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backscatter712

(26,357 posts)
21. Full disclosure: I'm an atheist, and fully support this woman.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 11:58 PM
Sep 2012

After meeting a few transgendered people (nicest people in the world, I might add!), I realized that gender and the customs associated with gender are taken faaaaaaaar too seriously.

If a woman is capable of growing facial hair and chooses to grow facial hair, THAT'S COOL!

If a man wants to wear dresses, that's cool!

If a woman wants to engage in body-building until she has more muscles than the Incredible Hulk, that's cool!

Why do people reflexively shun, reject and ridicule people for falling outside the conventional gender roles? I'm at the point where I no longer have the need to do such things, and have the absolute need to defend the freedom of people to be themselves!

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i read this yesterday. love this woman. good for her. so much better than every nasty. nt seabeyond Sep 2012 #1
And, yet, some Faux News brainwashed viewer would shoot this woman in a mistaken Fawke Em Sep 2012 #2
I was on reddit when "european_douche" actually posted the photo and thread. Melinda Sep 2012 #3
Thanks for the additional info. She seems like an amazing young woman. Liberal_in_LA Sep 2012 #4
I agree. Check out this thread on reddit wherein european_douche appologizes. Melinda Sep 2012 #5
Wow, that is really unexpected. MadrasT Sep 2012 #8
I was glad to read it. If the frogmarch Sep 2012 #9
Your post is very helpful for people who see others as human beings. Judi Lynn Sep 2012 #37
What a great person Drahthaardogs Sep 2012 #6
she is wonderful Skittles Sep 2012 #7
She is really inspiring. Barack_America Sep 2012 #10
Sorry to ruin the party, but this is ridiculous... Comrade_McKenzie Sep 2012 #11
Well maybe your atheism is bigoted. undeterred Sep 2012 #12
It's her choice. Jennicut Sep 2012 #17
It's no more ridiculous than arbitrary societal norms eShirl Sep 2012 #18
Full disclosure: I'm an atheist, and fully support this woman. backscatter712 Sep 2012 #21
As religious teachings go, loving your body is pretty innocuous. LeftyMom Sep 2012 #36
YUCK blueamy66 Sep 2012 #13
That's an example of an ugly attitude. n/t eShirl Sep 2012 #14
Why do that? to make YOU happy? MNBrewer Sep 2012 #15
to make me happy? yeah, cause I'll ever meet this person blueamy66 Sep 2012 #32
How mature! Change has come Sep 2012 #16
Post removed Post removed Sep 2012 #33
since when are you the arbiter of other people's genders? fizzgig Sep 2012 #35
Your response is predictable. n/t tammywammy Sep 2012 #19
She is not shaving for religious reasons. rateyes Sep 2012 #20
And she could choose to not shave for any other reason and there would be no problem. Luminous Animal Sep 2012 #24
true that rateyes Sep 2012 #41
Idiot! backscatter712 Sep 2012 #22
the only thing to say yuck about is you fizzgig Sep 2012 #28
She's a Sikh jmowreader Sep 2012 #45
That's very cool bhikkhu Sep 2012 #23
Post removed Post removed Sep 2012 #25
You may be on the wrong site. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #26
Post removed Post removed Sep 2012 #30
Oy, spare me. Go away. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #31
wonderful response. iemitsu Sep 2012 #27
She has it together... Kalidurga Sep 2012 #29
I am beginning to love Sikh's. longship Sep 2012 #34
She's just fuckin' perfect. Zorra Sep 2012 #38
Good for her if she can deal with the stares, laughs and critism, that takes confidence. I know Raine Sep 2012 #39
Sikhs don't remove their hair, so however hairy they might be, the are stuck with it. Liberal_in_LA Sep 2012 #43
most Sikh women certainly do remove their facial/body hair, and they get hair cuts JI7 Sep 2012 #47
So strongly confident she separates adulthood from childishness while not even here. Festivito Sep 2012 #40
yep. n/t Liberal_in_LA Sep 2012 #44
I was talking with a lady Le Taz Hot Sep 2012 #42
Probably has PCOS.. siouxsiecreamcheese Sep 2012 #46
I have to tell you, Le Taz Hot Sep 2012 #49
Her response is a corrective to some of the one-sided views of religious people I just read in HiPointDem Sep 2012 #48
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