Thread:Lidewey/@comment-30633565-20170114145204/@comment-30633565-20170116113205

I understand your sadness. I too am sad. Watching it from the outside is a bit like watching a train wreck, but not being able to look away. Not sure where it went so wrong, but it has uncovered a lot of hatred, suspicion, distrust and other ugly personal traits in people. Social media is the worst. You cannot even read simple news without having to see all the terrible things people are saying to one another. When did this tone of disrespect creep into everyone language? What happened if you don’t have something nice to say, then don't say it? Surely folks must be able to state their opinion is a less offensive tone? It is what we teach our kids each day! I would never allow my daughter to say things in the manner I see online each day. It certainly has made my FB list shorter, because I simply will not tolerate such tone and language.

Maybe you should try pink on Friday just to say that you can be positive in the face of adversity? I wish I could take my daughter to the Woman march on Saturday, just to see it and feel a common bond with other women. I went to one when I lived in Washing around 1990, and even though I didnt beleive in everything the march stood for, it was a wonderful time to be together with such a large group of women. A well, we will just have to support folks from afar somehow.