Diana Glassman and Roberta Teller Thank You for Your Support

I was just reading through the comments that many of you have made and I have to say that it really warms my heart to get all of this support around an issue that has given both of us so much grief over the past year...an issue that we really at first did not want to share since it was so ugly.  And I have to say that as much as we "got it" that the woman who wrote this stuff was obviously disturbed and very angry and a real homophobe, it was nonetheless really upsetting to google our names and to see this trash written about us.  And even though we knew that we had done absolutely nothing wrong, that we had acted with integrity and within the parameters of our rights, it still ate at us and made us feel bad and embarrassed when we saw it online.  And so that's really what it's all about i.e. bullying.  The Nazis did it systemically and people do it all of the time...kids are victims, elders can be victims, anyone can be a victim since we all have sites of vulnerability within ourselves.  I think that minorities (lesbians being a minority) and all vulnerable groups (the elderly, kids, people with disabilities, racial and religious minorities, etc.) can be even more vulnerable to attacks and bullying,  and unfortunately that seems to be one of the main tactics used historically to keep minorities "in their place".  Hence the development of the KKK, the Nazis, Rush Limbaugh etc. etc....you get the point!  Victimization works by marginalizing people so that groups feel badly about themselves internally, and people are pitted against each other so that we're made to feel separate and can then blame the "other" for whatever is wrong in our lives.
So yes you see it all over the place on a systemic level and of course the systemic sickness always percolates down to the individual level.
So thanks again for your support and keep on clicking and commenting on this blog.