DonnaL

2/27/16

To answer your question about gender being intrinsic vs. constructed, I think the word has to be divided into its different aspects (gender identity, gender expression, gender roles) rather than spoken of as as single undifferentiated concept. So I think I’ll simply repeat my response to someone else in this thread…

2/27/16

I like mine too. But some people don’t, and that’s what I was addressing. Hence my use of the word “unwanted.” Body dysphoria is a real thing, and you can’t just dismiss it as the product of gender-normativity. To do so borders on being transphobic in and of itself.

2/27/16

It has to be foreshortening or the angle of the camera or something like that. Because I’ve seen her hands in plenty of other photos, and there’s no way they’re really anywhere near that gigantic. How could anyone not have noticed that?

2/27/16

If you can accept that some people can be born left-handed, or with a particular sexual orientation — even though there’s no definitive proof of where the cause lies — why can’t you accept the possiblity that some people can be born with a particular sexual identity/bodymap coded into the brain that may or may not be…

2/27/16

God, it’s tiresome to see the same questions over and over and over again, hundreds of times. Would you question a gay person about why they can’t just be heterosexual, the way their body was obviously designed to function? Why are trans people continually asked to justify their existence and identity, in a thousand…

2/27/16

God forbid a woman should want to have breasts or to wear dresses sometimes. Do you ask cis women to explain why they want to have or do such things? There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be perceived as a woman, if you feel you already are or should be one.

2/27/16

God forbid a woman should want breasts.

2/27/16

You don’t really have any idea what murder is, do you.

2/27/16

I’ve always thought there should be a way for trans women and trans guys to swap unwanted hands and feet and everything else.

2/27/16

Political donations are a matter of public record. I’ve found no evidence that she’s ever donated a dime.

2/27/16

Money is money. Don’t be an asshole.

2/26/16

It really bothers me when people like this claim that they’re following traditions mandated by Torah and Talmud. In fact, they’ve gone significantly backwards. There was certainly no population in medieval Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East in which women had greater rights than among Ashkenazi Jews. Including…

2/26/16

I used to work at a law firm (both before and after my transition a decade ago) that had a lot of ultra-Orthodox clients. I was extremely amused by the ones who were happy to shake my hand before, but wouldn’t do so afterwards. Their wives, if I met them, the reverse. I don’t think they recognized me as the same…

2/26/16

Every time I’ve ever been hospitalized in NYC, regardless of the hospital, for surgical or medical treatment of Crohn’s Disease, the GI floor has always been full of ultra-Orthodox and/or Hasidic Jews (the two aren’t identical), with the men shuffling around with the ends of their tzitzis hanging down below their…

2/26/16

I don’t mind if people think all religions suck. But to single out Judaism as “worse” — like Christians have been doing for almost 2,000 years — is what really sucks.

2/23/16

Stop bloviating. I caught you in a lie and you know it.

2/23/16

When Bernie was getting arrested in 1963, she was 16 years old. She didn’t vote for anybody in 1964. By early 1968 she was campaigning for Gene McCarthy. And very, very much pro-Civil Rights. All you’re doing is demonstrating that you’re an asshole.

2/23/16

Himself? Melania?

2/23/16

Probably the good old days in the 1930s, when brown-shirted members of the German-American Bund (and it wouldn’t surprise me if Trump’s father was a supporter) went around NYC trying to beat up Jews, when they weren’t attending pro-Hitler rallies. Too bad for them that there were groups of Jews who were very happy to…