Gender and pro cycling

[LBTC]

spazz, you and I have more in common than I realized! I mean, I've been called (and calling myself) spaz, for many years, but this whole tolerance vs. acceptance thing is something I thought only I had noticed. Just talked about it with another friend last weekend. It was the first she'd thought about it too.

I have learned, as I get older, I am less tolerant of the rednecks that live around here and all the judgemental mumbo-jumbo that goes with them (yes, I realize the irony of that, and I've come to accept it in myself). I also have noticed that I am more accepting of different ways of thinking, different lifestyles, different sexual orientation, etc, as long as I see evidence that a person is truly trying to find themselves and their true beliefs, etc, I have a lot of respect for them.

Life is irony. I spend each day learning to accept that all over again.



you rock, spazz! ever find yourself in British Columbia??

namaste,
~T~

[spazzdog]

Thanks LBTC! I was hesitant at first when I started this thread. I really appreciate everyone's involvement and responses.

As to B.C. - uh, where would you be; east or west Canada? I'm so very geographically challenged.

I've not been out of the U.S except once... Vancouver in 1990 for the Gay Games.

spazz

[LBTC]

Vancouver is in BC. I'll be there in two weeks to visit a friend. I'm a 5 hour north/east drive from there....
and we don't get nearly as much rain here!

here's to acceptance!

Namaste,
~T~

[singletrackmind]

http://www.boston.com/news/education...draw_fire?pg=2

The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, drew a lot of criticism when he made the comment that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. The above link is page 2 and contains the worst of what he said. He says he was misunderstood.

Maybe the science teacher picked up on what he had to say and decided then and forever after, girls just can't do science. I know a few news stations were treating it as gospel before critics bashed it but good. The damage a few words can do is frightening.