Sep. 7th, 2011 02:55 pm
She should have run faster
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textualdevianceIrritating me at the moment:
-"Let them eat cake" attitudes.
If you're lucky enough to be in a position of privilege which means you've never had to experience a given hardship, please don't prescribe behavior to people who have.
-The implication that bigotry is just a difference of opinion, and it should thus be no barrier to making friends with someone, especially if you have other things in common.
Let me guess: You'd also suggest that rabbits ought to try to make friends with cougars just because they're both mammals, right?
-The implication that fighting for one's rights and complaining about discrimination means you don't care about anything else.
It's true that sometimes people get oppressed-person's-myopia, and that does consume their every waking hour. But chances are good that if all you see about someone is that they're (insert trait here), it's not because they're making a bigger deal about it than they should, but because YOU are.
-The implication that having a non-standard gender or sexual identity, and being open and honest about that, means you're obsessed with sex.
Yes, said folks may on average be more aware of and in touch with their own sexuality, but that has jackall to do with how much shaggery they think about/want/have. Yes, Virginia, there are celibate queer folk.
And for the cherry on top of this: The implication that having a big interest in sex is a bad thing, regardless of one's gender or sexual identity.
-"Let them eat cake" attitudes.
If you're lucky enough to be in a position of privilege which means you've never had to experience a given hardship, please don't prescribe behavior to people who have.
-The implication that bigotry is just a difference of opinion, and it should thus be no barrier to making friends with someone, especially if you have other things in common.
Let me guess: You'd also suggest that rabbits ought to try to make friends with cougars just because they're both mammals, right?
-The implication that fighting for one's rights and complaining about discrimination means you don't care about anything else.
It's true that sometimes people get oppressed-person's-myopia, and that does consume their every waking hour. But chances are good that if all you see about someone is that they're (insert trait here), it's not because they're making a bigger deal about it than they should, but because YOU are.
-The implication that having a non-standard gender or sexual identity, and being open and honest about that, means you're obsessed with sex.
Yes, said folks may on average be more aware of and in touch with their own sexuality, but that has jackall to do with how much shaggery they think about/want/have. Yes, Virginia, there are celibate queer folk.
And for the cherry on top of this: The implication that having a big interest in sex is a bad thing, regardless of one's gender or sexual identity.
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