Re:A Vexing Practice Issue

Uhhmm.. well, if you look at this from a sociological and historical point of view it might make sense to you.

For instance back in the early part of the 1900 hundreds women were still frightfully discriminated against. Then there was a backlash - the women got fed up. That caused some women to really go completely overboard and become men haters / men bashers and discriminate against men.

We are still occassionally in the middle of that struggle. The women still occassionally behave with a backlash to prior abuse, and the men still occassionally discriminate against women, or on the other side of it get demasculated by the gong-ho women.

However, I do think we are getting closer to the point where we are aware that freedom lies in true equality, not powerfights. No matter who is on top. For instance just yesterday I had a spirited but friendly debate with my (opposite gendered) boss as to whether or not it should be only a womans full choice whether or not to have an abortion.

Another example of the same principle at work are minorities of color who has been oppressed for centuries. There was an angry backlash where it was impossible to get away with saying, thinking, feeling, or acting on anything that did not put these minorities on the top of the heap. Now while we are still in the middle of that struggle we are beginning to see it even out.

Same principle at work with gay people. They have been discriminated against for too long. Now there is a backlash. Its not pc to say a bad word against any person of the homosexual persuasion for fear of being called discriminatory. We still need to see some movement back to more true equality on that count though.

Of course, the movement back to equality always starts with someone standing up and speaking out. Even when "speaking out" makes them unpopular.

Dont know if that will help you much in this situation, it might even be detrimental to the ultimate goal of focusing on your clients..... So maybe all you can do it move on to somewheres else.

Although someone's gotta do the dirty work.....

Da Friendly Puter Tech

Replies:

Re:A Vexing Practice Issue, by D B Sabo, 05/27/04 Re:A Vexing Practice Issue, by Da Friendly Puter Tech, 05/28/04 Re:A Vexing Practice Issue, by DBS, 06/01/04 Re:A Vexing Practice Issue, by Janice Burton, MA, 06/04/04

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