peppermintmonster
peppermintmonster
peppermintmonster

I'm a little skeptical about the wording of "willfully trick and deceive sexually interested people into thinking they are biological men or women." The idea that there are a bunch of trans individuals deliberately hiding that they are trans throughout a relationship strikes me as a transphobic myth. Unless you are

Also, from my (limited) understanding, most trans individuals know their true gender from very early on.

What? I think you are confused as to what I'm saying. I'm saying that even if someone tried such a thing, it could be easily identified and stopped. So there is no need to freak out about it or suggest that the law be rolled back because of that. Calm down.

(And you're right, I realized only after posting that I said

Hey, you laugh, but that baby's lifestyle is unhealthy. She pigs out on breast milk all day and never gets any exercise. I'm just worried for her health, you know?

Man, that actually sounds like a really cool idea.

It's not black and white, true. But I think it's safe to say that even if a boy attempted such an act, it would be easy to distinguish his actions from those of a genuine trans individual.

Believe me, I'm agreeing with you. I'm only saying (which probably gives the idea more credit than it deserves) that if there is one boy in the entire world dumb enough to try what everyone's suggesting will be such a massive problem, it can easily be identified as not the actions of a transmale and shut down.

I'm willing to believe it's possible that a few teenage boys will try this. (By "this" I mean, a boy who's been cis-male all his life, still dressed male and having never identified as anything other than male—which will not change—-might try walking into a girl's bathroom one day and when the girls tell him to leave

I don't see how the possibility that someone might have an advantage in high school soccer is more of a problem than trans and intersex individuals being made to defend their legitimacy to a school board. Especially if they'll be expected to meet arbitrary qualifications based on steps they may not be psychologically

Also if you want to show your love and admiration for them call them lazy and gross on the internet. Ladies love it.

Honestly...the "bad behavior" gap, or at least the "talking about bad behavior" gap is part of why I love Maria Bamford. Not many female comedians talk about being lazy and gross, or eating ice cream for breakfast, or being a (wo)man child in general.

Guys, this is really sincere. Paula Deen has always cared about the plight of LGBTQ individuals. She's always been a big supporter of It Gets Butter.

Doesn't that reasoning imply that whenever someone sues anyone for any reason, their words should be dismissed because if they win the lawsuit they will benefit financially?

I am so, so, SO sorry that you experienced that. That's terrible.

And yet, when people are shitting on someone heavier than the image put forth by advertisers, they say that it's all about "concern for her health."

WE DID ALL DO THIS. ...And I fear I think I know why. We all did this because children play by imitating adults.

If all the women little girls are shown are homemakers, they will play by miming cooking, cleaning, and taking care of dolls.

If little girls see women in a variety of careers, but all the women around

"And when companies like Dove are like, "OMG, JUST BUY OUR SHIT AND YOU WON'T FEEL BAD EVER AGAIN" it's disingenuous."

I know, right? It's not that I thought I was beautiful as a little kid. It's that I didn't think about my body as a decorative thing, or an art object, but just as the thing I used to run around and dump big handfuls of dirt onto everything. (I was a trying child.)

Maybe I thought of myself as pretty when I was wearing

It would actually be kind of nice if we had separate legal terms for the type of polygamy that has historically been oppressive to women and a basic "I like more than one person and we all want to get married" thing. Unfortunately, it seems hard to identify the difference in broad, legal terms.

That "it's offensive to be blonde" comment comes out of the same bass-akwards attitude that makes people say "oh, so I guess it's not okay to be white now" when people call for more non-white characters.

*Sassy flip of naturally blonde hair*

Another thing—even the 8/12 of the princesses being white, (Okay, okay, I should be saying 7/11, Leia doesn't exactly count...though honestly, Alice gets lumped in with Disney Princesses often enough that one could squeeze her in and set it back back to 8/12) the idea that having four non-white princesses makes the