This is so true, our environment is a very powerful driver for how our brain reacts to ideas. I think the most important lesson is that we respect one another, men to women and women to men.
I was happy to see your post again too! I have been engaging in a league of commenter recently, apparently the problem with user retention has lead certain groups to reward the best commenter on the site, and so I have been working on becoming one of those top commenters. And can you believe it I saw this post in the @c-squared feed! I use their feed because that way I get to a lot of different users, many who I would never see otherwise.
And I was pleasantly surprised to find a friend :)
Hey, I have heard papa-pepper making noises about maybe another round of the selfie contest. Would you consider joining again? Maybe he will start it about the same time as last year, but I'm not sure, I have no inside information. He just said several times to keep our eyes open.