Passing the blame
Something which has come to our attention at Stylenoir more and more over the last few months is this issue of “Passing the blame” when it comes to issues that humanity fears or does not fully understand, creating a new form of prejudice, one of a passive nature.
“We are totally fine with it, but our customers might not be” comes the quote from numurous employers when it comes to a potential employee that is different, specifically not of a certain gender. We even saw this on Channel 4s transsexual summer to an extreme degree.
This point really does negate itself. For if you really had no problem with an issue, it would be oblivious to you, you would not think how other people reacted to it, and how this came to effect yourself. If an entity, or force was not a problem to you, it wouldn’t even register that it was possibly a problem to another human being. When you actually think about the statement of “It’s fine with me, but might not be with others” you’re implying embarrasement on your own part, and for that nulling your own argument completely.
The best example I can give for this is of Andrej Pejic. For example, there is so much new attention on Andrej, how gender is breaking, how “gender is over” and of what he feels, why he does it, the list goes on. The simply fact is, if gender was over, he would be a non issue. He would get booked for his talent, and that would be it. No news stories, no controversy, no discussion. Because it would be a non issue, it wouldn’t even pass someones mind, or someones comprehension, if it somehow didn’t matter.
So I suppose what I am trying to say here, is there seems to be those who are open and accepting, those who are belligerently prejudice, but a third group who act as if they can be open, but by backhanding blame and prejudice onto others.
That third group could possibly be the worst of all, and as in humanity, being honest and upstanding for values would be much more respected than passing blame, at least then we can have a discussion, debate or conversation on issues to challenge not only our beliefs, but ourselves.
