On Definition by Others

[evilfemme001]

This article is interesting and the reactions/ratings on the comments, as to which are positively scored and which not - well that is encouraging. Some of the comments themselves are well reasoned and the whole got me thinking. This was a good thing at the time, given I was in a bit of a funk ... or sliding toward one.

So here I'll add a few of my

Comments

[ashlayne]

Some people just don't realize the contradictions they themselves put out there. They say one thing, then turn around and do another all the while purporting the first. "Women born women" is a very silly section of the populace to be serving, IMO, as women born men have a lot of the same needs as far as health concerns.

It all goes back to your basic discrimination. People (and here, I use the term in the most general sense) are afraid of what's different. They're afraid of change. So when someone or something comes along that threatens their idealized point of view, they feel immediately threatened by it. Therefore, they act out against it. It has happened all across time, to people of alternate ways of thinking, alternate religions, alternate whatevers. It is, I think, sadly one thing that will not change for many years/decades to come in human nature. The best we can do is teach our children tolerance and love for all people, not just a select group (no matter how broad or narrow that group may be).