I'm not so sure about bigotry - like some kids have a leaning (innate ability for?) towards maths, some to music, some to..They have their 'talents'. Some people 'like' carrots, some like cauliflower. They do not all appear to be learned likes and dislikes (my kids were both given the same meals and like different things) or else wouldn't we all like the same things and dislike the same things? It would appear to me that ALL taste is in some part innate. I think a bigot has a propensity to dislike difference - and would be a sexual bigot if not a racial bigot or - the person would find something to be bigoted about.
Another interesting (or not) thought - doesn't tolerance imply a level of intolerance? Why does anyone need to be tolerant of something (surely it shouldn't even cross your mind to be intolerant?), unless they are instinctively intolerant of it? Tolerate always means to me that the person 'puts up with' something even though they don't really like it.
As for strictly, I'm not sure I like positive discrimination (all discrimination in my mind is wrong) in any form. Why not then have an all white strictly or all black or all Asian or ... that would just be wrong to me.
But they’re not having an all gay Strictly, any more than they would have an ‘all white, all black or all Asian’ all of which would be reprehensible ... all that is happening is that folk are being allowed to dance with whosoever they choose ... just as I did in the village hall many moons ago.
Even then (and I’m talking around 66/67) there were a couple of chaps who preferred to dance with each other most of the time ... if that was acceptable to the kind and wise population of a tiny rural village in the middle of Suffolk all that time ago why are people objecting now? Can it be that they’re neither kind nor wise?
Of course those villagers may have been remembering the kind and talented man who was the village butcher during the day, and evenings and weekends played the piano for dance classes and tea dances and country dances and rock and roll dances ... they may have remembered that this dear man, loved by all the villagers, killed himself in the early 60s because he was so very very lonely 😔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Given that so many religions actively preach that homosexuality is wrong, it's not entirely surprising that there is still such high level of homophobia.
Quite @Hostafan1 but there is hope yet. Gabon has recently voted to decriminalise homosexuality.
As for your blatherings @steveTu - taste buds are physical not cerebral. As with muscles unaccustomed to certain forms and levels of exercise they can be trained with practice and effort. My daughter was brought up to eat at least 1 spoonful of everything we ate so has had a wide variety of taste experiences and now eats a wide range of foods and is a good cook too.
Behaviour, opinions, attitudes, manners are all learned from our parents, our teachers and our peers and what we see and read.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'm looking forward to the glitz and glamour of strictly. As a heterosexual black religious woman I don't think anything of same sex couples\dance partners..... It's not my business, it's light hearted family tv. Nobody should be "tolerated" we are all people!!!! Personally I believe negative views are learned from birth. If all you see on tv and books are a mummy and daddy when you see 2 mummys you'll hear the child's favourite word "why". If anything is said that sounds like it's wrong\different the seed is planted; unconsciously if the seed is water then nurtured the negative conitation will be formed.
Strictly starts October 24th @JenniB83 So a few weeks away yet 😉 It's going to be only 9 weeks apparently......so either they are having less competitors or more than one could be eliminated each week 🤷🏻♀️
It's going to be hard to manage it with all the bubble and distancing stuff so I expect fewer competitors, no trip to Blackpool and wonder about how they'll manage the professional dance numbers.
I suspect there'll be a lack of audience and backup dancers for the theme nights where there are props and extras which is fine because it means there'll be, in theory, more emphasis on the quality of the actual dancing.
Have to wait and see.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Are you sure taste buds work that way? How does taste synaesthesia then work? Did you also not see the BBC prog about taste (might have been Mike Mosley again) - I think it was in the same series where they spoke about the McGurk effect (the Baa-Faa effect) - how they fooled people into 'tasting' lemons in a strawberry drink, simply by changing the colour to yellow. Interaction between senses - how can that also then work if taste is solely in the mouth and not cerebral?
I think science is slowly coming to the conclusion that all man has is sensors - hands, nose, mouth, ears - they are simple detectors - our link to the outside world. The world exists in the model we make in our brain - our brain creates the colour, the sound, the taste. Taste and the taste buds are just receptors that pass signals to the brain where those signals are interpreted.
Again, behaviour - I don't agree at all. How many people 'know' this..they see two children from the same parents. One child takes after the father in 'temperament' the other child takes after the mother - the other child takes after neither. Nature or nurture? Why see that eye colour is genetic, but behavioural traits aren't? But it's early days of genetics and man is still learning. But oddly 'man' breeds animals to make them more aggressive or docile and is totally aware that those traits are genetic - but doesn't like the thought that man is just an animal.
I like the word blatherings - reminds me of PG Wodehouse (or is that Blandings)?
There seems to be some confusion around Blackpool, last l heard it was going ahead. How they would manage to convey the Blackpool experience with no audience and Dave Arch (with his wonderful orchestra) socially distanced l have no idea. Could be interesting.
On a plus note, there wont be all the screeching and whooping and general histrionics and no more pointless compulsory standing ovations. If that's the case, I might even watch it again.
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Even then (and I’m talking around 66/67) there were a couple of chaps who preferred to dance with each other most of the time ... if that was acceptable to the kind and wise population of a tiny rural village in the middle of Suffolk all that time ago why are people objecting now? Can it be that they’re neither kind nor wise?
Of course those villagers may have been remembering the kind and talented man who was the village butcher during the day, and evenings and weekends played the piano for dance classes and tea dances and country dances and rock and roll dances ... they may have remembered that this dear man, loved by all the villagers, killed himself in the early 60s because he was so very very lonely 😔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As for your blatherings @steveTu - taste buds are physical not cerebral. As with muscles unaccustomed to certain forms and levels of exercise they can be trained with practice and effort. My daughter was brought up to eat at least 1 spoonful of everything we ate so has had a wide variety of taste experiences and now eats a wide range of foods and is a good cook too.
Behaviour, opinions, attitudes, manners are all learned from our parents, our teachers and our peers and what we see and read.
Nobody should be "tolerated" we are all people!!!! Personally I believe negative views are learned from birth. If all you see on tv and books are a mummy and daddy when you see 2 mummys you'll hear the child's favourite word "why". If anything is said that sounds like it's wrong\different the seed is planted; unconsciously if the seed is water then nurtured the negative conitation will be formed.
Back to strictly....when does it start?
So a few weeks away yet 😉
It's going to be only 9 weeks apparently......so either they are having less competitors or more than one could be eliminated each week 🤷🏻♀️
I suspect there'll be a lack of audience and backup dancers for the theme nights where there are props and extras which is fine because it means there'll be, in theory, more emphasis on the quality of the actual dancing.
Have to wait and see.
If that's the case, I might even watch it again.