I love that essay. It's the Marked Group thing. People also assume that of other qualifiers like race and religion. I once said to a coworker, "eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you all day." He asked me if that were an African-American saying and I replied, "No, I got it from Terry Pratchett[1]." ahahahahaha.
[1] I didn't, actually -- it turned out when I Googled it to be by some French author. I think I heard it at a SF con where I also discussed Pratchett, hence the confusion.
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I love that essay. It's the Marked Group thing. People also assume that of other qualifiers like race and religion. I once said to a coworker, "eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you all day." He asked me if that were an African-American saying and I replied, "No, I got it from Terry Pratchett[1]." ahahahahaha.
[1] I didn't, actually -- it turned out when I Googled it to be by some French author. I think I heard it at a SF con where I also discussed Pratchett, hence the confusion.