How about accepting people for how they label themselves? I hang out in a lot of communities where self identification is important. A person tells me that they think of themselves as a "he", I'll use masculine pronouns with him. Obama wants to consider himself black because he feels that that is a large part of his experience? Fine by me. I have no clue how Tiger Woods identifies himself.
People are people. We all agree on that. Some people take on labels because it helps them express an important part of themselves. Other people choose not to use labels and do more expressive communication of what is important to them. I have no inherent problem with labels. The important thing, to me, is that those labels (if desired) ought to come from the people themselves, not be pushed on them by others. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:09 PM, trish simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > So glad to hear that we are protecting our children from the stereotypes and > misrepresentations spewed by the Media. Who is protecting us adults, the > ones who should know better? Again, as individuals we need to be cautious > of allowing the media to influence our speech, thoughts and actions. Look > how easy it is to add a label, labels that we do not want our children to > use.. > > ...a rush to judgment without examination of the evidence leads to serious > consequences...regardless of the "who" (president's office, NAACP, Fox News, > CNN, the blogger who butchered the video, etc.). > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
