What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it? - eviltoast

I ll start : I have been following a pretty known tech/Linux journalist, and always found he is a fun dude to listen to, with interesting tech takes

The fact that he is also very openly “american conservative” (aka, religious & weapon nut, anti abortion, etc) annoys me, but i keep those things separate. And he does keep it separate too (politics channel vs tech channel), which is a great decision.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m a man, which means I am part of “men.”

    Lots of men are predatory, objectify women and scoff at feminism. Being a man, people just inherently assume I’m like that too.

    I deal with it by engaging only with people who demonstrate the ability to listen and withhold judgment.

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      11 months ago

      That is as sexist as it gets from whatever dumb people think about literally 50% of the world’s population as a monolith

    • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Indeed. Oftentimes they kinda resolve their cognitive dissonance by saying ‘Ah, you got a fiance, you have to say that wink’. As if there is no other logical explanation.