an awkward situation
Sep. 25th, 2002 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderdustI went to the store meeting tonight.
I'm now pondering whether or not to talk to the store manager about something. A few times tonight (not during the actually meeting, but before it & after, when people were kind of "socializing"), some people made some jokes about gay bars, and never wanting to be caught dead in one, and saying "so-and-so must be a lesbian because she has a multicolored striped sweater", etc. Kinda stupid, mildly homophobic stuff.
However, they said this stuff in front of me, while I'm standing there, drinking out of a Rainbow Pride sports bottle.
Maybe they didn't see the sports bottle. I'm sure they didn't notice that the pendant I was wearing was a goddess figure with a pink triangle on her chest. I don't really make a point of broadcasting my orientation at work, maybe only one or two people know about it; it just never comes up. But none of that matters... what does matter is that I suddenly felt uncomfortable, felt like I should say something, but didn't know what to do.
So what the fuck should I do now? I'm not looking to get anyone into any trouble, and I don't want to be a tattletale... but I still feel like I need to do something.
I'm now pondering whether or not to talk to the store manager about something. A few times tonight (not during the actually meeting, but before it & after, when people were kind of "socializing"), some people made some jokes about gay bars, and never wanting to be caught dead in one, and saying "so-and-so must be a lesbian because she has a multicolored striped sweater", etc. Kinda stupid, mildly homophobic stuff.
However, they said this stuff in front of me, while I'm standing there, drinking out of a Rainbow Pride sports bottle.
Maybe they didn't see the sports bottle. I'm sure they didn't notice that the pendant I was wearing was a goddess figure with a pink triangle on her chest. I don't really make a point of broadcasting my orientation at work, maybe only one or two people know about it; it just never comes up. But none of that matters... what does matter is that I suddenly felt uncomfortable, felt like I should say something, but didn't know what to do.
So what the fuck should I do now? I'm not looking to get anyone into any trouble, and I don't want to be a tattletale... but I still feel like I need to do something.
