THISTHISTHIS, and linguistic prescriptivism also falls into this category. Completely pointless, historically arbitrary way to keep TALENT + MERIT as secondary qualifiers. “First impressions matter” my ass. Get Gen Xs out of hiring positions
All this also applies to neurodivergent people. Social constructs and social situations can be really difficult to comprehend
I’ve never been able to articulate why I hate these stupid little unspoken rules so much but here it is. Someone figured it out.