myrmepropagandist1d ago
Manufacturing weapons for sale should be a taboo profession like undertaker or executioner. You should have to paint your door black or something and your daughters can't get married IDK. SOMETHING
Show threadLuci Bitchface Angerfoot

@futurebird reminded of the fact that monsanto and lockheed martin have some of the best pay and conditions for disabled employees;

and that if a diabled or trans person gets found out about where they work they reliably get hounded off the internet while the non disabled cis people who work there are left completely alone.

Mar 26 at 1:17amWeb
Show threadLuci Bitchface Angerfoot1d ago
@futurebird it makes me think maybe the solution isn’t always to stigmatise or shun, but to provide other options. It shouldn’t always be coming down on the most marginal in society to sell out (and lose whatever support networks they may have had) or die
Show threadmyrmepropagandist22h ago

@bri7

Well that's typical. This is why I have mixed feeling about giving people who are in the military a hard time (not as great for trans folk but there are a lot of working class people who end up on that route)

What you are talking about is transphobia using "you work for the arms dealer" as the excuse.

I'm talking about something deeper and less about hounding people out of doing such jobs... rather it's a weight, that comes with such work.

That's why I mentioned undertakers.

Show threadmyrmepropagandist22h ago

@bri7

I do think it's always best to NOT be a cop, solider, arms designer or manufacture if at all possible. With the army many of the "benefits" of the job "it can pay for your degree" don't really work out as planned.

Is an arm manufacture really a great place to work if you are trans? Is it a supportive environment? I'd expect it to suck more than most jobs.

Even if they do have benefits. There is always a cynical reason.

Show threadLuci Bitchface Angerfoot21h ago
@futurebird usually because there *is* a stigma that comes with working for certain companies they try and make it appealing in other ways