Sociological Mindfulness

Schwalbe's comment that sociological mindfulness can help create a better life for the people you care about is a good way to think about things, and definitely a way to convince people to be sociologically mindful. By looking and understand the way the world works, we the people can take a step back, evaluate our actions, and then change them in a way to benefit those we love and care for. These efforts might be small and seem meaningless, but as Mr. Sal said in class "There's no way to tell how far the ripple may go, and it might help create a wave that crashes on to land". After all, many people lead by example. If a person changes their actions, people will see what they are doing, and be more likely to change their actions as well.

When it comes to how sociological mindfulness, and the actions people take as a result of it, can effect the people that I care about, I can think of no better example then two of my close friends, who here will be referred to by the initials S and P. One of them is bisexual (S), and the other is a transman (P), and they are in a loving relationship with each other. As a result of a combination of ignorance and bigotry, they face much homophobia, especially P, who frequently is confronted by people who refuse to call him a man. Sadly, they are not alone when it comes to being victims of homophobia, and this saddens me deeply. As a result, I have been making a conscious effort to not stop potentially offensive comments that I might make, but to educate others on the gay community, and how homosexuality is not a choice, and is something that should be accepted as diversity, just as race, religion, and gender are. Hopefully, through education, I can create a ripple in the pond of society, with the eventual result of making members of the GLBT community equally respected members of society.