Once haptic feedback comes into vogue, you're going to see a lot more skeumorphisms like this.

It's probably not intended to be realistic.

Eat this, Pangloss.

It's fine. A good way to remember it is that the label identical to the person's identification.

"It also opens the door for some truly troubling plot lines where a trans-gender male feels discriminated against by an ancient spell by ancient tribesmen who likely wouldn't have recognized his female identity."

I can imagine how the contrast between your friends' heterosexuality and yourself would leave you feeling frustrated. And I can also see how it might become awkward if you came out to them. But I think that you should take the risk. A great antidote for those awkward times is well-placed humor. Not where the punchline…

I don't really have that option, unfortunately. I keep a very small group of friends to begin with, and I know for a fact that none of them are trans. I've likely met some other other trans people without knowing it, though.

Oh, right. Maybe they'll just play up god's divine policy of laissez-faire?

No problem! And you're right, a simple Google search would not suffice.

I agree. I just think that it's more constructive, i.e. the person is less likely to do it again, if you talk to them personally about how that's not okay. Though, I'm not blaming those do hand out the cards—I totally understand where they're coming from. And I do agree it's not automatically the responsibility of the…

Thank you for politely asking me. I'm perfectly comfortable with sharing, though there's many trans people who aren't. And that's okay, too.

That is true. But I think that you could say the same thing about black civil rights. The Black Panthers believed in the social uprising of black over white people, and they ran that under the label of black civil rights. Yet, I'm assuming you would not have a problem identifying with the black civil rights movement.

"The next man that walks up to me and says he's a feminist is getting kicked so hard in the nuts that a sex-change would be a mercy."

Feminism is just a diverse movement that agrees on only one tenet "Women should be treated as no less valid than men". That's it. So if you agree with that statement, you're a feminist. Now you have to see what kind of feminist you are—and believe me, there are a lot of different kinds.

Free will!

Personally, I think that the best course of action would be to use these cards only as a last recourse, i.e. what they said made you feel so awful and uncomfortable that you couldn't explain to them verbally how it hurt you. In other words, only red cards should be necessary. Yellow cards, by definition, can probably…

Sure. But equal rights isn't a zero sum game. You can care about both.

Annalee, you were already like aleph-0 awesome. With this article, you've gone up to an incalculable cardinality of awesome.

"The voiceover, at the end, turns out to be the voice of a talking animated cow constellation, winking in the night sky."

Wow! I trailers didn't interest me enough to look into the plot, but the way you describe it makes it sound really cool. It also makes me wonder how the trailers did such a terrible job of interesting me in the movie.