There are many types of “-isms”. Most -isms start off with a solid starting point, but escelate out of control. I want to forward other -isms, that can not escelate, but needs to be addressed anyway.
I don’t want to make a big deal about this, but none the less, the concept needs to be put out in the open.
My last name Starts with a “W”. Most papers, rosters and methods for taking “turns” or shifts use Alphabetical Order. Also, with the handing out of preowned items for any task, the lower half would have the crap pile.
Yeah, in School it was more of a problem, but I think the problem is still there in real-life.
Females in (I think) most cultures get to change their last name with Marriage. Males are out of luck.
I asked one person what he thought, he offered I changed my name… but then that costs boodles of money.
Does listing from Date of Birth (In respect to Months out of 12, not Years (Ageism))
and taxing/updating car tags etc. Fall victim to the same “crap for the last person” phenom?
Seems like the letter S was always the mode in school. There was never one person with S, it was always at least five or six. It seriously impacted my self-esteem and left me with the feeling that I wasn’t special and no one cared about me.
And that’s why I sold those nuns into slavery, Your Honor.
Changing your name doesn’t cost you any more than it costs a woman, unless you live somewhere really strange.
Listing from date of birth for automobile registrations doesn’t hurt you at all. You can’t get a car until your sixteenth (replace with applicable age if necessary) birthday anyway; thus, your tag expiring on your birthday makes perfect sense.
I can’t really think of an example of needing to be grouped in alphabetical order, coming into play since I’ve finished school. Why not voice your concerns to a teacher, possibly having them alternate from the beginning to the end of the alphabet? My last name starts with a “b”, and while it wasn’t always fun going first, I suppose it wouldn’t be fun going last either.
As far as birthdays and tabs, I’m a December baby, and can’t think of a complaint about it. Hmm, maybe going to the DOL while it’s snowing? Naw, better than being packed into an overheated, overcrowded building in summer. Could you just renew your tabs on an earlier date?
So it** is ** a valid point, and for all of those who think I am a crybaby, I am willing to bet your last name starts with one of the first 10 letters.
I didn’t mean to protest (as much as it came out to be) but simply poke at the concept of it, and ask “If so why so, If not, Why Not?”
Also, from the BBC Link given;
“It could be coincidence but from the view of somebody who has a surname beginning with ‘w’, I remember experiences at school that suggest there may be discrimination,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
I Guess more W’s want to join the fight with me.
