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Comment on Sons of Tennessee Williams by divadarya

divadarya — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:26:24 +0000

Wow. This looks fabulous.

Comment on The Blame Game by divadarya

divadarya — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:11:03 +0000

I love this, though it amazes me how hot the emotions still run. I think the problem many of us have as trans people is our morbid desire to define ourselves rigidly when we are in fact bobbing in an ocean of constant flux.

I love the boards of MHB because no one point of view can ever attempt to dominate without being called out.

Comment on The Blame Game by cologirl

cologirl — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:07 +0000

I’m interested in knowing more about what you wrote earlier about this. I’m not real clear on who’s asserting what. I know for myself as trans what is what, but the choices issue is always the main question if we have spouses. Please share the rest of the story.
Thanks

Comment on The Blame Game by JennL

JennL — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:03:58 +0000

Great post!

The nature/nurture argument is over indeed. Nature wins out because everything human is a product of nature, even culture itself. Human thought tends to tries to invent us as something above or outside nature but the facts speak for themselves. From Dawkins extended phenotype to more controversial ideas like Sheldrake’s morphic resonance it’s pretty clear that we are not only all products of nature but active participants, co-creators of an ever evolving nature.

The reality can produce some discomfort at times but it is what it is!

Comment on Jennifer Finney Boylan is Stuck in the Middle with You by divadarya

divadarya — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:00:55 +0000

“I didn’t want to teach my sons it was OK to lie”

That’s pretty huge for me. Consider me inspired.

Comment on Two Tune Tuesday: New(ish & Old) Bowie by divadarya

divadarya — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:59:01 +0000

Thank you. As a baby boomer who was saved from being a Boston(Journey/Rush..whatevs) fan by David Bowie…just…..Thank you.

Comment on For Spring by bea

bea — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:34:37 +0000

And to think I had despaired of ever finding useful advice for how to get a bikini body from the internet.

Comment on ABC News Anchor Transitions: Dawn Ennis by cologirl

cologirl — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:35:09 +0000

At least the bee tale was a reason to discover an underlying medical explanation and not the “cause” for being T. I expect most of us want to know why at some point, but I’m more troubled by leaving an impression with the public that trans people are hatched late in life and that we can mentally come and go as we please. We aren’t a fashion or fad and the immutability of who we are is the foundation for the world beginning to recognize us as real people with real lives…

Comment on ABC News Anchor Transitions: Dawn Ennis by Mary Lynn

Mary Lynn — Sat, 11 May 2013 15:29:52 +0000

Magic pink bees, medicating moms, why not just say “I don’t know, it is what it is”? Isn’t that the easier and more accurate reason? I know for a fact my parents went to amazing lengths to discourage my cross-gender presentation and play when I was growing up.

Comment on ABC News Anchor Transitions: Dawn Ennis by helenboyd

helenboyd — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:09:42 +0000

Agreed. This is not uncommon, however, for trans people to say things like this about what’s made them trans, and for the journalists not to do any fact checking on it. I think my favorite so far has been the person who said she’d been stung by a bee.