"They're Made Out Of Meat" Response

The story written by Terry Bisson, is one that deals with the way in which humans are understood by outsiders, in this case aliens. In the story, the author describes humans as being "meat all the way through." Personally, I agree with this honest statement as if we rid ourselves of our judgements and our vanity, then the statement would be extremely accurate, as it explains bluntly what we are. What I like about this story in particular is that it allows us to acknowledge the use of our sight to make certain conclusions and to draw up ideas on what we see. The story truly made me learn that our judgements are based on our sight, even though our sight can be fooled into seeing something that might not really be there, we still tend to form our ideas based on what we see, as we simply trust and use our sense of sight the most. 

What was also extremely intriguing about the story, is that it teaches us a lot about our prejudice. In the story, this is evident when the two "aliens"discuss wether or not to get to know the humans, they agree that officially they have to put their prejudice aside and get to know these beings, but they decide that they will pretend as if they never saw these humans or pieces of "meat" as they refer to them, and pretend as though nothing ever happened. The way in which we can relate this to as we at times choose not to address certain issues or acknowledge their existence because we simply don't agree with them or don't like them. 

Conclusively, this story although it was extremely abstract and honest, it was still extremely important in understanding how our sense of perception allows us to draw knowledge from different situations.