Butch and Susan are acting as if others have no right to challenge their performance of extremely provocative material with deep and long associations with a racist past.

Nope, not me. I'm just saying, you don't know what exactly I am doing, so I can't engage with you on that particular point. I'm saying that I do have local feedback and a leg and a half of past experience to stand on.

I prefer mutual learning experiences to challenging or being challenged, but that doesn't mean I don't expect people to challenge me; actually I think people who know me well would agree that I welcome opportunities to rethink things, and to get smarter, and to understand more about my world and the people in it.

What I DO expect is something I expect of myself-- to be willing and able to say how and why I do what I do, most of the time, and to do it with deliberate, pre-formed intention more often than not... to be willing to look inside and see what's goiong on and discuss it, while hoping others do the same.

~Susan