NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

  • 0 Posts
  • 114 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 4th, 2023

help-circle



  • Creative analogy. However, it’s not even remotely applicable.

    You’re falling victim to a basic observation bias. You notice the trans people who don’t pass, but you have no idea how many trans people you see that do pass, and you’d never even consider that they’re trans.

    Again, found the “but I’m not even transphobic” transphobe.




  • Same goes for race. The number of times a story starts with “this black guy…” and the story has nothing to do with race is way too high. Especially from white people who just say “this guy” if the person was white. It just shows your implicit (or explicit) bias and that you think of someone differently because of the colour of their skin and you’re attempting to encode that feeling within your language.






  • My boyfriend and I did this by accident in one of the big ass multi floor arcades in Akihabara. By default, service in Japan is so polite, and people are often very indirect, so the employees kept giving us subtle cues to leave that we were both oblivious to. Eventually, we caught on and were like, “Oh shit,” so we headed to the exit. Most of the employees had gathered to wave off customers as they left, but they all looked pretty pissed. We were the last two customers in the building, and they closed the doors behind us.

    I still feel so horrible. It doesn’t help being foreigners and falling right into bad stereotypes 😭