"As we do with everyone, we can notice the ways in which we are similar and the ways in which we are different. And we should be open to surprises around that."
As well as the particulars:
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better.…
"As we do with everyone, we can notice the ways in which we are similar and the ways in which we are different. And we should be open to surprises around that."
As well as the particulars:
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
This is very contrary the commonly-held view the "my feelings matter, but yours don't." TYTY.
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
Case in point. The same people who demand that I refer to a single person as "they" refuse to stop referring to gay people as "queer." I tell them that I find this extremely offensive and they retort that I suffer from "internalized homophobia." And go on using "queer."
Thank You. I agree with You and Wen Jin. Classic:
"As we do with everyone, we can notice the ways in which we are similar and the ways in which we are different. And we should be open to surprises around that."
As well as the particulars:
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
This is very contrary the commonly-held view the "my feelings matter, but yours don't." TYTY.
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
Case in point. The same people who demand that I refer to a single person as "they" refuse to stop referring to gay people as "queer." I tell them that I find this extremely offensive and they retort that I suffer from "internalized homophobia." And go on using "queer."
Figures, doesn't it.