Something has really stuck with me since Tuesday. The conversation we had about how we indentify ourselves and how society identifies us got me thinking.
We are all victim to unconscious bias from society expectations. Someone says they're one thing, but we see something else. And so they're that other thing. But do we really believe it? Or are we just conditioned? Or is it something we just don't understand? And where do we all fit in? I wonder what people think of me as. How they classify me. How they perceive my life and my struggles. What they assume I'm like and how I view other people.
And then I think about how I'm probably luckier than most in how people view me, because they can't necessarily tell that I'm gay. And then I think about people who are biracial and people who are bisexual who are ostracized and are pushed out of their own communities and forced to "pass" by in other communities. And it just really frosts my cookies that this is the case sometimes.
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