This story was just on the news here. So, you know, news.

or that it was just a rumer?

I know a woman who is annoyingly intelligent who went off on trans surgeries. The gist is (according to her) that stats show there is a huge jump in suicude post surgery and now she believes that surgery for trans ppl is wrong and they should be treated for their mental illness (gender dysphoria I assume?). She…

a) she looks so much like Romeo + Juliet era Leo that it’s frightening.

This was a missed opportunity to talk about the problem of the gender binary. While it is FANTASTIC that people are finally more aware and accepting of transgender people, we’re still failing to recognize the problems inherent in imposing a rigid binary, instead of recognizing a spectrum where most people fall more…

I’m glad you know what every single poor family is/was like.

Bizarre generalization.

I mean, the article quotes her saying she had like 19 cents. Why is that so inplausible?

Wow, really? No. Even us poors allow our children to keep the money that they earn themselves.

Where would you even get that money from at age 5?

Well, she does say “cents,” and even five year olds have access to that kind of money. A five year old really has no concept of the difference between a quarter and $10,000.

Actually, sometimes we do. We’re not perfect, especially not at 5 years old, when we think 19 cents is enough to start saving for a surgery and that because we found it in the couch, it’s ours. And sometimes, poor parents don’t want to take the 19 cents away from a five year old to pay the bills because the thought of…

Oh for fuck’s sake…for one, California is a huge state with mountains, valleys, deserts, and remote areas. There are large parts of the state where there is ZERO cell phone service. Some areas where there is nominal cell service, there aren’t enough towers in the area for e-911 to triangulate the location of the call…

Inversely, there is the theory that Harper Lee wrote most of In Cold Blood.

-student athletes

Who will play 6 different characters divided by gender, ethnicity, and time period but all connected via a common human yearning.

Atticus is played by Tom Hanks.

Played by Jennifer Lawrence.

In the sequel, Scout becomes a superhero named "Mockingbird" and the United States Government attempts to neutralize the threat, led by her conflicted father, Atticus.

This is so shady and incredibly disappointing. It's loathesome how certain individual and companies will exploit vulnerable individuals for a buck.