Someone on one of my email lists accused the group of not being open-minded. It’s a pretty open-minded group. Here was my response:
Open minded means whatever someone tells you they’re into, you tell them it’s marvelous. It means being supportive and encouraging to people, even if you disagree with them and think they’re vile horrible monsters. In fact it may even mean changing your opinion of them instantly, and even possibly indicating you’re interested in what they are, even if you might have previously believed, erroneously, that it was sick and wrong. It means standing up for and advocating acceptance of f’tards. After all, how can you love your enemy if they won’t lie down? I’m fairly certain open minded is not the same as “Zen Mind” — but then, someone could probably convince me otherwise if I were truly open-minded about it. In fact, now that I think about it, perhaps open-minded equates to brainless. Or at least mindless, egoless, and even possibly selfless, heartless, toothless, backless, hairless, spineless, crotchless, dickless, speechless, thoughtless, spiritless, sexless, bloodless, colorless, stainless.