Not sure if that was satire .. but if it wasn't ..
:0) I did not dress her in pink brother .. her mother did. But more importantly, dressing her in pink or anyother color would have everything to do with what I like looking at and nothing to do with what she sees or interprets.
When she was a baby, I dressed her mother in pink.
She's served 3 tours in combat zones.
Not really satire, BAC. But suggesting that, although we may deplore prejudice based upon stereotypes in others we are, each one of us, guilty of a similar thing. We open our eyes and see a black person and, first, our eyes linger longer than if we see a white person. We see a yellow person and the same happens. When a black person or a yellow person sees a white person a similar thing happens. Not always, but sufficiently often for it to be noticable. So we all carry prejudice (not all bad incidentally) and we all need to keep it under control. I saw a cute little baby. It was dressed in pink and I thought pretty clothes, girly toys, pigtails, etc. Had the baby been dressed in blue I might have thought football, male toys, male clothes.
So when I recoiled in horror at my secretary's refusal to get into a lift because the was a gentleman from Ghana within and later when tackled she said, 'Oh no. Black man. Aidsee. Not get aidsee. get next lift.' But she was expressing a certain prejudice prevalent among chinese at that time.She had not arrived at that conclusion alone.
In America, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, prejudice abounds. It is the way we are. Not born with prejudice but prejudice thrust upon us and most of us are competely unaware.
We dressed our daughter in pink and our son in blue and the grandchildren were similarly attired.
Despite protestations to the contrary we are all prejudiced to a degree. It's what human beings do - find patterns in the world so we can cope.
Have to stop there. This site is really screwed up this morning. Checked other sites, no prob. It must be the evil Uncle Sam.
