FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR ROCKS
Someone has put up an edifice you don't like. Although it's intended to help others, you feel threatened by it. In your head all you can see are scenarios in which the edifice impacts your life, in a bad way, and you don't like that.
You have a pile of rocks. Could your rocks help resolve your fears? You have two choices.
You can throw the rocks at the edifice, and try to knock it down.
Or you can try to find out why someone thought the edifice was important enough to build, then use your rocks to help improve it, or to build a newer, better edifice, that gives the help needed and doesn't scare you.
When the voting franchise was extended to men without property, there were people throwing rocks.
When it was extended further to include women, there were people throwing rocks.
When homosexuality was legalised, there were people throwing rocks.
When equal pay for women was established, there were people throwing rocks.
When same sex civil partnerships came in, there were people throwing rocks.
The people throwing rocks weren't always the same people, but they were always people whose position in our social structures had been normalised, and felt that position to be threatened by giving rights to people who didn't have them.
I've very consciously kept my distance from the debates going on around the Gender Recognition Act. It's far too complex and nuanced a subject for social media. But I do see plenty of others who feel less restrained. And an awful lot of them are throwing rocks. Couldn't they find a better use for them?
