Comments on: All or Nothing http://girlythoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/all-or-nothing/ Actually, THIS is what she said Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Blinutne http://girlythoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/all-or-nothing/#comment-163 Blinutne Tue, 06 May 2008 21:01:40 +0000 http://girlythoughts.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-163 It seems so easy: just relate to everyone else how you wish you could be treated yourself. You'd think people who deal most personally with issues of, as you put it, x-ism would closely empathize with those suffering related denegration--and maybe they do generally treat other oppressed groups with more respect--but I guess, ultimately, human nature is abhorrently self-centered like that. Oh well, good points, as always, and I apologize for the cynicism. At least the current issues in the public eye these days force more reflection on this tendency? It seems so easy: just relate to everyone else how you wish you could be treated yourself. You’d think people who deal most personally with issues of, as you put it, x-ism would closely empathize with those suffering related denegration–and maybe they do generally treat other oppressed groups with more respect–but I guess, ultimately, human nature is abhorrently self-centered like that.

Oh well, good points, as always, and I apologize for the cynicism. At least the current issues in the public eye these days force more reflection on this tendency?

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