# You don't know how to do my job, so quit telling me how to do it!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-how-to-do-my-job-so-quit-telling-me-how-to-do-it/306443>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 1, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-how-to-do-my-job-so-quit-telling-me-how-to-do-it/306443 "2005-06-01T20:37:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-how-to-do-my-job-so-quit-telling-me-how-to-do-it/306443/61 "2005-06-02T22:21:28Z")

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> [@5-4-Fighting](#):
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> **MelCthefirst** , blacks do not commit the majority of crimes. If I understand the statistics correctly, more blacks commit crimes in proportion to our numbers, but that does not translate into our committing most crimes. (Yes, I know this a great big hijack.)

Oh, yes, I understand that, however, this wasn’t may point - I qualified the comment with: “we mentally work from what we consider ‘normal’. This may or may not coincide with what is the societal norm.”

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**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-how-to-do-my-job-so-quit-telling-me-how-to-do-it/306443/62 "2005-06-02T22:28:26Z")

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> [@Yeticus Rex](#):
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> I just wanted to break my silence to say that I am sorry for doing that as well. My comment was out of line…I will try to be more sensitive to that in the future. Thanks for pointing that out, seriously.

Look, it’s really no big deal. I’m irritated by it, but I have seen this sort of thing enough times, from enough decent people, that I understand that it’s just not the sort of thing that registers for straight people. We all have different life experiences and we act based on them, and straight folk don’t have the experience of being in a sexual minority that is often completely ignored. You can’t be faulted for that, but I like to speak up and make it clear why it’s hurtful. No harm intended, no harm done.

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**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-how-to-do-my-job-so-quit-telling-me-how-to-do-it/306443/63 "2005-06-16T21:57:01Z")

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> [@Lord Ashtar](#):
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> Well, that all depends. Does the idea of two potato-shaped, 60-something women going at it turn you on?

It means there’s hope for me yet!!!  
Max 😃

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