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Most embarrassing thing I've ever said

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Feb 27
  • 1 min read

Well, there's two that stand out. The first, which ended a friendship, was when I was at uni and my mate Joseph was dating this fairweather feminist. I said that fat people would get respect before trannies, and that wasn't considered a very PC thing to say. Then there's something I said while having lunch with the organiser of an Indian protest regarding university strikes back home. I asked which Indigenous groups were involved, being too dense to realise that Indians are an Indigenous group.

 
 

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