FYI.

[elisi]

DeviantArt FAIL. (Three months old... Why have I not heard of it before?) Plus, neat drawing here, which sums it all up.

(Icon is both awesome and relevant to the post.)

Oh and sorry 'bout being absent. Life is busy...

Comments

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I think I read somewhere that the proportion of the population who are hermaphrodite in some way may be well into the double digit percentile; there are certainly a growing number of cases of adults suing health authorities all over the western world, because of 'corrective' surgery they were given when they babies; which have blighted their entire lives.

Plus I have personal experience of losing someone who suffered because of this kind of casual, unthinking HATEFUL, and WILFUL, blindness to the complexities of the human spirit.

Maybe I am unbelievably thick, or incredibly thick-skinned, but I just don't get it; I really don't get how people can be so blindly...

And once more words fail me :-(

Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

[promethia_tenk]

A worldview is a hard thing to shift. Sadly what he's saying is what society has been telling us all for a very, very long time.

Hear only one thing your whole life, most people tend to believe it and are not going to let go of it easily.

I'm sorry to hear this kind of ignorance has impacted your life so personally.

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

in a response to elisi in my own original post, I mentioned that my first real girlfriend was a pre-op transexual. I never saw her as anything other than Her; it seems to be beyond me to understand how others could not, but then I was in my early twenties when I was suddenly like, "Huh! There was a closet I was supposed to have been in."

My parents, my father particularly; people I grew up around, the world I saw on TV, all told me that only certain ways were true and good.

And I never once believed them. I am the kid who it was ever-so-politely put to that, "Maybe you don't need to come to Sunday School anymore..." because I was asking too many awkward questions.

:-)

Like I said. Don't get it. Never Got it. Don't wanna get it.

Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.