Rithrandil
SasqWatch
I agree it's bad form. Not excusing it. I hate racists, homophobes, et al. I just got out of a lovely two hour blogtv session arguing with someone trying to defend his transphobia.
I agree it's bad form. Not excusing it. I hate racists, homophobes, et al. I just got out of a lovely two hour blogtv session arguing with someone trying to defend his transphobia.
So is it just the transgendered that induces the phobia? I have to admit that the idea(all the operations, drugs, etc) kind of creeps me out a bit myself. I don't mind the people themselves, though.
Also on Barney Frank—I had to look up my favorite quote of his the other day and I feel like passing it on while we're on the subject of he and his partner being jeered at while walking up the capitol steps:
On the dems losing the majority in 1996::"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.."
It is 2010, which means it is way past time for decent Americans to rise up against this kind of garbage, to fight it aggressively wherever it appears. And it is time for every American of good will to hold the Republican Party accountable for its role in tolerating, shielding and encouraging foul, mean-spirited and bigoted behavior in its ranks and among its strongest supporters.
The G.O.P. poisons the political atmosphere and then has the gall to complain about an absence of bipartisanship.
The toxic clouds that are the inevitable result of the fear and the bitter conflicts so relentlessly stoked by the Republican Party — think blacks against whites, gays versus straights, and a whole range of folks against immigrants — tend to obscure the tremendous damage that the party’s policies have inflicted on the country. If people are arguing over immigrants or abortion or whether gays should be allowed to marry, they’re not calling the G.O.P. to account for (to take just one example) the horribly destructive policy of cutting taxes while the nation was fighting two wars.
The guy (an atheist socialist from austria) I was arguing with said "Do you have NO SHAME?" to an m-to-f transgendered person in the room. He then proceeded to refer to her as "IT" instead of "she" (or even "he"). He said it was disgusting and weird and that he would kill himself if he ever thought that way.
So basically me and a few others spent the next few hours trying to explain to him the scientific basis of transgender feelings. His response was to ignore all of it, literally state his refusal to investigate, and say because it was his opinion (WHICH HE ADMITTED WAS IRRATIONAL) that we were 'just as bad as he was' if we criticized him for it.
I have no doubt you'd just assume avoid the whole thought. But, unfortunately, you brought it up. So then, I'll ask again...I didn't care about it. But what I did care about was his promise to end the wars. And that hasn't happened.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., wants a vote on his amendment to prohibit coverage of Viagra for sex offenders.
Answer the question, Thrasher. Quit dodging.I did not bring up tax cuts you did. My post was about the venomous environment promulgated by the GOP. You changed the subject to taxes. The taxes comment in the article was ancillary, but you seemed to have grabbed onto it, rather than addressing the most important point of the article.