• Feminist Bookstore Made Famous on Portlandia Posts “Fuck Portlandia” Sign
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[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;51136241]Show me a feminist strip club![/QUOTE] Make loud comments about their tits. If someone comes and complains, you've found it. Alternatively, if you don't like yelling, see if you can figure out how much they make. Feminists tend to also be in favor of higher wages in general. [editline]2nd October 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=proboardslol;51139497]How does a feminist bookstore stay afloat. In fact, how does any bookstore that's not Barnes and Noble stay afloat?[/QUOTE] Usually by attaching a coffee shop to it.
[QUOTE=stupid07er;51139505]Probably by catering to a very specific market. Feminists, for example.[/QUOTE] Literally just niches. You won't find your Harry Potters or your hottest new Dan Brown books in a non-mainstream book store because they literally cannot compete with a named brand store. To stay afloat they'd need to increase mark up on the books, which nobody will pay when they can likely just go down the road to a bigger, brandier store. Instead you cater for books and genres that nobody else will. Whilst wandering around London with some friends, one of them vanished off into a bookstore that had been around for a few decades. Their only target market was weird occult stuff. Which you're never going to find in a big store, and the books aren't cheap as a result. Apparently being in there was quite an experience as there was some weird cult shit going down in the basement level (which just happened to be where the books my friend was interested in were). Nothing really too mindblowing about how these places stay afloat tbh.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51137692]Hold up, i thought Gentrification was a good thing? What the fuck? How is Gentrification bad?[/QUOTE] Gentrification can lead to people being kicked out their homes, effectively making them homeless.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51137692]Hold up, i thought Gentrification was a good thing? What the fuck? How is Gentrification bad?[/QUOTE] it can increase the cost of living for people who have been living in the city for years
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;51136241]Show me a feminist strip club![/QUOTE] According to feminism, women make their own choices so women can chose to be stripper so according to feminist theory any strip club is feminist strip club. Case closed. (women being forced to dancing is different subject because any gender can be forced to do anything)
[QUOTE=Phycosymo;51136937]A lot of the jokes make sense if you've ever lived in the west coast it's just that the show screams "pretentious coffee shop" to me. To be fair it is a show about Portland, so there.[/QUOTE] I thought the show makes fun of the "pretentious coffee shop" [QUOTE=AaronM202;51137692]Hold up, i thought Gentrification was a good thing? What the fuck? How is Gentrification bad?[/QUOTE] Basically gentrification means a couple of things. a) more security and business in the area b) an influx of both older people and richer families with small kids c) the outflux of young adults who can no longer afford the places d) a loss of "local culture"
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;51137914][url]http://www.pbs.org/pov/flagwars/what-is-gentrification/[/url] ..Apparently.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Big Dumb American;51137918]Mixed bag, that. On the one hand, it's good to see economically depressed areas have new life breathed into them. Local businesses flourish, property values rise, etc. On the other, those conditions also essentially force out the previous residents, who are generally very low income families, because they can no longer afford to live there. In the US, gentrification is also often a racial issue. Well situated, but economically destitute, urban neighborhoods with a predominantly black racial makeup become economic hotspots for outside investors. White families move in to enjoy the benefits, while the black residents are pushed elsewhere for lack of ability to afford the new conditions.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Shadaez;51138103]its weirdly both good and bad[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=27X;51138167]For people with money gentrification is great: less crime, less weird shit, less hassle being outside your house. For people without money, gentrification is utter bullshit and pretty soon you can't afford fuck, including your rent.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=nAXiom090;51144644]Gentrification can lead to people being kicked out their homes, effectively making them homeless.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=mchapra;51144648]it can increase the cost of living for people who have been living in the city for years[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=wraithcat;51146678]] a) more security and business in the area b) an influx of both older people and richer families with small kids c) the outflux of young adults who can no longer afford the places d) a loss of "local culture"[/QUOTE] Oooh. Huh. I was always under the assumption it was more of a good thing, well now i know i suppose. [t]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/information.png[/t]
[URL="http://www.wweek.com/arts/2016/09/28/portland-feminist-bookstore-explains-why-they-put-up-fuck-portlandia-sign/"]From the follow up article[/URL]: [QUOTE]And in a phrase familiar from the "Fuck Portlandia" sign, the store cites the "trans-antagonistic and trans-misogynist" nature of the Toni and Candace sketches, declaring "LOL Fred Armisen in a wig and a dress" to be a "deeply shitty joke whose sole punchline throws trans femmes under the bus by holding up their gender presentation for mockery and ridicule."[/QUOTE] I always viewed him dressing as a woman, or Carrie dressing as a man, to be more of a "it's us two doing/starring in these sketches." The main thing the bookstore did to not get much sympathy from me was declining to interview with The Willamette Weekly because they said they wouldn't outright plug a fundraiser for the bookstore, which they then linked to anyway. It seems they're feeling like they're being publicly hated, and reacting to that instead of trying to simply cut ties with the show based on irreconcilable differences. Kind of spooky on researching gentrification, one of the top links is about how Portland is one of the most gentrified cities. Though that could be Google knowing my location.
