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Oh wow, my client just unexpectedly veered into a weird, transphobic conversational digression.

I've already voiced my disagreement but he's just doubled down on the whole thing.

I can't turn this into a big thing - I need this contract, so I need to keep an amicable relationship with this man. But I'm so angry!

I...I hope my face isn't showing what I'm feeling right now.

Whoops, yup, this is a problem. Got to scale this back a little.

Nope, that's too far, now it looks like I'm agreeing.

There. Perfect. Distant and unemotional disagreement. Now just pair it with neutral verbal responses....

You have shitty, bigoted views about group of people who don't fit into your narrow, ignorant understanding of gender. Your opinions towards trans people are embarrassing and irrelevant. As a trans person, I'd be insulted if I wasn't so bored by your blathering, derivative bullshit.

Welp.

Self Aware

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Robot Hugs

New comic! French translation via Mouton I'll be honest with you, the second to last panel is pure fantasy. In real life, I said something boring like 'there's a lot of people in my community who would strongly disagree with those views. Anyway, let's talk about something else'. This kind of wears me down more than a lot of other things. I am strident and shrill and loud and angry and all those things that annoy the fuck out of assholes unless that asshole is someone I need to work with to help me pay rent. Anyways, this is months and months ago, and that particular client is well behind me. Good riddance.