You Go Girl
It's funny, the very basis of AA is:
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which
cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-- that principle is
contempt prior to investigation." - Herbert Spencer, British philosopher
and yet my AA brethren display that very contempt on a daily basis, it's quite sad, once again, I am a BB thumper, and approve of it heartily, however I wish if someone thumps the BB they read the damn thing first, where it says we don't have all the answers, and we have no axes to grind, that people have no lectures to endure from us, and we don't preach from moral and spiritual hilltops and love and tolerance of others is our code
and especially, contempt prior to investigation
unfortunately, everlasting ignorance seems to be the fate of many, although there is an easy fix.
I apologize on behalf of my more enthusiastic brethren on this day of thanks, and am here to say we aren't all this close minded.