We finally received the agenda for tomorrow’s day-long training. And guess what? For the first time since I started attending these meetings, not a single item on the agenda is about race or sexuality. I’m very glad.
Seriously, is it too much to ask not to be humiliated at work based on one’s unchosen characteristics? Is it unreasonable to want that? At work, I want to talk about work and not about how I’m mediocre and suspicious because of my race. I want my race or sexuality not to be discussed at all. At work, I’m not a “white cisgender heterosexual woman.” I’m a professor and a literary critic. I’m things that I trained to be for a long time. Things that I agree to offer up in a labor exchange, which is what a job is. I don’t want to place my physiology into the labor exchange, and I should be able to make that decision.
How is this unreasonable or wrong?
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