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Examples of prejudice for media article (32)

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13 Jan 09, 9:32 PM
skyfox
UK(EH), 4 yrs

gal_rosa wrote:

Then you're lucky Judy, as my mother reacted pretty badly (and she's generally very sexually liberal, I did not expect it)

Ha, boy, you just reminded me of going back to the States over Thanksgiving. When my 9-year-old cousin asked about my collar, you could have cut the awkward silence with a butcher knife.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

13 Jan 09, 9:44 PM
Degenerate

UK(M), 4 yrs

ECRB checks. I have had to seek advice today to find out if I may recruit in the kink community, as my local council is already doing ECRB's here for care staff - and I do not know if the question about viewing sexual and violent images is one they are using.. any new staff will be vetted under that scheme (and I need to recruit again).

Oh the irony! I have now just had to out myself to the team which supports me to recruit my staff, in order to find out if I can recruit people with a similar sexuality legally. (just as an example.. recruitment within the lesbian community is normal practice for lesbians)

The bizarre thing is if I were to discriminate against a staff member because of their (non kink) sexuality I could be prosecuted under employment regulations.. but on this one I may not employ someone who is kinky and looks at kinky images.

Discrimination - people who like kinky pictures can now be barred from working in millions of jobs... for which their private sexuality is totally irrelevant.

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Edited 13 Jan 09, 9:53 PM by Degenerate

13 Jan 09, 9:45 PM
Iphis_me
UK(E), 4 yrs

skyfox wrote:

gal_rosa wrote:

Then you're lucky Judy, as my mother reacted pretty badly (and she's generally very sexually liberal, I did not expect it)

Ha, boy, you just reminded me of going back to the States over Thanksgiving. When my 9-year-old cousin asked about my collar, you could have cut the awkward silence with a butcher knife.

I'm glad my mother doesn't realise what my collar symbolises. She commented on my beautiful necklace. I haven't even tried - and nor will I try, given her reaction to a very mild mention of SM - to discuss D/s with my mother or any of my family. I just can't deal with the grief, I need them on my side even if they cannot understand some aspects of my life. And then I feel sad because I can't be open with my mum, who in many ways I am extremely close to.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

13 Jan 09, 9:47 PM
Jahc99
UK, 5 yrs

There is prejudice, and there is bias - though there's not a chinese wall between them. Radio 4 tonight had Longhurst spouting her ill informed, emotional reaction to her very tragic loss, and we can be pretty sure that the EP law will lead to more, not less, avoidable deaths and injuries. Broadcast with absolutely no attempt at balanced arguement at all, which is a travety in terms of R4 guidelines.

That R4 let that go out without any hint of balance, does that add up to prejudice?

Why poison your liver when I could eat it for you?

13 Jan 09, 9:48 PM
Degenerate

UK(M), 4 yrs

Jahc99 wrote:
There is prejudice, and there is bias - though there's not a chinese wall between them. Radio 4 tonight had Longhurst spouting her ill informed, emotional reaction to her very tragic loss, and we can be pretty sure that the EP law will lead to more, not less, avoidable deaths and injuries. Broadcast with absolutely no attempt at balanced arguement at all, which is a travety in terms of R4 guidelines.

That R4 let that go out without any hint of balance, does that add up to prejudice?

grr people from at least two organisations would have been very happy to join the debate.

Edited 13 Jan 09, 9:49 PM by Degenerate

13 Jan 09, 9:49 PM
skyfox
UK(EH), 4 yrs

gal_rosa wrote:

skyfox wrote:

gal_rosa wrote:

Then you're lucky Judy, as my mother reacted pretty badly (and she's generally very sexually liberal, I did not expect it)

Ha, boy, you just reminded me of going back to the States over Thanksgiving. When my 9-year-old cousin asked about my collar, you could have cut the awkward silence with a butcher knife.

I think everyone knew what the collar symbolised. But none of them were comfortable explaining an alternate lifestyle to a 9-year old.

My mother probably thinks: at least he's not a girl.

LOL

No, really, my parents like Sukebe.

Probably cause he's not a girl.

LOL

I should stop.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

13 Jan 09, 9:51 PM
Jahc99
UK, 5 yrs

Degenerate wrote:

yep as people from at least two organisations would have been very happy to join the debate.

I bet you were fuming! I had steam, instead of rope, coming out of my ears!

Start mailing Feedback! folks.

Why poison your liver when I could eat it for you?

13 Jan 09, 9:52 PM
Degenerate

UK(M), 4 yrs

skyfox wrote:

I think everyone knew what the collar symbolised. But none of them were comfortable explaining an alternate lifestyle to a 9-year old.

My mother probably thinks: at least he's not a girl.

LOL

No, really, my parents like Sukebe.

Probably cause he's not a girl.

LOL

I should stop.

*chuckles*

Yeh but he is quite pretty, huh!

13 Jan 09, 9:53 PM
Degenerate

UK(M), 4 yrs

Jahc99 wrote:

Degenerate wrote:

yep as people from at least two organisations would have been very happy to join the debate.

I bet you were fuming! I had steam, instead of rope, coming out of my ears!

Start mailing Feedback! folks.

Ah I didnt listen. I couldn't face the torture live. I know I should check it out online... but.... gah! tomorrow daytime. is workin time.

13 Jan 09, 9:53 PM
strictlynormal
UK, 6 yrs

Ishmael wrote:
One of the questions asked at job interviews for posts at quite high levels for some local authorites is 'Is thee anything in your personal life that would cause embarassment to the local authority if it were made public?'

I think that's a careful way to discriminate against people that might be, among other things, kinky.

Prejudice is still hard at work in the private sector too. And you can forget something as extreme as BDSM ..

For a while I worked for a company where the MD felt it necessary to loudly remind everyone, on at least a daily basis, that he felt gays should be burned at the stake and, if possible, endure far worse than that.

He was/is a truly unpleasant and pathetic little man (and yes, he and his wife DID read the Daily Mail!) but I'm afraid that prejudices such as he displayed are still all too common in the commercial world.

Sadly

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