Posts Tagged "ageism"
It’s ok, I know I’m horrid
*update* This blog post is being linked to around the web by people trying to misinterpret what it is I have written. A while ago I wrote my thoughts about how people hold people who identify as ‘skeptics’ accountable for their behaviour and how it might not be fair due to unfair expectations. As I wrote critically about another blogger, she and her friends objected to what I had said and largely made their objections personal. As a result I wrote a post called ’young, female and vocal‘, but since then I have had it explained to me that people abuse me because I’m a horrible person – and not because I’m young, female and vocal despite the fact that ageist and gendered language was being used against me by those concerned.
Poster girl for skepticism
In a recent post titled ’2011′ I wrote out a list of insults I had received last year. One of them was ‘poster child for skepticism’ and people have seemed confused as to why I would consider that an insult. I was actually wrong – I got called ‘the poster girl for skepticism’.
The reason it is an insult is because a) it was intended as an insult and b) it was insulting
To be called a girl equates me with being young and childish. I’m often told that I am young, childish, immature, ‘playing with bigger kids’, ‘running with older skeptics’, ‘throw tantrums’ and similar. Putting to one side my issues with my mental health that often cause me to seem like I’m having a tantrum, and how insensitive peoples comments can be – the world is, it seems, always very keen to remind me that I am indeed young, and that because of this people wont take me seriously.
I support…
