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Ah, yes. Yet another feature which was sacrificed so that the owners of Internet Brands could more easily rape 12 year old girls atop an altar constructed entirely from the bodies of dead kittens.
^Where do these people come up with this stuff? If my girlfriend/wife came home and told she was pregnant by another man, the conversation would be pretty quick and wouldn't involve her living in my house anymore.
To some, this queer couple look straight. For him, that’s okay. But for her, it feels ‘like a lie.’
Kate Murray and Andy Arnold relax at home in the District.
When Kate Murray and Andy Arnold first started dating in their early twenties, they were part of a tightknit group of lesbian friends in the District. The couple and their friends hung out almost every weekend, organizing potluck dinners and frequenting ladies’ nights at local gay bars.
Then, about two years ago, Andy came out as a transgender man. And as he transitioned, with Kate’s support, the couple suddenly felt they no longer belonged in the “women-centric” spaces they were used to. They tried testing out a new group of friends — a “blank slate,” a group in which Andy wouldn’t have to talk about his trans identity, he said. He could just “blend in” as a man.
To the new friends, they were just Andy and Kate — a man dating a woman. And that was just how Andy liked it. But to Kate, “it felt like a lie,” she said. She wanted to express her queer identity, she said, but how could she do that without making Andy uncomfortable?
Here we have two lesbians. And lesbian #1 is afraid that because lesbian #2 has decided to call herself a man, other people might incorrectly assume that lesbian #1 is not a lesbian at all, but rather a straight woman. And, apparently, the thought of a stranger assuming that she is straight is intolerable.
And this makes me think...
To me, lesbian #2 (in the photo above) does not look like a man, and I would therefore assume that if I saw these two as a couple, I would assume that they were both lesbians.
But what if some people, presumably the sort who lesbian #1 is concerned about being judged by, cannot distinguish between a man and a woman who claims to be a man?
I'm serious.
Most of us, if we encounter a person who claims to be the (or an) other gender than what they actually are, will politely indulge their fantasy. I'm wondering, however, if there are people who have so internalized this newthink that as soon as lesbian #2 says "I am a man," they immediately discard everything which their senses and their knowledge of the past are telling them, and actually perceive that person to be a man, in a genuine and non-ironic way.
The LAPD is investigating an incident recorded on video showing security forcefully removing transgender patrons from a downtown Los Angeles bar Friday.
Khloe Perez-Rios posted the video that’s been shared widely on social media.
She wrote on Facebook they were celebrating an LGBTQ festival at the bar when a couple directed “transphobic slurs” at their table.
In the video, a person repeatedly says, “don’t touch me like that,” and they are forcibly grabbed by bar security, slammed against a wall, and thrown out.
Another security staff member is seen grabbing another person in a chokehold, dragging them across the bar, and also throwing them out.
Perez-rios told CNN affiliate KTLA, “They used excessive force to remove trans women out of the place and they were very gentle to remove the man and the woman who were very inebriated and very aggressive.”
The hospitality group that owns the bar says the manager asked two groups of guests to leave after an argument broke out and they refused to leave.
Again, the LAPD is investigating and said, “Whether in public, or inside of a private establishment, all deserve the freedom to coexist in harmony.”
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