- Martin Luther King - I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be
- Mother Theresa - The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of the family to small
- We give too much voice to the most divisive amongst us
- Book titles reflect this - Pinheads and patriots; Arguing with idiots
- Negative otherizing morphs into violent extremism
- Counteracting otherizing A strategy: Take the other to lunch
- Agree on some ground rules - ahead of time
- Be conversational, don't persuade, interrupt, be curious, listen, be real, don't try to change the other side, acknowledge that it's a first step
- What issues concern you, what have you always wanted to ask someone from the other side
- Two people dropping the pretence of being know it alls
- Two people practicing ubuntu
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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