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[ SECRET POST #5798 ]
⌈ Secret Post #5798 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Jeeves and Wooster]
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[Devil May Cry V]
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[Vanderpump Rules]
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[Arcane]
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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 40 secrets from Secret Submission Post #830.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Honest-to-God work & law-related question
(Anonymous) 2022-11-21 03:41 am (UTC)(link)Ehh. Why can't they just leave it blank, this is crazy. This doesn't happen in my area at least (as far as I am aware) but yeah. It's ironic because people very often guess wrongly (see: the recent Twitter thread on how Taylor Lautner HAS to be somehow Asian which sparked a big discussion on many celebrities' looks vs ethnicities) When I worked filling forms, I just wrote whatever the person told me regardless of how they looked because that's what I was told. Which made the race/ethnicity field pretty much an useless one, except when it came to affirmative actions in which case a lot of white people would say they're "actually black because their great-great-grandpa.." lol. Meanwhile people with black parents would say "white" out of fear of being discriminated against. Really, The World.
Still, sexual orientation feels even more weird to me. Everyone has an ethnicity - which they may not even know of but they have biological parents somehow. But sexual orientation? What's a child's sexual orientation? Weird thing to ask of people unless, again, you want to hook up with them on Tinder or something lol.
Re: Honest-to-God work & law-related question
(Anonymous) 2022-11-21 04:43 am (UTC)(link)Jokes aside, information collection about race, gender, and sexual orientation can be such a clusterfuck. Usually - if you can - it's helpful to talk to someone who actually knows what they plan to DO with that information. My mother still remembers one time when she did exactly that and was told that on my school paperwork, I should be "white," because POC were sent by bus to farther-away schools and wasted a lot of time every day in transit to make the district look adequately desegregated.
So yeah ... a lot of people who are, don't want to announce it, and a lot of people who aren't think they lose nothing by checking a ticky-box, and frankly I'm more fine with all of that than I would be with governments actually being able to track us more accurately, because at least half of the policies about "what should be done with minorities," do not benefit minorities. To put that very mildly.
Re: Honest-to-God work & law-related question
(Anonymous) 2022-11-21 04:54 am (UTC)(link)Re: Honest-to-God work & law-related question
(Anonymous) 2022-11-21 05:14 am (UTC)(link)Ah. I'm sorry I don't have specific information on this. It definitely seems inappropriate to me, and your response sounds like the best (serious, tactful) non-answer.
Re: Honest-to-God work & law-related question
(Anonymous) 2022-11-21 04:47 am (UTC)(link)