Category: discrimination

• It Takes a Village to Break a Child

  I do not often get comments on my blog; if I exclude the pingbacks, spam and my own replies, I’ve received twenty-two comments from ten different individuals since I started the eye of paradox two years ago. Four of those people have identified themselves as transgendered, and like every transgendered person I’ve known, it has…

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  Jul 24, 2009

  death, discrimination, epiphanies, existentialism, fair play, free-will, gender, identity, individuality, personal musings, reader response, reflection, society, transgender, truth, understanding
• Hidden in Plain Sight

  On April 27, 2008 at 12:36 am, I began a post — this post, actually — but got no further than the title. I don’t know if that was because that title summed up my feelings so well that there was no point to writing any further about what was on my mind. Yesterday, those…

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  Jul 7, 2009

  death, discrimination, editorial, society, stranger, truth, understanding
• A True Identity is Nothing to Fear

  The response I received to my last post, Conundrum, prompted me to check out the recent posts of the people who commented or posted blogs in the transgender category yesterday. As a result, I became aware of the outcry against the appointment of Dr. Kenneth Zucker, Dr. Ray Blanchard, and J. Michael Bailey, by the…

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  eyeofparadox

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  May 13, 2008

  discrimination, existentialism, fair play, gender, identity, individuality, minorities, personal musings, reflection, social stratification, society, transgender, understanding, voices in my head
• The Impact of Social Stratification

  We’re all human. None of us have a say in what circumstances we are born. Pretty much any other characteristic by which people can be defined produces some form of social stratification. Thinking about it boggles the mind. I’ve grown up with the ideas of caste and class, and tried to understand how anyone can…

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  eyeofparadox

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  Aug 21, 2007

  discrimination, end of the world, evil, fair play, individuality, jobs, minorities, personal musings, social stratification, society, sociology, suicide
• The Best Way to Fit In? Don’t Stand Out

  Grouping is an activity that comes instinctively and automatically to people. It is part of a filtering process that allows us to make sense of our universe. Anything can serve as criteria for grouping, but because this is a perceptual-interpretive process; differences and similarities in physical characteristics are the most prevalent. As we learn and…

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  Aug 12, 2007

  discrimination, fair play, individuality, minorities, personal musings, society, sociology, transgender