David Marino
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

How about this: Serena Williams is a tennis player? That person is…whatever? This person is doing…something? In other words: when did people stop being people, and instead become a check box? It just seems that we live in an age where people need to feel special, so they put themselves in boxes, believing those boxes make them special. Eventually, however, there are a lot of people in that box, so those people are no longer as special as they used to be, so now they need a new one. Are we going to reach a point where we are “a hundred million castaways looking for a home” (-Sting, Message in a Bottle), where we are all so separated from each other that we have no common ground at all, just for the sake of being special? I’m not saying that people should be discriminated against, I’m saying that this fight for equality ends in a win for this group, so what group is next? Are we looking for equality, special protections, or special rights and privileges? Could it be that, when we achieve the goal of special rights and protections for each individual group, that nobody is special or equal?

David Marino

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