And I stayed Silent…

So I drive to work with another woman. She likes me knows that I am gay and that 2 others in our training group are gay. She has met Thad and likes him, but yesterday when we were talking about her daughter getting bullied at school and she was talking about how important it was for kids to have mentors she said something I never expected to hear from her. Seems like a former Co-Worker of hers was a bit flamboyant and also a mentor. She took offense to this saying his “kind” shouldn’t be mentoring kids. After all they don’t need to be “taught” how to be “swishey”. I just kind of went into shock and didn’t say anything. I was thinking for the rest of the day as my brain was running over this at about 1000 miles a minuet, that one of the BIG lessons that these young men that were being mentored were learning is ACCEPTANCE. They were overlooking the fact that their mentor was a little different from them and learning life lessons.
Looking back at this I think of all the things I would like to say to her, but I know I won’t because I want peace on my morning ride. My ride mate is tolerant to a point but so much more still needs to be done.
When will people understand that life is more then just Black & White?
~Rhylee

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~ by gndr rebel on March 8, 2011.