U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.
for those that dont know, that IS hamtaro :) this is the hamster that hamtaros creation was inspired by/based on, not just a random old photo someone took of their hamster comparing it to hamtaro
what people see when they look at me: normal guy. what they don’t see: been taking poison damage for 4+ years since i blundered into a cursed swamp and a wicked toad blasted me with slime
Anyways, my increasingly unpopular take in this day and age is that no one is entitled to know anything about an author’s personal life. They put their stories out there for you to judge, they didn’t put *themselves* out there. And expecting queer people to out themselves before you decide whether or not they deserve harassment is just fucking heinous.
The private life as eroded so steeply in the online age that there’s no longer even a cultural expectation of it. Indeed, people have elevated the curtailment of privacy to a virtue, and not only is that disgusting, it is all but GUARANTEED to come back and bite those of us with marginalized social identities on the ass in the next few years. Stop it! Resist the Facebookization of culture!
