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When you're so ignorant you're accidentally an ally

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[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 36 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The people using it with disdain are part of the problem.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] waz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Realizing people repeat things said by other people without taking the time to understand them should help you understand other people a lot.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

I think this is the original, usually people just shared snippets of it. It has English captions that you can turn on.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

We had people making a fuss because kids learn "Arabic numerals" in school. What did those people expect? Calculus with Roman numerals?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just like the idiot with the form that asked "Heterosexual", "Homosexual", "Bisexual", or "Other, please describe", and he ticked "Other" and wrote "straight".

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“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.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

nepotism is actually bad though

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

It can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be bad.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

another casualty in the culture wars.