y’all love to mock asian nail salon owners so here’s a little background for your dumbasses:
during the vietnam war, many vietnamese refugees came to america, a lot being women and their children. an american actress, tippi hedren, flew to sacramento, ca. to visit a refugee camp. she wanted to meet the women who were living there and figure out ways to support them. many of them had lost their husbands in the war and were now left without an income and many had no knowledge of how to begin to provide for themselves and their children. while there, tippi noticed that many of the women were fascinated with her manicured nails. tippi had gotten the idea to fly her manicurist to the refugee camp to teach the women how to do nails, in hopes of giving these women a way to support themselves and their families. tippi had paid for 20 women from the refugee camp to attend beautician school and help them get their licenses & eventually find jobs. about 51% of manicurists in the u.s. are vietnamese and many of them are direct descendants of these 20 women who were given the chance to go to beautician school at the courtesy of tippi. so next time y’all want to mock and make fun of hardworking nail techs and treat them like shit, just remember that this is all because of the labor and the persistence of their ancestors who came here with nothing.
And if you read those links, you’ll learn that not only is this all true, but Vietnamese refugees revolutionized the manicure industry. Until Vietnamese refugees began opening their own shops, only the wealthy could afford manicures. In 1970, a manicure could cost $50, which is equivalent to over $300 in 2017 (via inflationcalculator.com). Vietnamese manicurists charged 30-50% less than their American counterparts, making manis and pedis more accessible to the middle class. In 2017, you can get a manicure for $20-30 at most Vietnamese places. Without Tippi and Vietnamese refugees, no one but the rich would be able to have their nails professionally done. Just something else to think about when you wanna mock hard working immigrants.
The way people are responding to David Cage telling them that their favorite white twink isn’t gay is both infuriating and hilarious
Like you mean to tell me these people could look over literally every other issue within the game. The overt anti-black racism, the misogyny, the lesbophobia/homophobia, the fetishism of child abuse, the fact that they literally added a patch where you could own your own damn slave was all just minor inconviences to the fanbase (or outright ignored).
But it’s David Cage telling the fanbase that Conner isn’t gay is where the line is drawn.
Okay.
But David “Let’s Make The Lesbians Prostitutes in Bikinis That You Can Kill” Cage was just so trustworthy. It’s a complete shock.
You mean to tell me David “Have The White “Progressive” Tell A Black Man That He Deserves To Be A Slave” Cage is a bad guy with shit morals?
Some solutions may seem so small but this is a greater impact.
BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS GUYS
REBLOG AND DOWNLOAD APP
@yenneferofvengerbergg Look, Darling, maybe this will help you understand the importance of the matter.
IMPORTANT NOTE: the app link in the article is for the California one.
There’s one for every state.
(From the looks of it, I haven’t looked to see if there’s 50 apps.)
[Edit: nope. There’s not one for every state.]
States with apps: California, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Mississippi, New Mexico, DC, Nebraska
More stupid curses for your Dungeons & Dragons game:
Having robbed a leprechaun’s hoard, the party are now themselves at the end of the rainbow. Constantly having a rainbow pointing out your exact location is more troublesome than you’d think!
Having interrupted a rite to a goddess of the hearth, the party has been “blessed” with an aura of deliciousness. It doesn’t specifically compel anyone to want to eat them; it just gives them the unaccountable certainty that if they did, it’d be the best meal they’ve ever had
Having done a favour for an evil dragon who always repays her debts but resents having to do so, the party has been granted the loyal service of a mob of enthusiastically incompetent kobolds who always show up again no matter how many times they’re seemingly lost or killed
Having insulted the god of wealth, the party has been stricken with the absolute inability to tell gold pieces from copper, or vice versa; worse, the curse is contagious and afflicts anyone who tries to help them with their finances, even under duress
Having consumed expired healing potions, the party’s blood has developed healing properties; once word of their condition gets around, they quickly find themselves hunted by parties of rival adventurers who wish to harvest their precious bodily fluids!
More unreasonable D&D magic items: an enchanted ring that appears to grant the wearer occasional strokes of plausibly deniable good luck. What it actually does is confer upon the wearer the near-religious loyalty of a mob of small, extremely stealthy goblin-like creatures who believe that it’s their sacred duty to help the ring’s bearer without allowing their involvement to become known. This works well enough in wilderness or dungeon; problems start to arise when the wearer gets back to town for some downtime, as the ring’s minions have never been outside the dungeon and have no idea how civilisation works, but still feel obliged to help.
i love these goblins and will defend them with my life.
And I must repeat to myself over and over again that clothes are not inherently gendered and it doesn’t make me any less of a dude for wanting to wear this and rock it
ok can we agree that the WORST feeling is when you’re just sitting around consciously procrastinating and you’re just overly aware that each second that passes is more time wasted and you like watch hours pass and you’re STILL procrastinating and you CANT STOP and your panicked brain is trapped inside a body that refuses to be productive and inside you’re screaming but outwardly you’re just eating chips
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