Statistics

     This one really burns me, because it's basic math!  

Lets do an imaginary scenario, that even kids would understand.  Let's pretend that you have 12 cupcakes - they are all your favorite type, favorite icing, etc.  the only difference between these cupcakes is that 6 of them are bigger than the rest.

Let's now say, that you were told you can choose 4 cupcakes.  Well duh - who wouldn't pick 4 that are among the biggest?!

Well, there's a catch.  There is another difference after all - some of them have a different colored paper wrapper.

Nothing else is different, so it would seem to still make sense that you just pick 4 of the biggest.  But for some arbitrary reason, society decides that, no, you can only choose from cupcakes with yellow wrappers.  You end up stuck with a little cupcake because some of the big ones were removed for no apparent reason.  How is that fair?

Apply this to whatever injustice you want.  Make up whatever excuses you want about why "its not that simple", but at the root, it really is this basic.  Stop picking inadequate cupcakes just because they have the "right" wrapper.

Here is someone much smarter then me, speaking much more elegantly than I can, on the subject that has most recently fired me up about cupcakes:

Sincerely, X
Episode 5: Equality Executive