Yes. Men live in an objective world with facts and logic. The female experience is entirely subjective and feelings-based.

Yeah, no one who's "honest" and "tells it like it is" has ever said "Maureen, your hair looks great today. I'm just telling it like it is", or "Sweetie, you know I'm just being honest with you, you've been doing really well at your job, I'm super impressed with your progress". So either you're really honest, and…

They also hate being called females like they're animals. Just what I head, don't go by what I say.

When I was a small child I was asked to be a bridesmaid at my cousins wedding. Then they fired me and my sister in favour of a couple of the brides small relatives because we lived too far away for dress fittings :/

Agreed. Just like it's not illegal for people under 18 to have sex with each other (within a few years of each other, at least in my state), marking teens as sexual predators for the consensual things they do with their peers (or themselves)is ridiculous.

Have you ever been in an abusive relationship, especially one that involved sexual coercion? Because they usually involve making it so that one partner doesn't feel like they can turn down maintenance sex. So, no, you can't have a discussion about maintenance sex without discussing when it becomes sexually coercive,…

The analogy is flawed if you accept that gender identity and sexual orientation are not choices; which these people do not.

OK, fair enough. But I will take issue with your implicit characterization of my view of religious people as sub-human. I think it's actually more respectful to hold them to the same standard of basic human decency we hold our fellow atheists to. Yes, religion is kind of a choice*, so the following analogies aren't…

Well that's what I mean. As I said elsewhere, they are raping her identity. They are attempting to erase her true self from the pages of history. It is a crime that, while doesn't cause her pain directly, really transcends death in the form of causing harm to other trans people. And the people who are engaging in this…

If they didn't accept her identity, her person -not supporting every single thing she does mind you - accepting the very core of her being, then they did NOT love her. They just didn't. If you can't accept someone for who they are, you cannot love them.

Please don't take this as an attack, I apologize in advance if some of my comment comes off like that but I can't even think straight. I write for a living and I'm the equivalent of tongue tied when trying to make sense of what I'm feeling. This story has been haunting me for days...

As parents, your job is not to love your child in "your way". It is to love your child in their way. These people did not love Leelah. They loved the idea of their good Christian son. Who is not a real person.

They did not love their child. They loved an idea of a child that did not exist.

I reject the notion that religious people have no choice but to embrace the bigotry their group espouses. I've seen so many Christian, Muslim, and Jewish families go from "God hates fags; the scriptures tell me so," to "God sent me this angel to teach me tolerance/test my faith/because he knew I could grow to love…

"Love" is a verb. You can have abstract feelings of warmth or fondness toward your children, but if you're not behaving in a loving way, you're not really loving them.

Yes! This! The reaction of "Burn them at the stake" when we literally only know that the dog had just escaped and they turned the dog in voluntarily, is fucking ridiculous. We know nothing else. Show me that they beat the dog every day and sicked him on this family and I'll rally for jail time and fines. But everyone…

How's the weather up there on your sixty-foot horse?

Tea Party. They get weirdos hanging tea bags from their hat-brims.

WELL-SAID. You're so right about how people who cling to their beliefs regardless of facts are praised and validated for being confident and sure of themselves, while people who modify their beliefs based on evidence are criticized for being wishy-washy.

God, I wish that confirmation bias was one of those things that was taught on a really basic level, that awareness of it was built right into the curriculum.