What Do You Think?

The one thing I never want to be is 100 percent right.

Nuh-huh.

Not me.

I just want to be 100 percent redeemed.

The other thing I never want to do is to demean or belittle or be dismissive of others. I fall into that ugliness all too often but deep inside me is a sweet girl trying to do her God proud.

I know. I know. She’s hard to see somedays.

I’m sorry.

I often wish I were more like my daughters and less like me.

But then they had the advantage of being raised in a stable home, where death and destruction did not rule.

I wish all children could grow up in the safety of the home my children have known.

But they don’t. Far, too many don’t. I know that, both as a journalist and as a former kid myself.

So when I was approached by a couple of women about the use of my Internet Gang Rape title on my previous blog post, I did as they have requested and changed the title — though not the substance of the post itself.

I think all of this raises an important question however. I still believe that all violence, all evil begins as a thought first. I think it is accurate to say that what we are seeing on the Internet — this ganging up, is assaultive, and that those assaults are often sexual in content. I think bullying is far too generic a term for the kind of assault I’ve seen and experienced.