guardians_song: A slightly edited posterized version of King Zephiel from Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken. (Amused)
guardians_song ([personal profile] guardians_song) wrote2013-03-08 03:00 pm

*cracking up* Sweet gad, I have found the SJWs' mothership.

Microaggressions.com (Warning: Either Not Safe For Blood Pressure or May Induce Uncontrollable Laughter.)
Some of the complaints are legitimate. Some of them are just freakin' bizarre.

Let's look at a few of the gems, shall we?

Was biking through town when two women yelled “Konichiwa!” at me…

I’m Vietnamese. And I was born in California.

(Also, where’s the female solidarity?)

Seriously without context here - were the women Japanese? It could have been an honest greeting. People can't ~instantly tell all details of ethnicity at a glance~ you know. My mother's Japanese, and she notes that people keep thinking she's Chinese for some reason - to the point of Chinese people attempting to chat with her in Mandarin Chinese before she can tell them that she doesn't speak that language.

Also, I didn't know being born in California automatically barred you from being able to speak any language but English and automatically made you learn English! Shall we send all ESL-learners here, so they may be bathed in California's magical rays? :D 

(WTH caused the "female solidarity" comment, anyway?! What does that have to do with ANYTHING?)

Often when I bring up that I have Asperger syndrome, people respond by saying something like, “But you seem normal!”  This reinforces the feeling that I have to continue to censor certain parts of my identity to fit in, that I have to hide important parts of who I am.

Sometimes, I am highly tempted to propose an "Asperger's Privilege", consisting of the delusion that you are the only person who has ever had to do something inconvenient or suffered because of the pettiness, obliviousness, and/or blatant stupidity of some human beings. It may not be Asperger's-exclusive, but it crops up with abnormal frequency amongst people either diagnosed with an autism-spectrum condition or displaying all the diagnostic criteria for one.

(Because no neurotypicals have EVER had to censor themselves or hide their true thoughts, amirite?)

“Oh you actually are pretty! We should go somewhere!”

- My mother  to me after my friend plastered my face with make up, slapped a straight waist length wig on my head, and put me in a mini-dress “just for funsies.” I am a plus-size black female with natural hair who generally chooses to dress gender neutral. It made me feel like some sort of backwoods bizarro show, like I only have worth if I am pretty, and that I normally am worthless because I don’t naturally look pretty. I was confused, angry, upset and hurt.

My mother insists on having me wear make-up and semi-formal clothing in order to attend classes, because I "need to look nice", while my male classmates go about in t-shirts and shorts. You don't see me bitching about it.

(And I'm not quite sure where the 'like worth = pretty, !worth = !pretty' comment came from given that context, but if you've never been told outright that "you can't go out looking like that!", you lead a sheltered life.)

“Yeah, I just don’t know what’s up with them, they’re all crazy. All these women are just getting married or engaged, most of the girls in my office too… What’s up with that? I mean, they’re, like, 20 or something. Slow down, girls, no need to make yourselves look bad!”
Said on a bus, by two men behind me, about 25-30-years-old, both with business suits on. I am a 16-year-old girl. I felt angry, humiliated, ashamed, invisible. Those women’s life choices [and their respective partners'] had nothing to do with those men. I felt like I couldn’t do anything right, and that no matter my achievements or my choices, there would always be men to look down on me and criticise me and I wouldn’t have a voice to speak out with.

*cracks up* You honestly think MEN are the only ones who make comments like that?! You HONESTLY think that? Ahaha, boy are YOU sheltered!

(Also, lady, way to not understand issues with people getting married young due to desires for companionship, lust, desires for social conformity, etc. and seriously regretting it later. Particularly if their belief systems strongly disapprove of divorce. Of course, it's all about YOU being invisible and humiliated - fuck all those other people, despite your lip service to them. It's all about YOU, YOU, YOU.

Narcissistic personality disorder sure makes for a lovely persecution complex, doesn't it?)

After seeing I had purchased a copy OF! Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, my father became annoyed and angry. Incredulous, he said “Great, really, feminism? Just don’t start getting pissed every time a guy tries to open the door for you. Guys aren’t going to want to date a girl like that.” My mother supported his statements.
Obviously, this is a bad thing, but - as a side comment, WTH is with the obsession with door-holding? I hold doors open for people all the time! I thank people if they hold open doors for me! Why do people act as if it's such a big deal? What the heck is wrong for just holding doors open for people in general? Why does everyone assume that if a guy holds a door open, it's a matter of RAAAAAH HE MUST BE LOOKING DOWN ON ME? Why not just return the courtesy when you get to a door before him?
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I sincerely do not get it.

“You won’t achieve equality by not knowing how to take a joke.”
Without context? That's true. Unless you're trying to become part of the International Fellowship of People With Persecution Complexes, which knows no creed, color, or other attribute of your choosing.

In honor of MLK, ESPN is running a basketball marathon on MLK Day. While I enjoy the sport
COMMA! especially on an afternoon off from work, I can’t help but wonder if this is just an extension of a black stereotype.
It's... ESPN... you... bloody... idiot... It's... a... SPORTS... CHANNEL...
(Sincerely, what would this person WANT? A poker-tournament marathon?!)

My coworker said that the reason our local high school didn’t have Martin Luther King Day off was because “There aren’t that many black people there to complain about it.”
Cynically speaking? This is true. A business may not have maternity-leave options if there aren't enough working mothers there to complain about it. A school may  not have disability-accommodation programs if there aren't enough disabled people there to complain about it. HECK KNOWS a state doesn't have gay-marriage options if there aren't enough gay people and LGBT-allies to complain about it!

Er, hello? That's a foundation of activism. It's part of the freaking First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
...though "petitioning for a redress of grievances" does sound better than "complaining until things get done around here", I'll admit.

“I wish GPS had an “avoid ghetto” setting!”

My friends facebook status, in denver trying to find her way around the city. She’s a fellow lesbian who is in many of my sociology courses. Makes me feel frustrated, angry and hopeless due to the amount of “likes” it had.

*rolls eyes* I can see the issue here. On the other hand, I would genuinely like a way to avoid the nastier parts of town in any new city without having to automatically keep a careful eye out and ask people who know the area about where the 'dividing streets' are. That's not necessarily an ethnic issue, which I assume is what the complaint is supposed to be here.

I walk out of my office and approach a waiting cab, make eye contact with the cab driver, reach out my arm to open the door… and a white woman rushes past me, gets in the cab, closes the door and starts telling the cab driver where she wants to go. Does she think that she deserves the cab more? Did she see me but assume I wasn’t taking the cab? Did she simply not see me at all (despite touching me as she brushed past)? I don’t know which is worse. I do know that I immediately thought, “next time someone asks me why “all” black women are angry, I’m going to tell them its because of stuff like this”.

*flatly* Bless your heart that you've never had to deal with people who make it abjectly clear that it's not your group against their group, it's their special selves against every other miserable peon on this green earth. And that none of said people were close relatives.