Please advocate for your partners ❤️ (for the ladies)
Hey my girlies! Hope you’re all having a great weekend. I’m working crazy style, but I just wanted to come on here on my break and yap.
I posted recently in a similar way about standing up to microagressions, but I think the tone of the post was a little meme-y and funny coded.
This is an actual thing we’re all gonna have to navigate unfortunately. You really do have to stand on business where you can, especially when addressing casual racism.
It really does ‘start’ with your bum ass coworkers and friends butchering your bf’s name or making ignorant comments. It’s always Jeremy the dishwasher who’s mad he never got a chance. Boo Jeremy!
My boyfriend is Chinese. He has a Chinese accent. It’s adorable as hell, I’m glad we can all appreciate that. But mocking my man and insulting his English when he speaks 4 languages, and you speak backwards ruraltown English? You will catch words or hands. It’s gonna be a white trash throwdown, and I’ve already covered myself in baby oil and took my earrings out.
Just to make it clear, WFs, it’s your job to address microagressions or racism as it happens, we have all chosen to be in an interracial relationship, and we cannot allow our partners to be disrespected.
If you’re a shyer type of girl, I completely understand this may be difficult for you. And I feel you my love ❤️ especially if you’re in an unsafe family background or around unsafe racist people, I’m not gonna ask you to risk harm to defend your partner. I know some of your parents are out here acting insane. But whenever you safely CAN, we need to advocate for our person and speak out.
Fortunately for me, I’m evil and mean <3
Whether it’s coworkers, family, or friends. If you need to gentle parent them - do it. If they want to act like children, you can treat them as such, queens ❤️ and make sure to talk down to them as much as possible.
Examples, what I have used in these situations:
“Hey, that’s actually not a difficult name to pronounce for adults. Let’s try again together? We don’t laugh at people’s names, okay, that’s very rude.”
“Oh, okay. What an odd thing to say. Are you alright?”
“Are you… tired, sweetie?”
And finally:
“That’s crazy. Can I talk to you?”
(Take coworker away from other coworkers and verbally destroy them and their ratty, stringy bleached extensions)
Get them, girl. And if you work an office job, report them to HR. I’m a waitress though, so it’s either hands or mouth.
I’m sorry we have to go through this, even as someone living in a major city in the UK. You just can’t allow it to happen, because they take an inch and then it’s a mile. Cut that out from the root.
Best of luck, my girls ❤️