You know, patronize or marginalize me.
"Not only did it marginalize me, but it made all of my peers who were LGBT feel like university was not safe, it made them feel like higher education was not safe," Sharp said.
While Yosra may embrace traditions other than those in which we were raised, and which I still largely follow, there appears to be no attempt on her part to shame or marginalize me for our differences, no suggestion that I am less valid as a person because I have not chosen the same code she has.
Time and time again, whether it was voting against marriage equality, or workplace protections, or the very law that was the most profane of all, at least from a gay service member's or family member's perspective, legislation repealing the policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," you have voted to uphold laws that marginalize LGBT people...that marginalize me...at every opportunity.
And, as seen in the case of my wrongful termination from ICD, and subsequent black-listing by IMF HR personnel in THEIR efforts to silence me and marginalize me into oblivion; coupled with my present landlords efforts to extort thousands of dollars from me, with actions of retaliatory and malicious eviction, if I do not "PAY-UP;" ECONOMIC SANCTIONS are THE BEST METHOD OF CONTROLLING PEOPLE.
Frats like Zeta Beta Tau have unchecked social power at Cornell and nationwide, a reality marginalized students like me know intimately.
"All these talented, brilliant people who have been marginalized, eliminated," Bengis told me.
That makes me feel marginalized.
Maybe it was his way of coping but at the time, it made me feel marginalized and minimized and some other izeds, nonetheless.
