Do not judge by appearances…

“Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.”
-Scottish Proverb

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Denmark fighting prejudice with The Human Library

The Human Library challenges stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue. The Human Library is a place where people are books on loan to readers for a chat.

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Why blend in when you were born to stand out

#BeYou

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CEO fired after publicly ridiculing Tennessee teen for his prom dress

A CEO of telemedicine company VisuWell in Tennessee, got fired for publicly making fun of male Franklin High School senior Dalton Stevens for wearing a dress to prom with his boyfriend.

Stevens felt good wearing it:

“I very much view clothes as genderless,” said Stevens.

“I was very confident,” Stevens said. “I knew that I felt beautiful, and I felt great.”

(via https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ceo-fired-after-publicly-ridiculing-tennessee-teen-over-his-prom-dress/ )

His boyfriend, Jacon Geittmann, supported him all the way:

“He did his big ‘prom-posal’ and asked me to prom,” said Jacob Geittman, Stevens’ boyfriend. “And he decided he was going to wear a dress, and I’m like, ‘Okay! You’re going to look good in it!’”

The harassment from the CEO, later identified as Sam Johnson, took place in downtown Franklin at the Harpeth Hotel, while Steven and Geittman were taking pictures.

“Slander terms thrown towards me of like ‘You look bad,’ ‘You’ve got hair on your chest, you shouldn’t be wearing a dress,’ ‘You’re not a man,’ blah, blah, blah,” Stevens explained. “The fact that he thought he had the audacity to come tell me what I was supposed to wear and what I was supposed to do because of his standards.”

..“I think clothing should just be taken as a piece of cloth and nothing more,” said Stevens. “Everybody should just wear what they want and shouldn’t be ashamed to wear anything because of societal standards.”

The public shaming was caught on cell phone video by Geittman, and Johnson was fired Monday.

“You can have your thoughts and opinions, [but] keep them to yourself,” Geittman said. “You don’t need to go up to a teenager in public on their prom night and publicly shame and harass them for what they decided to wear.”

VisuWell posted their support for the LGBTQ community on Twitter:

We share the concerns that so many have expressed on this matter and look forward to announcing concrete steps we are taking in support of the LGBTQ community in particular over the coming weeks.

#BeYou

 

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Colton Underwood: “I’m gay…I get to publicly and outwardly be happy and be me – all of me”

Nervous, but happy to finally be himself and accept himself, Colton Underwood shared with the world today that he is gay. He hid his true self all his life , wanting to be heterosexual, praying for it on the day he found out he was chosen to be the “Bachelor” in 2019, and thinking this was the answer to being happy.

It wasn’t the answer.  As Colton told Robin Roberts, who also went through a similar experience of waiting to be her whole self publicly until 2013, coronavirus and the pandemic led him to really look at himself and face and work through his fears. He didn’t know you can be Christian and gay, or be gay and have kids. He heard the term gay used negatively throughout his childhood. Sadly, he said he would rather die than say he was gay. He didn’t know he could be happy being himself. Luckily, he found out how wrong he was…#itgetsbetter.

Colton apologized to his ex-girlfriend who he chose from the “Bachelor”, Cassie:

“I would like to say sorry for how things ended, I messed up I made a lot of bad choices. I loved everything about her, and it’s hard for me to articulate my emotions and going through that relationship with her because I obviously had an internal fight going on. I’m sorry for any pain and emotional stress I caused, I wish it wouldn’t have happened the way it did. I wish I would have been courageous enough to fix myself before I broke anyone else.”

That last line is so expressive. You can really feel what he means.

Colton was nervous in his announcement, but happy for his future and being himself – all of himself, with the support of his family and friends.

What is next for Colton: “Life. I mean I get to breathe. I get to…take all this weight off my back and my shoulders. And, I get to publicly and outwardly be happy and be me – all of me.”

Colton Underwood with is dad Scott and Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy, in West Village, NY, before the interview.
Credit: The Image Direct

#BeYou

Anyone else thinking of John Legend’s song “All of Me”?

It feels good to be yourself.

 

 

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Humanity: Getting away from the “other” mentality

The more we learn about someone, the easier it is to appreciate who they are. We aim at Me We Too to connect people and grow from the “other” mentality by showing how similar we all can be in lots of ways, while appreciating our differences. It’s about knowing each other’s story.

Don Lemon explained this “other” mentality stemming from not interacting with others, and not getting to know them, direct from the heart with his buddy and fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo:

Don Lemon: “Often times, when you don’t have a relationship with people like that, you don’t know them, you don’t see their humanity. But to you, it’s “other”. And, listen, you know where we live, there are people who have issues, people we see all the time…but we see them as human. People see their own, or their neighbors, as human. And it’s about time, especially as you said, for white people to see black people as human. Even if you can’t – why can’t you relate to them? Because often times you don’t interact with them. So you may see George Floyd as this character who you see as criminal, but to the people who live in that neighborhood, he’s one of them, he’s their neighbor. They know his story. And, he may have – he may not be the perfect human being – who is? I’m not perfect, are you Chris?”

Chris Cuomo: I couldn’t be any farther from it.

Don Lemon: Ok, so then, George Floyd isn’t perfect either.

Let’s get to know each other’s story.

#georgefloyd

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Does anyone else cut their own hair? Yes, including George Clooney!

Not just a coronavirus pandemic have-to because the hair salon is closed…George Clooney is also one of the people who cuts his own hair because that’s the way he likes it. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Clooney gave a demo on how he has cut his own hair in 2 minutes for the past 25 years since he bought the Flowbee:

 

Check out these related Me We Too posts!

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A spider like part of the family

There’s arachnophobia – a fear of spiders – and then there’s this. Jake Gray from Australia posted this picture of a 15cm wide Banded Huntsman Spider named Charlotte who lives with him and his family, on the Australian spider identification Facebook page:

Via “Meet Charlotte, a Banded Huntsman Spider who found a home”

Gray says that Charlotte moves from room to room and never bothers anyone in the home…

Gray has watched the spider grow to that size over the last year in his mother’s home.

One good thing about Charlotte is that the spider “eats all of the bugs,” according to Gray.

How do you like spiders? Check out these related Me We Too posts…

I just relocate the spiders outside

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I hate spiders!!! Get ’em away!!

That fear when you’re on the toilet and a spider happens to crawl by your feet

I don’t like spiders because I have a slight phobia of them

I am terrified of spiders. I got bit.

I don’t do Spiders

Spiders give people fears

I hate spiders and close spaces.

Spiders scare me

I fear spiders so much when I see one I’m jumping out of my shoes!

Spiders, especially brown recluses, freak me out

Spiders and centipedes are freaking scary

Spiders scare the hell out of me

Spiders freak me out

One time a spider made a Beyonce grand entrance in my shower

I cannot stand spiders, snakes, and clowns at all.

I’m terrified of spiders.

I relocate spiders outside.

I am afraid of spiders

 

 

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Before You Call the Cops – The Tyler Merritt Project

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