How I Learned To Feel Undesirable
This is a nice little piece that goes a long way to show you that even if it’s “just a preference” (lmao), your preferences can perpetuate racist structures and seriously affect people on a personal level.
I have a consulting firm that’s interested me and I’m trying to do a phone interview with them but work keeps throwing stupid training (which I don’t need, because it's a rehash of the same stupid bullshit when I was in the Army) and meetings (today’s was pointless, and I could have taken the hiring manager's call today but didn't because I thought the meeting...
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iggy:
Ahhh corporate bullshit...how I do not miss it. Even when I worked in retail we had constant 'meetings' and 'training' that were utterly useless, pointless, and a waste of payroll. It's like, "Here, we're gonna sit you down for a few hours and tell you stuff you already know. However, this time we're going to tell you using powerpoint presentations and pie charts!"
tmk:
@iggy Lol I hear you. Ironically, I AM trying to get into the corporate world from a different industry. I think there's bullshit wherever you go, and you just have to learn to deal with it the best you can. And today's "3 hour training" (which caused me to miss a chance to talk to said hiring manager again) ended up only lasting an hour and a half, with additional bullshit from the "boss" that nobody cares about. I really need to get out of my current field.
I’m not a Chinese American male, but I am an Asian American male, so I got excited when I first heard about Sleeping Dogs and I loved that the protagonist was a badass Asian male.
So this is what positive representation feels like, I thought. Too bad it’s so far and few in between for people like me in Western media.
Until we're treated as...
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iggy:
I think the same can be said for any minority, or group that's treated like a minority. I can't tell you how little I am impressed with the current onslaught of female characters in mainstream movies and television. White male characters can have nuance, but it seems that nuance and roundness of character is just not available to minorities or women. We have to serve our respective stereotypes, while white men can buck theirs.
tmk:
@iggy It's so tiring that in this day and age we have to fight tooth and fucking nail to break and challenge stereotypes because it's so easy for the (white) Western mass media to pigeonhole us into these stereotypes. I dream of a day when this is no longer necessary, though I'm not holding my breath this is going to happen anytime soon. It's like you said - if a character is a white male, he can have depth, character development, etc, whereas minority and female characters by and large aren't given the same opportunities.
It started when I was in kindergarten, and I was so proud I did not have to go to Bingo class, unlike my friends, because I could speak good English -
although I had no idea what a yellow dog that could spell had anything to do with Chinese.
(I figure out now that it was probably called Bilingual class)
I am lucky. I speak...
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It's really disturbing to me how far some people will go to defend things they like, even when it is clearly problematic.
I’m trying to be positive. I really am. But it’s really fucking hard.
I don’t even know what the fuck happened. I mean 5, 6 years ago things weren't perfect but I felt a hell of a lot better then than I have the last couple of years.
Has anybody ever had a sudden feeling of…not “homesickness”, but a sudden feeling that you don’t belong where you are at that exact moment? I know this sounds weird…it’s hard to explain. I get this feeling every now and then. Maybe it's loneliness.
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duo:
Eck I think @marceline is right. I get it a lot, like yesterday walking down the stairs at work. I fill it with Cheez Its : )
marceline:
@duo yeah cheez it's help :))
Happy for my best friend and looking forward to seeing his daughter (and my “niece”), but kind of feeling down at the same time. I always thought I would beat him to it…I guess not. Goes to show that you can’t have a personal and professional life at the same time. One always has to be sacrificed for the other.
I love watching hockey. It makes my heart race. This coffee might have something to do with it as well.
Wondering if this is the year I finally get a tattoo(s). Probably, to commemorate my 30th birthday.
bronx_:
Tattoos are the best way to remember important events in your life.. I say do it!