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In reply to the discussion: Misogyny should not be tolerated on DU [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)We need to focus on equalizing everyone, regardless of skin color, religion, gender, mental state, etc. We need to recognize we can't make everyone equal "clones" of each other. We should celebrate our diversity of life experiences too, but we should be working for a world of equal opportunity and respect for everyone, and one that we don't try to categorize and prejudge others too much without really getting to know them as individuals, though our human nature sometimes drives us to make that sort of judgement at times.
It's not just misogyny, but things like judging those who may be mentally ill as potentially all being evil killers as well. That's just as problematic too. That doesn't mean we excuse mentally ill behavior when it is out of bounds either, but it again does mean that we try not to categorize people too much.
I'd really hoped to have my sister visit me today when I had the chance to see Senator Merkley and Senator Warren at a fundraiser, and to have her relate her personal experiences being involved in a lot of the banking messes at Countrywide and Bank of America, amongst other places like that. But haven't been able to reach her in a week. And I have a bad feeling that that murder affected her a lot as well personally, especially since she's just now trying to move away from a community where just a few miles away from her now was the high school that one of the murder victims from last Friday attended. I want to comfort her if that is affecting her heavily, and to also relate how much of a reward it was to meet Senator Warren today and hope that someone like herself leads our country soon! We all need her leadership! Not just women! She IS in my book the right PERSON for the job!!!