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Shaking my head.

I'm sorry, I just shook my head at some sexism today.

I asked a customer if he had a rewards card and without skipping a beat he said:
"No, only women have those."

I was stunned into autopilot, and now it's just weighing on me for no good reason other than I just let it be.

I wrote up a brain dump after too. About the damage that's done.

Generations of "He does, she doesn't" and vice versa "She does, He doesn't" has resulted in this warped view of the world. This sexist view that Men and Women are so different from each other.
The reality is that we're all rather unique. and the same thing that has happened to make this absurd sexist gap has also happened again to make a class based society where people are discredited what they do. That only the poor and students work retail, that all trades people are their own class (bogan?) It's the same as the attitude of lords and ladies from the medieval period.

Now there's a compounded issue to all of this, we're in such a well inter-networked and connected society that misconceptions can travel and cause problems for everyone.

I somewhat relearned another lesson today: it's that simplifying an explanation is more likely to cause confusion.
the less you give to another person in explanation, the more they need to fill the gap with their own assumptions and experiences. This can lead to vastly different ideas about the exact same thing.

All this is just thoughts for another time and another place.

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