5 Minute Freewrite: such a stereotype

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Such a stereotype. What's a stereotype? What you think someone will be like based on some aspect of them...they're a woman, they're a man, they're nonbinary, they're queer, they're Democrat, they're Black, they're Mexican, they're a basketball player, they're a farmer. It's limiting. And something about why our brains do this and how it's a survival thing, it's useful, it helps us process information or something, but can't we evolve beyond survival? Yes we can. Here's this thing, I feel like humanity is evolving beyond survival. And like it was a false narrative that only some could survive and some had to be murdered and eliminated in order for others to survive. That was false. And these lies are becoming clear for what they are. So we're knowledgeable about this, and ready to move beyond it, but we still have these power structures in place that people don't want to let go of. I want to read that graphic novel or comic about Mother Nature attacking billionaires, but it seemed hard to find. Like it wasn't just available in one graphic novel format. Meh. What was I talking about? Stereotypes. We, as a collective humanity, can move beyond stereotyping people. Stereotypes are related to the binary. The binary is related to colonialism. We can move beyond this. How do we collectively move beyond this? We need to keep living our values as we want them, our values of a world that is beyond and better than this.