We are a women’s only community, so please no male comments.

Edit: thanks all for reporting the hostile remarks! You really are an amazing group of people. Really appreciate how positive so many men have been as well. I see you all and value you ❤️

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
    7·
    20 days ago

    At least my women coworkers in Ottawa were straight-up and in my face with their racism.

    BFH: talking about Chinese people You know that they just don’t value life like we do.

    Everybody Else: looks at me sitting at the same damned table

    BFH: Oh not you Dianne! We all know you’re one of the good ones.

    I’m better equipped to deal with that kind of naked aggression than I am at the kind that’s quiet and sullen when I’m around but that pipes up when I’m out of the room.

      • ZDL@lazysoci.al
        2·
        19 days ago

        I had to move half-way around the planet to get in touch with the half of my heritage that I’d drowned out (to the point of being a total banana) to even understand just how toxic it is to be a “visible minority” (and that term by itself now raises a huge number of red flags for me!) in Canada. So now I push back. Hard.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      19 days ago

      Speaking as the whitest bitch on the planet, and most generally compassionate person in my immediate family: i do not value ‘life’ literally at all, and i challenge anyone to give me a non-mystical explanation that’s valuable in itself, and not just ‘because it’s a thing i am and im really clutching at straws to feel special and important’.

      So now you can tell them that the most anti human life-devaluing bitch you ever met was white as fuck. And that i called you ‘unrefrigerated meat’.

      Edit: Malthus. Von misis. Schlafly. Kissenger. Everyone involved with developing the doctrine of MAD.