Thinking Errors, 10-16-2023
Ways I attempt to stay on the straight and narrow despite my culture.
Trying to eliminate errors in my thinking. Tricks I am using:
1. When I look at person, I visualize them as just a brain. Used to pretend they were white male (like me) but that became problematic.
2. Gender pronouns carry a lot of characteristics that are usually inaccurate and not relevant. I use they and them (formal). This seems to work better for me than the misleading and frequently wrong informal pronouns, he; she, they (informal), them (informal).
3. Racial identifiers (ex. black, asian, white) are loaded with so much misleading baggage that they are useless to me for understanding an individual.
4. Thinking about it a bit, certain phrases just fall apart. Phrases like 'men are...', 'just need to...', 'the Bible says...', and 'they are genetically...'
