= affirmitive action in the workplace
Is this discrimination, reverse discrimination, reverse-reverse discrimination?
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So...You can choose your gender at will but not your race?
Rachel Dolezal begs to differ.
Personally, if I were in charge, I'd change any form that asks "Sex: (M/F)" to read "Genotype on 23rd Chromosome: (XX/XY)." They can bitch all they want about "genderfluid," but genotype is a cold, hard fact.
This is a nice example of the difference between biological-sex and gender-identity. Ask both on your form, and you're covered.
What a world ... Lmao!
The interesting part of all of this is simply, we (maybe just me) old folks just don't get it at all. I personally have absolutely zero understanding of associating with anything myself other than white, male, heterosexual, educated, married, etc, etc. I see others at face value generally and expect the same in return. I have never met anyone that corrected my assumptions as to gender, race or sexual preference. My world is sheltered I suppose in that regard. The current "trending" world of what you see is not always what you get is very strange to try to grasp. I have a decent education with regards to Psychology, not as in depth as some here, but I think I generally "get it". Does the need for acceptance/sympathy of other aspects of human make-up feed this trend of association with other genders, races, etc? Have we become a species of choose your traits vs. take what you were given? It is very different today than when I was growing up, girls were beautiful and sought after, guys were a bit rougher (as in manly) and worked hard to impress them. A woman would wait for the door to be opened for her, chair pulled out at Dinner, and so on. I am not a dinosaur, but my kids have these traits instilled in them, all 6 of them. My wife and daughters wear dresses to church and we fellas slacks, shirt and tie. I pump the gas for my wife, always. So for me to grasp this whole identifying as something other than what I see is a bit awkward.
Postmodernism - logic is of no consequence, feelings are everything
At the risk of having someone insult me, here it goes. In class we discuss race and society all the time. I am a little less then half American Indian. However, I am very dark skinned. My mom, American Indian, and father divorced when I was about 10 months old. I grew up with my dad and grandparents who were so German, they spoke German all the time. I tell students that I am a big brown Oreo cookie, brown on the outside and white in the middle. Culturally I am German, not American Indian.
I ask the kids what am I German or Indian. the kids all say German, but then I ask them how society sees me. They then say as an Indian, or make a joke about me being George Lopez. As a realist, in society I am an American Indian.
I ask the kids what am I German or Indian. the kids all say German, but then I ask them how society sees me. They then say as an Indian, or make a joke about me being George Lopez. As a realist, in society I am an American Indian.
Good on ya. That kind of schooling is what the kids need.
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