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Why workplace microaggressions create impossible social dynamics

I'm the only openly gay person on my team and my coworkers keep making casual homophobic jokes then looking at me like I should laugh along or call them out and I hate being put in that position.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Being the sole representative forces impossible choices between confrontation and complicity in your own marginalization.

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