Gentrification in the PNW is pretty bad mostly because the cost of living is through the roof. I pay $1600/mo for a shitty two bedroom apartment, it's the most reasonable I found. I can describe the neighborhood by saying I'm two blocks from the police station and that I can see I5 from my window Lots of nice things about gentrification, but it also means most people can't afford to enjoy those things. Capitol Hill here used to be the gayborhood, but the influx of Amazon workers (and money) gentrified the shit out of it and pushed the LGBT community out. Now it's just a kitschy tourist version of the gayborhood. Hell, gay bushings have gone up so it's really not what it says it is. Idk exactly how it is in Portland, but it sucks here. Portlandia captures issues common to Seattle too, though
1600$ holy shit. I paid ~335$ a month for a rent I thought that was expensive
I'm on the other side of the river from Portland in Vancouver and my $1400 2 bedroom apt is [I]the[/I] best I could find that was built in the last 20 years.
[QUOTE=Fourier;51150904]1600$ holy shit. I paid ~335$ a month for a rent I thought that was expensive[/QUOTE] The same thing in the San Francisco area would cost you well over $2000 easily
Though in America average salary is much much higher than in EU.
[QUOTE=Fourier;51151750]Though in America average salary is much much higher than in EU.[/QUOTE] These places are pretty well known to have high rent rates and there are plenty of places, even cities that can have rent around your prices.
Yeah Gentrifications a bit of a mixed bag, around here there's a lot of new business, which is nice, but they tend to clash with the culture here, where I've lived has had Mexican restaurants for little over half a century, dubbed "Mexican Town". Suddenly a vodka distillery and fish restaurant open up right next to it. I'm already hearing stories of some of local customers having to move because their rent doubles. I always found it funny when people allow shows to poke fun at stuff around them until it starts poking fun at themselves, then they get pissy.
[QUOTE=Xyrofen;51149566][URL="http://www.wweek.com/arts/2016/09/28/portland-feminist-bookstore-explains-why-they-put-up-fuck-portlandia-sign/"]From the follow up article[/URL]: I always viewed him dressing as a woman, or Carrie dressing as a man, to be more of a "it's us two doing/starring in these sketches."[/QUOTE] I always thought it was just a comedy tradition, going back to Monty Python and, before that, Shakespeare and possibly beyond.
[QUOTE=Audix;51151879]These places are pretty well known to have high rent rates and there are plenty of places, even cities that can have rent around your prices.[/QUOTE] Seattle broke records for increases in rent this year. Cost of living is high too. its a prosperous city. Fourier, you could do fine here - you seem to be a CompSci/Programmer type and that's pretty much what built this city (not rock and roll). I make okay money, but even as only an intern I still get lower pay since I'm in the space industry (less than usual aero or cse intern pay)
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51153635]I always thought it was just a comedy tradition, going back to Monty Python and, before that, Shakespeare and possibly beyond.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I agree with that and that's what I was saying to someone I was discussing it with, though they brought up Shakespeare to give them that credit. To the rent thing: I live just south of Portland and rent is $1200 split between my roommate and myself. One can find some decent living for decent price in the more urban suburbs of Portland, like Beaverton.
It's more than just a comedy thing. It goes way back in theatre too. Back when women weren't allowed to be actors. Obviously that's not the case anymore, but it's still a tradition. It's obvious that they weren't being malicious about it
i always thought it was cool they flipped the roles in some of the skits, it really made some of them funnier
[QUOTE=mchapra;51155758]i always thought it was cool they flipped the roles in some of the skits, it really made some of them funnier[/QUOTE] These ones are some of my favorite [video=youtube;ldQGPwuHhkM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQGPwuHhkM[/video]
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