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So today at work I was accused of being a misogynist. My urge was to throw it back in their faces and accuse them of being biased against red headed white males. Luckily I resisted that urge and was largely able to simply ignore the behavior in the moment. It’s still got me pretty steamed though and I’ve been trying to figure it out. I realized that it reminded me of a time in another job when another employee asked me to let her use my id badge to give her access to a restricted area of the building because she had forgotten her badge. I refused because we had just gotten a most serious and stern bulletin from the security department about not sharing badge access amongst employees. She later sent me an email accusing me of being a racist (she was African-American and I, apparently, am White and nothing else…). It’s amazing to me that those who supposedly stand against racism and sexism are often the most insidious promulgators of those very habits. It makes me think that humanity will never solve its most trenchant problems of violence and aggression. Unless one considers nuclear annihilation a solution. Which, from the perspective of our poor undeserving planet, it probably is.