TYT’s Cenk Uygur booted from American Airlines flight because pilot wasn’t ‘comfortable'

[chervilant]

137. We HAVE to have each others' backs.

For me, that means that we extend respect, even as we cultivate self-respect.

Sometimes, anger gets in the way of rational discourse. Dorothy Dinnerstein's "The Mermaid and the Minotaur" explicates the skewed assignation of one subset of human emotions to our female younglings and another to our male younglings (hers is a macro-level analysis). Predominately, we teach our male children that anger is their acceptable, "go to" response no matter what emotion they're feeling. Clearly, our species has a long way to go toward learning healthy ways to experience and express our anger (and to insure both male and female younglings have access to the full range of human emotions).

I have long believed we could help our younglings tremendously by teaching communication skills, conflict resolution strategies, and a multitude of other "soft" subjects that are essential tools for human interactions. This could go a long way towards eliminating the bullying that has become ubiquitous in our society.