[SingularNYCFemme]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

So, hopefully what I submit today is met with a willingness to carefully inspect flagged messages in our daily lives and make a commitment to counter biased and prejudicial acts of communication by reframing what we let ourselves hear, read or what we allow ourselves to think. I think the remedy begins with ourselves and my own challenge on a daily basis is to treat myself with loving kindness and dwell only upon thoughts which uplift me and those around me.

I appreciate your entire carefully written and thought through post, Kätzchen; thank you very much for everything you wrote there. Actually, I've cut out my favorite part, which had to do with Rubenesque women and sharing our enjoyment of them with Ms. Moss! But it is your final, succinct, deeply caring paragraph I am quoting because it really sums up everything you have written so well. It really is best for us, having known and felt (oh bother with past tense, I deal with this on the bus every day) our fellow humans' responses to our being outside their imposed norm, not to engage in the same negative and derisive treatment of any fellow human. My largesse is only one way in which I am outside of today's social norms; and I need to learn how to live the best life I can live with the various ways in which I veer off. I will do so better, perhaps best, if I do so with as much acceptance of other ways people are than, certainly, if I turn around and exclude others as I have found myself excluded, or deride others as I have found myself derided.

Now I've prattled on long enough, all basically to say thank you for such rich food ... for thought!