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For example. Shortly after we started dating, I discovered that Mike listened to country music. That was nearly a deal breaker for me. Country music?! I honestly couldn't imagine any intellectual person listening to it. I had to get over that and eventually the Shania craze won me over for a brief period (until the post-9/11 let's stick boots up other country's asses songs started dominating the airwaves).
Then there are the issues I have with "Ss." No, not the letter of the alphabet, I'm talking about "S" versus "N" on the Myers-Briggs Personality tests. Sensing verses Intuitive. People who prefer to focus on the basic information they take in instead of preferring to interpret and add meaning to the world they encounter. I always test completely "N" and it has been a long struggle for me to get along with the "S" crowd. We just see the world and interact with it in very different ways. But it's getting better. Really.
But now it's something new that I've discovered I hold deep prejudices against. Cat bloggers. Yes, those people who devote large spaces of their blog to posting picture of cats (their's or other people's). There is a part of me that just wants to brush them aside as "crazy cat ladies" who have migrated to the technological era. But significant numbers of the cat bloggers I encounter are people who I seriously respect. People who are highly intelligent, good writers, and, given the sorts of blogs I read, articulate theologians. But they are cat bloggers on the side. There was actually a period of time when I refused to read a person's blog if I discovered that she cat blogged. I think I am attempting to be more open, but I still harbor negative stereotypes about cat bloggers. So in an effort to confront my fears and prejudices I am going to post a picture of a cat. For one day I will join the official ranks of cat bloggers and move towards shedding my prejudices. So here we go - cat blogging at onehandclapping -
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That is one cute kitty. If I blogged, I would include some occasional catblogging.
You might be interested to know that NT Wright is purportedly an N. I belong to the Wrightsaid email group, and a very informal poll taken earlier this year by someone on the list revealed that everyone who divulged their profile was also an N.
Dana Ames -
At 10/16/2007 10:00:00 PM,
AmyYep, I'm a cat blogger. I will fully own up to it. Mostly because I'm in school to be a vet. technician and overpopulation of pets/spaying and neuturing/responsible ownership is an issue important to me. With that being said, I like guinea pigs more than cats and they are probably my favorite pet--does that freak you out even more!?
By the way I always test as a "N" on Meyers Briggs and I don't like country music at all. -
At 10/17/2007 07:14:00 AM,
KathrynN - absolutely, right off the scale.
Country music - no way.
Cat blogging - well, yes, - though it's one of those things like memes that makes me feel unforgiveably shallow and rather pathetic afterwards.
I think the idea is that it's your cat, though, Julie - so you may have to move yet further in this process of confronting prejudice before you get to wherever you're heading ;-) -
At 10/17/2007 08:32:00 PM,
Mike Clawson"I think the idea is that it's your cat, though, Julie - so you may have to move yet further in this process of confronting prejudice before you get to wherever you're heading ;-)"
Well that's never going to happen since we're never going to have a cat. Besides the fact that I'm very allergic, cat's are just plain evil. ;-)
So, I guess you'll only be my friend on the 70% of the days I am an N??? LOL.
And, I'm sure glad Cairo isn't a cat.... ;)