[timarie]

Timarie, I didn't mean JUST us here at BN, I meant the world wide TS society in general. The more you put something in the forefront, especially touting it to be a GOOD thing, the more accepted it becomes.

Well, BN is more than just the world wide TS/TG society and BN represents more than just that, so in our discussions above as you discussed "we are very nice people" I guess you were not including the non-TS on BN? I did not see you specify that, and I am sorry that I assumed you meant ALL of us on BN. I am pretty sure that Edtar does not think just of TS/TG when he thinks of this forum, either.

And, I agree with you and completely understand how putting something "out there" helps to make it more acceptable, and that would be a good thing for the extended community of TG/TS, but I am afraid you've forgotten that BN has a whole lot of non-TS, and putting BN "out there" would be putting us out there, too. When speaking of ALL of BN, I do not care to be "accepted" by the public. I only care to be accepted by the people who are important in my life, and they do accept me for who I am and what I do, so I am good. So, although I agree that TG/TS would be a good thing to be more commonly accepted, this conversation was about the whole of BN, and not just of TG/TS.