The librarians at Florida Atlantic University could use a lesson or ten in manners.
Abdul Asquith (pictured) is an openly gay senior majoring in communications. When he went to check out a laptop from the school library last week, the librarian turned him away. He told his local news station in an interview: “She looked at the ID and looked down at it. She said, ‘You sound, look and act like a girl and in this ID is a man, therefore I’m not giving you a laptop.'”
Rude!
Asquith said that he sometimes wears feminine clothes, but on this particular day he was wearing an FAU hoodie, shorts, and had his long hair pulled back. He also claims that he had been using the campus-issued ID without any problems since March 2012.
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Asquith said the situation left him “distraught and embarrassed.” He was eventually able to check out a laptop, but he had to ask three different librarians before finally being given access one.
“If I don’t speak out, who’s going to speak out?” he said. “People need to start speaking out and addressing this every time this happens.”
So far, the university is not responding to calls, emails, or requests for comment.
Lefty
Should have said “Thanks! You sound, look and act like a moron.”
Dez
um, is this a joke?? Except it’s not funny at all. She doesn’t have any right to do this, and it’s totally irrelevant how this student looks, speaks and acts! Bitch needs to be fired!!
hephaestion
I doubt that it was a librarian who was so rude. It was probably a part-time student worker, since that’s who would normally work at the check-out desk passing out laptops. He should have immediately asked for the boss.
If it was indeed a librarian who did this, she should be reprimanded seriously.
Dawson
Sound, Look and Act like a girl and you didn’t say “bitch, pleasssssssssssssse”. I would love to see what this person looks like themselves. Names please. I don’t have time for stupid but I do have time to educate stupid. Sometimes with words or insight and sometimes with ….
stanhope
Completely unacceptable behavior and grounds for dismissal. Beyond that, this rhymes with runt has the unmitigated gall as a dead end, never expected much from her librarian with about the same prospects as Miss Jane from the Beverly Hillbillies to be so insulting? Glad it wasn’t me or I would have provided a good estimate of her family tree starting with the orangutan that passed himself off as her father.
Alan down in Florida
Funny – I live in the next town north of FAU and didn’t hear anything about this on the local media.
ButchAngel4u
dude I understand where your comin from and all n I know it hurts, but u will learn how to deal with it. so what..u look like a girl. I hang around drag queens for crap sake! I got that all the time back in the day…you look like a man why r u goin in the ladies room”. I wasn’t ever tryin to pass my self off as a man. im a lesbian. now I’m 61 with a goatee for cripes sake. just cause I have a goatee doesnt mean I wanna b a man sexually. I grew it cause I can. and its a big improvement! the flirts I get! lol! I been shavin since I was in the navy. your young and will learn to live with it. it’s not a big deal!!!! n pa…leeeze ppl.. don’t give me any grieve about this..u wont win. I been on a long road way longer the all of u im sure. b well dude u will b ok.
ButchAngel4u
o and btw no offense… but dude..if it was me id probly question it also without being rude tho. and im sure im not the only 1 that would question it.
Bozen
Like someone already said, it was most likely a student worker who Asquith interacted with. There aren’t many “librarians” on campus, and they aren’t easy to access.
That being said, there are security measures universities have to take when it comes to things like this. Was the person who interacted with him rude? Probably. Were they misinformed? Probably. Did they try to use their best judgement and do what they thought was right? I’m not sure, maybe he really did look that different from his ID. We’d need to see the ID picture to make our own judgement.
MargaretJordan
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that_dude247
No comment
LibrarianLand
@Bozen: So so right: No Librarian worth his/her salt would do this. But, so many libraries put other staff out front to interact with library patrons and everyone thinks that all library staff are “librarians.” Sad and unacceptable behavior in a library where access should be given to all regardless of gender, race, age. etc. The only thing I would add to this is that there are id matching requirements and if a person does not match his/her id, that can be a problem when lending material. We have to know that you are the same person on the id.