Day 86

Is there a story that matters to you?

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Is there a reason why you would not want to tell it or that if you did, some people might find it uncomfortable?

The problem is, no matter what you write someone out there isn’t going to like it.

And there is a raft of subjects to write about that causes concern, but these are sometimes stories that have to be told.

I have one such story, and to me, the telling of it would not fit the mainstream opinion because people are very divided over it. There are reasons for this, and they are being, in my opinion, sensationalised to polarise a particular stance.

The subject: Transgenders.

Like I said, it’s a story I would like to write about, but I know what the response is going to be.

And that isn’t to say that I do not have my own biases, the baggage that we are given when we are younger, where schools and teachers teach us what is supposedly the norms they will need to work within for the rest of their lives.

In my day it was that the man went to work to earn the living that provided a house, food, and everything else, while the woman stayed home, had children and looked after the man.

Yes, I can hear 50 percent of the population laughing at that one, but how different is that societal norm to that where we are now taught that transgenders are sub humans that should be scorned and abandoned because they don’t fit the definition of man or woman?

Thankfully, I grew out of that, and women can vote, work, drive cars, and do anything they desire, though it seems there is a new movement that wants to take away all those rights and go back to the Stone Age.

Again, another very touchy subject, and that will eventually prevent the possibility of writers putting forward the various viewpoints for larger discussion.

Try going back another hundred years, when women were the sub-human species, little more than a man’s possession.

This is probably the only time I will raise the subject, as an instance of what writers may or may not write about, a highlight that public opinion fueled by people in power does eventually affect what can be written.

It’s something that we should all be mindful of, as well as keeping an open mind.