Watson

You are twisted and brilliant. I loves you foreverz.

it is not their job to educate people,

No, but I would think some would take it as a golden opportunity to make sure that the best information gets distributed. "I don't like the assumptions you're making, but I can't be assed to give you better information, go find it yourself, privileged bitch."

Not a quote from anyone nor my assumption of the opinions of anyone here, as I hope needn't be explicitly stated but am stating anyway. I just find it weird that rather than offering proper information to someone asking questions, the feeling is to send that questioner off into the unreliable wilds of the Internet.

You are twisted and brilliant. I loves you foreverz.

You have *seen* him, right? He looks like an uncut little cuddly jumper of a sockcock.

He's a drab mustard shade and ribbed.

It's hilarious.

That's... Yeah, very Watson indeed.

No, but I would think some would take it as a golden opportunity to make sure that the best information gets distributed.

You CAN do that, IF YOU WISH, but it is not your obligation. If my husband says he's Jewish, is it okay for a stranger to ask if he is circumcised? Is he then obligated to "educate" him about Jewish customs? Assuming that because someone is in a minority you are interested in they are then obliged to answer your questions about themselves is a pretty big assumption.

I think if Person A asks Person B any type of personal question and Person B does not want to answer the only polite thing to do is for Person A to drop the subject.

No, but I would think some would take it as a golden opportunity to make sure that the best information gets distributed. "I don't like the assumptions you're making, but I can't be assed to give you better information, go find it yourself, privileged bitch."

The basic problem that I run into, personally, is that being in the minority, there are more of the majority than me. I realize this seems like Obvious Statement, but I mention it because the reason I tend not to choose to be the educator is because I have done it, already, eight billion times before the person walking up, all innocence and good intentions, enters my orbit.

So if I, as the minority, have to be the one to educate the majority, I will have to do it ad inifinitum. I may be the only minority the majority person has ever encountered, but I have encountered many many of her. And probably the last several times, I did explain. But at some point I just can't do it for everyone, at which point, I might refer someone to some good resources available to a person of privilege. That also may include other minorities like me who are less at a point of activist fatigue, and can better continue the education of the (well-meaning, genuinely curious) person.

It's bad enough being repeatedly put in a position of explaining your life to the clueless again and again--it's even worse when it's about something as intimately personal as your genitalia. That's something you save for people you're close to.

It's bad enough being repeatedly put in a position of explaining your life to the clueless again and again--it's even worse when it's about something as intimately personal as your genitalia. That's something you save for people you're close to.

This is a statement with which I instinctively agree wholeheartedly; but then I look at the sheer number of times I've been COMM'd talking about testicles, and wonder where it all went wrong.

but then I look at the sheer number of times I've been COMM'd talking about testicles, and wonder where it all went wrong.

You do talk about them a lot. I should send you over to talk about them in that transgender thread.