Forged in Fire

Hello again,
I know you all don’t know me but what I wrote here.  So let me talk about another facet of my personality.  This is the part of Elizabeth that alienates people.  I will turn you off with a couple things: 1. I will have the best of intentions and you will hate me for it. 2. I will find the absurdity and sometimes politically incorrect hilarious. 3. I will not be dominated. 4.  I know the risks have been forged in the fire and still walk back in to fight the good fight.
So for number one.  I will talk to you straight up.  I have the best of intent,  want to check in with you. I will however ask you about it with truth like “ I know you have this problem just making sure you are safe” this is sometimes to much for them.  To honest, their not ready, to blunt, or just whatever.  This makes people disconnect now I know I can’t make everyone happy I try to be gentle.  I want them to know I love them and care about their safety.  For other people it is a relief we don’t have to play games and try to figure out how to approach the T-Rex slobbering in the corner.  (sometimes the T-Rex is me)
Number two.  This is a tricky one.  I find life absurd a so funny. This is sometimes bothersome to people but that just has to do with the fact they do not get satire. It is the fact that we are all so politically correct and so scared of offending people that we are like porcupines wrapped in cacti prickly about everything people say or even think that we get mad about the littlest things.  (disclaimer time for those who know me know I am one of the most inclusive accept everybody for who they are people)  well the other night I was talking to a few young people one set looked Latino and the other were very Anglo and the Latino couple had said they referred to the Anglo couple as “da bruders” now I started laughing and couldn’t stop for a minute. This offended the Anglo couple (which I am very sorry), I understand I am not a nice lady I get it.  I am not always going to be politically correct.  It doesn’t make me think anyone is better than another.  I in fact do not believe in race because it is a social construct made to explain one person’s superiority. Genetically penguins have more difference than human beings. I am very big on referring to people as people.  But sometimes shit is just funny. Stop being so serious.
Number three I will never conform to what someone tells me to be.  I will take the ass whooping(sometimes literally)  stand up and continue to be me.  I will still say what I think is right, tell someone to be kind, and even stop something that is blatantly wrong.  You can try to bully me, guilt me, and even hit me.  I will not be dominated this disconnect I am totally okay with.
Number 4 this one I find a lot with other women.  They seem to think that because I do not sit quietly that no one has tried to teach me what women do.  That I am not channeled.  I am strong and have a strong voice because I have fought so hard to be heard over those that have tried to shut me up.  I was quiet and sweet once.  That voice was not heard in those world.  I was forged in the fire and came out stronger. Beautiful thing do not just happen.  They are made by the most destructive forces.  You are sculpted then tested in the fires.  I have only accomplished all I have because I do not shy from the fires that forged me.