I disagree. I think the world would be a better place if people stopped acting like huge stupid asshats towards other people. When people act like huge stupid asshats and attack people for no good reason...there are negative consequences for everyone. When someone automatically attacks someone after discovering that person is a "Christian" or that person is a "Muslim" or that person is from this country or likes this kind of music etc, there are negative consequences for everyone... Don't believe me? Why do you think there were so many school shootings in the past? But if that is the price we have to pay for freedom, then so be it.

Wenn Sie wollen, vielleicht... Hoch Deutsch ist auch einer dialekt, aber den beste werstanden in der Welt. Correct me pray! ;-)

I should point out that my friend actually has asked the colleagues to speak in generic German - but gets slower and louder village dialect repeated back. This I think can be taken as a form of bullying, as everyone in CH shall know high German.

I was kind of lucky. I was able to transition on the job. Plus I worked in book production so I had this big production room all to myself. The worst part was my co-workers couldn't let go the former me and had a hard time with my new gender. For 11 months I was not allowed to use the women's toilet, and it was dangerous to use the men's. So I had to leave the building and use the toilets in the restaurants in the area. The timing had to be right. Twice I had to go home and change.

Finally they allowed me to use the female facility after the Transgender Law Center write them a nasty letter. They helped me pro bono. Wonderful organization.

I live in Arizona, a red state, so it's really conservative. I live in Tucson though and we are liberal, a blue dot in a red state. We have had protection laws for transgender citizens since '99. Employers can fire you just for being LGBT. At least you can hide being gay if you want, but if you transgender, most of the time you need to stay in the closet. Although I will have to say it is getting better, especially in my home town.

so, do you agree or disagree? I'm not sure here.

Yeah, It bums me out when dumb people say hateful things but, when we take away the freedom of one person we slide down a slippery slope where it's ok to take any freedoms away from any people. You can't have a constitution built around "All men are created equal (except for haters - HATERZ GONNA HATE AMIRITE?)"

I said it once but, I need to repeat myself: if we decide it's acceptable to deny one freedom, what is there stopping us from denying any and all other freedoms? There is no gradient to freedom, you are free or you are not.



you were not kidding when you said that you really do like the edit button.

Indeed it does. And I do think we all could be responsible to make violent bigotry a shameful affair.

It is still pretty ok to be as low born as a Finn, lol, almost anywhere. Yet, somewhere else it might mean the skull caved in with a hammer when one should be sentimentally cum politically cum sexually deviant.

I agree with you, it seems. I'm just saying stupid people shouldn't abuse their freedom but I'm not suggesting we do anything about it. For example, people should stop bullying people for stupid reasons but I'm against any anti bullying law because that puts us on a dark road to where, there is no freedom.

But you can do something about it; lead by example and effect change in the world immediately around you.

I don't think that is enough to make those stupid people take the time to get to know people before attacking. It is much easier for their brains to think all Christians are like this, all Muslims are like this, all people who dress a certain way are like this, all Eastern Europeans are like this, all gay people are like this, all fat people are like this, all gamers are like this etc... Much easier for their brains to put someone in a box 5 seconds after meeting that someone...

I worked in Scottsdale, AZ, myself for about two years - and visited Biosphere cum Tuscon during that time, :-D

From European perspective, though, the topic of arranging toilet facilities for extremely fat persons would probably meet with greater scrutiny than gender assignment of these facilities, Methinks,

doing nothing is the easiest thing to do but,

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” - Teddy R.

Do you need outside factors involved to qualify for the conversation? I can cover both ends of it without anyone else's involvement, that's why I ask.

Ah, well, when I worked in AZ, I noticed quite a pronounced racial separation of work-opportunities and living areas between, say, South Phoenix and Northern Scottsdale.

I still hold a deep respect for the Mexican workers who would take the south-town bus to Frank Lloyd Wright, and walk from thence.

With my European naïveté I tried public transport for a couple of days, but realized very soon that one really needs a car there!!

Hum... do not hate those persons too much, if you can avoid it, because it is very hard for purportedly "normal" person to love someone with a mental disorder, cum tick. I think tender human relations need to have an inherent trust, a feedback system.

I think of my most beloved aunt here, rather sadly.

As to furry fan topic, I think the haters are just potentially jealous of Chewbacca themselves, eh! :-p

New gender? You can't change your gender. You can change how you look though. Guess that's what you mean.

That's stupid. Bathrooms are segregated for a reason. And if society determines that reason is no longer sufficient it should just do away with the segregation, not allow some women in the men's restroom and some men in the women's restroom.

Sounds like they changed their gender. What, they're not female if they can't have kids? Kids tend to be malignant godsdamned crotch spawn in the first place, so they're better off. A superior version, if you will. And if the person is willing to undergo the levels of grief and bullshit involved in changing themselves, grief and bullshit they should NOT have to deal with in the first place but have to due to narrowminded judgmental motherfuckers? Then they've earned the right to use the toilet. They didn't get the easy path, the default path. They had to suffer for it.