On Mar 22, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Alia Atlas <akatlas(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
If your concern is that you might obliviously misstep and be called
out on it - then yes - you may - and you may actually need to think
about it beforehand or learn from it afterwards. Welcome to life.
Thanks for saying this, Alia. I've been feeling a bit frustrated by this
conversation too, and not sure how to articulate that. I think you've hit the
nail on the head. When I think about this topic, I definitely consider myself
more likely to unwittingly (I hope!) engage in some kind of bad behavior that
would result in censure than being the subject of such bad behavior. However,
I would _much_ rather be taken aside and have that pointed out to me than
continue it or "get away" with it.
That is the point of this effort: not to make anybody miserable, but to notice
when things are going off the rails and put a stop to it before it really gets
bad. We are quite capable of improving this through successive approximation,
whereas I don't think we can get it perfect on the first try. We can't afford
to just keep talking about it forever.