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I will always boost this quote; that’s just the rules. But the image doesn’t have alt, so here’s the key text:
“Sometimes people use ‘respect’ to mean ‘treating someone like a person’ and sometimes they use ‘respect’ to mean ‘treating someone like an authority’
“and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say ‘if you won't respect me I won't respect you’ and they mean ‘if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person.’” https://mstdn.ca/@Schteve/113023778195165583
@inthehands Thanks for reminding me of this (it also matches my current admin/everybody else relationship..)
@inthehands It's one of the best quotes.
I think about it often.
@inthehands @Schteve This is especially true with men and women within the patriarchal society that we live in!! Thanks for this.
@inthehands better yet, how about an actual fucking source https://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/115633137923/stimmyabby-sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean
@nev @inthehands OP hasn't deleted, just changed URLs, so there is still a live link to the original (albeit missing the name usually associated, so possibly a minus there): https://flyingpurplepizzaeater.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean-treating
Although I... don't know how much more functional of a link that'd be -- she just sorta disappeared, stopped posting, in 2018. Maybe, a link to the original blog makes you able to click around and read the rest of her writing?
Which, I guess, you should, imo -- this post wasn't a one-off. She was one of the best wordsmiths of our generation.
... is? was? is?
... FRICK, I'm sorry I just miss her so freaking much.
@nev @inthehands (Also, this is just how it hits me personally rather than Objective True Meaning, but this transcript is missing the part of that adds the most meaning. The ending bit, of
"and they think they're being fair but they aren't,
and it's not okay."
Because, like, they DO. Almost always, that DO honestly think they're being fair.
but they aren't.
and them thinking or wanting it to be fair no matter how earnestly doesn't make it so, and doesn't make it okay. And it's not okay.)