This is a job for... SuperJude!
Jan. 10th, 2002 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpUgh. Are these people for real?
This is a little campus blurb about what I do for work that went out to the university population:
GLBT STUDENT SERVICES OFFERS DIVERSITY TRAINING
-- As part of OSU's Diversity Action Plan, the office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Services is offering an anti-heterosexism education program to help increase awareness of GLBT issues and to foster a more inclusive and welcoming climate for members of Ohio State's GLBT community. The program, known as Heterosexism Education and Reduction Orientation (HERO), is an effective way for departments and offices to gauge and improve the environment in their units for GLBT people. Participants will also receive a handbook of education and skill-building material.
--> CONTACT: [email address omitted]
Someone sent this email to the Vice President for Student Affairs:
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Okay, this is where I rant.
First of all, I think someone needs a little lesson in word usage. Or semantics. Or both. ANTI-HETEROSEXISM is /not/ the same thing as ANTI-HETEROSEXUALITY.
Second, I won't even get started on the blatant racism inherent in the analogy. Or the repressed racist tendencies of the emailer.
Third, is it SO FUCKING HARD to think that people on this campus might need to assess the way heterosexism (and by this, rampant ignorant emailers, I do mean privilege based on being [perceived as] heterosexual, not the attraction between different-sexed people) plays out here at THE Ohio State University? Is it /that/ threatening to think that a program designed to offer a little inclusion of ideas/thoughts/work created outside of the world of heterosexuality exists?
This is not anti-heterosexuality education. It is anti-heterosexISM education. It is analagous to anti-RACISM education rather than "anti-white education," whatever that is. This is my project. While I didn't write the HERO guides (Coworker Velma did), I support them. I reviewed them. I am helping her present them. So this is MY work, John, whoever you are. This is MY anti-heterosexism education. And I think you, of all people, could use some if you can't see the difference between combatting heterosexism and combatting heterosexuality. Where you stick your bits is /your/ business. I wouldn't take that away from you.
Grumble.
This is a little campus blurb about what I do for work that went out to the university population:
GLBT STUDENT SERVICES OFFERS DIVERSITY TRAINING
-- As part of OSU's Diversity Action Plan, the office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Services is offering an anti-heterosexism education program to help increase awareness of GLBT issues and to foster a more inclusive and welcoming climate for members of Ohio State's GLBT community. The program, known as Heterosexism Education and Reduction Orientation (HERO), is an effective way for departments and offices to gauge and improve the environment in their units for GLBT people. Participants will also receive a handbook of education and skill-building material.
--> CONTACT: [email address omitted]
Someone sent this email to the Vice President for Student Affairs:
Bill:
I was appalled to read the below story in today's OSUToday Headlines. Will our Office of African-American Student services next sponsor an anti-white education program?
John
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Okay, this is where I rant.
First of all, I think someone needs a little lesson in word usage. Or semantics. Or both. ANTI-HETEROSEXISM is /not/ the same thing as ANTI-HETEROSEXUALITY.
Second, I won't even get started on the blatant racism inherent in the analogy. Or the repressed racist tendencies of the emailer.
Third, is it SO FUCKING HARD to think that people on this campus might need to assess the way heterosexism (and by this, rampant ignorant emailers, I do mean privilege based on being [perceived as] heterosexual, not the attraction between different-sexed people) plays out here at THE Ohio State University? Is it /that/ threatening to think that a program designed to offer a little inclusion of ideas/thoughts/work created outside of the world of heterosexuality exists?
This is not anti-heterosexuality education. It is anti-heterosexISM education. It is analagous to anti-RACISM education rather than "anti-white education," whatever that is. This is my project. While I didn't write the HERO guides (Coworker Velma did), I support them. I reviewed them. I am helping her present them. So this is MY work, John, whoever you are. This is MY anti-heterosexism education. And I think you, of all people, could use some if you can't see the difference between combatting heterosexism and combatting heterosexuality. Where you stick your bits is /your/ business. I wouldn't take that away from you.
Grumble.
