Like this is where Karen energy is needed. You need to be on that “can I speak to your manager” shit. Act like you’ve been double charged for your salad and need a refund.
I understand. You don't have to do that if you're uncomfortable! You can use your voice in supportive or non confrontational ways or help elevate the voices of others ❤️ you have unique gifts that you alone can use
That's really awesome of you -- it's so hard to push past that feeling. I am getting it here and there too as I get older, I am becoming averse to confrontation (but then I get mad at some racist all over again)
No! I really don't like it! I find it humiliating and painful! I just know that if I'm not yelling publicly at people who need to be yelled at publicly no one else will be the first to do it
I am 5'3" and skinny and nearly fifty (!!!) with no money and bad health insurance. I don't want to be getting into nasty Nazi faces and telling them they're shitstains! But it works and for some reason not many others do it so I have to so they won't harm still more people without consequences
I have told off people for being shitheads in public but it always makes my partner mad at me, especially when we travel in the US as a gay couple. He feels unsafe and doesn’t want me to draw attention, which I get and yet *don’t* so I always feel I’m holding back for his sake and not helping enough
I understand; my teens feel the same way; they’re worried I’ll be shot at by some loony with a gun
It is really REALLY worrisome… I am so sorry 😣
People are jerks though… like walking into a farmers market and throwing down your cigarette; me (to Frenchman!): PICK THAT UP!!
He did…
I find that as a short, non-threatening female, I’m able to enter areas where others cannot
When the psycho neighbor was choking the amazon delivery lady
Or the dad going after kids with a baseball bat, after they threw unripe persimmons at his house
It has seriously taken me DECADES
I couldn’t even make phone calls when I was a kid, and it was hard as a teen; or to interact with anyone - adult esp. Was virtually impossible
I wanted to flee
Some of us were raised… to follow rules and “be good” - ie 1/2 the worlds population - everyone who identifies as a woman/girl
I was told long ago by a jerk male prof: “don’t make waves”
Fvck you, prof
