"your need to trim your beard"
"you need to cut your nails"
"why are you wearing that"
"you listen to Pink..that's a little girly isn't it"
just a couple of the less offensive little nuggets thrown at me this week.....
....fuck it's the 21st century and i thought by now evolution would have progresed human beings far enough to realize that boxing people into your own worldview and insisting that they change themselves to fit it is so incredibly boring and offensive.
just had a week of being in quite a conservative environment with people who espouse liberal ideaology while at the same time actively engaging in homophobic behaviour.
now i love paradox as much as the next person, and in fact this has been a lifetime obsession for me, so i'm always entertained when it appears. my entertainment wears a little thin though when infantilism and homophobia combine to the point where people i work with feel it's ok to admonish me in public like an errant child.
1. i am not your child
2. everyone has a right to their opinion
3. belittling people is not ok
4. homophobia in the workplace is illegal
the unfortunate thing....when i confronted the main offender...she didn't understand what i was talking about and was offended that i would think she of all people was homophobic...."i have gay friends" she tells me. the reality of someone having gay friends and yet acting homophobically towards people was completely lost on her, rather in her mind the one cancelled out the other.
the paradox of belief and action....love it!!
classy icon pete with a bowie fav
true faith - new order
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