andrewducker (
andrewducker) wrote2009-10-14 07:11 pm
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Gender Test
I'm curious:
Go here and spend 30 seconds choosing some photos. Then come back and fill in the poll...
[Poll #1471192]
Go here and spend 30 seconds choosing some photos. Then come back and fill in the poll...
[Poll #1471192]
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I said (paraphrasing) - they don't need to take cis-gender into account in every internet quiz.
You said: that cisgender people are faced with this all the time and "Which times should they object, do you think, and which shouldn't they?"
I said you could object to anything you liked - and that I'd respond to whatever I liked as well.
And this upset you, because you felt I was rubbing my cis-privilege in your face.
And I can see why you'd feel that - because I was being somewhat snarky. I felt that, as you were implying that you needed permission to complain, or that I was asking you to stop, and I was clearly not doing so, that what you were actually objecting to me responding to you - which felt like you trying to silence me in my own journal. And thus I was snarkier than I should have been, which I apologise for. I wasn't actually trying to say that I'd abandon the conversation if I felt like it - I was saying that if you comment in my journal then I will engage with what you're saying rather than just letting you vent.
But I can see where the misunderstanding came from - and I can assure you that that was not my intent.
So, yes, I'm sorry that I came across that way, and I'll try to avoid this in future (although I'm sure it will happen again).
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