wish yall would stop calling rejection of mainstream beauty expectations as “embracing ugliness” 😦
just bcs i dont wear makeup doesnt mean im “raw” and “embracing my ugliness” im literally just existing… sorry 2 hear about ur messed up self esteem but dont project your issues onto me…
Walmart parking lots are arguably the most humbling place to have a mental breakdown, sitting in your car with the radio turned up and people in minivans loading up discount beanbag chairs from the back shelf
there are no witnesses to a walmart parking lot breakdown, only bed fellows
Target on the other hand? Target knows your secrets, Targets been to your aunts house and seen the untouched couples dish set, it’s been to your best friends basement as she kisses that boy you don’t like
Targets seen you staring naked in the mirror and lamenting your existence, Target has walked with you to the end of the neighborhood for the first time and watched you learn to count to ten on the mailboxes
That strike of fear you feel in an exposed Target parking lot? Target is not a shadow but a window for the unfiltered eyes of God
It’s an extremely popular opinion among middle and upper class white people.
Also, aside from this completely uneducated reasoning as to why minimum wage was created…
I can guarantee that there are tens of thousands of teenagers who have to pay bills and help support their families or are the only financial supporter to their family.
not to mention, if minimum wage was meant solely for high school students how would the business survive when students are in school?? are they only supposed to be open on the weekend? this “unpopular opinion” makes no sense.
Unpopular fact: in the 70s a minimum wage worker could pay for college with a summer job.
Unpopular fact: minimum wage was conceived to be the minimum amount of money a person would need to support themselves and their families when working 40 hours per week.
Unpopular fact: minimum wage was created because working men and women in this nation fought–figuratively in the negotiating room and literally in the streets–for a fair working wage, with sweat and blood and tears and death.
Unpopular fact: military service personnel are not the only people who have fought and died for your rights as American: labor leaders and common workers laid down their lives so that you could have a 40 hour work week instead of 80 hours; so you could have a 2 day weekend instead of none; so you could have lunch and bathroom breaks instead of going hungry and shitting your pants,; so you could have a three day weekend in September.
Capitalism would NEVER dole out basic human decency without literal human sacrifice.