DigiPen lab poo leads to passive agression on my part.
I'm trying to work up the courage to say something to the people in the row in front of me.
I keep thinking, okay, next time they say something offensive, I'll call them out on it. But then, when they do, I am momentarily shocked, and then I think, "Now it's too late. I'll just seem like some kind of weirdo if I call them out on something they said five minutes ago."
I'm just getting really sick of hearing bitch this, ho that, and faggy what-have-you. Yes, you're joking. I realize that. You're female, and could conceivably believe yourself to be reclaiming "bitch" and "ho." But as Melissa McEwan explained so much more eloquently than I ever could, "reclaiming 'cunt' [or bitch, or fag, or whatever] is about a woman [or whoever is usually the target of the slur in question] wearing it herself and wielding it ironically, which is necessarily as a compliment, not an insult. If I call my girlfriend 'a beautiful cunt' for expertly handling a sexist wanker, that's got reappropriative power. If I call her 'a dumb cunt' because she does something foolish, not so much."
Come on, I'm willing to put up with your inane nonsense noises and cartoon squirrel impressions. I'm more willing than most to put up with your screams and expletives while playing TF2. Could you please just refrain from tossing around misogynist and homophobic slurs while I'm trying to work?
Maybe I'll just write them a note.
I keep thinking, okay, next time they say something offensive, I'll call them out on it. But then, when they do, I am momentarily shocked, and then I think, "Now it's too late. I'll just seem like some kind of weirdo if I call them out on something they said five minutes ago."
I'm just getting really sick of hearing bitch this, ho that, and faggy what-have-you. Yes, you're joking. I realize that. You're female, and could conceivably believe yourself to be reclaiming "bitch" and "ho." But as Melissa McEwan explained so much more eloquently than I ever could, "reclaiming 'cunt' [or bitch, or fag, or whatever] is about a woman [or whoever is usually the target of the slur in question] wearing it herself and wielding it ironically, which is necessarily as a compliment, not an insult. If I call my girlfriend 'a beautiful cunt' for expertly handling a sexist wanker, that's got reappropriative power. If I call her 'a dumb cunt' because she does something foolish, not so much."
Come on, I'm willing to put up with your inane nonsense noises and cartoon squirrel impressions. I'm more willing than most to put up with your screams and expletives while playing TF2. Could you please just refrain from tossing around misogynist and homophobic slurs while I'm trying to work?
Maybe I'll just write them a note.