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Not at all, my criticism wasn't directed toward you, it was for 1c3d0g and r_a_trip but replying to your comment was a reasonable place to make my own. Sorry if I gave you that impression.

Just the opposite, I wish more people knew transsexuals and transvestites personally. Maybe then it would be harder to use them as the intolerant-example-du-jour.

Yeah, I misunderstood that your comment was directed at me. Nevermind then!



Well, people have the tendency of using situations/behaviour/attributes they don't either understand or don't approve of as such examples. Not much you can do about it except educate people. Also, the whole globalization-thing we're going through with Internet and the likes is an entirely new phenomenon, meaning that old and new ideologies and cultural backgrounds can and will clash -- in a few hundred years when the globalization of ideas, ideologies and cultures isn't any longer such a new-fangled thing people will likely be somewhat more tolerant of things simply due to being bombarded constantly by new stuff on a daily basis and it being simply way too exhausting getting worked over every new thing.

Actually, one of the reasons why I like OSNews is because the members here seem to be somewhat more mature and experienced than on flashier, trendier tech - sites: you're still being surrounded by differing backgrounds and viewpoints quite often, but instead everyone going on a tangent and throwing up a personal shield against such people often go the opposite direction, absorbing these things. The occasional troll and, well, a "short-sighted" person is mostly an outlier, not the norm.