@ayeshasharma
Hi,
What a topic...wow. Re the generational difference. I’m not sure all the younger generation is more tolerant that prior generations. I think there may be a kind of apathy towards discrimination even though they seem to be more accepting.

Growing up I experienced gender bias big time. I was aware of how wrong it was but did not know what to do about it other than be uncomfortable, perplexed, angry at times. There was no internet, no books that I was aware of no media to glean information from. If my brother was alive when I wanted to go to college, he would have gone, not me. My dad had bias...gender and race.
When I said I wanted to go to college,he said okay if you become a nurse or teacher...neither one of which I was interested in. I worked a year and then picked a school and my parents paid for the rest. I learned a lot about strong and weak females. In my first job ,I found that a male who was doing what I was doing was being paid more. I went to the head of personnel told him the salary and then got the raise. Why did I do that ? I didn’t accept the status quo.

My ex husband, God rest his soul, loved strong women and appreciated intelligence in women...in anyone. I thrived in that atmosphere. My children grew up in that environment. My daughter and granddaughter are all strong smart women and my son and grandsons respect and admire strong women. We are lucky.

I believe that each generation , because so much is written and talked about it , has developed a greater acceptance of diversity. Yet there is the apathy I mentioned. I’m not sure any of them would crusade or go on marches for equality although they would defend anyone they knew personally.

Where children are raised and what schools they attend and whom their parents associate is a huge factor. I was raised in a diverse neighborhood but my dad had racial bias....not my mom. We moved to “better” neighborhoods. My children were raised in a predominately white neighborhood and went to predominantly white schools. I don’t remember any people of color in our circle of friends nor any of my children’s friends being other than white. I do remember loving our gay friends however. Yet our children and their children are more accepting of race than my parents generation. The bias I saw in my family..aunts, uncles etc...had the opposite effect on me and also my husbands family.

Sexual preference in my children’s growing up experience didn’t seem to matter. How did that happen? They knew gay people and liked who they knew. They didn’t really know people of color and have very few friends who are that diverse. Yet they have no racial bias. My oldest grandson grew up with a best friend who was adopted and is African American. He doesn’t think anything about that. He would defend him to the death but would he get politically involved? Don’t think so.

Women who didn’t and still don’t work outside the home are financially entrapped in abusive relationships. It’s easier to stay, even in todays world. I saw that particularly in a friends second marriage a couple,of,years ago.

There’s hope but bias of any kind will never be eradicated. We all run across minorities who do more harm than good because They are biased themselves it’s not one sided. This could go on forever and I hope you understood part of what I was trying to say.

The fat video I did not like. They seemed easily swayed by the others in their group....changing positions on the floor . Didn’t look like a good cross section of people with different opinions. One girl called everyone who was not fat “skinny” Another said she didn’t want to exercise 8 hours a day.
Come one...that’s not bias? Who exercises 8 hours a day. They were making excuses.

My thoughts.

FL Mary