Let me tell you about an administrative assistant in our office. She’s is rather…well, ignorant and often doesn’t know that some of the things that come out of her mouth are…INFURIATINGLY RACIST - along with the commonplace ignorant mix she vomits out at times. She’s from a very small farming community and I am quite clearly the only Asian person she has ever met (and I’m only 1/2 Asian!) - and obviously the only lesbian she’s even heard of. (The only reason I haven’t killed her yet is because she is never purposely mean spirited and would be horrified to know that she is offensive.)
On the topic of me being a lesbian…she said to me, “Well, I just didn’t know because you don’t look like one of those women!” I can only assume she meant I didn’t look butchy - but sheesh, what a way to put it!
It gets better - she went on to say, “…except that you’ze bowlegged.” What?? I am bowlegged - I won’t argue that - but when did that become some sort of indication of homosexuality? I said, “What? bowlegged??” She said, “Yes, makes me think of cowboys.” You’ve just got to be fucking kidding me. :mad:
Then there was the incident in my co-worker’s office when she looked out the window and saw a group of black children outside. She said, “There are some niglets.” :eek: You must be fucking kidding me. :mad:
Today, she came into my office to ask me about a minority conference. I said I didn’t know if I was going to go and she said, “Well, you went last year - how much different could it possibly be??” I said, “Ummm…well, LAWS CHANGE…” And then we got into a discussion of how people perceive different races. She said, referring to Asian people, “I had no idea you people looked at us differently!” And I couldn’t help it - I said, “Yes, yes, we do. In fact, Asian people think you people are stupid.” :rolleyes: She didn’t get it and I gave up.
She went on to talk about her son and how she and her husband raised them not to think of someone’s race - and now her son is dating a girl who is half Cuban, half African-American. She was clearly frustrated and her general attitude was that of, “NOW look where that got us! He actually believed us!” I told her that her son was right and that they should enrich their lives by learning more about her cultural background - and what a great opportunity to grow and learn it could be. She shrugged.
Seriously, people. What the fuck. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Tibs.
