If it's a friend, I'll make a suggestion to choose a different company if I see they're patronizing a bad one. Most of the time they have no idea that the company in question is a problem. Urban Outfitters, for instance, is really under the radar as far as awful companies go.
Strangers? Hard to tell sometimes, which is why I throw out general pleas to the universe like this.
FWIW, I'm not demanding hypervigilance. That's impossible, and does no one any good. Just asking folks to, when they have the bandwidth, stop and take another 30 seconds to think about the choices they make, and whether those choices might be furthering something that makes someone else's life miserable. I think most people don't even realize how damaging things like mandatory gender roles are. If I can get folks to think about that a little more, then perhaps they'll make different choices, and eventually lighten the load on folks like me.
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Date: 2012-07-03 08:57 am (UTC)Strangers? Hard to tell sometimes, which is why I throw out general pleas to the universe like this.
FWIW, I'm not demanding hypervigilance. That's impossible, and does no one any good. Just asking folks to, when they have the bandwidth, stop and take another 30 seconds to think about the choices they make, and whether those choices might be furthering something that makes someone else's life miserable. I think most people don't even realize how damaging things like mandatory gender roles are. If I can get folks to think about that a little more, then perhaps they'll make different choices, and eventually lighten the load on folks like me.