Someone I love very much recently said to Cheryl, with me sitting close by, “I’m so tired of hearing about how white men are victims.”
I think the issue for white men is that they are not seen as victims and so no one includes them in their speeches or policies. They feel ignored. By not being victims, they are victims.
Schools teach facts to help young people succeed. Isn’t
learning of things like empathy just as, or more, important? Parents teach facts and empathy. Why
can’t schools do that too?
Is “feeling another person’s pain” or slowing down for a car crash or watching horror movies similar to cutting oneself – wanting to feel something?
The more religious someone is in a movie, the likelier they end up as the bad guy.
And kids are always smarter than the adults and are
never killed in movies. When they are a character in a murder mystery, they almost always turn out to be at the heart of the solution.
And the good guys never eat in the movies. Eating is a sign that the character is weak...or about to be killed.
I can think of no more important purpose or reason to be
grateful for having been born with a tongue, the title of this blog notwithstanding, than the important task of finishing
off the ice cream in the bottom of the bowl.
