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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 23 Oct 2012, 17:17 ---Edit: Also to be frank, it's also perfectly acceptable to say "x is -ist" and refuse to give it your support in any way.
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So long as you don't rip into people who say, "yes, but it's still good story..."
ackblom12:
I'd say it depends on whether or not they're actually acknowledging the problems within it. There is a pretty fair line that a lot of people who enjoy problematic things don't seem to comprehend, and that is not defending the problematic nature of the things they like.
The problem is common in all walks of life, but really seems to come up in nerd/geek culture a whooooole lot, especially in relation to sexist and racist tropes being used. Fantasy art, whitewashing (Firefly and Dark Knight Rises being good examples), female super heros especially. It's rarely the person who thinks it's problematic that pushes the situation into an argument in these cases.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 22 Oct 2012, 15:17 ---
--- Quote from: Patrick on 22 Oct 2012, 13:51 ---I take no shit.
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Get a hearing aid or some other kind of help instead dude. They can't help if your hearing is bad.
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It ain't the "catching shit for being hard of hearing" that bugs me, I catch that from friends and bandmates all the time. It's the "assuming I'm ignoring them and them threatening to sack me from my job for a condition I can't afford to treat without health insurance/income" that pisses me right off. Especially since every single other person in the store has been nothing but wonderful to me, even on days I've screwed something up and made things that much harder for everyone.
This is just one item on a laundry list of reasons I hate this manager anyway, and I am well past the point of putting things gently. I've already made formal complaints about her, once for impeding my workflow with a bunch of arbitrary bullshit, twice for speaking to me disrespectfully in front of a customer. She's never given me the benefit of the doubt in the whole two months I've spent kissing the asses of her and every other one of the people I work with, and frankly I'm tired of biting my tongue til it bleeds just trying not to yell at her outright.
I will do my job, and I'll do as much as I can of what is asked of me. But when somebody threatens me for no legitimate reason, I absolutely will not put up with that shit. Taking your advice, I've brought it up with my store manager that we need to have another talk about this horrible person making things personal.
Carl-E:
Let's all hope she gets promoted to general manager....
....of a different store.
idontunderstand:
Oh ok, well hope she falls into a tiger pit then!
Edit: Tomorrow I'm off to Portugal! Jag ska dansa med vindarna och sjunga valsång med Lissabonjäntorna. See ya in a week.
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