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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:45 AM Original message |
Saw "Boys Don't Cry" last night on Bravo - how frustrating! |
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Paragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. I see we haven't got to "sympathy for the transgendered" yet. |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. hell |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. yes, it's extremely sad----watching that movie made me cry.... |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I have the movie on DVD |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:54 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. when I was a teenager, I was afraid of coming out at my public high school |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Being annoyed with someone for playing with fire |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:58 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Would you say then, that a girl who goes out dressed in a mini skirt |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:58 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. exactly! it's that same logic used to justify violence against that person |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:03 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Nonsense. |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
30. your logic is horribly flawed |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #30 |
36. So if you were Brandon's friend |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. well, for starters-----they were his only friends |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:12 AM Response to Reply #38 |
43. I don't know that to be the case |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:14 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. do you even know how big Lincoln is? GLBT communities can't |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:10 AM Response to Reply #36 |
39. But that's not how you started this thread. You didn't blame his |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:15 AM Response to Reply #39 |
49. Yes - because his risky behavior was disturbing |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:17 AM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I like how you cloak your dislike of his transgenderism into concern |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:07 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. Oh no Gringo. This type of thought process is exactly the same. |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:10 AM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Bad people deserve death. Foolish people do not. |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:00 AM Original message |
so you would rather that he be a girl instead of being transgendered? |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
28. Of course not. |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:06 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. well, it's hard to avoid that when you live in a state that has |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:18 AM Response to Reply #28 |
55. The closet almost led to suicide in my brother's case... |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. are you saying that Brandon deserved the rape because of his |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:53 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Umm... |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. it wasn't a death wish---it was asserting the kind of masculinity he |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:59 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. He was a fucking kid |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:05 AM Response to Reply #19 |
31. Well, I sowed a few oats at that age |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:12 AM Response to Reply #31 |
42. Yes, but the thing about gender dysphorics and transgendered people |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:17 AM Response to Reply #42 |
52. Of course I don't hate him. |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:14 AM Response to Reply #31 |
46. and I presume |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:07 AM Response to Reply #19 |
34. He was a teenage boy... |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. This is one of the more |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. I agree... |
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Gringo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:58 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. No, it was not |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:01 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. again, I ask, would you rather that he be a girl instead of transgendered? |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:04 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. It might be worth |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:15 AM Response to Reply #27 |
48. That is why the suicide rate is astronomical in gender dysphoric, gay, |
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oxymoron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. I'm speechless. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. When I saw Boys Don't Cry -- |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
7. If Teena had been a girl had dressed in girlish trendy fashion and |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. As a sister of a a person who suffers gender dysphoria... |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. this is where karma hopefully works into this case.... |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Oh how I agree with you. |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:02 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. and on this we can agree.... |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:04 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Hey, the GD04 battles stay in GD04... |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:07 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. that's why I love the lounge! I get to post bush photoshops, my dogs, and |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Yup...it's kind of like a haven :-) |
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Paragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
29. Easy, slick |
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Paragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
21. Bottom lining it, Gringo... |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
41. Congratulations, Gringo. |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:16 AM Response to Reply #41 |
50. Brandon was asserting his masculinity because he wanted approval |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:18 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. slink... |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:19 AM Response to Reply #54 |
57. thanks----but I clicked on the wrong post to respond to...but I agree with |
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foreigncorrespondent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
44. Gringo... |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
47. What Brandon may have required from the -- |
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LawSchoolLiberal (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
53. If I may... |
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foreigncorrespondent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
56. Removing SOB from this tripe... |
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Moderator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-29-04 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
58. Locking |
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