Diversity on GKU
Feb 11, 2015 14:29:22 GMT -5
Post by ohinvrtedworld on Feb 11, 2015 14:29:22 GMT -5
Feb 11, 2015 14:19:03 GMT -5 @emilie818 said:
I also care very much about being in a respectful, well-informed community. In fact, that's a higher priority than anything else.
However, I've been a part of many, many communities all along the spectrum of diversity, and, in my experience, communities that are less diverse are significantly less respectful of and less informed about people who belong to a different demographic than themselves. After all, how can a person be informed about something if they're never exposed to it?
And more importantly, how does the above apply in the slightest to OUR community? By definition we are NOT a diverse community - we are a very small niche of women, mainly aged 20-40, who are trying to get pregnant, and who are well-off enough to have the time and resources to use a message board on the internet. Stop stirring shit, mlgnumbers.
To me, race is such a construct. We aren't different "breeds" like kinds of dogs or cats. Our physical characteristics just vary. I can understand it being fascinating to hear about the ancestry of people for fun -- I am Scottish, English, Cherokee, and French. And maybe more that I haven't discovered.
But that's for the fun of sharing family history. This appears to be trying to put people in a box and finding out whether we can accept people in different boxes. Why would that be productive?