Why Is "Different" Not Enough?

I often joke about "blogspirations" in conversations with friends and exchanges on social media. Ideas for this never-ending stream of libertarian consciousness are sometimes triggered by a word or a comment, sometimes by a post title that bubbles up from the depths of my cerebellum while I'm lathering shampoo into the receding remnants of the hair on my head, and sometimes by a serendipitous confluence of tidbits from my random readings and viewings.

Today's bit is one of the third sort.

• Coleman Hughes offering his definition of colorblindness.

• A reader comment to this blog post.

• A Youtube clip of a lesbian and a trans woman discussing how some insist that they be attracted to what they are not.

• A recollection of Joe Rogan asking "What's wrong with being a trans woman?" in response to an insistence that trans women be deemed "women."

All these combined in my forebrain, and led me to lament that, for too many people, "different" has to be qualified with "better" or "worse."