Tag: discrimination
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Anti-Bullying: Why I Dyed My Hair Purple
I dyed my hair purple last week. Professional salon job. It was time for a cut and color, long past because I can almost never schedule two afternoon hours off from work during the week and I’ve had silver in my hair since I was 18. My inability to get to the salon before my…
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What Religion Is the Aurora Theater Shooter? And Does It Matter?
I am anxiously watching the news chatter on the“Dark Knight Rises”massacre and the latest breaking news this hour. As empathic as I am, it’s tough to watch or read about, and as happens with all tragedies, they reflect similar previous tragedies and bring long-buried pain to the surface. My first real understanding of what massacres…
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Divorced Woman in Big House: Come Screw Me Over
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. Yeah, yeah. Here we are in the 21st century, and we like to think we’re so much more civilized than 30 years ago and treat both sexes equally and none of that discrimination stuff. We hear about it all over the news and rail…
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The Attitude Variable – an Unexpected Deal-Cincher
Attitude is one of those things that’s often underrated because it’s not easily measured. You know it when you see it in people (or experience it) and it affects your world–as well as their own. Most people would be banging their heads against the walls by now, but I’m staying rather upbeat, watching this experiment…
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Racism, Sexism, and Religious Prejudices: Seek and Ye Shall Find
Looking for racists, chauvinist pigs, and people who hate you for the God you worship? Then I promise you, you’ll find them all…and more than you ever imagined. You will draw the prejudices to you, attract them, like ants to your picnic. You will create them out of thin air. One thing I’ve heard repeatedly…
