When you’re so ignorant you’re accidentally an ally
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
another casualty in the culture wars.
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?
“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
It can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be bad.
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.
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.
Realizing people repeat things said by other people without taking the time to understand them should help you understand other people a lot.
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
I don’t even know what a heterosexual is but I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t bring a baby into this world.
