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11531. Ms. No - 4/26/2015 4:06:33 AM Ha! Well, they might personally wish him well, but I doubt they'd do so publicly.
I didn't watch the interview --- I didn't believe his transition was anything other than tabloid speculation until just recently.
11532. iiibbb - 4/26/2015 12:31:12 PM The biggest shocker of the interview is that anyone watched the interview. 11533. judithathome - 4/26/2015 9:56:15 PM Well, I did...and he came off as very sympathetic...and I believe he's lived with this all his life and I truly feel for him. 11534. Ms. No - 4/26/2015 11:09:34 PM Yeah, I do too. I wonder if it was more or less comfortable to live in a house full of anatomic females. 11535. iiibbb - 4/27/2015 4:00:43 PM I'm not a fan of this kind of interview not because I'm anti-transgender--- I just don't think the press is sophisticated enough to present the issue.
One can only assume that independent of the dysphoria, Jenner's comfort with them is tied to whether there is love and acceptance.
I recognize in myself a certain degree of dysphoria -- I've never felt 100% comfortable in my own skin, but I don't think it's a gender thing specifically. Nobody really knows --- too hard to explain; for me it's manageable as it is and I just live with it.
I can understand the palpable need for change. 11536. judithathome - 4/27/2015 7:04:38 PM Well, Sawyer did a good job with that interview...not sure I'd trust FOX news with something like this but...
Naturally his ghoulish stepdaughter Kim (at the urging of her publicity hungry husband) appeared on the Today show this morning to talk about how it has changed HER life...the Armenian genocide wasn't even on anyone's radar until Kim and Kanye decided to go "honor it" last week.
Sorry, their hearts might have been in the right place but those two people can't do anything without sucking out the last little drop of "look at ME and look how this affects ME".
Of course, it DOES have an effect on the family but if he had wanted everyone in the family talking about it, he'd have had them on Diane's show...he had his children on...not his step-children. 11537. judithathome - 4/27/2015 7:07:52 PM 3i3b, I think everyone feels uncomfortable in the skin at times...if it means anything, you come across as a very smart and "feeling" person. You express your emotions well, in other words. 11538. iiibbb - 4/27/2015 7:23:19 PM What I feel is and isn't a gender thing.
If I had felt compelled to act on the feelings I had, at the time in my life it would've made sense, I'm pretty sure I would have just traded some problems for others and my life wouldn't have been all that much better.
I'm too holistic of a thinker to filter the world through my gender --- to many irons in the firer --- and I'm not saying that those that transition aren't holistic thinkers. I'm sure they're doing what's right for them.
The cost to me is there's always this part of me that's not accessible to anyone.
I'm not unhappy. It's just this thing that's there. 11539. iiibbb - 4/27/2015 7:23:41 PM But I relate. 11540. judithathome - 5/4/2015 7:27:28 PM Terror Attack In Garland, Texas
After the killings in Paris last year, the idiots in Garland schedule an art show featuring cartoons about Mohammad? What sort of fools DO that??? 11541. judithathome - 5/4/2015 7:28:56 PM Evidently, THIS sort of fool:
Pamela Geller 11542. iiibbb - 5/4/2015 7:42:19 PM Got to be careful about blaming victims... same argument raised against women who are raped or blacks who are noncompliant with police officers. Too easy to say "if they didn't ___________....."
... even if said victims might have been asshats. 11543. judithathome - 5/4/2015 8:09:59 PM Blaming victims? Are we talking about the same story?
Are you saying sponsoring that art show was a GOOD idea? 11544. iiibbb - 5/4/2015 9:53:52 PM Is a woman walking home at night a good idea?
No matter how ass-hattish... nobody deserves to die for drawing an insulting cartoon of a religious symbol. 11545. iiibbb - 5/4/2015 9:55:37 PM Are you part of the "he shouldn't have run from police" camp regarding Freddie Gray? 11546. judithathome - 5/5/2015 1:34:18 AM I'm not so sure anyone deserves to die for walking home at night but I do think the venue made a huge mistake scheduling that art show in Garland, Texas and that they should have researched the woman who arranged to have it shown there...
And I have no idea where you get the idea that I think Freddie Gray deserved to die...for ANY REASON. Where the eff did THAT come from??? And I'd thank you to kindly stop alluding to what "I THINK" when you clearly can't understand what I mean when I come right out and express it. 11547. judithathome - 5/5/2015 1:37:13 AM I was coming back here to post something funny....I hope no one takes it as meaning I hate women candidates running for office or anything other than this is a humorous use of the internet:
Carly Fiorina Dot Org:Click Me 11548. vonKreedon - 5/5/2015 5:22:05 PM It's an interesting conversation on the left regarding the right to expression and the rights of the marginalized. I'm with I3B3, the left should be on the side of freedom of expression irregardless of the cultural impact of the expression. Yes, the cartoon contest is specifically designed to insult and provoke, but that's the nature of such expression, see Piss Christ or Holy Virgin Mary or Guernica, in fact that such expression results in such violent attempt to repress it means, IMO, that there's a need for more such expression, not less.
11549. judithathome - 5/5/2015 6:17:36 PM Fine...you guys are right and if those two fools had entered with guns blazing or driven a truck loaded with bombs into the venue and killed 2,000 people...or say, flown an airliner into the venue to make a point...we'd just say, "Oh well, at least freedom of expression is protected."
And on the anniversaries of the day the plane flew into the venue, we'd smile at one another and say "At least freedom of expression is okay."
Or maybe we should have just sent someone into the crowded venue yelling FIRE...
I guess you guys think it's hunky-dory for Westboro Baptist Church to picket soldiers funerals, too...lovely. 11550. alistairconnor - 5/5/2015 7:09:42 PM Well, the Garland business is a tough one for me. Not because I think displays of "Muhammad cartoons" should necessarily be banned, obviously... But the keynote speaker was Geert Wilders, Dutch far-right politician and notorious islamophobe. This tells me all I need to know about this "art show".
Free speech, sure. But intent counts. There have to be limits. Incitement to religious hatred for its own sake is off limits for me.
(And if you say "But Charlie Hebdo", I am happy to explain in detail why it's different.)
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