No, all of that makes absolute perfect sense. I need to be more careful with the way I'm wording things, definitely. I didn't mean to imply that I thought you should be required to (though I think you understood that), it was more of a--well. Me putting my foot into my mouth kind of thing, because I come from places where the communities were small enough and accepting enough that doing a call out wouldn't put me in any kind of danger. (Hi, various types of privilege coming in to play there. Thanks for joining us. >.>)
I guess part of what I said came from a place where, like I said, I'm generally the only one doing the call out (this is all at school, just to be specific). And a massive number of those people are (or present themselves, pretty loudly, as) white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied/nondisabled, neurotypical people, and they're all teenagers (well, except for few teachers who have said things without thinking) who don't know--and unless I am the one doing the calling out, they don't get called out (except for a few specific supportive teachers who I am so thankful for). And so it gets very frustrating very fast to be the only person doing the calling out. You get marked 'PC police', which is a term I also hate--because that phrase, 'PC', takes the concept of trying not to be hurtful and makes it into a negative thing (probably by throwing the word 'political' in there, because politics is ALWAYS a bad thing, and it's ALWAYS fake, so you are therefore trying to be fake-correct). Like, I don't want to cause harm to another person, and that makes me ridiculous. And so it makes people take me less seriously, because then I become the kid who's the PC police.
So basically yes. I need to be more careful when writing these comments because my privilege shows all over the place (oh the irony. Not really.) and I'm sorry you had to deal with that on top of this whole post. I really admire you for making it, either way, and. Yeah. <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2011-01-23 03:20 pm (UTC)I guess part of what I said came from a place where, like I said, I'm generally the only one doing the call out (this is all at school, just to be specific). And a massive number of those people are (or present themselves, pretty loudly, as) white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied/nondisabled, neurotypical people, and they're all teenagers (well, except for few teachers who have said things without thinking) who don't know--and unless I am the one doing the calling out, they don't get called out (except for a few specific supportive teachers who I am so thankful for). And so it gets very frustrating very fast to be the only person doing the calling out. You get marked 'PC police', which is a term I also hate--because that phrase, 'PC', takes the concept of trying not to be hurtful and makes it into a negative thing (probably by throwing the word 'political' in there, because politics is ALWAYS a bad thing, and it's ALWAYS fake, so you are therefore trying to be fake-correct). Like, I don't want to cause harm to another person, and that makes me ridiculous. And so it makes people take me less seriously, because then I become the kid who's the PC police.
So basically yes. I need to be more careful when writing these comments because my privilege shows all over the place (oh the irony. Not really.) and I'm sorry you had to deal with that on top of this whole post. I really admire you for making it, either way, and. Yeah. <3 <3 <3