J'ai Dis Salope

While I welcome a majority of the new laws to be implemented this year, I don’t quite understand the required teaching of Gay/Lesbian contributions. Starting 2012 students in California must “receive mandatory lessons” in History classes about Gays and Lesbians, and a ban will be enforced on “teaching materials that reflect poorly on gays.” While I understand the teaching of cultural advancement, …I don’t get how California’s government can justify the need for this. What we want is for Gays, Lesbians, and Straight people to live together in harmony; how does separating their accomplishments do anything good, at all? Is there a “Straight Peoples’ Accomplishments” section in History books, or is that NOT required?

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Facebook status of a classmate.  (via microaggressions)

OMG. this is right up there with every person that I’ve heard complain about “Black History Month” and how there isn’t a “White History Month” or a “White Entertainment Television”. 

I don’t usually tumbl(r) about things like privilege, but given that it’s Black History Month, I feel as though this conversation is at the tip of too many tongues, and from the conversations that I’ve been overhearing recently, I can’t really stay quiet about it, it’s just driving me nuts. (Holy run-on sentence Batman!) When the majority gets it through their brains that they are the societal appointed “norms” and “standard”, it’s no wonder their status (race, gender, sexuality, etc…) doesn’t have to be called out when mentioning their accomplishments.

/rant

(Source: microaggressions)