Bono's paternal relationship became strained after Sonny became a Republican Congressman from California. The differences in their political views separated them, and the two had not spoken for more than a year at the time of Sonny's fatal skiing accident in January 1998posted by 2manyusernames at 9:13 AM on September 5, 2011I can't imagine a father allowing something like political views to get between him and his daughter.
Psychiatrist Keith Ablow suggests that her mother's death would have had an immeasurable impact on the young Madonna at a time when her personality was still forming. According to Ablow, the younger a child is at the time of a serious loss, the more profound the influence and the longer lasting the impact. He concludes that "some people never reconcile themselves to such a loss at an early age, Madonna is not different than them."I want his racket, diagnosing celebrities who are not my patients on the basis of nothing more than a scan of their bio and then offering the trenchant analysis of a tenth grader called on in class to discuss The Scarlet Letter. I think I could at least be more entertaining, or use my powers less for evil.
“Well, I’ve personally been fighting about this since 1982. I think ‘transphobic’ is a ridiculous word. I have no strange fear of people who claim to be ‘trans.’ I deeply disagree with them, as do most radical feminists.In her case it stems from the belief that civilization is evil and therefore any sort of surgery is bad, but also from the idea that gender is a social construction. Anyone who has ever had hormonal treatments or has had to take drugs that alter hormones as a side effect knows this isn't true, but the idea is still out there.
Try this on. I am a rich person stuck in a poor person’s body. I’ve always enjoyed champagne rather than beer, and always knew I belonged in first class not economy, and it just feels right when people wait on me. My insurance company should give me a million dollars to cure my Economic Dysphoria.
Or how about this. I am really Native American. How do I know? I’ve always felt a special connection to animals, and started building tee pees in the backyard as soon as I was old enough. I insisted on wearing moccasins to school even though the other kids made fun of me and my parents punished me for it. I read everything I could on native people, started going to pow wows and sweat lodges as soon as I was old enough, and I knew that was the real me. And if you bio-Indians don’t accept us trans-Indians, then you are just as genocidal and oppressive as the Europeans.
Gender is no different. It is a class condition created by a brutal arrangement of power. I can’t fathom how mutilating people’s bodies to fit an oppressive power arrangement is frankly anything but a human rights violation. And men insisting that they are women is insulting and absurd.
There is no such thing as ‘woman’ or ‘man’ outside of patriarchal social relations. These are not biological conditions–they are socially created, by violence in the end. If I can’t be a rich person born in a poor person’s body, then I can’t be a woman born in a man’s body. Not unless you are going to argue that man and woman are biological or essential conditions. The whole point of feminism is that they are neither; gender is social to the roots, and those roots are soaked in women’s blood.
From the abstract: The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder.But there's not a great deal else, for a number of reasons, distrust being a primary one, but also because it's often hard to find us once we're done with treatment. Plus when it comes to looking this deeply into the brain you have to wait for us to die. As much as you might personally despise "socialogical and antrhopological gender studies jibber jabber" it's pretty much all there is on this subject.
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Actually, shielding kids from shows like DWTS might not be a bad thing.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 8:50 AM on September 5, 2011 [4 favorites]