I've begun sorting through my unpublished blog posts. Some will be posted as is, some will be finished and published, most will be deleted. As I have more that 100 drafts expect lots of crazy, dizzy, angry, happy and hopefully funny posts to pop up over the coming weeks.
My first Autumn Blog Cleaning post
If you're a Jew and I do not like you, I might not be an anti-Semitic nincompoop. If you're a woman and I do not like you, I'm probably not sexist. Because maybe it's not your sex or religion what's putting me off.
Maybe what I do not like about you is your political point of view, maybe your ideas about people on the dole, maybe your aggressive veganism, your view on public transportation, covid19, or a zillion other matters?
I never understood the former way of thinking. If it really is only this one thing that's defining you and who you are, I truly feel sorry for you, because we all are so much more ...
Some of our characteristics are immutable, genetic. For example: eye colour, height, skin pigmentation (the colour may change when exposed to the Sun), the ability to roll your tongue, biological gender, the ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (FTC), etc. ect.
Others are changeable: the ability to speak Esperanto, a fondness for Brussels sprouts, wanting to have sex with men, being able to stand on one's head, knowing how to swim, having a certain job and many others.
The failure of most ideologies is that they put a magnifying glass on one of these characteristics - be it genetic or changeable - and say this it is what defines me, what I am. But I do NOT want to be defined by this one facet of me. It is not the only one that makes me who I am.
Once, many years ago I was at a "museum" where we were asked to answer 8 simple questions, each asked by a computer, tied to a worktable, where aids to answer the questions were given. I only remember some of the questions. These were:
How come some people think that gender, or religion, or skin colour, or intelligence, or eating preferences, or whatever, is the only determining factor?
I agree with you, one single factor cannot possibly determine the whole. Each individual human is so much more complex than what is seen on the outside and what is known by what you have been told. I wonder also how many others were told by that computer program that they are unique, because I happen to think we are all unique. There is no other in the world who is exactly like me, or you, or even identical twins who have individual likes and dislikes and may think differently from each other.
SvarSletI do not know how many visited that exhibition. It's now many years ago. But I think no matter how many would have visited, they would all have gotten the same answer, because not two persons are ever alike.
SletSo trying to point at one single thing and say "THIS defines you" is for me kind of crazy.
I happen to like women, as a whole (and am one), but this does not mean there are not some women, individuals, I do not like. It has nothing to do with her being a woman, it is something else about her behavior or attitude which I do not like. Why can't people understand this?
SvarSletI must admit that I do not like women more - but neither less - than men that's not the salient point (except if we talk midwives or priests ;) ). There's so much else I like and not like. It's the whole human being that attracts or repels me, not gender, colour, religion, allergies ...
SletI would ask what you were thinking when you wrote this post but I can sort of understand why you wrote this. The museum questions sounded amusing. Whoever go about checking if their fingerprints are whorls or waves?
SvarSletI had tons of drafts that I deemed unworthy of posting so I don't post them but I keep them and I go over them sometimes. It's actually fun to see what wacky thoughts you had back then or what interested you enough to write them down.
Have a lovely day.
P.S., the orange color text is hard to read against the blue-purple background - stands out way too much. Just a thought from someone with bad eyesight.
It's a reaction to various people trying to get me into their box so to speak, by saying You're a ___ Ergo you must agree that ___ . Which I mostly did not.
SletI think I'm going to delete most of my drafts, the interesting ones will either get edited and published or made into something else.
PS. Yes the orange is hard on my eyes as well - it will change in October, as I use the colour of the month for accents like these ;)