When you’re so ignorant you’re accidentally an ally
I had a coworker say cisgender was an offensive word. She is typically very openminded and supportive of the LGBTQ+ community so I was surprised.
Turns out she didn’t know what it meant. She just heard people use it with disdain and assumed it was offensive.
I do not understand other people.
Realizing people repeat things said by other people without taking the time to understand them should help you understand other people a lot.
The people using it with disdain are part of the problem.
Even I’m finding the word a bit derogatory because of said people. Close enough to “breeder”. Man, fuck them. I consider myself a staunch ally and then see shit like that.
I knew someone who refused to look up what words meant. If she didn’t know one , she’d guess or infer from context, but never just look it up. I think she had some unaddressed trauma from school or childhood or something
“Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, he has a brother who is a known homo sapiens, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy.”
And most Americans read at a 6th-grade level. Some things never change.
nepotism is actually bad though
As @prettybunnys said, it doesn’t have to be a negative. Worked at a family business where every family member got a shot at working there. Almost every single one of them was more than competent. The ones that were not got fired. LOL, by their dad.
And they didn’t treat an outsider like me with any less respect. Hell, I pissed the aforementioned dad off and he damned near fired me. Fired his son instead.
It can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be bad.
There’s a video in Portuguese of someone going around asking if people on the street supported homo sapiens marriage. It went viral a few years ago here.
We had people making a fuss because kids learn “Arabic numerals” in school. What did those people expect? Calculus with Roman numerals?
Just like the idiot with the form that asked “Heterosexual”, “Homosexual”, “Bisexual”, or “Other, please describe”, and he ticked “Other” and wrote “straight”.
hell, i might do that and write gaaaaay
I don’t even know what a heterosexual is but I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t bring a baby into this world.
another casualty in the culture wars.
