*ears perk* Did someone say religion in the workplace?
I feel like I'm one of those people others can't figure out, because I'm not only a church-going, Bible-reading Christian but also queer. When I first started this job, my [very openly gay] co-worker asked if I was okay working with him, and I was taken aback. Not only because he was good enough to ask, but because there are people who aren't okay with it. (My response was, "Well, uh, I've... had a girlfriend, so.")
Maybe I only went out with her so I can use that response? As a kind of proof that "I'm not like those other Christians?" But yeah, we get defensive, because there's this [wholly incorrect] stereotype of what Christians are like, just like there's that "I'm not like other girls" nonsense. (None of us are like other girls. There are no girls.)
This was such a small fragment of your post, but I was very obviously going to latch onto it.
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Date: 2015-12-18 05:51 pm (UTC)I feel like I'm one of those people others can't figure out, because I'm not only a church-going, Bible-reading Christian but also queer. When I first started this job, my [very openly gay] co-worker asked if I was okay working with him, and I was taken aback. Not only because he was good enough to ask, but because there are people who aren't okay with it. (My response was, "Well, uh, I've... had a girlfriend, so.")
Maybe I only went out with her so I can use that response? As a kind of proof that "I'm not like those other Christians?" But yeah, we get defensive, because there's this [wholly incorrect] stereotype of what Christians are like, just like there's that "I'm not like other girls" nonsense. (None of us are like other girls. There are no girls.)
This was such a small fragment of your post, but I was very obviously going to latch onto it.