I don’t think she’s wiry, though, unless she’s wearing a lot of padding. “Despite her small size” might work better.

Silver linings?

It’s too bad you have hate speech protected under your constitution and not civil rights, because porn/sexualized media is a civil rights issue as well as a public health issue. I think people are going to keep hammering at this, though, because so many people know it’s wrong to allow all speech. (After all, violent…

What? Who said anything about barring sales? It’s about taxes. If it’s unconstitutional to scale taxes depending on the situation, then the US is in worse shape than I thought, because that’s how Pigovian taxes work, and you need Pigovian taxes to have a green economy.

States are quite capable of setting up their own rating agencies, the way Canadian provinces do, if they think the MPAA isn’t objective enough. But MPAA ratings correlate highly with ratings by Kids-in-mind and Screenit, both of which rate films very carefully, so I think it’s close enough for tax purposes. No rating…

I think it’s more likely that the concept of boundaries is really new, so people are learning about it in therapy. Sign of progress.

I was surprised first time I saw it. Unfortunately it works really well.

Can I just say how much I hate leaf blowers? There’s a guy outside using one to clear sidewalks of maybe a millimetre of snow (a light dusting). I think it’s the same guy who used a leaf blower to clear a sidewalk that had already been shovelled by someone else on Christmas Day. Yeah, I get it. You like your loud…

How exactly would you tax political ideas based on where they are on a spectrum? Especially when not all political ideas can be put on a spectrum from left to right? People already rate a great deal of media content in a fairly objective detailed way because they’re concerned about it. I don’t see anything equivalent…

You can’t add sales tax to things that aren’t for sale, but you can tax the stuff that is for sale. Maybe there’s a way of taxing free porn that makes money off of ads, too? Or block it?

Medical exemptions?

Tax it. Tax all sexualized media content, in media that already have ratings (e.g. film, TV, video games), with higher taxes for higher ratings (e.g. G = 0 tax, PG = 1 point, PG-13 = 2 points, R = 3 points, NC-17 = 4 points, X = 5 points). Tax media violence, too (they go together in media ratings). You could count…

Not really relevant, since the subject is intersexed, not trans. But I agree with them.

I assume that “I” is lumped in with LGBTetc because they are all not conventional straight male and female, and also because people on the outside want to be inclusive. But I can see how Is would be better off not part of the LGBT movement. Ls are leaving LGBT orgs too, right now, because of conflicts with Ts.

I’ve read Money’s book recently, and back then they seemed to be concerned that children needed to know which sex they were so they would know what role to play in sexual relations later on. There are stories (I think he included some) of individuals of other species (including Harlow’s monkeys?) who were improperly…

Did she use the word “gender”? As far as I can see, she’s using the word “intersex” and it’s other people who are using the word “gender”. (I hate it when people use the word gender to refer to biological sex - it muddies things.) Sex is biological, not socially constructed, so she has a true “sex” (intersex in her…

I don’t get much if any street harassment. I think it’s because I’m intimidating rather than because of how I look. They’re not going to go after someone who doen’t look like an easy mark. On the other hand, I’ve had a lot of problems with people I know and am supposed to be able to trust. I’m more hesitant in…

Have a basic level across the country. Have the states supplement it as needed. Have the larger cities also supplement it as needed. It shouldn’t be from only one level of government. Having it from multiple levels protects it from political changes in fashion better.

Oh, I see the confuson. I have no problem wth people asking for support. But I see a lot of what looks like “Give me support, and let someone else figure out how to pay for it.”, like the people in Canada who want a BI and a lot of the other programs, too, including high minimum wages. The economy is a complex system,…

How are retirement savings plans (RRSPs, 401(k)s) not support? :) How are government bailouts of big companies not support? It’s a dividend. It’s profit sharing. It’s for everyone, not just “the poor”. It shrinks government bureaucracies. And it’s good for the economy, because it puts money in the hands of people who…