does as Oversimplified did for French Revolution and ques loud drum-roll moment anyone tries to speak
There’s… probably… no point bothering to even say it, but I feel like being new to a certain environment doesn’t really give someone carte blanche to freely throw around phrases that are guaranteed to hurt someone.
And yet it’s a thing. Difficult remarks excused with “being new” or being younger. I once watched someone say some pretty sexist stuff and when I said “that’s pretty sexist stuff” I was treated to a chorus of “YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE HE’S JUST A LITTLE TINY NEW BABY OF 20 YEARS OLD.”
As if… a 20 year old isn’t accountable for saying sexist things. But alright.
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A couple of questions come to my mind when faced with this sort of thing, namely:
- At exactly what age is he supposed to understand that sexism is bad?
And - If no one ever tells him that sexism is bad, how will he know?
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Precisely. That was my counterargument. “So like, at what point is it okay to tell him what he’s saying is wrong?” Apparently never, lol.
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Perhaps the age at which it stops being “He’s too young to know better!” is the age at which it becomes “This is just how our generation was raised!”
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That’s how we end up with “missing stair” people.