01-20-2014, 12:00 AM
"Like I said It is something I've thought about and I believe something like this should be challenged, my way is to challenge this behavior within myself but everybody always thinks of me as such a nice guy that it is hard for me to see when I may actually be acting like a bigot! "
You are making a mistake here by thinking that bigots aren't nice people. After all, people are so complex that one undesirable trait hardly removes them from the category of nice. Especially when that trait is something they likely don't realize they have and only got as a result of constant media brainwashing and the resultant peer pressure experienced. So please, don't take the criticism so personally. I'm not trying to say anyone is bad here. I don't have a negative image of you in my head. I'm actually giving you and others credit for not wanting to promote bigotry and trying to point out that the concept of this thread does so in order that you can perhaps be more aware of what you're doing.
99%+ of the population would fail to notice the bigotry in segregating men from anything, let alone a thread about appreciating people. And men are getting segregated from more and more. I always ask if there's a good reason to keep men, (or any other birth group) segregated from something when I see it happen. Is there a non-bigotted reason to keep men locked out from the group of people we're going to show appeciation towards? Is an act less appreciation worthy if the person performing it has a penis? Would the painting Dan posted be less appreciation worthy if the angles of the body in it had been made to look male instead of female?
You are making a mistake here by thinking that bigots aren't nice people. After all, people are so complex that one undesirable trait hardly removes them from the category of nice. Especially when that trait is something they likely don't realize they have and only got as a result of constant media brainwashing and the resultant peer pressure experienced. So please, don't take the criticism so personally. I'm not trying to say anyone is bad here. I don't have a negative image of you in my head. I'm actually giving you and others credit for not wanting to promote bigotry and trying to point out that the concept of this thread does so in order that you can perhaps be more aware of what you're doing.
99%+ of the population would fail to notice the bigotry in segregating men from anything, let alone a thread about appreciating people. And men are getting segregated from more and more. I always ask if there's a good reason to keep men, (or any other birth group) segregated from something when I see it happen. Is there a non-bigotted reason to keep men locked out from the group of people we're going to show appeciation towards? Is an act less appreciation worthy if the person performing it has a penis? Would the painting Dan posted be less appreciation worthy if the angles of the body in it had been made to look male instead of female?