Thank you.

Ugh, this is such crap! Don't sit there and claim it's "confusing" for kids or not "family friendly." As I've mentioned here before, there is a transgendered person in my family. I admit my husband and I were not entirely comfortable the first time our young children met my MIL's ex-husband "Lola." Not because we…

Yes, I really, really hate the people who rush in and buy stuff so they can sell it to others at a huge mark-up. The whole point of stuff like this is that it's affordable; I hope you're proud that you took that item from people who genuinely can't afford to spend more, when you didn't even want it.

Thanks! I just remember being told in one of those sexual harassment workshops at the bank I used to work for that if we didn't make it clear that we disliked such behavior, we couldn't sue later (of course, this was also in FL, which has some very worker-unfriendly laws and regulations.) We had to try to correct the…

Yeah, I hate to say it but I'm inclined to agree (re the butt-pat alone; the bit about disclosing his sexual past in court is a different matter). I've had strange men slab/rub my ass before, and while I don't think it's fun, it hardly traumatized me. Of course it's possible she has some sort of history of which we're…

1. What's the contradiction? I'm not really seeing it; both articles read similar in tone to me, though with slightly different slants.

Ditto! Cardiff is great, a lovely and cool city.

Ditto this. Rather than focus on slut-shaming, maybe they could actually try to present the real problem? The violence, the noise, the increased risk of real bodily harm? And what leads to it and from it?

Whereas my story starts the same, but ends with barely a B cup. :-(

An excellent analogy.

I think for me the issue is the crime itself, as well. This is someone who took another person's life. Her victim was a mother of two named Bonnie Lynn Lewis; there are now two children out there with no mother because Lyralisa got into an argument with her about money Lyralisa owed Bonnie, and shot her dead. Now…

No worries. Tensions can run high on topic like these, totally understandable.

I love it in shampoo, but keep in mind that it will lighten your hair. I'm blonde so that works great for me, but if you're dark brunette and want to stay that way... :-)

I didn't say it was frivolous or special treatment, I just think it sucks that transgendered people who are not criminals can't afford treatments.

Oh, that bit in Pirates irked me!

Do you genuinely not see the difference between not giving a diabetic insulin and not giving a transgendered person hormones? Because one is *fatal* and the other is not. That's hardly a fair or even a like comparison.

Yeah, I don't get why the state is paying for her hormones, either. Do transgendered people who managed NOT to murder others get their meds paid for by the state?

Oh? How did I do that?

Yes, that was my thought, as well.

Exactly. That helpless-baby vibe is just not appealing in a man. And honestly? While I've seen all the husband-home-alone-burning-food jokes from the fifties etc., I seriously doubt that even then you had men who didn't know how to turn on an oven. Maybe they didn't know how to *cook*, and maybe they'd never worked a…