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Truth: Do We Speak Our Own Or Remain Silent?

Started by Shana A, August 21, 2008, 10:05:17 AM

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August 21, 2008, 10:05:17 AM Last Edit: April 06, 2009, 11:29:51 AM by Nichole
Truth: Do We Speak Our Own Or Remain Silent?
Posted August 21, 2008

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/truth-do-we-speak-our-own-or-remain-silent/

Last night I was taken to task on a bulletin board forum for my essay of two days ago. I was accused of not being "real," of hiding myself, of being "transphobic" because I had written about my own internal reaction to other women of a transsexual history who through no fault of their own don't manage to quite "look like woman."

I have to admit that when I first read the response I was a bit hurt, a bit angry. But I sat on that for awhile, slept on it for awhile. I have come to the following as a conclusion, or at least a place where I can live with both my own feelings and feel comfortable with what I write and peoples' responses to that.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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