That’s not courage, that would just be a miserable and unhappy student who took time out of their day to make a negative comment.
Most men have both masculine and feminine characteristics to different degrees. @creative_name has several masculine characteristics, particularly his competitiveness and boldness. Cross dressing obviously isn’t one of them.
I myself had more pronounced feminine characteristics up until about 30 years old, but they just faded away.
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I don’t fear it. That’s the knee jerk response from people who don’t want to debate the matter. They fear the conversation so they seek to silence it by personal attacks and extortion (doxing, cancel culture).
Dress how you want but don’t make your need for attention and validation impose itself on how I live and, ultimately, think. You are entitled to dress how you wish but I am entitled to think you look like a homeless crackwhore.
You can dress how you wish, you can claim you are a woman, but if you have a penis I don’t have to agree with you nor allow you to use the same bathroom or locker room as my daughter. Just as my daughter doesn’t have to stay mute and consent to you using the same intimate facilities as she. And even if a biological female feels this way because of fear, she is entitled to feel that way or are we going to dismiss and even regulate how people may feel? If so, note the double standard.
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You are also entitled the consequences or rebuttals that may come with your words cause not everyone is going to agree with you.
Free to think as you please, but when you open your mouth, write, or type and your words get out for the whole world to listen…it’s fair play.
Or speak honestly.
But let’s consider this: a student wears a KKK robe on campus. What do we say about the students who will inevitably give him negative comments? Will they just mind their own business?
And dress is considered a form of speech.
This is also a bit disingenuous from you as it’s not a level playing field. Trans people want to be protected from ideas and speech they find intolerant. They aren’t saying it’s all fair play that will play out in the realm of speech and ideas. The consequences of saying anything perceived as negative towards them goes beyond a consequence within the medium that the comment or idea was expressed to a consequence that affects your ability to make a living or get a degree.
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Nothing. Good job to them calling out a scum of the earth racist. KKK student is lucky they weren’t beaten to a pulp.
And that’s your, and their, idea of fair play. MLK would have been proud.
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Only you would be upset a KKK student could get a negative response from parading around the world with some nonsense.
It says a lot about you. But, to be frank, I’m not really too surprised. Your comments in general reek of….a certain mindset.
Not all of them, it’s just some of them sprinkled in the mix seem to create a pattern of how you think.
I would, as would MLK, be upset he was physically assaulted for it. But this is how those who are truly afraid argue; you just cast a hint of the race card at me. It tells me you have no intelligent argument and have thrown in the towel.
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What’s a race card?
I don’t know what that is. You okay dude?
No. I enjoy what I hear from you; the sound of losing.
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And just to clarify, this is something that I somewhat expect to happen to me - in regards to the clothes, if not my personality more generally. I don’t find that distressing.
The obvious difference here is that the KKK is a domestic terror group with historical ties to racially and politically motivated violence. Wearing the robe is at least embracing it, at most threatening it. I just look like a fag.
(Edit; weird autocorrect)
Like I said before. Free to think as you please, you glorious happy human being.
That isn’t the point. It’s still an expression of free speech that doesn’t mean he is free from people expressing themselves, as long as it isn’t violent.
But this situation manifests itself in other ways such as students being triggered by military uniforms, the flag, someone dressing in a way they believe is cultural appropriation.
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Now you’re just trying too hard. It’s becoming pathetic. Your comments were uneducated and moronic and I called you on them. This is your attempt to try and come off as the bigger person. You just look weak as you are afraid to either stand behind your dumb comments or admit they were dumb. Funny how you started out by saying I as afraid and now you’re backpedaling.
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I’d argue that publicly expressing affiliation with a terrorist organization does not fall under protected speech.
The other examples you gave at the end of your post, I agree with.
I have read and agreed with plenty of other posters’ responses to your picture, but I would like to circle back to it for a moment. That’s not even dressing like a woman. Women can’t go out in public with bare torsos and exposed nipples. You’re dressed strangely.
I doubt fear has anything to do with the subject for most people.
It has more to do with rationality when it comes to changing rules of institutions and laws.
Framing it as a fear requires the acceptance of the presumption that the person or people who disagree are not rational. Most of them are rational though, and what they are asking for is a good reason why a change should be made to a policy or law.
And to change a policy or law, one should have a very damn good reason.
“I feel…” is not a damn good reason.
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Touché. If you want to see a more conventional(ly feminine) outfit, there have been plenty.