[littl3chocobo]

regardless of their potential to be buttfaces? XD yeah, that works!

nah, in all seriousness though it is important to find people who are not intolerant

[trystan830]

so in that other thread where we were talking about holidays etc... Unitarian Universalism is guided by 7 principles, and the first one affirms and promotes the inherent worth and dignity of every person. and that's what i try to do with everyone. (there are some people in various political positions that it's difficult to do with....)

i've also said you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover - read it for a little bit and then decide. same with people - don't judge them by the way they look, get to know them for a little bit first! :)

[Mekatra]

I like that as a worldview. Seems like good morals to instill in a child.

[trystan830]

and i believe i can say hubby and i did a good job with our kids. (kids? they're 22 and 18 - young adults!)

[mdom]

My dad wouldn't say he did a good job, but that's because he doesn't really care about morals... or anything like that |D

[trystan830]

wow, that's a yikes

[littl3chocobo]

i raised one of my cats to have an understanding of consent. does that count?

[trystan830]

sure! that's a smart cat!

[Kory]

It's funny because even though I grew up in a small town in the Midwest, I feel like I've been pretty open-minded about things like religion, culture, etc.

I think partially it helped because I am from a very multi-racial family and even though I never really grew up around that family much, I was exposed to racism at an early age and I've been hoping ever since that no one, especially no child, should ever have to feel outcast due to their skin color or their race or ethnicity.

Spoiler; In-depth talk about my experiences with racism

As a POC, especially as a "mixed" person, I used to believe that black people, especially black women, could never portray anyone important on TV and film... unless they were slaves. It didn't help also, that my small town school was very racist and every year in Black History Month, they would force us to watch graphic videos of black people being hosed down and bitten by dogs. We even saw images of black people swinging from trees.


I never knew ANYTHING good that black people have done... I only knew a little bit about Dr. Martin Luther King. But we never learned about anyone else. I didn't know who Harriet Tubman was until I got into high school. I didn't know anything about Dido Elizabeth Belle, who was a real person and the first black aristocrat in England and was a vital part of abolishing slave trades in England.

I was always so ashamed of my ethnic background because as a kid, we only saw all the bad things that happened to black people. Even as an elementary school kid, we watched videos of black people being attacked and each time we watched videos, all the kids would turn and look at me as if I were there or something.

Onto happier things...
Cats are pretty smart!

I always wanted a cat. But my mom has a phobia of cats.

[mdom]

Same here, Ava, my mom never let me bring a cat home D:
I live vicariously through my internet friends and their cats...

[XoGizmooX]

[QUOTE=mdom;1923988]Same here, Ava, my mom never let me bring a cat home D:
I live vicariously through my internet friends and their cats...




AND THEIR TURTLES

[Kory]

I was so jealous of my friends with pets!!

I always wanted one, but my mom doesn't really like animals.

As I got older, I had a pet rooster and a bunny.
The rooster was super cute, I had him as a chick, but he was really mean.

I didn't live too far from the farm, so I returned him after he grew up because he was picking fights with himself in the mirror and he was really loud.

My bunny was sweet. Even mom loved her. Her name was Beans :D
My friend drew Beans and that's the bunny in my signature.

[littl3chocobo]

yeah, she is the smartest cat i've ever known. sadly she got very sick for a while so a lot of that fell apart since her demands for agency were ignored while she was going back and forth to the emergency hospital and taking hard antibiotics. she still does it a little bit with asking and telling but the damage was done and trust broken there

[Kory]

Its really cool to me that some people can train their cats to use a toilet :D

[littl3chocobo]

cats are not potatoes XD they are totally trainable as long as you understand them and don't try to apply dog-logic to them

[mdom]

Cats are smart, they just don't care xD