99% Invisible just did a great piece on Sears and how they also functioned to equalize home ownership for people of color in America, because you could get A MORTGAGE AND A HOUSE through the mail. It’s called The House That Came In The Mail and it’s a wonderful history of Sears Roebuck homes as well.
It also highlights how absolutely ridiculous racism can be.
Imagine being so obsessed with if a black person can buy a goddamn nice piece of furniture that you burn catalogs and ban people from buying stamps and make an entire production about the evils of a department store. Because now Mrs. Freeman from a town over who you will never meet can have a nice couch or the Waldens can get a house or a nice newly married couple can have dishes.
And because you can’t make them wait in line for two hours and force them to stare at racist caricatures or call them horrid slurs, you now have to do everything in your power to destroy Sears catalogs. To the point where Sears has to develop means to distribute catalogs that won’t cross your insane, bigoted hands.
on twitter: “I don’t know why but when playing mario kart I get irrational psychopathic rage when racing against baby characters. when I use items to ruin someone’s day I normally might feel some remorse but I feel NONE for a baby character.
This whole bankruptcy thing was a money making scam by the suits who bought out the company back in the 2000s and ran it into the ground.
Not only is the toy store brand not dead, but 30,000 people are now angry as this scheme blocked them out of severance pay and they are now unemployed and unable to return to work when they start up again.
Many toy companies including Hasbro are raising eyebrows at this, as the initial bankruptcy cost them millions of dollars in sales revenue and their stocks took a nasty hit (Mattel being the worst off from it, as Toys R Us closing compounded with steadily falling sales of their products). Advocates are calling this a “bad PR stunt” since the suits want the company to make sales for the holidays.
Hopefully, this will cause enough of a stink to kill it off for good. I’d rather say goodbye Geoffrey as I knew him than have him come back as a reanimated corpse controlled by greedy hucksters who put thousands of people out of work for no other reason than to line thier own pockets and escape the consequences of their own failings.
Toys R Us Canada is still alive and doing much better thanks to the new ownership and the new direction it’s taking. I’m furious about what the thousands of people who lost their jobs in the states are going through with this disgusting fiasco.
A room called ‘The Doll Room’ that’s full of dolls is… mundane.
But a room called ‘The Doll Room’ that only has one doll in it? That’s fresh
If a person shows you their Doll Room and it’s full of dolls, they probably just like dolls, y’know? It’s normal, it’s a hobby
But if they show you their Doll Room and it only has one doll… something’s going on with that one doll!
Important question for tumblr
What about bathrooms?
Which is more unsettling: lots of dolls staring at you in a bathroom, or one doll staring at you in a bathroom
if there are any dolls at all in the bathroom I am turning around and leaving and never coming back
Curlie, I thought you were asking “is it more unsettling to have one bath in a room, or multiple baths?” As a result, my reply to you earlier must have seemed completely incoherent. My apologies.
Honestly if someone was like “this is my bathroom” and it was just a room full of bathtubs I would not know what to do with myself
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