I agree with this. But as a former hiring manager, VERY rarely are "all things equal" except for race and gender. Has it happened where a more qualified candidate has gotten passed over because of thoughts of "filling a quota"? I have no doubts. But that's also been true in reverse, I'm sure, where a more qualified female, or minority, has been passed over for a white male.
Yes, that's probably it. I, also, agree about cross-body, messenger bags. That's my preference, too. The backpack is also bigger than I imagined. (I looked at it on the Disney Store online.)
There are many real world examples of people with “ethnic” or traditionally female names getting passed over for interviews. It’s something we unfortunately had to think about when picking out a name for our daughter.
You are the person who literally said that you refuse to use "new age terms" for gender identity and will stick to the "established terms." I'm very glad to hear that you've evolved on which terms you consider acceptable for race. But my question is, why are you willing to use modern language to describe race, but unwilling to use it to describe gender identity? What, in your mind, is the difference?
I’m not sure what you mean my cis white heterosexual male. Those terms are strange to me so I stopped reading at that. I never brought any classification up. To me all are equal. I only care about job ability when it comes to work. By the way. My best supervisor is now a women, was born a male. My next is is young black guy with a masters. And a woman with a PHD in chemistry. Followed by dozens of Cubans and Bosnians. They get the work done and are mostly good people. That’s all I care about. They were the best. I hired them.
It’s the intolerant tolerant. They are only tolerant when it benefits them.
Life isn’t fair. You can’t penalize people to make it fair for others. If someone is cleaver enough and willing to spend the time to figure things out and take some chances they can have a nice enough life. If they spend time hanging out smoking dope, having babies at a young age and quitting school not so much.
Every time I think I can no longer be shocked by your comments, you manage to say something even worse. I'm not quite sure how we got from "some people have WAY more to overcome due to life circumstances that are not their fault" to "smoking dope and having babies." Does it make your head hurt to constantly conjure up such incredibly twisted leaps in logic?
Same! My sons and husband acknowledge just how privileged they are, based solely on the gender and skin tone they were born with...
When one "side" is hateful, hell no will I accept it. You (generally) are either a bigot or woefully slow at understanding that "the good old days" where you didn't "have to adapt your language" were only "good old days" for one very small sector of humans.
I love how you jump here from “some people have advantages based on circumstances of birth” to “those who are not successful is due to bad life choices.” Seems like deep down you realize how true the post you were replying to is and you have developed a coping mechanism to allow yourself to believe your success was self made.
A different point of view is like the debate on when you say a Dole Whip is delicious, and I counter with, "I think they're overrated."
Life sure isn't fair, and those who benefit most from it being unfair are happy to keep it that way.
I am an ally and speak out for my gay family members. They don't deserve to be hated on or told they are less than. They deserve inclusion and representation, I will always fight for them.
My cousin is a very nice guy, wealthy family, struggled in high school and college, took forever to get through med school (Caribbean). Fortunately his dad was a hospital president, so he’s an ED doctor. There is no way he’d end up where he is without his wealthy white privilege. My nephew got into one college with a 35 act, my sister blames affirmative action, and not his low grades. They can afford any college.
Being a tolerant person does not mean one has to tolerate bigotry or hatred such as is happening today against those that participate in pride month any more than one tolerates other bad behaviors. Being a tolerant person doesn't mean one must resign themselves to be a doormat. Nor does speaking out against such make one a hypocrite. Nor is bigotry and ill treatment against LBGTQ just another legit point of view to be debated.
