A Woman Without a "Reporting Category"

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

Last Tuesday we voted to fill some local and county offices and determine two referenda. After voting, a young man in the parking lot who identified himself as a student at the college from a neighboring city asked if I would answer a few questions regarding issues and candidates on the ballot. After a few answers he commented that my opinions don't qualify me to fit into any of his "reporting categories." I asked what the categories are and he stated, "Conservative and Liberal". I told him that he could put me in "the citizen participating in the democratic process" category.

maryebrown_1 · ‎09-14-2012

Did he have a ""middle of the road"" category?

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/5/2014 maryebrown said:

Did he have a ""middle of the road"" category?

Not that he told me about.

evelomaddict · ‎04-06-2013

i'd be in the same non category as you. lol

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?" Hillel

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

Someone should have told him that now it's all about the Independents and how they're voting.

Peaches McPhee · ‎04-19-2010

That is so weird. He was trying to put everyone into 2 categories on the left or right, and ignored everyone in the middle? What are they teaching him at this college?

-- pro-aging --

Rochester, New York

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

Good for you, deepwaterdotter!! ${#emotions_dlg.thumbup}$

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/6/2014 Peaches McPhee said:
That is so weird. He was trying to put everyone into 2 categories on the left or right, and ignored everyone in the middle? What are they teaching him at this college?

My guess is that if my answers didn't fit into one of his assigned "reporting categories", I wasn't useful for the purpose of his task?