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If you would prefer to withhold a deserved apology to avoid being perceived as "weak", that's your prerogative. However, making a sexual stereotype and then ref
by commoner 6y ago
If you would prefer to withhold a deserved apology to avoid being perceived as "weak", that's your prerogative. However, making a sexual stereotype and then refusing to acknowledge it is a means of perpetuating sexism. It's true that systemic change is needed to eliminate sexism and racism, but society does not change all at once: every action (including every apology) contributes to the solution.
- OzzyB 6y agoOP isn't weak he's simply pointing out that a simple "opps sorry" isn't enough for radicals like you.
- commoner 6y agobadrabbit specifically used the word "weak": > Rule #1 of negotiation is never negotiate from a position if weakness. As the original comment suggests, this is indeed fragility, you feep weak for being wrong and you would feel a lot weaker if you said it out loud. In my comment, I said that an apology would have been the proper resolution: > In this type of situation, the empathetic resolution would be to apologize for causing the victim's embarrassment, which most likely exceeds your own. And frankly, since you have called me a "radical" and a "commie" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23544865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23544865) because I had made two comments stating that an apology would be the correct approach in the situation, your perception of the Overton window needs some serious adjustment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
- OzzyB 6y agoThe fact that you think you can cite the Overton window as your defense because you somehow think the window has moved far enough that being called a "commie radical" is out of bounds, kinda proves my point. It's not the Overton, it's you.