Damn that chick is fugly.

This has to be some sort of attention seeking behavior on the interviewers part, "she" has to be aware that the illusion is far from complete, and still chose to get out there in the public eye. If I strip naked duct tape a dildo to my forehead and run around screaming that I'm a fucking unicorn at the local Old Country Buffet I can't get offended when people call bullshit and don't play pretend along with me, or at least surreptitiously give me the fish eye out of some overblown sense of being polite.

Also I'm sick of everyone's frantic race to jump on the politically correct bandwagon, when a dude pays Dr. Nick to slice their wiener in half shove it up inside their pelvic cavity and fashion some lips out of the scrotum it still a fucking dude, just a disfigured one. I'd still be friends with a transsexual and try my best not to judge them about it, your choice is your choice after all, but just because you want to live in a fantasy doesn't mean I should have to, you're still a dude buddy.

aika wrote:

joshwoodzy wrote: aika wrote: Do you think you have the right to point and laugh at a mentally retarded person in a wheelchair, or an individual suffering from schizophrenia? How about someone with severe depression, who is living in a "fantasy world" where everything sucks and they want to die? I don't think he was saying he desires to point and laugh at transexuals either, so that's being a little unfair. Okay, true enough. Let's take what he did say. Quote: If I strip naked duct tape a dildo to my forehead and run around screaming that I'm a fucking unicorn at the local Old Country Buffet I can't get offended when people call bullshit and don't play pretend along with me I dunno if you've ever dealt with mentally disabled people, but we pretend with them all the time. You pretend that they aren't drooling on themselves or crying in public or doing any other manner of things considered outside the social norm. Quite frankly, I think not commenting on someone's choice in clothing is down near the bottom of difficult things to ignore.

Hey I'm not going to pretend my example wasn't totally over the top and obnoxious.

I have worked with mentally disabled people, and I'm not sure what you mean by the whole we pretend with them every day thing. If someone is drooling all over the place you let em know, hey looks like you spilled a little bit there, and if they're the independent type you let em handle their business themselves; if they need help you lend a hand.

What you're talking about sounds like ignoring them while they shit themselves in the corner. not saying that's what you would do by any means, just how I'm reading it, please correct me if I've misread that... I'm also not sure what mentally disabled people have to do with this, the reviewer seems cognizant and functional enough to me, even functional enough to hold down a job that puts one in the center of the spotlight, at least some of the time.

I agree that gender confusion is a serious mental issue to deal with but it doesn't feel like a disability to me, maybe more of a hardship/hurdle. I'm no expert here so if I'm wrong big surprise!

In short I don't see a reason to butter things up, what's so wrong with the truth?

Also if Carolyn has a mental disorder was surgery really the right answer? Certainly resorting to body modification (be it extreme or benign) cannot be a healthy way to deal with mental issues, can it?

My bipolar father blew his brains out because his entire support network turned a blind fucking eye to his issues and played pretend and insisted things were all right no matter how bizarre he acted or how much he fucked up, and weren't even surprised when they found out he redecorated the bathroom, which tells me a lot about playing along.

I'm a fan of calling things how they are and not blowing smoke up people's asses. Not saying that serious mental issues are not serious, but sugar coating everything cannot be the answer, at least in my honest opinion.

*edit* I'm not trying to shoot you down or anything, I would like to have an open minded serious conversation / debate about this subject, I look forward to your response.