Blaargh, haven't hardly written anything in a month or two. I completely lost my funny around June-ish, and while I think it's back, I'm a little tentative about finishing up any of my humor stuff. I'm in a perfect mood for writing angst, but I'm so sick of writing it. Maybe I should try for something fluffy instead--only I really don't have any
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I guess what bothers me so much isn't that it's there as that some people are willing to do just about anything to avoid confronting it. bethbethbeth has a post with several ETAs where she sort of started from a less-than-optimal position, but with thinking about it and listening to other people, she, y'know, revised her opinion and mindset. And that is SO RARE in racial discussions that I just wanted to cry.
Apparently calling people on their racist bullshit is slander now. 9_9
Yeah, I'm really hoping they give witchqueen a personal apology for that.
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That's true, though I don't think it only applies to fandom; IRL, it tends to take the form of being broadsided with 'oh, you're a good , not a ' or something similar :/
This is probably one of the truest and most telling things; in the end there are many we could have easily associated with, but didn't for whatever reason only to find later that so many important things can change.
*nods* Yeah, though I suspect in this case it wasn't so much a change as bringing out something that was previously hidden.
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If it's any reassurance... I'm not one of those people.I don't know every flister's religion, sexual preference, ethnicity, country of origin, or even gender - nor do I care. And if I were to ever accidentally say something offensive I didn't know was offensive (because let's face it, we've all had embarassing moments like that) I would apologize upon being corrected immediately, because I can't stand ignorance.
(Although that said, the term the person used... well, I'd never heard it, but any long term word for "marriage" ought to be looked up in the dictionary before use, because if it's complicated it's probably biased in some way.)
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(Although that said, the term the person used... well, I'd never heard it, but any long term word for "marriage" ought to be looked up in the dictionary before use, because if it's complicated it's probably biased in some way.)Though of course for added fun, apparently most dictionaries don't list it as a pejorative D: Really, I'm not that upset that ( ... )
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