religious tolerance
sciencewoman | November 6, 2009A few days ago I arrived at my office in the morning and was greeted with an unpleasant surprise...someone had scratched a cross into the bulletin board just outside my office door.
(Apologies for the terrible cell-phone picture.)
While I'm able to cover the image with a strategically placed advising schedule, I'm haunted by a terribly icky feeling in the pit of my stomach. Was someone trying to send me a message? Why a cross? Why my board and not the boards of my male colleagues along the corridor?
I'm not offended by images of crosses in general, but it is not something that I want…