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Dear well-meaning anti-discrimination residence posters,
You're sweet, and advance various noble ideals, and start off so well in your list of factors people shouldn't discriminate by that form some cute acrostic thingy. But then you throw in "faculty"!
Please do not be like the dear, sweet, wonderful guidance counselor, who may have saved my life when I was sixteen, who earnestly explained how he could understand the pain of homophobia because people had made fun of him for being bald. I do not bitchslap you not because your analogies are sound but because they are too funny to be offensive, and you are being kind of adorable in a blockheaded sort of way.
I will gladly admit I am wrong if someone bars all the engineers from the Tim Hortons on campus, or, more trivially, incites genocide of commerce majors. But in general, it is tacky to compare Things People Want To Kill You For (race, gender, sexual orientation...) to Things People May Hit You With A Pool Noodle For If You're Really Loud About It.
You can pry my healthsci jokes from my cold dead hands.
~Maria, who is against stupid discrimination and WILL judge you for drinking American beer or listening to Nickelback.
You're sweet, and advance various noble ideals, and start off so well in your list of factors people shouldn't discriminate by that form some cute acrostic thingy. But then you throw in "faculty"!
Please do not be like the dear, sweet, wonderful guidance counselor, who may have saved my life when I was sixteen, who earnestly explained how he could understand the pain of homophobia because people had made fun of him for being bald. I do not bitchslap you not because your analogies are sound but because they are too funny to be offensive, and you are being kind of adorable in a blockheaded sort of way.
I will gladly admit I am wrong if someone bars all the engineers from the Tim Hortons on campus, or, more trivially, incites genocide of commerce majors. But in general, it is tacky to compare Things People Want To Kill You For (race, gender, sexual orientation...) to Things People May Hit You With A Pool Noodle For If You're Really Loud About It.
You can pry my healthsci jokes from my cold dead hands.
~Maria, who is against stupid discrimination and WILL judge you for drinking American beer or listening to Nickelback.