The Eyes of Mara

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Originally Posted by Prudence

it doesn't really help me pick out GC at an airport if you tell me he's gay.

Well, it might if he was really, really gay!

Originally Posted by Prudence

I suppose sometimes I rationalize. I mean, I don't say "so yesterday I was talking to my friend - her dad's Egyptian, you know - and blah blah blah." But I have been known to say (in certain company, like when describing my friends to my mom) that "sometimes she feels like the world's against her because her dad's Egyptian and doesn't think she should be in school" instead of just "because her dad doesn't think she should be in school." I rationalize that I'm trying to convey that there's a cultural component to the disapproval rather than just some blanket misogyny, but I'm probably fooling myself.

I don't know that that's the case. Frankly, that sounds like it's a perfectly relevent reference to his racial/ethnic/religious status.