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Oct. 18th, 2020 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI got my redundancy letter yesterday, and it turns out on top of the redundancy payment my parents predicted, I'm getting paid for 20 working days notice, so another four weeks pay on top of that. Plus what I earned through furlough this month until I was made redundant. So I'm actually not too bad off for money, and genuinely contemplating not even jobsearching until spring when hopefully the country's in a better spot and it's hopefully less of a risk. I don't know, though. I think I'm going to call Citizen's Advice tomorrow and see what my options are, as someone unemployed who doesn't actually want to go to a workplace any time soon.
It's a week until the clocks go back, and everything gets darker. I'm still trying to rearrange my sleeping schedule, so we'll see how that goes. It just feels like nothing's really going to happen until at least Christmas. All I'm looking forward to at the moment is an announcement of a new Sims expansion on Tuesday, and even that's reserved after the Star Wars bullshit they were pushing last time. I'm looking forward to the PS5 as well, but that's over a month away. The American election will be over by then. I'll have had to pick up another prescription. No point pinning any joy on that right now.
It still blows my mind that 'bitch' is so widespread these days. I kind of get it, I mean it's a fun word to say, satisfying. But it literally means dog, if you call a woman a bitch you are literally calling her an animal, subhuman. And it's still so accepted. You can call a man a bitch of course, but the insult there is that you're calling him a woman, which I guess is to a man what being an animal is to a human. Still not exactly positive for women. I still say bitch occasionally, but pretty much only for comedy reasons. I've really tried to cut down on it in my language in general.
It's a week until the clocks go back, and everything gets darker. I'm still trying to rearrange my sleeping schedule, so we'll see how that goes. It just feels like nothing's really going to happen until at least Christmas. All I'm looking forward to at the moment is an announcement of a new Sims expansion on Tuesday, and even that's reserved after the Star Wars bullshit they were pushing last time. I'm looking forward to the PS5 as well, but that's over a month away. The American election will be over by then. I'll have had to pick up another prescription. No point pinning any joy on that right now.
It still blows my mind that 'bitch' is so widespread these days. I kind of get it, I mean it's a fun word to say, satisfying. But it literally means dog, if you call a woman a bitch you are literally calling her an animal, subhuman. And it's still so accepted. You can call a man a bitch of course, but the insult there is that you're calling him a woman, which I guess is to a man what being an animal is to a human. Still not exactly positive for women. I still say bitch occasionally, but pretty much only for comedy reasons. I've really tried to cut down on it in my language in general.
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Date: 2020-10-18 09:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-10-19 04:23 pm (UTC)Ah, I have to remember that about the clocks going back. 0_0; I hope that we will have good news about the American election, but...I honestly don't know right now because of how things are, and that is all sorts of scary. 0_0; Best wishes on the new sleeping schedule!
I can understand what you mean about the use of that word. I only use it occasionally myself for more comedic reasons as you said, but it is sad to see it being so widespread given the actual connotations behind it.
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Date: 2020-10-26 06:35 pm (UTC)