Casting a non-trans man to play a trans woman serves to reinforce the idea that trans women used to be men, which isn’t always the case. Many trans people identify as always being their gender, e.g. “back when I was a little girl” when they were raised as a boy. I haven’t seen Transparent so maybe Moara would identify…
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I’m still stunned from the moment Trump doubled down on the concept of turning our armed forces into global mercenaries “we defend them? Let them pay for it” to the point that Hillary felt the need to turn to the camera and reassure other countries that no, contrary to what Orange Cheeto just said, the US will uphold…
Watching the Way Jazz Jennings feels about herself compared to her peers who didn’t transition earlierI think shows how much easier it’s handled before puberty. Her being able to take hormones to grow breasts when her peers did and to block the testostorones (and a lot of the hormone blockers are reversable). Compared…
Most of those who have studied child development agree that gender identity has settled around age three or four. This if a child is consistent, insistent, and persistent about their gender identity being at odds with what they were assigned at birth, it’s best to start by getting them to some medical/psychiatric…
You know, the thing about being the privileged/dominant/default is that it feels like you just are. For white people, we’re “people” whereas people of colour are racialized. For men, they’re “people” whereas women are...not men.* I have always, as a cisgender woman, been very aware of my gender, as have all the women…
Fuck Chuck Todd, who just referred to Clinton as “over-prepared.” As if that has ever been a thing.
Many people are saying Trump is probably addicted to uppers. Educated people, great people. You tell me.
Well, yeah, Hillary does in fact come across as my bitchy mother. That’s *why* I like her here. Because what men read as “bitchy” with her comes across to me as “an actual grownup who knows how to get shit done and doesn’t mess with petty personal bullshit when it’s time to get to work.”
You know that gender and sexual orientation are different, yes? I can’t tell if that was just rambly thoughts or conflating the two.
I just read this interesting article today about how Hitler (and a lot of Nazis) were utterly dependent upon meth and how seminal battles were only possible due to it. And how Hitler’s “ill health” before he killed himself was likely withdrawal because the drug factories had been bombed. Very interesting!
I picked a hell of a week to debate Hillary Clinton.
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Julianne, as a journalist it is egregiously irresponsible of you to speculate on Donald’s twitches and shit without first consulting his doctor:
LGBTQ acceptance comes with a backlash, those against it support Trump because his official position is Marriage is between a man and a woman (and a number of mistresses).
That’s because the homosexual Muslim Jews who run Hollywood don’t represent real, hard-working white Americans.
But it’s a wife’s fault when her husband cheats! It’s her job to stay sexy and watch him like a hawk. He can’t help his appetities.
It really blows my mind where we can have a successful tv show with openly gay characters and now a transgender character and yet we have Trump neck in neck with Hillary. It seems very incongruous.
Trump once said that he’d donate $5 million to charity if President Obama could prove that he is a natural born citizen. So when will he be cutting that cheque? Maybe after the oft-mentioned audit?