• OpenStars@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    That might depend on the definition of “masking” (and whether it includes a component of an abnormally high degree of faking), but in any case there’s definitely a spectrum where some people are forced to work harder to maintain a more “normal” appearance than others.

    Like body height, we all lie on that spectrum somewhere or another, and where we lie on it makes some things easier and other things harder.

    What the blog writer seems to be asking for is a greater level of accommodation for differences that would affect the entire spectrum, but particularly those who are currently hurt by it the most.

    You are technically right that we all need to it though.

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      6 days ago

      One thing with my current bout of unemployement is I have never been so disencentivized to mask/conform as the way my country currently is.

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        5 days ago

        Ouch I am so sorry to hear that. Yes the world is most decidedly very far from being “fair”, since some have made it their life’s effort to tilt it in the certain ways that most benefit them:-(. e.g. The Musk affects us all, though some more than others:-(.