Army Releases Photo of Wikileaker Bradley Manning in Wig and Makeup (Corrected)

[stevenleser]

190. By now I hope you realize the multiple problems with your OP

1. The releases were part of a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request by journalists and Manning supporters. Not an attempt by the Army to "smear" Manning.

2. Leaping to the characterizing a photo of a transgendered person in the clothes that express their gender identity as "supposed to make people hate him? Despicable intent" appears like a subconscious indication of how you see it, particularly in light of the facts of how the information was released.

3. The overall effect of your OP, and you can see it in the responses, is to give people an incorrect impression of how the information came to be released and the purpose of it, and to perpetuate the idea that LGBT folks in general and transgendered folks in particular should be ashamed of themselves and their appearance.

If you care about what I point out in #3, you need to do something about it.