Shaming women who lose weight when we are advocating against body image.

Shaming home makers when advocating for women in the workplace.

Being inclusive of one group can never come at the cost of shaming another. We cannot create true understanding of what “inclusion” and “acceptance” mean until we demonstrate by example what embracing and love look like.

Inclusion has to leave room for a broader meaning in the future. “We embrace you” is inclusion. “We embrace only you” is just yet another divide – bigger and looming in the morrow.

This is a good thumb rule for an inclusive mission statement or principle. It will be able to evolve to accept more tomorrow. If it needs to be broken, then it was never right in the first place.