“In the past I’ve posed with a monkey of some kind (I was a young child so I can’t be more specific)“

Fuck everything.

A person’s identity is theirs and theirs alone. A person’s final wishes are sacred. That’s all there is to it. Her parents own their own grieving process, they do not own her.

“And if they choose not to honour their dead child’s wishes, they have done an immoral thing.

And if they choose not to honour their dead child’s wishes, they have done an immoral thing.

The moral thing to do is to mind your own business and not force your values and opinions onto a dead child.

It was Leelah’s concern. Why is that so difficult for you to understand?

Yeah, well, mental health professionals used to recommend hysterectomies to cure hysteria. And I’ve seen some pretty dumb people get through graduate school. If you’re actually a mental health professional, I shudder for the profession.

There is a difference between having the legal right to do something, and it being the moral thing to do.

Yeah, heard that one before. You still can’t come up with a decent reason why it was *right* that they erased their daughter’s identity and spat on her wishes, rather than the fact that they were *technically allowed*.

Only a coward hides behind legal technicalities in place of doing the right thing.

Really? You’re trying to squeeze out of this on a technicality? “Well, if she had been a few months older they would have been under some kind of moral obligation not to spit on her final wishes, but since she was 17 - spit away! Technically a minor! We technically have no legal obligations to honour her personhood!”

Ho…

Then I guess you don’t think wills should exist? Since the dead are dead they have no say in how they are remembered or what happens to their legacies, why should they be allowed wills, estates, or final requests? Why should we respect other human beings just because they’re dead?

No, it’s her choice. She was a person. She made her wishes known. She had rights too.
They can “remember” their child in their heads however they want so long as they honour her last wishes.

We’re not talking about how the family chooses to remember their child, we are talking about how the child wanted herself known and remembered. She was a girl. She wanted to be remembered as a girl. They denied her personhood in death and ignored a dead girl’s wishes. She said in her suicide note that she hoped her…

Yes dear, we know. Objectifying a woman plays into a larger social structure that puts women at a disadvantage. Objectifying a man is just a shitty thing to do to that individual man. But... you know... it’s still nice to not do shitty things to people. It’s especially nice to not do shitty things to people while…

Yeah, I mean, I know it’s not the same thing for a man as it is for a woman, but he’s still a person for god’s sake. It’s like, OK, so women are oversexualized and made uncomfortable all the time, let’s make it better by making this dude feel oversexualized and uncomfortable. Feminism for the win!

The same with the…

The actual illiteracy is astounding. Or is it delusion? Tell me you didn’t see “it is this way because people hate women” written anywhere in the article anywhere. Anywhere.

I used to lucid dream a lot. Well... maybe once every couple of months. The thing to do is to plant the idea in your mind as you’re falling asleep that you’ll do something in your dreams that will make you aware that you’re dreaming. Like, say, clapping three times. Say to yourself, “I will clap three times when I…

The look on his face should be in Webster’s Dictionary under “tolerant”