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Sep. 15th, 2024 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatAs I was writing a post on television, I was watching/listening to the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Brooklyn's service on FB. And I'm really enjoying these, well for the most part.
Takeaways from this one:
* When I was younger, I was clever and wanted to change the world, now that I'm older, I'm wise and realize I can only work on changing myself.
Very true. I'm working on myself now. And hopefully I can leave the world better than I entered it?
* Quote from Fred Rogers, the personal hero of our Interim Minister, when Rogers was accepting an Emmy. He looked at the members of the audience, all in their glitz and glamour, and told them - "Someone loved you all into being, I'll give you a minute to think about that someone."
They, the interim minister, is Chinese American, from immigrant parents in California, raised in the disciplines of Taos, Confusicious, and Buddha, but not necessarily together or to that exclusion, and fell in love with Unitarian Universalism, which changed their lives. They chose to become an interim minister to show their love for the faith and to support their colleagues. They are also trans and started testosterone hormones a year or so ago. They use "they/their" pronouns.
I've learned a great deal about the trans community and non-binary/transgender individuals over the past ten years via my church. I think if more people met trans, and understood - life would be easier.
Since my workplace is a NY State Agency, and NY has laws in place protecting Transgender in public and at the workplace, we have annual virtual or web-based training on Gender Equality. But, that doesn't change the prejudices and mindsets of many co-workers. It's why I'm not close friends with them, and while we are friendly, we are not "close". I can't hand-wave their prejudices. And they don't like it when I call them on it, and side-eye me, like I'm from an alien planet.
People, or so I've discovered over time, are fiercely protective of their prejudices. And often not aware of the fact that they are prejudices or that they are being cruel in their insistence of them.
There was a quote I saw on Instagram that resonated with me..and I can no longer find it.
But I found this one...
"Let them be wrong about you. There's nothing to prove."
Then mother called, and I forgot all the other quotes that I saw. Instagram kind of just throws marketing and promotional information at me, along with the type of quotes I used to see in card stores, which alas no longer exist.
Takeaways from this one:
* When I was younger, I was clever and wanted to change the world, now that I'm older, I'm wise and realize I can only work on changing myself.
Very true. I'm working on myself now. And hopefully I can leave the world better than I entered it?
* Quote from Fred Rogers, the personal hero of our Interim Minister, when Rogers was accepting an Emmy. He looked at the members of the audience, all in their glitz and glamour, and told them - "Someone loved you all into being, I'll give you a minute to think about that someone."
They, the interim minister, is Chinese American, from immigrant parents in California, raised in the disciplines of Taos, Confusicious, and Buddha, but not necessarily together or to that exclusion, and fell in love with Unitarian Universalism, which changed their lives. They chose to become an interim minister to show their love for the faith and to support their colleagues. They are also trans and started testosterone hormones a year or so ago. They use "they/their" pronouns.
I've learned a great deal about the trans community and non-binary/transgender individuals over the past ten years via my church. I think if more people met trans, and understood - life would be easier.
Since my workplace is a NY State Agency, and NY has laws in place protecting Transgender in public and at the workplace, we have annual virtual or web-based training on Gender Equality. But, that doesn't change the prejudices and mindsets of many co-workers. It's why I'm not close friends with them, and while we are friendly, we are not "close". I can't hand-wave their prejudices. And they don't like it when I call them on it, and side-eye me, like I'm from an alien planet.
People, or so I've discovered over time, are fiercely protective of their prejudices. And often not aware of the fact that they are prejudices or that they are being cruel in their insistence of them.
There was a quote I saw on Instagram that resonated with me..and I can no longer find it.
But I found this one...
"Let them be wrong about you. There's nothing to prove."
Then mother called, and I forgot all the other quotes that I saw. Instagram kind of just throws marketing and promotional information at me, along with the type of quotes I used to see in card stores, which alas no longer exist.