• Nusm@yall.theatl.social
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    6 months ago

    What I saw: “I’m a Dasher. I don’t make much money, so please don’t hurt me or be mean to me.”

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          6 months ago

          Glad you’re not on my well wishes list, I’d hate to think my weekly reminders that I’m thinking about, and appreciating, people in my life we’re taken as attempts to extract their resources.

          It takes very little to try to offer happiness into someone’s life, and you never know when a random offering of positivity might be what someone was needing at that moment.

          We’re all human. And even if this is copy and pasted I applaud that delivery driver making an effort to spread pleasantness.

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        6 months ago

        That’s the optimistic interpretation. The cynical interpretation is that they’ll hit you with “Have you heard about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” when you open the door.

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    6 months ago

    I’m down with this positivity. I make it my mission to remind the people I’m close to it’s Friday (or retired Saturday) at least 75% of the weeks of the month.

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    We have an emoji for a hand making a heart sign, yet we have a heart emoji. Marvelous.

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    6 months ago

    To me this is creepy as hell. It says that dude likes to see people pretend to be happy when they’re really very sad. I would wonder why the hell someone would send that to me if I wasn’t crying and trying to be polite and smile when accepting my delivery, which doesn’t make it any less creepy.

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      6 months ago

      Telling a woman to “smile more” is indeed sexist. They are people and others rarely tell men that. Also people don’t need to put on a smile to please others.

      The Dasher is just suggesting it might be a good idea as a service worker and doesn’t know anything about the customer.

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        So if they knew the customer was a woman they shouldn’t have said this?

        The dasher sees the first name of the client, if it was Veronica this is a sexist statement?

        I think that type of thinking just ends with most nice people not saying anything at all.

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          I think the difference is why we “usually” say that to women and men.

          For women the sexist reason would be forcing women to smile just to look beautiful regardless of their emotional needs.

          For men it’s masking pain and being tough. Which, if you ask me can also disregard their needs and be toxic, depending on the context…