YES. Thank you. I guess it comes down to how you interpret “gutsy” in this context - but to me, she is praising and emphasizing a parent’s decision to affirm and support their trans child as the right thing to do, even when society doesn’t make it easy. Reading it as “not pretty” seems extremely ungenerous. 

“So, yeah, willingly going with the unknown on a path that you know is the right thing but you also know will be incredibly painful for them socially and in their lives go forward, yes, that’s gutsy.”

THIS.

I agree with most of the other criticisms, but also want to add that I think it’s okay for parents to struggle a bit when learning their child is trans. Not everyone can come out of the chute fully woke.

Also, on the “gutsy” front, I am going to assume this writer is not a parent. I don’t have the details from the anecdote in question, but if one of Hillary’s friends is talking about her young child, I’m going to take “a few years ago” to mean in the 1990s when HC herself had a young child. At that time (or even…

I don’t see what the issue is here. This is a new subject for many people, something they’ve never been exposed to before or thought much about. And frankly, it is an uncomfortable topic for many, especially older folks. I say it’s a good thing for those who are confused or don’t feel fully confident in their ideas…

Let me get this straight, you (and apparently the beef industry) are afraid that beef is going to be taken down by the veggie burger industry? It isn’t going to happen. Not only is your preferred source of protien and vitamins going to be freely available for the foreseeable future, it just is not going to disappear.…

B12 and vit. D are supplemented to livestock animals though.. It’s not something that naturally occurs in animals, you’re just getting the supplements filtered through them anyways.

To be fair, fuck the meat industry.

The meat industry is inflicting horrific cruelty at an unimaginable scale while destroying the planet in the process. But sure, the real problem is using the correct terminology.

Yep, nobody is pretending that Beyond Burgers, or Impossible Burgers, are healthy or unprocessed. They’re junk food, and more or less on a par nutritionally with beef burgers from fast-food outlets (more salt, no cholesterol). But they taste pretty good and the whole point is to reduce meat consumption, not to get…

pushing the narrative that there is something effeminate

It’s not. Many of these “meat-free” items have surprisingly high salt contents. The main thing to them is that they still taste good or effectively the same as meat-based products with substantially less environmental impact.

The backhand comments give it away. I was not explicitly fired for being pregnant; however, I was beginning to show around the time of annual bonus. I was explicitly told for months I would get a bonus and it was always understood to be a large part of compensation (law firm). The owner of the firm kept putting off my…

Obviously this is really inappropriate and he shouldn’t have done it, but saying you’ve “always been more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes appropriate” is hilarious.

Why would this necessarily stop at unmarried women? I know there are people out there that believe that mothers should not work outside the home, and I am sure they could invent some religious reason behind it. Hell you could probably keep expanding this. Married women need to get their husbands permission to work.…

YES. And I guarantee that every #boymom who says “well, my son has lots of energy/likes playing with toy trucks/makes fart jokes” because he’s a boy also uses that justification to excuse behavior that ranges from totally normal for a child that age (meltdowns and tantrums happen), to totally abnormal but justifiable,…

Exactly. #Boymom is the precursor to “Boys will be boys.”

I got that stuff from the hospital. Granted, that was 19 years ago this month, but have things changed that much?

Yeah, it’s a crime the pain he caused, but he was a 21 year old indoctrinated into a belief system, writing about something he probably had almost no experience with.

Yes, it would have been nice if he had realized this before he wrote his book, however the book was a reflection of part of that culture and someone would have written something similar.