3ntranced

My Facebook messenger is full of these random anecdotes to former classmates. It usually gets left on read or replies are ??? But sometimes it reignites friendships and that makes it worth it.

Remember, everyone else is often just as weird as you are. People just hide it differently. Life is short, have fun.

My dad was watching Fox last night and Laura Ingrams whole WEALTHY&RADICALIZED Segment was the most retarded thing I've ever sat through. Now I'm a red leaning voter but to me fox is as Mainstream media as the rest so I don't buy any of their shtick.

I was dying with her unmoving botoxed face talk about how "Mangioni is a rich elite who was brainwashed by Ivy League schools" then bring on a Republican from a different Ivy league school and praise him for shaming Luigi.

At some moments I swear you could see gears and cogs turning in her head to come up with a cohesive sentence.

My comment is to drive home the point that if you're a small enough minority, you shouldn't expect the rest of the population to bend to your ideology. I carry no prejudice whatsoever, trans people can be as trans as they want.

My point isn't that "trans people don't exist" like you and many others just infer. My point is that un-fully developed children should not be permitted to cease that development because of an emotional feeling.

If you disagree fantastic, that's why this is a point of contention. But to demonize and vilifiy those who disagree with you is childish and leads me to believe you haven't fully developed yourself.

I like this comment. You put the argument into reasonable perspective and have genuinely shifted my beliefs a bit. The reality is I will never willingly vote against any of these things in general election because in all honesty it doesn't affect me.

But I do agree, growth development is variable, like how you've got that one guy in your freshman year bio class who has a full beard and chops. My only hangup is if you don't make a decision is like the trolly problem. The growth is already on a set course, if you don't intervene, is that really making a choice? Or because you're actively NOT doing something is THAT the choice?

Alot of these issues be it trans/gay/illegal/whatever seem to be hung up more on semantics and word association than the actual issues which is stupid, and gets the movements nowhere.

I apologize again for coming off as ignorant, I'm logic dominant brain so alot of my arguments hit people the wrong way even if it's correct.

I understand your sentiment and I dont want to come off as just "transbasher" because i have close both male and female friends who after college decided they wanted to transition. I don't agree with their thought process but I don't tell them or put them down for their choice because it's their choice as an adult.

On the subject of intersex births, I find the 1 in 1700 to be very generous. Having a mother who has worked labor and delivery for the past 30 years in a large hospital, she has only ever had 2 instances where the baby was born intersex. And that's out of tens of thousands of deliveries. In those fringe cases I think sure we can allow those to be allowed to transition because there is a biological reason evident from birth. But if you just have a hormone imbalance that doesn't mean you need to block the natural course of growth to see "what you'd prefer". Just let the body do it's thing and when it's done developing then mess around with it.

I think the majority argument is skewed for alot of those due to the nature of our journalism and reporting through US history. I don't think that a majority of people viewed gay marriage for example as something that should be outlawed, but it was something unfamiliar and they didn't have enough points of reference in their life to base their argument off of. As it became more mainstream, people just kind of went 'whatever', the radicals (religious) get the spotlight from the media but I grew up in a hyper conservative household, and even we were fine with and had friends who were gay. My roommate in college was gay and the only person who had anything off to say was my grandmother who grew up in the 50s+60s.

I think i should shift my statement to say "rights are things that the majority of the people believe to be true, only if it affects a large enough amount of the people"