[artplumber]

Originally posted by Seahawk
Peter,

Try as I might, I continue to be flummoxed. I am not part or parcel of the problem. YOU are. I have never allowed stereotypes to be a burden.

And my friend doesn't "soldier" on, he is a Marine.

You need to crawl out of your bunker version of stereotypes. Set yourself free.

Don't know what you're still flummoxed about, ignoring stereotyping and its inherent racism is in fact contributing to the problem. As a laissez faire approach, the condoning of such activity is allows it to persist. "Let us all stick our heads in the sand now, it doesn't really affect me." A great way to go about living.

Semper fi . . . whatever. My military branch is better than your military branch......

This is reality, if you think it is bunker, so be it. If our situations were reversed, I suggest you might not be so flippant. Raising children who are trying to "fit in" really raised my own awareness of this stuff (which I frankly ignored previously).

Rick,
I agree that in some respects AffirmAction is not successful. However, some is better than none, and that's where I think we'd be without it. Don't know when it will have outlived its usefulness. But, it is instructive to note that only now, 100yrs after suffrage, women are getting to the top in many big companies/industries.