Sunday, October 21, 2012

Does Our Society Rest Too Heavily on Binaries?

With the presidential election coming up on November 6th, I've become overly aware of social binaries - Republican/Democrat, gay/straight, black/white, woman/man - the list continues.

Binaries leave so many people out, and that is hardly ever a good thing.  Why do we try to limit ourselves to this black/white world and neglect the grey areas?  I tend to dwell in the grey.  Mostly because I'm fickle, but also because I don't prefer to limit myself - if I don't have to, why should I?