Wednesday lunch break
A work project on which I've spent a lot of time lately, including several evenings, has now been put on the back burner. I'd been expecting this downshift to occur by summer, though not quite yet. But so long as the project was up front, I was putting a lot of time into it, and enjoying doing so. Now I'll be able to ask for some new projects to fill my time.
They still haven't posted the ad for my replacement!
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I'm cooking an easy veggie BA for lunch :-) [UPDATE: was tasty!]
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A queer person (QP) on Reddit said they were "tired" of poly people using the term "coming out" to describe, um, coming out as poly. QP believes this term should be reserved for LGBTQ+ people because LGBTQ+ people are "born this way" whereas polyamory is a "lifestyle choice".
Do I need a better example than this of how an oppressed group revisits its oppression upon other oppressed groups? My succinct reply was, of course, downvoted.
But, of course, yet, apparently it needs to be said: not all LGBTQ+ people agree that they were born this way, whereas some poly people do think they were born that way.
I've seen some black people claim to be offended by comparisons of the LGBTQ+ struggle for civil rights with the black struggle for civil rights -- there's always a group wanting to believe that their own struggle is more special than your group's struggle. Somehow the depth of your group's struggle is what makes your group -- and thereby you -- special. I mean, we can't ALL be special ...
This is how any struggle for equality turns into oppression, when people switch from focusing on equality to focusing on how they're different and special so they get to tell you what you can and cannot do or say. That's our word, you can't say our word! Stay in your lane. As a [group identity member] this is my place to speak and you should not presume to speak (or even enter). Etc. The switch from oppressed to oppressor is commonplace, and people universally hate being called out on it -- if you call them out on it they say you're being anti-[their group identity].
As I've written before, 21st Century politics has mainly become about how people are special rather than about how people should be treated equally. It's the curse of democracy and ultimately leads us into authoritarianism.
They still haven't posted the ad for my replacement!
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I'm cooking an easy veggie BA for lunch :-) [UPDATE: was tasty!]
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A queer person (QP) on Reddit said they were "tired" of poly people using the term "coming out" to describe, um, coming out as poly. QP believes this term should be reserved for LGBTQ+ people because LGBTQ+ people are "born this way" whereas polyamory is a "lifestyle choice".
Do I need a better example than this of how an oppressed group revisits its oppression upon other oppressed groups? My succinct reply was, of course, downvoted.
But, of course, yet, apparently it needs to be said: not all LGBTQ+ people agree that they were born this way, whereas some poly people do think they were born that way.
I've seen some black people claim to be offended by comparisons of the LGBTQ+ struggle for civil rights with the black struggle for civil rights -- there's always a group wanting to believe that their own struggle is more special than your group's struggle. Somehow the depth of your group's struggle is what makes your group -- and thereby you -- special. I mean, we can't ALL be special ...
This is how any struggle for equality turns into oppression, when people switch from focusing on equality to focusing on how they're different and special so they get to tell you what you can and cannot do or say. That's our word, you can't say our word! Stay in your lane. As a [group identity member] this is my place to speak and you should not presume to speak (or even enter). Etc. The switch from oppressed to oppressor is commonplace, and people universally hate being called out on it -- if you call them out on it they say you're being anti-[their group identity].
As I've written before, 21st Century politics has mainly become about how people are special rather than about how people should be treated equally. It's the curse of democracy and ultimately leads us into authoritarianism.