I understand that the list of books I take out at the library and my debit card transactions aren't exactly private either, but I'd still take a very dim view of that information being disseminated to the public by the courts.

Um hearing slurs makes you prejudiced and normalises violence and exclusion

You're only talked about polygyny, not polygamy as a whole. You even start with "men will accumulate multiple wives", not taking into account at all the effect of secular polygamy - any combination of women and men.

If multiple consenting adults want to enter into a legal agreement for cohabitation, shared property ownership, mutual risk, and cooperation for child-care, then nobody’s rights are being violated. Maybe they’ll have some awesome sexytime too. The assumption that polygamy is inherently wrong is a fallacy.

We have…

They were going to do that anyway though. This ruling won't really have any effect on people who weren't following the law to begin with. Polygamy is still more than technically illegal in Canada, but it's never stopped our branch of the FLDS from doing their thing.

The hardest part of your day is you don't get to throw around certain terms without people thinking you're an ass?

You go around calling black people n——-? Because no one can police your language? You have free speech but that does not mean what you say is not offensive, or that it has no consequences.

I thought the first season was pretty good in general. A bit problematic in parts, (Sexism, Racism etc, etc.) but that is often the case with new shows, so you have to give them time to grow & integrate feedback etc. Unfortunately it has mostly been downhill from there. :( I keep watching it in hopes it will get…

When in doubt, ask, I guess. Every demographic has a strong online presence so I try to just keep my ear to the ground and follow the rules as they are made. If the new politically correct term is transgender, I'm happy to use it. I'm not hip, but when Degrassi started using the term (I'm an 80's baby so I'm allowed…

I blew a tranny on the road one time.

Ugh. I'm glad you said something, and were there to write back to her. At few years ago, I was out on a smoke break with some co-workers when someone brought up Thomas Beatie (his pregnancy was in the news at the time), and I really regret not saying anything about all the dehumanizing, transphobic shit one guy was…

a tranny is an integral part of a car that is very expensive to fix if it breaks, and may be a greater cost than the value of the car, itself. That is the only thing I will ever think of as a "tranny." Period.

Totally agree. And I don't mean to call you out on semantics, bc I'm 100% sure you don't mean it this way, but I've always taken issue with the idea that there are terms I don't "get to use." The whole phrase "get to use" makes it sound like some amazing wonderland of privilege, when really, its pretty much the LEAST…

It's a word that, with more understanding of transsexual/transgender persons, is being used less and less. Strictly speaking, the word does work for those who are cis but simply choose to wear clothing traditionally worn by the other gender, but I think now people realize that some of those people's identities isn't…

Most of the last decade. It's a term which has not been used by any gender and sexuality group of which I have been part. The distinction between cis, straight cross dressers and queer drag queens is an important distinction to make. Transvestite doesn't make this distinction, and was therefore something considered…

So, I read the description and it is just a 5 minute clip that he looped over and over to reinforce his opinion. Youtube is so f'in weird.

I am not over Beyonce, I just was never really riding the All Hail Bey Train to begin with. She's fine. She has a lovely voice and I like her music (I like the video of the baby dancing to "Single Ladies" more, though). But people just need to chill the fuck out. I'll be over here listening to Chaka Khan.

I suppose I disagree with the idea that we should be unconcerned with the negative terms usage based on socioeconomic classes of people. While it's true that disenfranchised trans drag performers have less time for discourse regarding slurs, I don't think it's fair either to assume they don't/can't understand or…

Omg that Glee episode, I had decided to give that ep a chance and maybe start watching it again but then they removed the word transsexual (but not transvestite of course) from Sweet Transvestite but then has no problems throwing tranny around.

Oh you mean for each person that wrote a very personal and uncomfortable experience on a piece of paper and then bravely shared it with the world? And for the sole purpose of trying to bring a little enlightenment and relevant perspective to a part of the population that is woefully unaware of how bigoted and…