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L'Art et la mode, no. 2, vol. 31, 8 janvier 1910, Paris. Robe du soir en tulle perlé bordée de zibeline. Motifs anciens. Bande de gros tulle d'argent brodé de fleurs d'argent en relief de Milton Abelson, Regent House, Regent Street, London W. Imp. d'art L. Lafontaine, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Une question pour les françaises (French side of tumblr):

Salut! Je sais que la France est la deuxième plus grande consommatrice du manga au monde derrière le Japon. Quelqu’un peut si-vous-plaît expliquez la connection entre la France et le Japon pour moi? (Ou la connection française avec l’Asie de l’Est en général).

En anglais:

Hi! I know that France is the second biggest consumer of manga worldwide behind Japan. Could anyone please explain for me the connection between France and Japan? (Or the French connection with East Asia in general)

Merci!

d’abord, ne t'excuse pas pour ta grammaire, les francophones sont hyper chiants pour la grammaire et franchement tu t'exprimes bien, donc sois fier !

mais j'ai vu que tu voulais t'améliorer, donc je te propose ici une correction du commentaire que tu m'as laissé :

"Ok je comprends ton poste et c’est vraiment pertinent mais maintenant j’ai une autre question parce que sirius et regulus viennent d’une famille très traditionnelle. Pourquoi n'utiliseraient-ils pas le vouvoiement en famille ? Et comment pourrait-on utiliser le vouvoiement pour transmettre un message qui met en valeur la distance entre Sirius et sa famille. Ou est-il absolument interdit de vouvoyer en famille ?"

si tu as le moindre de question sur ma correction, n’hésite pas à m'envoyer un DM, je suis toujours content d'aider un étudiant de la langue française :)

Merci! Vous êtes très sympa et cette correction est très outil pour moi. Aussi vous êtes bienvenue de m’envoyer un DM aussi sur Harry Potter ou le MDZS si vous voudriez

I will never get over the French name for a grizzly–polar bear hybrid :

(For those who don't speak French - grolar sounds like "gros lard" which is the French equivalent of "fat ass")

I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

Basée sur vos compétences actuelles, que serais votre Quirk?

Which is the bookshop for queer people?!?!?!

Hello !

The queer bookshop is "Les Mots à La Bouche" ! It's in Paris; it used to be in the traditional gay district of Paris (le Marais) but had to move so now they're in the 11th arrondissement. I really recommend it if you're in the area : you can ask the sellers any identity in any genre and they will have recommendations. They have a lot of historical books, political treaties, mangas, lot of stuff. The basement floor exclusively for art books, photography books and films ! They have a small section of french classics and a small section of books in english.

And if you walk 5 min, there's a café/bookshop specializing in lesbian & feminist texts called Violette and Co (the also have a general, gay, bi/pan and trans section, and they have trans stickers everywhere ❤️)

Je vois plein de gens sur langblr qui cherchent des chaines youtubes françaises. Je regarde malheureusement quasiment rien en français sur youtube...Est-ce-que, par hasard, quelqu'un aurait un post avec des recommandations qui ne datent pas de 2010 (Cyprien/Norman...) ?

Ji-ah: "You're really campaigning for bitch of the year, huh?"

Rang: "As defending champion, are you nervous?"

Anyway, on fera jamais mieux que ce graphique du LA Times.