What type of ptsd makes you not want to live indoors
ZombieTheZombieCat
joined 2 years ago
One of the most valuable parts of my MA program (probably the most) has been learning directly from faculty. Especially in understanding theory. That's something I just couldn't grasp straight from the writings, even with secondary texts. Plus the historical context that I wouldn't have considered.
Teaching experience has been valuable, in that I've learned that I hate it and that I despise the institution of academia in general. Yes, my dreams have been crushed by its greed, bureaucracy, and emphasis on the status quo, but at least I won't waste 4-6 more years on a PhD.
I love my field. I love writing and research. I like lecturing and being in the classroom. But working within my discipline is like ten percent of my time. The rest is spent on navigating bureaucracy, actual hours spent answering emails, getting shit approved by admin who know nothing about my field, attending pointless meetings, and office politics. And from what I hear it would only get worse. It's so disappointing. As much as I love my discipline, it's not worth it.
Eta: oh, and can't forget the constant demands and criticisms with jack shit in return. Every student and faculty member is demanding every minute of my time, not a single thing is ever good enough, there's never a single ounce of positive feedback. The closest I ever get is an A on a paper with a bunch of criticisms. The grading I do for other people's classes could have over half the class getting D's based on the prof's answer key, but yeah, it's definitely your TAs grading that's the problem. I think that's all they're paying us (less than minimum wage) for. To shoulder all the blame and the busy work with zero recognition or empathy for our workload.
I read that Denmark releases a list every six months of the skills and degrees that are allowed to immigrate, or get priority or something like that. From looking at the last one I assume they value education, the liberal arts and humanities a lot more than the US.
It ends up being a catch 22. When you want to leave the US because of a lack of upward mobility, social services, jobs in your field, and you can't save because of healthcare, rent, and debt, then how can you have enough money to move to another state, much less another country?
There's this short series on Netflix called Unbelievable. I recommend every single person watch it, but especially anyone who wants / needs to know exactly what it's like to try to report sexual abuse to the police. It's dramatized but it's based on a true story of an 18 year old girl who was sexually assaulted by someone who broke into her apartment in the middle of the night. From the minute she reported it she was treated like a criminal. She was interrogated by cops who criticized her from the second they sat down. She ended up being charged and convicted of making false police reports. She was in some kind of group home at the time. She got in trouble, lost her friends, home, supports, and job. Several years later, the suspect assaulted another woman and was finally caught. I can't imagine the relief and vindication she must have felt. Except that the cops literally allowed the suspect to assault at least one more person before doing anything about it. It's a good thing it happened in another state because if it had happened in the same place they probably would have just arrested the second victim too.
But the depiction in the show is true to life. It's for everyone who has ever said "well if it actually happened then why didn't they just call the cops?"
Apparently plenty of people on lemmy?
I keep seeing more and more comments defending corporations, police, "moderate" politics etc, and arguing against social welfare, living wages, unions, etc. There's been a pretty sudden influx of comments that overtly discourage voting for Biden, pushing third parties, and/or discouraging voting. I can't help but question their authenticity.
It's not that it's implausible for people to be disillusioned with US elections, or to want independent candidates. But they still aren't exactly prevailing opinions. So when a bunch of similar comments show up suddenly in every post about US politics....sorry I'm not buying it, and no one else should either. We all know by now how social media has been used to influence elections.
But the anti-union shit is part of it. It's always like "I believe in workers' rights, but..." And who tf are the anti-shoplifting people? Defending huge corporations for forcing workers to wear cameras and add the additional job of "security guard" to their min wage workload, while constantly having to justify their own innocence? I can't even comprehend defending that. But apparently people enjoy standing up for all the poor wittle multinational conglomerates so thoughtlessly abused by workers and customers. Think of the poor, poor corporations!
Nobody really cared about the long term impacts of hurricane Katrina, and the rich just used it to privatize a bunch of shit, and then they got richer. I wish something like that would be enough to make people give a shit, but we've just been there before.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
Yeah, wasn't this the whole point of capitalism or something? If you can't compete in the free market then gtfo and all that
Have you ever heard of Brock Turner, or maybe Johnny Depp? Good luck getting any women to go near you though.
Besides, these sentences are insane in general and modern first world societies (meaning not the US) do not focus on punishing people like we do. They focus on rehabilitation because it's a service to society, because they actually give a shit about their societies. So the fact that anyone can think that fifteen years of being locked in a cage getting angrier and angrier with no psych help and shit for healthcare "isn't enough," really says something about the people who endorse that.
Thank you, someone in these comments who's rational and not just out for blood ffs
She gets to have a life after those 8 years.
Having a life after a criminal conviction in the US is not a thing.
What does calling the cops on neighbors have to do with a manslaughter trial though. There can be people who have a legitimate reason to do that, and then there's those people who are calling the cops every other day, but it doesn't specify. It's just kind of comical that that would be used to somehow legitimate a completely unrelated manslaughter conviction.
Went through the same thing with Ross. Absolute shit show of a company and they treat their workers like trash. Of course we had to sit through a blatant anti union video the first day.