How does one find balance in this electrically charged political environment? The Me Too Movement. the Black Lives Matter, and the LGBTQ movements are three of the best social trends to have come about in the last few decades.

For far too long, women, minorities, and those seeking prpoer gender/sexual identity have labored in the shadow of a dominant white and male society. Women minorities, and LGBTQ have labored to maintain ground and self-esteem in a society where they were forced to swallow their pride, look the other way, or accept abuse without recourse.

The door has now been opened. These marginalized groups feel empowered and safer in coming forward with stories of abuses and slights by the majority society. But there is an aspect of any movement that must be considered in the larger picture.

Any movement has its own inertia. Once the ball gets rolling it begins collecting many unexpected and uncontrllable items. While I think the movements were long overdue. I also realize there is going to be collateral damage along the way. Many people will use this newly found empowerment and newly gained platform to air grievances that while perhaps real, fail to rise above the trivial and serve to dilute the validity of the larger argument.

We have become a hypersensitive society. On many occaisions the sudden surge of enthusiasm engendered by this newly gained acceptance and voice will encourage some few individuals to come forward without engaging in introspection and weighing the weight of their grievances. It cannot be helped, it will occur. We as a society needs to be mindful of this propensity and measure the energy we attach to any all all complaints.

This trend will most assuredly swing too far from its intended purpose before it checks itself and returns a more reasoned approach.
Reputations will fall, many deserved, but some unjustly so. Balance is difficult to achieve. Its a good thing that has begun. Just how it will ultimately play out should be intetesting.