http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/ Stories about rebuilding your life Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-783 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:30:29 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-783 Yup, it happens.

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-782 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:57:11 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-782 Now I remember that!!

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-781 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:56:49 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-781 Chris is out of the Anxiety Closet! I can’t wait to get to that point of my life.

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-780 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:51:13 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-780 Took my meds today. That was beautifully said, Ashley. I worked very hard in the 60′s for the civil rights movement, and thought that all those stars in my crown made me immune to the tendency we all have to be judgemental. Wrong. I still have reactions I don’t like. I put people into categories. and even though it’s only in my head, I feel shame, so I’m forever trying to be the person I want to be and being brought up short by some stupid reaction or self-righteous thought. I liked ‘anxiety closet,’ too, but I’m out on that one. I just wish my balance and my memory had come out with me.

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-779 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:46:02 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-779 Taken directly from one of my all time favorite comic strips, no longer around: Bloom County.

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-778 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:10:32 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-778 “Anxiety closet” is my new favorite phrase!!!

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-777 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:09:16 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-777 I think it takes recognizing these “little” moments of internal judging, investigating as you so artfully did what triggered the assumptions, the judgements, the prejudice, and then changing the story inside our heads every darn time it happens, if we hope to reduce the presence and impact of prejudice in the world. The consensus consumer reality is fueled by keeping us insecure and pressure-driven, so we”ll go buy something that we think will make us more attractive/desirable/interesting/competent/whatever is in our anxiety closet.

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-776 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:09:18 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-776 Preach on!

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-775 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:07:25 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-775 We all say we’re not prejudiced, but we are. Whether your prejudice is against another skin color, size, religion, region, ethnicity, education level, attractiveness level, etc,, we all have something we react too, usually because of the way we were raised. I’ve gotten comments from other people over the years for being in a mixed religion marriage, for being from the South, for being too busty, for being too fat — you know what? Screw ‘em. As I get older I’m learning to judge people less, and too reject their judgement of me. Acceptance of yourself and of others is one of the keys to happiness.

]]> http://baddestmotherever.com/2013/04/17/my-daily-tangle-with-prejudice/#comment-773 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:50:58 +0000 http://baddestmotherever.com/?p=941#comment-773 You didn’t. Michelle said “women often don’t like each other immediately” which is what I was responding to.

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