tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29448815.post6825631435999300685..comments2023-11-05T07:47:26.801-05:00Comments on Journey to enlightenment: These words won't do any justiceJourney_Wmnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05529111696077054456noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29448815.post-81828159853256032892007-07-25T14:32:00.000-04:002007-07-25T14:32:00.000-04:00Your expectations of humanity are too high. All g...Your expectations of humanity are too high. All groups are to some degree exclusive. That is what identifies the group. You have set yourself up in a delema of niche acceptance. The more groups you assign yourself to, the less accepted you will be, even by groups of which you are a member. For example, you are a woman so you are in the woman group. Women are not accepted by all humans, not even all by all women, so lets say if we stop describing you at "woman" you would be accepted by 40% of humanity. Now, when you add an adjective like "black" to your description, you must understand that the 40% that used to acept you just as a woman, might not all accept you as a black woman. So of that 40%, only 30% accept you. Of those only 50% will accept that you are Christian, of those only %80 percent will accept that you are college educated, of those only %30 will accept that you are political, of those only %10 will accept that you are gay. When you add it all up, only 0.00144% of humanity will accept all those things about you. That's about 1 out of 700. However, on the bright side, that still adds up to over 8.6 million people on earth who would really dig you. And also on a brighter note, if you know 700 people personally, but still have more than 1 person who accepts you, you are already beating the odds...<BR/>By the way, tag.Darkmindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183628945441876070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29448815.post-1254021865172086252007-07-24T17:04:00.000-04:002007-07-24T17:04:00.000-04:00dang, i had a whole lovely beautiful comment typed...dang, i had a whole lovely beautiful comment typed out, and I lost it all.<BR/>I don't have the time to type it all out again--so let me just say the core nut of what I said in it--keep your body safe girl. If you don't have structures of safety set up to help you if you get challenged or into trouble, i think that you as a woman esp. shouldn't mess around with that sorta potential violence. You ARE making a difference--you are using your words to bring some really really painfully important shit to the fore front--just because you are talking about this using an indirect route doesn't mean that it's not as important or as impactful as if you stood right up and screamed at that bar. <BR/><BR/>is there an LBGT street scene somewhere? or any underground resistance groups you could hook up with? they have to exist--whereever there is horrific silencing like this, they exist--<BR/><BR/>take care of yourself girl, and sorry if this comes off too mami-ish--but i worry about you!!!brownfemipowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17980687171529307394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29448815.post-79753360985132611792007-07-24T16:10:00.000-04:002007-07-24T16:10:00.000-04:00just put up an entry in response...don't know if y...just put up an entry in response...don't know if you can see it while you're down there, but just wanted to say i heard you on being split.<BR/><BR/>i feel for anybody who feels like they have to make a choice, because the pain you feel with that kind of tension and conflict has to be a signal that nobody should be forced to choose like that. if only folks could listen to that...on both sides...and ask why that is.benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082138040950123534noreply@blogger.com