Prejudice

i have, this week been called prejudice which really astonished me when it was first mentioned to me. ME.. Prejudice...never, not in a million years, not against any minority/majority or social group, race, creed or colour, in fact i am rather proud of the fact that i am totally non prejudice and will fight for the right of any man or woman to live their lives the way they wish too. Each to their own, what floats your boat is fine by me, it may well not float mine but sheshh..if we were all the same, life would be pretty boring to say the least.
Anyway.. to continue on this theme, why should anyone think this of me you might ask and not hesitate in pointing it out in no uncertain terms. Well because i express a dislike for a certain person who "happens" to be disabled... Now let me point out here that the disability isn't what i dislike about this person, its the person themselves that i am not that happy to associate with, nothing to do with the sex of, social standing, religion etc... of them, nothing to do with who they are or where, what etc they come from, nor has it anything to do with the wheelchair that accompanies this person 24/7, nope, its to do with the person behind all that other stuff.
When i think more about this situation, i begin to see that i have always treated this person in exactly the same manner as i would anyone else, there has never been any "Special" treatment because of their disability, they stand or fall on who they are and how they behave in general so the way i look at it is that far from being prejudice against them i am in fact treating them in exactly the same way as i would treat them if they were able bodied. The fact that i don't like them has nothing to do with the disability..only with the person they are.
Prejudice amongst the circles i move in is an established fact, those within the lifestyle are constantly being called out because of the choices in the way they wish to live their lives. Last night i was having a long conversation with a TS* who has recently come out only to be hounded and ridiculed by family and friends alike, why, because she is different to the norm. Not because of the choices she has made to the way she wishes to live her life but mainly because she does not fit the mould or the standard by which the majority of people view her. The same can be said for male submissives, they do not, according to society in general, conform to the socially acceptable standard therefore they must be queer or kinky or just down right perverts. i mean.. a man, submitting to a female... or wanting to dress or look like a female... what does that say about him..that he is weak ? or that he isn't man enough ? Not at all, in fact it is said that a submissive has to be a very strong person to be able to give over themselves to another willingly and that to have the focus to maintain that over a period of time takes a lot of courage, strength and effort and many who live the life of M/s have to have a very strong will to be able to do that..where then does the attitude that these people are weak and of no strength of character come from other than the bigoted attitude of those who quite frankly, only think this through lack of insight, knowledge and closemindedness or the reluctance to learn about something they know nothing about, rather taking the easy line of putting everything they do not understand down as something to be viewed with disgust and disdain.
There are so many variations to this prejudice that being disabled doesn't even come into the list of the 10 most popular aspects to be bigoted about therefore, when i am accused of such i am shocked to even think that another lifestyler could even go there. i have many many friends who have some kink or another that is "socially unacceptable" in some form to the general population and if i had any prejudice in me it would be against those who have no way of opening their minds and viewing the world with some sense of reality rather than peeping out from behind their crisp white net curtains and making sweeping statements about something they has absolutely no knowledge about and seem to have no desire to even begin to find out rather, just continue in their little closed comfort zone and sod the rest of us.
Thats fine, if that's how they wish to live, again, i have no prejudice against those people, floating their own boats, i just wish they wouldn't impart their prejudices on me or anyone else who does not fit the mould of what is seen to be "acceptable" in this day and age.

* Transexual (TS): A person who feels a consistent and overwhelming desire to fulfill their lives as members of the opposite gender. Most transsexuals actively desire and physically make the transition including Sexual Reassignment Surgery (MTF - male to female - FTM - female to male).

Transgender (TG): A term used to include transsexuals, transvestites, and crossdressers. It can also represent a person who, like a transsexual, transitions, sometimes with the help of hormone therapy and/or cosmetic surgery to live in the gender role of choice, but has not undergone, and generally does not intend to undergo SRS.