Critter Time!

He'd briefly stare at me and then continue attempting to bash the younger generation for being spoiled in terms of games before I agreed repeatedly that the industry has really matured in a lot of ways and games are more accessible and enjoyable now.

Grumpy Older Coworker saw me staring blankly at the puddle my water bottle left after it exploded in my bag and said “Oof. That’s bad luck” and then manifested a mop to clean it up for me before I could even register what happened.

I mentioned having hypermobility issues and Grumpy Older Coworker sternly + kindly gave me a pep talk about how I need to advocate for my needs in the workplace, and if anyone gives me a hard time about it, to really lay it on thick that Bad Things will happen if I push myself too hard. He was very clear about not sparing anyone’s feelings if a task would be too difficult.

Grumpy Older Coworker made a snarky joke about me getting trained in rolling around some massive garbage containers, but unlike the prior snark about modern gaming in my previous post, it was out of concern for my wellbeing when I have health issues, and the snark was aimed at the person who trained me. He also offered to empty the garbage containers in my work areas if I ever need help with them.

(also I'm sorry if I miss capitalising Black one or two times throughout this, I usually don't really pay attention to capitalisation and most of my capitalisation is just autocorrect, but I'm trying my best)

Before coming across this blog I was under the assumption that it's better to not capitalise the b in Black for the same reason I don't capitalise the first letter in any queer identity, (eg, lesbian and not Lesbian) because to me, decapitalising it says "that's not my name.", in my head, decapitalising it places it on the same level as any other adiective that can be used to describe me, it's not unique and doesn't require a special mention

But after seeing the smarter in seconds vided vou have linked, I understand a lot of Black people prefer to capitalise the b, but I don't really understand why. I'm curious to know why you(as the blog owner) prefer Black with the b capitalised and what aspects of capitalising the first letter of an identity I'm missing

At the end of the day this is just out of my own curiosity and you don't have to answer but id love to hear your thoughts

I mean, I've pretty much said all there is to say about it. It's a sign of respect. It is a sign of your privilege as a white person that for you, it's not unique, it doesn't matter, because Whiteness is something you consider to be default. Y'all believe it to be the Universal experience, you believe it doesn't matter because it goes unspoken. You don't have to ask, because the deference comes with Whiteness at the violent expense of the rest of us- y'all just don't notice that, because you've never had to!