even the stuff nobody talks about.
sometimes i guess i think it's really weird when people have no idea about how the government works, or the difference between medicare and medicaid, or that 'sex' and 'gender' are not the same thing. this is a bit of a stem from the same branch of my brain that doesn't understand how people are racist or sexist or any kind of 'ist' that discriminates, but that aside..
over the weekend i was at american apparel in atlanta. i know a lot of people who work at american apparel in various locations across the country and they are all pretty well-adjusted, socially responsible people. however, the people who work at the one(s) in atlanta have made their second bad impression on me. the first took place over halloween, and the second was this weekend. i was eavesdropping on the conversation the cashiers were having when they started talking about how they wanted to get on food stamps, in a way that seemed to make the idea of being on food stamps "cool."
two things about this - one, american apparel has better paid employees than almost any retail store i have knowledge about, way way way over minimum wage. two, after having friends grow up in families on food stamps and hearing my best friend talk about the situations she deals with as a social worker to be, last time i checked people on food stamps were not buying thirty dollar shirts.
i know that i am probably more sensitive to social issues like that than say, the average person, but glamorizing food stamps and poverty is one of the most sickening things i can think of. i wish i would have said something, but all i wanted to do was get out of there.
also, i wrote my new congresswoman, pat gardner, yesterday about hb 1, and she wrote me back ! "Legislation is
not needed to dictate the form of the education or to limit a family's right to choose. We might better expend our energy improving the access to comprehensive healthcare and quality education for all of Georgia's
children." thx pat ! you rule.
also, this came in the mail at work:
cool !
over the weekend i was at american apparel in atlanta. i know a lot of people who work at american apparel in various locations across the country and they are all pretty well-adjusted, socially responsible people. however, the people who work at the one(s) in atlanta have made their second bad impression on me. the first took place over halloween, and the second was this weekend. i was eavesdropping on the conversation the cashiers were having when they started talking about how they wanted to get on food stamps, in a way that seemed to make the idea of being on food stamps "cool."
two things about this - one, american apparel has better paid employees than almost any retail store i have knowledge about, way way way over minimum wage. two, after having friends grow up in families on food stamps and hearing my best friend talk about the situations she deals with as a social worker to be, last time i checked people on food stamps were not buying thirty dollar shirts.
i know that i am probably more sensitive to social issues like that than say, the average person, but glamorizing food stamps and poverty is one of the most sickening things i can think of. i wish i would have said something, but all i wanted to do was get out of there.
also, i wrote my new congresswoman, pat gardner, yesterday about hb 1, and she wrote me back ! "Legislation is
not needed to dictate the form of the education or to limit a family's right to choose. We might better expend our energy improving the access to comprehensive healthcare and quality education for all of Georgia's
children." thx pat ! you rule.
also, this came in the mail at work:
cool !