We are a women’s only community, so please no male comments.

Edit: thanks all for reporting the hostile remarks! You really are an amazing group of people. Really appreciate how positive so many men have been as well. I see you all and value you ❤️

  • WhyIAughta@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Through the years I’ve been called some heinous things to my face in jest, back where I grew up minorities were few and far between. You learn to laugh it off and not be offended, but then it slowly shapes your view of your own identity, it taught me to be ashamed of who I was, including subconscious racism to my own people which I am still battling with. I realized that to white people I’ll always just be said minority, my friendship just a commodity, and to my own kind I’m too white to relate to, so now I just feel disconnected from everyone.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
      2·
      2 days ago

      I had to move half-way around the planet to get in touch with the half of my heritage that I’d drowned out (to the point of being a total banana) to even understand just how toxic it is to be a “visible minority” (and that term by itself now raises a huge number of red flags for me!) in Canada. So now I push back. Hard.