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sereneParaphrasing a conversation I had with someone in email today:
Them (in a public notice): Wanna participate in this GLBT event, blah blah gay, blah blah gay, blah blah gay activists...
Me (in public): What about bi and trans activists? Why use the full acronym and then go on and on about gay this and gay that?
Them (privately from here on in): It's just a shortcut. Sorry you were offended. So, you wanna participate?
Me: Well, it is one keystroke more to type GLBT than gay, but it's an important thing to be inclusive.
Them: But more importantly, wanna participate?
Me (and here I'm quoting): "No, thanks. I'm not confident that I would be listened to, or that you're a good person to work with, because you don't respond well to constructive criticism, or to calls for diversity."
Them (and god, I would totally quote it if it weren't skeevy to quote PVT EMAIL): Well, hope you'll change your mind. And you're totally off base on the diversity thing. Hey, I notice your last name [editor's note: it's Vannoy, and it's Dutch in origin]. Are you Filipino or Vietnamese? Because one of our members is Filipino, and he rocks.
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Yeah. I got nothin'.
Them (in a public notice): Wanna participate in this GLBT event, blah blah gay, blah blah gay, blah blah gay activists...
Me (in public): What about bi and trans activists? Why use the full acronym and then go on and on about gay this and gay that?
Them (privately from here on in): It's just a shortcut. Sorry you were offended. So, you wanna participate?
Me: Well, it is one keystroke more to type GLBT than gay, but it's an important thing to be inclusive.
Them: But more importantly, wanna participate?
Me (and here I'm quoting): "No, thanks. I'm not confident that I would be listened to, or that you're a good person to work with, because you don't respond well to constructive criticism, or to calls for diversity."
Them (and god, I would totally quote it if it weren't skeevy to quote PVT EMAIL): Well, hope you'll change your mind. And you're totally off base on the diversity thing. Hey, I notice your last name [editor's note: it's Vannoy, and it's Dutch in origin]. Are you Filipino or Vietnamese? Because one of our members is Filipino, and he rocks.
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Yeah. I got nothin'.
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Date: 2009-08-13 09:17 am (UTC)Totally DIVERSITY FAIL.