@BoozyBadger I was having lunch with a coworker when out of nowhere and completely unrelated to ANYTHING we had been talking about he goes, “Why is it all these women keep getting promoted?”

I was like… How did we go from steak marinades to casual misogyny wtf?

@BoozyBadger I've had people say things assuming that just because I'm white that I would agree with them.

Like a fella who lost his job when an Indian family bought out the hotel he worked at, and they had brought in some Black gentleman to help them get set up, he said to me and other people at the table that those were two races "don't have a reputation for hard work."

There were witnesses so I couldn't stab him with the fork I was holding. He's dead now for other reasons, I think.

@BoozyBadger I don't really pass in person in most circumstances, but on paper, I look very much like an upper-middle-class, white, suburban, cishet housewife. I genuinely love screwing with expectations and survey/poll results.

Online, because I don't have profile pics or a female-coded username, I'm assumed to be a cishet guy a lot. I tend to get treated with a lot more respect than I do if someone clocks me as AFAB.

@BoozyBadger Also, that kind of… …failure to manage one's client doesn't inspire confidence generally. 🙃

Yikes.