Phoebe Fletcher http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/05/19/a-sad-day-for-disability-rights/
Oh this is sad. Although it is a good thing that family member carers are finally going to get paid for their work, this bill is really about quickly limiting the liability of the govt following a landmark case won by family carers. The Ministry of Health v Atkinson and Ors. 2001 case found that it was discrimination not to recognise carers who were also family members. That means that family carers were already entitled to pay under case law. This bill limits the rights of those family carers to make historical claims and also limits who is entitled to this money.
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THIS SCENE WAS LITERALLY THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION
#you know it’s bad when you’re less progressive than a show from the 60’s
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Mainsplaining with a Side Order of Racism
Not strictly academic, but close enough. I’m Asian American and was taking a plane back to my university to finish up my PhD in English Literature and teach a composition class. The man sitting next to me asked me why I was flying from the West Coast to the Midwest. I told him I was going to the University of ________.
He asked me why I was going to the university so I told him I teach English.
He says, “You mean you’re learning English.”
“No,” I say. “I’m teaching English.”
“You see,” he replies, “You are confusing the words ‘teach’ and ‘learn.’ You are learning English.”
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Postcards!
I know this is a bit later than I said but my favourite quotes that you sent me were:
1) quashi: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them how we are.” -Anaïs Nin
2) perennialeunoia: ”WHAT DO TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY?”
2) needsmorequeso: “I’ve never met a person who wasn’t important.”- Doctor Who
And I have postcards for all 3. Thank you everyone else for yours too, they were great. I’d send one to everyone but I don’t have enough $$ for stamps is all haha
annekajust replied to your post: TODAY MY FRIEND’S PARENTS BOUGHT ME A NOTEBOOK FOR…
damn they are nice parents. none of my friends parents would buy me anything for my birthday let alone a damned notebook hahahaha. but also happy birthday! when was/is it? hope you had a good one (well ofcourse haha)
Yeah they are the most generous people in the world. I live with them because they are super nice and I couldn’t afford my rentt
I’m going to be 20 on May 23 :3 eeeee
The women in top grossing films hits a five-year low.
I’ve been planning on making a video about this for like 2 months, so I think I’m actually going to do it in the next couple weeks.
here is a thing
I like this
This is BRILLIANT
okay this got 5,000 notes in a day this is gonna be a long summer
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TODAY MY FRIEND’S PARENTS BOUGHT ME A NOTEBOOK FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND I AM SO HAPPY AND ALL THE EMOTIONS BECAUSE MY LAPTOP DIED DURING THE WEEK AND I CRIED SO MUCH.
THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER
CAPSLOCK PERSONAL POST FANTASTIC
Yo every other blog user, I’m really happy for you…I’ll let you finish. But snugglesfordean had one of the best Tumblrs of all time! One of the best blogs of all time!
I found this when I was going through an old Allure magazine today.
I wonder how many words there are now
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Women don’t know Tarkowski
I had written a piece online about the Russian film director Andrey Tarkowski. A few days later I received a mail from a man about by age starting with “How wonderful to see a woman who knows of Tarkowski! that’s quite rare…” and proceeded to write a list of other directors to check if I knew of them (probably hoping to be able to educate me) and about what a great artist he himself was, hoping we could meet.
I replied that implying women don’t know about film history was a bit rude and that his mail seemed elitist and I that didn’t want to meet him.He then answered “I don’t see why it’s such a taboo to discuss differences between the genders! Do you have any idea what the taste of common people is like? It’s not just women, most people don’t know about Tarkowski, what bubble are you living in?”
Which pretty much summed up what a dick he was once and for all…
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Look out, we’ve got a philosopher Nice Guy™ on OkC.
His analysis is to shallow as his personality is to lacking.
