A while ago my girlfriend Lyn posted a couple of videos to youtube. I hope she doesn’t mind me saying that one was of her in a swimsuit, another was about her transexualism, and so on. As such, as much as I don’t like using the word, I think they are brave art-works, and I feel Lyn is to be applauded for uploading them.

Yet it would seem that Lyn has received derision from fellow youtube users. This makes me very angry indeed. They seem to think that Lyn is something to be laughed at, and post crass comments. Would they laugh at a black man, just for being who he is and not being afraid to hide it. Such people strike me as illiberal and narrow-minded. They cannot accept that some people are different, and aren’t ashamed to hide it.

I whish I could charge to the aid of my girlfriend. She is probably the most unique person I know, and I feel proud to know her. She has had to go through a lot, just to be who she feels she is. Yet she told me last night that she regularly has to put up with such bigotry and intolerance.

Why can’t people learn to accept others for who they are? Why can’t they tolerate difference? Why can’t they accept the idea that not everyone is like them? The answer, I suspect, is a lack of education.