Mmmmmyes.

Judgment is interesting.

I feel like my generation is moving toward a society in which it's completely inappropriate to judge a person based on the big tickets: race, religion, ethnicity or sexual identity. Obviously, there are and always will be bigoted people when it comes to these issues, and prejudice is clearly not a non-issue (people are still being red-lined and lynched), but I'd have to say that for the most part - in my cultural circle at least - we're making progress. Unlike 30 years ago, if someone is being stigmatized for being black/gay/Spanish-speaking/a woman/used-to-be-a-man, rest assured a group of people somewhere will have something to say about it.

You can be fined, fired or jailed for sexual harassment or using a racial slur, and rightly so. Say anything that even remotely resembles a prejudiced remark in a college class and you'll get pounced on. But no one does anything to me when I walk on campus and see a girl in a North Face carrying a letter bag, assume she's a stupid, spoiled sorostitute, and call her a whore behind her back. Is that not also judgment? Is that not also indiscriminately attacking an entire group of humans base on one or two individuals' behavior?

I personally find myself to be infinitely more open-minded and tolerant with minority groups than I am with the beautiful people - the popular, the attractive, the wealthy, the "members". It's unacceptable for me to assume someone's a criminal because they're black, but I can somehow justify my judgment of the girl sitting next to me as a whore because she wears a lot of eyeliner and is talking to a frat boy. Seems a little twisted to me.

It's easy for me to jump to conclusions and categorize many of my classmates as ridiculous when in reality I don't know 99% of what they do or who they are.

It's not okay to judge anyone - rich, poor, black, white, educated, uneducated, Christian, Muslim, gay, straight. I need to stop doing it, and you should too.

New Years resolution?