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In reply to the discussion: Woman with facial hair responds super graciously to online attention [View all]backscatter712
(26,357 posts)21. Full disclosure: I'm an atheist, and fully support this woman.
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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Liberal_in_LA
Sep 2012
OP
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
And she could choose to not shave for any other reason and there would be no problem.
Luminous Animal
Sep 2012
#24
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
So strongly confident she separates adulthood from childishness while not even here.
Festivito
Sep 2012
#40
Her response is a corrective to some of the one-sided views of religious people I just read in
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#48