racism and sexism that still exists in Hollywood can be traced back to this era. The review board didn’t stop at censorship, they also used their position to get political ideas promoted or banned from productions. Hays code lasted for nearly 40 years and conservatives still use media from that time as a representation of “the good ol’ days”
The current president has already appointed Envoys to Hollywood and stated he intends to make it another Golden Age of Hollywood. The Hays Code ruled Hollywood during much of the era that gets called the Golden Age
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BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
2x11 - Stakeout
Reason I haven’t been that active lately is because playing video games