(05-01-2014, 01:58 PM)ClaraKay Wrote: Her employer, her mother and father, her sister-in-law, a waitress in a cafe, all take their pound of flesh from Lawrence. Why? What is it about people that make them fear anyone who strays from the binary gender model that society has created in the face of the natural diversity of humankind?
That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about!!!! What POSSIBLE harm could it be to any of them if he wants to dress fem or become a woman??? NONE!!!! ABSOBUTTFUCKINGLUTELY NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so WHY should ANY of feel that they have ANY kind of right to beat him up, belittle him or even kill him???? THAT'S why this is NOT a free society!!!!!!!! If I can't do what the fuck I wanna do or dress the way I wanna dress without having to worry about getting hurt or killed over it, then we can NEVER TRUELY be free!!!! Is what I'm wearing hurting anyone else? FUCK NO!!!! Then why the FUCK should THEY have the "right" to beat the fuck out of me for wearing it???? Why can't I beat up someone for wearing a tattoo or a hair cut that I think makes them look stupid???? I JNOW there are those here that will say, "well a tattoo and a hair cut is not the same thing", but it IS the same thing!!!! These people are toolin' around like this because it's how THEY want to present to the world!! And I SUPPORT their right to do it and their right to be different!! In fact, I think it's GREAT that they choose be different/out of the norm!!!! If the majority of us would do it, then guys dressing fem wouldn't be a big deal to anyone at all, I would think....MAYBE (because (and not to get ethnic here, but this is just the way it bloody well is!! Don't believe me?? LOOK AROUND!!) I see SO MANY black people running around looking incredibly goofy, the seem to go out of their way to look goofy!! But if I were to do the same things, they'd ridicule the loving shit out of me or beat me up!!!! But THAT'S okay!! THEY can get away with it, but I can't!! Not even in THEIIR eyes!!!! How's THAT for hypocrisy????) So, why can't I present to the world the way I want to???? WITHOUT fear??????
(05-01-2014, 01:58 PM)ClaraKay Wrote: Julia Serano's book "Whipping Girl" explains it best. It comes down to the value that society puts on masculinity over femininity, and the insistence that males must never betray that endowment. Those that do are castigated, humiliated, scorned, punished, and hated.
Is it any wonder that transwomen try so hard to 'pass' as women? Why should it matter? Until femininity is valued and respected on par with masculinity, the problems transwomen have integrating into society will continue.
My 2 cents. 
CK
I value femininity MUCH more than masculinity!!!! Women can not only do everything men can do, they can also have BABIES!!!! I wonder if ANY guy could take having a baby???? Most butch type guys are just whiney little pansies in disguise!! They HAVE balls, but they SURE as fuck don't use them!!!! A few years ago at work we got this "tough guy" that thought he was better than everybody else, especially me. (He was short and apparently had a Napoleon complex!) After a few days, he got a splinter in his finger and started jumping around like a 5 year old!!!! Whining and crying about getting a splinter!!!! He had to have ANOTHER guy come over and take it out for him!!!! LMFAO!!!! If I get one, I'll curse about it, but then I'll just calmly get a pair of tweezers and pull it out!! I don't know if he got fired, or just quit, I think the latter, but he was only there about 2 days after he got the splinter!! LMAO!!!!