TRIGGER WARNING: BLATANT FUCKING RACISM.
Ok.
So. Disney Channel’s relatively new show Jessie features a girl nannying for the adopted children of a pair of hollywood moguls. One of these children is the Indian boy named Ravi, who comes into the clip at about 0:50.
This character is pretty much the most blatant racism I have seen on a tv show, especially directed towards kids, in a very long fucking time, if not IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
The whole character hinges on the idea that Ravi is Indian! and has quirky Indian culture! and doesn’t know about American things! and has a lizard named MR. KIPLING and says things like “I AM A HUMAN SAMOSA!!” when inside a sleeping bag and just
that’s it
that’s the joke
the joke is that he is Indian
I mean seriously just watch this clip I cannot even talk about this
The fact that this is airing right now and no one is outraged and Disney is AIRING THIS RIGHT NOW
makes me want to punch things and also cry out of fucking frustration this is terrible
Commenting is disabled on the Youtube video but I just thumbs-downed the fuck out of this video.
UGH WHAT THE FUCK
What the ever freaking loving fuck. I don’t even want to transcribe this nauseating piece of tripe. But if someone needs me to for accessibility reasons, just say so and I will.
This fuckery, I JUST CANNOT EVEN. Apparently the days of Disney marketing cheerful racist garbage as humor and wholesome kids’ entertainment are not as far behind us as some people want to think.
(Source: bannergasm)
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can’t afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
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Analyzing branded napkins at laboratories led to Muruganantham’s first breakthrough. “I found out that these napkins were made of cellulose derived from the bark of a tree,” he said. A high school dropout, he taught himself English and pretended to be a millionaire to get U.S. manufacturers to send him samples of their raw material.
Demystifying the napkin was only the first step. Once he knew how to make them, he discovered that the machine necessary to convert the pine wood fiber into cellulose cost more than half a million U.S. dollars. It’s one of the reasons why only multinational giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble have dominated the sanitary napkin making industry in India.
It took Muruganantham a little over four years to create a simpler version of the machine, but he eventually found a solution. Powered by electricity and foot pedals, the machine de-fibers the cellulose, compresses it into napkin form, seals it with non-woven fabrics, and finally sterilizes it with ultraviolet light. He can now make 1,000 napkins a day, which retail for about $.25 for a package of eight.
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Though he’s won numerous awards (and won his wife back) he doesn’t sell his product commercially. “It’s a service,” he says. His company, Jayaashree Industries, helps rural women buy one of the $2,500 machines through NGOs, government loans, and rural self-help groups. “My vision is to make India a 100% napkin-using country,” said Muruganantham at the INK conference in Jaipur. “We can create 1 million employment opportunities for rural women and expand the model to other developing nations.” Today, there are about 600 machines deployed in 23 states across India and in a few countries abroad.
This sounds like a really neat way of empowering people. I really like how he sees his company as a service, not as a profit-making machine (when he could so easily do so) and rather than hoard the methods of production, he enables it to be easily replicated and distributed so other people can benefit from it, not just himself.
I love how he faked his way into gaming a system that worships money (srsly, a millionaire will get the respect for free shit, but not rural women, let’s think about how fucked up that is) and instead of reproducing the same attitude of hoarding money, he seems to be channeling that into a system of distributing income-producing means. We need more people who think that way, of spreading means of making stuff, rather than controlling them. I bet if the women’s sanitary napkin industry was taken more seriously, someone would find a way to trip up Muruganantham’s efforts to sell the machine.
All things about this are awesome. This guy deserves every award he’s gotten and more. Why can’t we have more people like HIM in the world and especially in the business/industrial world?
(via bossymarmalade)
![bossymarmalade:
- The Brave & The Bold v22, #130
[Image: Four horizontal panels of Green Arrow drawing the bow of Alexander the Great, as the narration becomes increasingly testerical over this feat.
NARRATION: Impossible! Alexander was a GOD! What? It bends?… HE HAS DONE IT!!]
Hey, I loved this legend when it was Rama stringing the Bow of Shiva, an ACTUAL god! Because when she was a wee princess Sita managed to move the table that the bow was on, which no man could do, so whoever could string the bow would marry her when she grew up. And then years later Rama comes to try and snaps it in half by accident and Sita’s all WHOO-EE! That’s my man! and Lakshman says the same thing b/c he loves his brother SO MUCH. And then later some dude challenges Rama with the Bow of Vishnu, and Rama shoots an arrow so high into the universe that it’s still travelling across time and space and will bring about the destruction of the world when it lands. And it was all (literally) EPIC.
Nice effort, though, Ollie, good on ya.
ILU, Bossymarmalade. ♥ ♥ ♥. This is one of the best things to cross my dash EVER.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls9hroyvCc1qj9c0ao1_1280.jpg)
- The Brave & The Bold v22, #130
[Image: Four horizontal panels of Green Arrow drawing the bow of Alexander the Great, as the narration becomes increasingly testerical over this feat.
NARRATION: Impossible! Alexander was a GOD! What? It bends?… HE HAS DONE IT!!]
Hey, I loved this legend when it was Rama stringing the Bow of Shiva, an ACTUAL god! Because when she was a wee princess Sita managed to move the table that the bow was on, which no man could do, so whoever could string the bow would marry her when she grew up. And then years later Rama comes to try and snaps it in half by accident and Sita’s all WHOO-EE! That’s my man! and Lakshman says the same thing b/c he loves his brother SO MUCH. And then later some dude challenges Rama with the Bow of Vishnu, and Rama shoots an arrow so high into the universe that it’s still travelling across time and space and will bring about the destruction of the world when it lands. And it was all (literally) EPIC.
Nice effort, though, Ollie, good on ya.
ILU, Bossymarmalade. ♥ ♥ ♥. This is one of the best things to cross my dash EVER.