minoanmiss: A detail of the Ladies in Blue fresco (Lady in Blue)
minoanmiss ([personal profile] minoanmiss) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2017-12-15 07:04 am (UTC)

I was sympathetic to the LW until we got to the classist reason and the hastily buried likely homophobia that [personal profile] the_rck unearthed. I wish the LW weren't a bigoted twit because I'd have liked an answer that didn't need to center on their twitdom. This *is* a problem I've faced -- how do I deal with a friend who has a friend who is, for instance, a loud and assertive "if you don't work you should starve" Libertarian, or talks constantly about how science is sterile and evil and inimical to wonder, or is an arrant mansplainer? Things that aren't as easy to point to as bigoted comments or stealing dishwashers, but which I don't want in my space? Where do we draw the wavy lines between putting up with fallible humans and protecting oneself?

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