{"id":457,"date":"2015-06-14T06:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisademmi.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2015-06-14T06:15:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:15:25","slug":"caitlyn-soldiers-and-cancer-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisademmi.com\/caitlyn-soldiers-and-cancer-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlyn, Soldiers and Cancer\u2026.Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I\u2019d come back with a splash!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded just how sensitive and insensitive we can be. Notice, I\u2019m including myself here. Over the last month or so, I\u2019ve heard so many people talking about courage. Courage could be something as small as riding your motorcycle on a busy street for the first time to knowingly putting yourself in harm\u2019s way like so many of our soldiers and police do on a daily basis. I\u2019m not going to even expand on my title because I think we\u2019ve all heard enough. Courage isn\u2019t a contest. It\u2019s a word that can mean many different things to many different people and in no way does that mean that there is a comparison from one to another.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I\u2019d like to talk about what kind of a person I wish I\u2019d hear from, see and interact with. How have we as a people become so sensitive and insensitive at the same time? We can complain about the Redskins name being personal affront to native Indians yet we could care less about other \u201cpeople\u2019s\u201d feelings like the transgendered community or those who want to own a gun or vegans or what have you. Listen gang\u2026.we\u2019re all very diverse people and we all live on the planet. One religion isn\u2019t better or right; it\u2019s just different. We talk about America being the home of the free and we\u2019re the first to show that we aren\u2019t. Is it just free for those who fit the norm? I\u2019m pretty confident that when the creator (insert your creator of choice here) made us that he didn\u2019t pick and choose who\u2019d have access to certain rights and freedoms and who wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>God, Yaweh, Buddha, what have you, all seem to have one theme\u2026they are loving gods, not gods of war. What arrogance do you have to have to think you know better than than the power that created the planet? Well, I don\u2019t believe in creationism, you say. Ok, what about seeing all beings as just that\u2026another being on the same planet as you, having a human experience like you are and dealing with the life they have been given.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s everywhere\u2026Democrats vs. Republicans, Whites vs. Blacks, Straight vs. LGBT, Educated vs. Uneducated, Poor vs. Rich and so on and so on. We have forgotten along the way to see each other\u2019s humanity. Shame on us and shame on me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to try to change you or anyone else. I\u2019m not so arrogant even to think what I\u2019m sharing is right\u2026probably more righteous and yes, you do have my permission to call me on it. I\u2019ll be the first to admit my faults.<\/p>\n<p>Someone I had the pleasure of speaking with recently said this to me, \u201cPeople should just calm the fuck down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How about we try that? There is in my opinion, only one meaning of the word human and we ALL fit that description.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-536\" src=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg?w=200&amp;h=300\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg?w=200&amp;h=300 200w, https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg?w=400&amp;h=600 400w, https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg?w=100&amp;h=150 100w\" alt=\"Human\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.com\/2015\/06\/14\/caitlyn-soldiers-and-cancer-oh-my\/image-2\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Human\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg?w=200&amp;h=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wutupdogg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg?w=602\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I\u2019d come back with a splash! I\u2019m reminded just how sensitive and insensitive we can be. Notice, I\u2019m including myself here. Over the last month or so, I\u2019ve heard so many people talking about courage. Courage could be something as small as riding your motorcycle on a busy street for the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Caitlyn, Soldiers and Cancer\u2026.Oh My! - Lisa Demmi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lisademmi.com\/caitlyn-soldiers-and-cancer-oh-my\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caitlyn, Soldiers and Cancer\u2026.Oh My! - Lisa Demmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I figured I\u2019d come back with a splash! 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