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- I come into work and a few of my coworkers are gathered in the lounge.
- Person: Your food is ready!
- Me: I didn't bring my lunch today.
- Person: Well the microwave is done!
- Me: OK, but it's not mine.
- Person: But, it's curry.
- I wander away with a confused look on my face. I am the only South Asian person in my office, though I am sure that I work with people who like South Asian food, too. At a supposedly progressive office in the Pacific NW. I was surprised, because it had been a long time since I had heard anything so ignorant and thoughtless.
I convinced my boyfriend of a year to go to a school basketball game with me (he detests sports, but a friend of ours was playing). I bought our tickets from our vice principal at the door, handing her a twenty and asking, “two students, please!”
She said, “I hope you aren’t buying his ticket.”
Shocked, I tried to laugh, “I did make him come with me!”
She replied, “Well I guess that’s okay, honey. I was gonna tell you to dump him if he made you pay.”
We went to our seats, he was uncomfortably silent and I was cussing her out profusely. I felt angry, devalued, defensive, and pissed by what society forces on him.
Reblogged from microaggressions.
Ridiculous gender roles are very ridiculous.
Facebook status of a classmate. (via microaggressions)
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public boolean isGirlCute(){
if(isComputerScienceGirl()){
return false;
}
…
}I see waaaay too many jokes like this on Facebook about the lack of “attractive computer science girls.” I am a female computer science major (in a small private university), and I initially wanted to try to join this group of friends, who are some of the best CS students in the school. Makes me feel ashamed and disappointed.
Reblogged from Microaggressions. I will always Reblog the posts about Women in Computer Science. It’s a recurring theme over at Microaggressions and that only helps confirm my understanding that women are still generally perceived/stereotyped as not competent Computer Scientists or do not fit heteronormative beauty standards.
I found some sort of comedy club called Tourettes Without Regrets. As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with actual Tourette’s. I feel as if the condition I suffer from daily as been completely co-opted and turned into a joke.
Reblogged from Microaggressions.
Though I don’t have Tourettes myself, I did extensive research on it for a high school science class. So I know that random cussing is only a tiny fraction of what people with Tourettes actually do. It sickens me when ignorant people joke about having Tourettes just so they can cuss indiscriminately and have a laugh about it.
“How does A WOMAN get the idea to study computer science?”—
Made me feel attacked, forced to defend myself; like the speaker thought I was defective for not fitting his stereotypes.
I follow Microaggressions and this is a common theme, one that I find utterly ridiculous. So I’m going to reblog it every time. Anyone who has any vague notion that women are somehow inferior to men at Computer Science needs a reality check. Women are just as capable of being talented Computer Scientists as any man. It’s true that they still make up a minority of Computer Scientists, but their number is growing very rapidly. The incoming Information and Computer Science class of 2013 (my year) at UCI was at least 1/3 female, if I recall correctly; and some of the best programmers I know are women.
““Oh, that’s so cute. Is your boyfriend a tuba player?””—
High school teacher to me, wearing a tuba shirt (I am the only female tuba player in the district). Made me feel devalued and belittled. First of all, I was offended by her assumption that I couldn’t play tuba because I was a girl. I often got comments indicating that people thought I was too small and weak to march with such a large instrument. Secondly, I’m a lesbian, so I was rather upset she assumed I must have a boyfriend.
Reblogged from Microaggressions.
Holy Cow. This is so relevant to my concerns. Gendered stereotypes about musicians and instrumentation is one of the issues that got me into thinking about gender and equality. Anyone can play any instrument to a high capacity and to think that girls can’t play Tubas well, or boys can’t play Flutes well, is utterly ridiculous. (I acknowledge that there are genderqueer people who play instruments too. For the sake of argument I did not include them, but do acknowledge them.)
When my boyfriend’s siblings begin telling rape jokes and expect me to find them funny. When my boyfriend himself sometimes casually uses rape in regards to video games or daily life. I am 19, in Midwestern US. Makes me feel belittled, hurt and misunderstood, like what happened to me is acceptable.
Reblogged from Microaggressions.
I can’t comprehend what it must be like to have to hear people joking with “I got raped by that test” or “I just raped with that killing spree”. It is no joking matter, I’m sure.
My friends and I are planning to go to the Harry Potter movie dressed in costume. Before I could say a word about what I wanted to wear, one girl pointed at me and said, “And you’re going as Cho Chang!” as if it were a given.
Just because I’m Chinese doesn’t mean that I want to dress up as the only available Asian girl character. Why can’t I just be a random Hogwarts student? Made me feel like my options were limited and taken away.
Reblogged from Microaggressions.
When I went to see Harry Potter 7.5 at midnight, the (coincidentally Caucasian) young adult males in the row behind me kept calling this evidently Asian young adult female in Wizarding attire “Cho Chang”. Talk about stereotyping.
My girlfriend’s profile on a forum says that she’s “cuddling my girlfriend”. Someone felt the need to send her a message with the assumption that it was a typo. Made me feel marginalised, second class, and like our relationship wasn’t accepted.
Reblogged from Microaggressions
