Category: Communication

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Just as trapped

I saw a short video a few days ago of actors in the street portraying a loud argument as a couple.  First, the man pushing, shoving and shouting at a woman, and then the reverse. In the first portrayal, many passers-by asserted support for the woman. In the second – no passers-by came to support the man. For a 60 second video – this exposed and challenged previously subconscious assumptions to a disproportionate degree.

If a woman is screaming, demeaning, shoving or slapping, shouting and berating a man – why would I assume he’s not just as trapped as a woman in the reverse situation?

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Epiphanies!

It is a strange, stark, scary, wonderful, desperately sad, terrifyingly eye opening, amazing thing when finally seeing you’ve held inconsistent or opposing ideas that simply cannot coexist and therefore undermine and undercut each other.
Strange because it has not been seen before. The thoughts in opposition have lain deep below conscious thought.

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Miss 10 and a poet converse in the sun

By a string of peculiar circumstances, little Miss 10 found herself in a long conversation with an elderly gentleman in which the pair of them were completely engaged and the delight in their voices was heard even when the words themselves weren’t audible to me. I longed to be part of it but did not want to shift the balance in this sunshiny place so I kept myself at a distance.

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