schrodinger’s split?

Wow. Yes, yes she does!

or try calling the suicide help hotline only to be put on hold, is that normal? like i wasn’t feeling low enough they put me on hold. looking back it makes me laugh and i guess that’s progress enough for me.

I do not get the outrage at her treatment at all.

Yeah because when people want to kill themselves for being prevented from transitioning it’s all about rule breaking. Try on some me empathy some time. You might learn something.

I don’t believe that is a common practice in our corrective system these days. There’s probably a reason for that.

As a person with clinical depression, and a couple of attempts under my belt, it absolutely disgusts me that people who try to end their life are treated as criminals. And already being imprisoned, and pushing her further down into the pit because of suicide is deplorable. I don’t blame her at all. She is no longer a…

I thought that they only walked away from it as far as saying that not conforming to your gender doesn’t automatically constitute a disorder. But if it causes you significant distress and requires medical intervention, then it rises to the level of a disorder?

I’m glad you were able to do that. And I’ve got my fingers crossed that it DOES haunt him. It certainly should, though if he was the kind of person who would torment a child, he would have had to do a lot of personal growth in the meantime for his actions to bother him now.

Maybe not something that will increase her chances of committing suicide? Unless you embrace the idea of prison as a punishment and not as a rehabilitative effort, in which case I guess the best way to punish her for failing to kill herself is to give her more motivation. I would argue that any “sentencing” of her…

And it also allows coastal white liberals to smugly ignore their own latent racism and classism, as well as their recent patterns of aggressive gentrification that directly hurt communities of color in their politically correct coastal cities.

A. Putting someone in solitary for attempting suicide is batshit crazy behavior, and is utterly common across the prison system.

It just comes back to, “Do you feel that prisoners deserve basic human rights?” If so, Mannings treatment should offend you, if not, then it shouldn’t.

Holy shit. I’m so sorry that happened to you! The thought of a racist Montessori school teacher is blowing my mind. 

She wants to kill herself so they decide to make her miserable.

Relatedly, an anti-southern stance is essentially racism too....

Ok, 14 days in solitary confinement (which has been proven to make inmates suicidal) to punish an inmate for a suicide attempt. Makes sense.

They did if you lived in an earthquake prone area.

I certainly DON’T envy the number of times these folks will hear their spouse say “Nice technique loading the dishwasher, GENIUS” the rest of their lives.

The one with the books behind her is especially galling. I mean, if you’re such a genius, why do you need a stack of books? Shouldn’t you, like, know that stuff?