A social standard has to begin with individual standards. The average individual standard becomes the social standard. This standard is then copied from generation to generation, with little shift in the standard. However, this does not mean that the social standard is the right thing.
Take for example, male supremacy. It was (and is in many countries) created by a social standard... but it was and is horribly wrong. As is slavery, rape, torture, the corset... those were and in some places are social standards... but they are in no way right. And children is where this standard is established with each generation. If you don't make nudity, sex, and language into something inappropriate: it will not be inappropriate.
I would make every detail of myself public, if i did not fear the ramifications of doing so in our current climate. I aim to change that climate so that i can be myself without fear within it, and so that others can know me for who i am. So yes, i would make every detail about myself public, if others would accept that knowledge without condemning me to a worse life.
Do i fear others knowing about who i am? Not at all. Do i feel it would be unwise for them to know who i am while they are still so full of prejudice to everything i am? Certainly.
Take for example, male supremacy. It was (and is in many countries) created by a social standard... but it was and is horribly wrong. As is slavery, rape, torture, the corset... those were and in some places are social standards... but they are in no way right. And children is where this standard is established with each generation. If you don't make nudity, sex, and language into something inappropriate: it will not be inappropriate.
I would make every detail of myself public, if i did not fear the ramifications of doing so in our current climate. I aim to change that climate so that i can be myself without fear within it, and so that others can know me for who i am. So yes, i would make every detail about myself public, if others would accept that knowledge without condemning me to a worse life.
Do i fear others knowing about who i am? Not at all. Do i feel it would be unwise for them to know who i am while they are still so full of prejudice to everything i am? Certainly.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
