a collection of last nerves people have happily trodden past

[glass_icarus]

things white people do: unacceptable "social"/"flirtation" behaviors
[note for anyone wondering if these examples are hypothetical: THEY ARE NOT]

1. Gratuitous mangling usage of my presumed mother-tongue is an automatic FUCK YOU: not in the you're-getting-laid sense, but in the my-eyes-roll-forever-and-also-you're-getting-laid-OUT sense. Or at least, this is the case when you are talking at me.

2. So is getting in my personal space uninvited.

2a. So is touching my clothing, like for instance lifting the hem of my jacket to stare at my ass when I happen to be standing next to you in a bar. No, I do not care that you are drunk. No, I do not care that you are a lady- I am all for equal-opportunity ogling, but this is not okay coming from anyone.

2b. So is touching my hair. See previous no's.

2c. SO IS TOUCHING MY ASS. RAISE ALL PREVIOUS NO'S TO OH NO YOU DIDN'T.

3. SO IS FOLLOWING ME, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

4. At cultural events like, say, this fashion show, you being the "token white person" is not necessarily the plus you think it is. Especially if you introduce yourself as such. Even more especially if you lurk at the periphery of my conversations with other people- one girl and one guy in this case- and wait for the guy to go get a drink before you introduce yourself.

5. There is a 99% chance that asking me where I'm ~originally from~ will get you a LINEFACE DEATH GLARE. (Yes, even if you ask what my name is first. Also yes if you ask what my name is and then proceed to get it wrong.)

6. This does not give you license to ask me "Y SO SRS." Especially not in that particular tone, and while you are wearing a shit-eating grin.

7. Calling me by my presumed ethnicity/nationality? Never going to get you there.

8. Combinations of the above are going to get your ass ditched as publicly, coldly, and impolitely as I feel able to. Also, I will have no compunction about snarking at you, LOUDLY, directly behind your back- more because I don't want to see your face than because I can't or won't do it to your face. Nor will I have any compunction about warning all my friends about you and enacting a physical wall of shun whenever you approach.

In conclusion: HOME TRAINING, GET YOU SOME. >:E

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[trinker]

I have occasionally jumped to sweetly letting them know that my grandmother was born in California. (This works best in California, where a lot of people are from another state. I'm cheating by eliding a bunch of complicated family history, but it's not like they were entitled to that, so ....-feral grin- )