Author Topic: Colonialism and sexism  (Read 956 times)

guest78

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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« on: August 24, 2022, 03:17:06 pm »
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1."Offering to help you and not backing off, regardless of what you say. My cousin is very beautiful and often has men offering help left and right in an effort to get in her good graces — except they keep offering when she says no. And they keep offering. And they keep pushing. It's basically a thinly veiled 'let me get close to you,' and they won't take no for an answer. It's extremely disrespectful."

Although not sexism, people in general thinking their helping a person by doing something that person has never asked them to do, or never having even asked for help in the first place, is extremely disrespectful also! This scenario seems to be particularly western behavior as well. As pointed out on the main site, if someone has not asked for help and someone else attempts to help them, the person believing that they are helping are in fact telling the other person that they are not confident in their ability to perform the task they are attempting.

Don't try and help people who haven't explicitly asked for help, it's extremely disrespectful!