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Title: Is The New Transsexual Police Commissioner In San Francisco The Right Woman For
Post by: LostInTime on August 06, 2007, 06:52:04 PM
Post by: LostInTime on August 06, 2007, 06:52:04 PM
Is The New Transsexual Police Commissioner In San Francisco The Right Woman For The Job? (http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/150344.asp)
KXMC
Aug 6 2007 12:00AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php
And no, no, I do not give a big fat rat's behind whether or not Theresa Sparks - who was born male, was married and divorced with three children, served in the Army and is a Vietnam vet, etc., etc., - somewhere. sometime, somehow decided that he wanted to be a she. And did so.
KXMC
Aug 6 2007 12:00AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php
And no, no, I do not give a big fat rat's behind whether or not Theresa Sparks - who was born male, was married and divorced with three children, served in the Army and is a Vietnam vet, etc., etc., - somewhere. sometime, somehow decided that he wanted to be a she. And did so.
Title: Re: Is The New Transsexual Police Commissioner In San Francisco The Right Woman For
Post by: cindianna_jones on August 07, 2007, 12:39:59 AM
Post by: cindianna_jones on August 07, 2007, 12:39:59 AM
Now, this was a delightful read! Go for it kiddies. Do not ignore this one!
Cindi
Cindi
Title: Re: Is The New Transsexual Police Commissioner In San Francisco The Right Woman
Post by: Seshatneferw on August 07, 2007, 01:16:22 AM
Post by: Seshatneferw on August 07, 2007, 01:16:22 AM
Yay, indeed. Reading this was definitely a nice way to start the day.
There was one thing I didn't quite get, though, living in an Old World country where a moderate socialist party is a major player in the political scene (and even real communists still exist): the quip about how the writer 'never really considered the possibility of a Congress leaning that far left'. Honestly, I hadn't realised that in the US something like this would be considered a part of the right/left division. I've always thought that one is essentially about the philosophical distinction between 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' vs. 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'. Both a capitalist and a socialist ideology can be interpreted as encompassing gender variance or as stomping on it very hard -- and from what I remember (which admittedly isn't that much), there are examples in history of all the combinations.
Nfr
There was one thing I didn't quite get, though, living in an Old World country where a moderate socialist party is a major player in the political scene (and even real communists still exist): the quip about how the writer 'never really considered the possibility of a Congress leaning that far left'. Honestly, I hadn't realised that in the US something like this would be considered a part of the right/left division. I've always thought that one is essentially about the philosophical distinction between 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' vs. 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'. Both a capitalist and a socialist ideology can be interpreted as encompassing gender variance or as stomping on it very hard -- and from what I remember (which admittedly isn't that much), there are examples in history of all the combinations.
Nfr