Cross-Posting: Respect

I first posted this on my main blog at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2019/06/post-no-1353-respect.html

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It's been difficult to try and track down where this came from, and it seems to have mostly circulated on social media I don't have access to, and so few people include original attribution, except for https://www.theodysseyonline.com/respect. In any case, I think it is great - and if the author is someone else, please let me (and The Odyssey Online) know.

"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

And they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay." 

- Brenna Twohy