I made this website for “professional” posts, but one of the problems I’ve encountered is how “professional” in practice means “not actually human.”
Having feelings that affect your performance? Unprofessional.
Having responsibilities that mean you’re not available 24-7? Possibly a fireable offence in today’s “dynamic” workplaces.
Having literal human needs like warmth and relief from warmth and food and water and time to use the bathroom and to sleep? Begrudgingly permitted, if you’re lucky, but often resented and micro-managed. If you’re unlucky, you might wear a diaper to work and/or die from heat exhaustion.
This is not okay. I don’t want to be “business as usual” in a society that thinks this is okay. I want my humanity recognized, and everybody else’s too.
So part of what I want to do here is push back against the norm that I have to suppress that humanity in order to be taken seriously. Sometimes I will say things that are considered “unprofessional” by the cis-het white Christian dude standards that govern us. Sometimes I will swear in frustration or for emphasis or even just for style. I would suggest that if we’re more alarmed by this than by a world that is literally on fire then our priorities need reconsideration.
The more we deny the human experience, the worse the world becomes. I am aiming for the opposite. I invite other “professionals” to join me.
“Professional”
I made this website for “professional” posts, but one of the problems I’ve encountered is how “professional” in practice means “not actually human.”
Having feelings that affect your performance? Unprofessional.
Having responsibilities that mean you’re not available 24-7? Possibly a fireable offence in today’s “dynamic” workplaces.
Having literal human needs like warmth and relief from warmth and food and water and time to use the bathroom and to sleep? Begrudgingly permitted, if you’re lucky, but often resented and micro-managed. If you’re unlucky, you might wear a diaper to work and/or die from heat exhaustion.
This is not okay. I don’t want to be “business as usual” in a society that thinks this is okay. I want my humanity recognized, and everybody else’s too.
So part of what I want to do here is push back against the norm that I have to suppress that humanity in order to be taken seriously. Sometimes I will say things that are considered “unprofessional” by the cis-het white Christian dude standards that govern us. Sometimes I will swear in frustration or for emphasis or even just for style. I would suggest that if we’re more alarmed by this than by a world that is literally on fire then our priorities need reconsideration.
The more we deny the human experience, the worse the world becomes. I am aiming for the opposite. I invite other “professionals” to join me.