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Work Sucks, Especially When People Get Your Pronouns Wrong
When these types of attitudes and senses of entitlement are presented as "mainstream progressivism", it's not surprising why some people are driven into the welcoming arms of right-wing populists.
When someone refers to someone who wants to be referred to as they/them as she/her (but they clearly look like a woman) and that's viewed as "straight, cis men, carrying implicit power", or telling sob stories about how "At an office holiday party, people kept referring to me with “she/her” pronouns, and by the end of the game I was nearly in tears at what was supposed to be a relaxing, fun work outing. I told them I wanted to sit out because I was being misgendered"
Or the premise that if a person is gender-fluid, it's the responsibility of everyone else who works with them to check their co-worker's social media pages every morning to see what the "pronoun of the day" is so that they don't feel "invalidated" (otherwise you're just a backwards bigot)
It's no wonder how so many people (who would otherwise be pretty moderate) are driven into the far-right.
When these types of attitudes and senses of entitlement are presented as "mainstream progressivism", it's not surprising why some people are driven into the welcoming arms of right-wing populists.
When someone refers to someone who wants to be referred to as they/them as she/her (but they clearly look like a woman) and that's viewed as "straight, cis men, carrying implicit power", or telling sob stories about how "At an office holiday party, people kept referring to me with “she/her” pronouns, and by the end of the game I was nearly in tears at what was supposed to be a relaxing, fun work outing. I told them I wanted to sit out because I was being misgendered"
Or the premise that if a person is gender-fluid, it's the responsibility of everyone else who works with them to check their co-worker's social media pages every morning to see what the "pronoun of the day" is so that they don't feel "invalidated" (otherwise you're just a backwards bigot)
It's no wonder how so many people (who would otherwise be pretty moderate) are driven into the far-right.