I Agree That Not Everyone Wants To Be A Teacher And They Have The Right To Not Want To, But I Would Recommend

I agree that not everyone wants to be a teacher and they have the right to not want to, but I would recommend at least giving something the person/people can start with. Give them book recommendations, YouTubers, bloggers, organizations, websites, etc.. Giving them a starting point helps so much!

To add, I have no problems with being asked about being asexual, bi/panromantic, nonbinary, trans guy as long as it's in good faith. When I came out to some co-workers they had so many questions and I let them ask them all. Of course I let them know that my experiences and statements won't match for everyone, but it's a great way for them to get some idea of being queer and now they even know what asexual is, which is less common for people to know than 'lesbian'.

thinking about that time I was at some kind of diversity and inclusion thing that involved discussion in small groups and one straight girl said she really wanted to be a good ally but sometimes there were some things she just didn’t know and was too afraid to ask for fear of accidentally being offensive. and as the only queer person in this 4-5 person group I said well go ahead and ask me, I don’t care if you accidentally use the wrong term right now or whatever, it’s better to talk about it and learn something, I love talking about queerness and I’ll answer the best I can. and she just looked so nervous and in the end wound up refusing to ask for fear of causing offense. and it wasn’t just the group setting, I’ve known straight people to act similarly even when it’s just one on one

and just. you guys. this is what purity culture and the “if you don’t know something you were never a real ally in fact you’re a bigot in fact you’re worse than bigots because you pretended not to be one” attitude does. how can our allies be allies if they’re scared to talk to us? to ask questions, to make mistakes, to learn? can we please bring back the idea of “in good faith”? there’s way more to say here about identity politics and virtue signaling and acting like language is more important than action but I’m too tired for that right now

please feel free to add to the discussion (regardless of if you’re queer or not), I would love to hear about people’s experiences with this and if others feel differently about it