Today, I logged into Facebook and saw that one of my friends had changed her profile pic to this:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/527813_237205976425345_1120765520_n.jpg)
Several hours later, I found out that it's actually a parody of some kind of "red equals sign" meme that's supposedly taking over Facebook in an attempt to... I don't know... let the Supreme Court know what people who spend their entire lives on Facebook think about some gay rights thing that's happening today. I say "supposedly take over" because the thing is only hours old and already parodies and variants are more common than the original.
Goth variant:
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/24448_10200274556700840_1012335239_n.jpg)
Dr. Who variant:
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/7562_4636318507243_907303248_n.jpg)
We all knew Threepio was gay, but Artoo was a surprise:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/7355_10200705784784353_830143778_n.jpg)
Deadpool:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/7960_10151372972892012_1650547491_n.jpg)
Thanks for letting us know what state you're in, because it's not like that's already on your Facebook profile:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/549946_10151555107270428_1619709003_n.jpg)
I'm not kidding, there are at least two with this damn cat:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/535696_10200345222967424_1151896722_n.jpg)
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/578100_10151815227438776_694236856_n.jpg)
...and at least two variants with Bert and Ernie:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/562338_10200179357180764_780895558_n.jpg)
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/544235_10200208861476816_1966937806_n.jpg)
Inexplicable:(click to show/hide)
Contrarian:
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/532923_10200798018821989_1702056085_n.jpg)
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/482180_10151367178342219_1036904580_n.jpg)
This could end up being the most rapid memetic mutation in the history of the Internet.
Inexplicable:
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/403098_10151408990313661_464148053_n.jpg)
Inexplicable:
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/488341_10200705357537153_545108745_n.jpg)
and my stupid stamp*.
and my stupid stamp*.
*looks frantically for the footnote*
You don't know why matzoh was hidden?Oh right, of course. (slaps forehead)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afikoman
I suppose being part of something greater then yourself is important, but I can't get fired up about stuff in the civilian world for some reason....
I did this for a day before being informed it was actually the symbol for a corporationWait, really? What corporation?
Huh, the yellow equal sign in a blue square is the symbol for the HRC, a semi-corporate gay rights lobbying group. I think HRC released the red/pink one to distinguish the supreme court awareness.
HRC deserves a certain amount of criticism, but I wouldn't really call them a corporation.
that adults who identify as LGBT deserve the same respect as any other independent human being
but another if it regards the development of a child of whom you have no idea how he or she is going to turn out.
On the other hand, there's some evidence that it is easiest for children to blur (or simply erase) the lines between genders, since they have no biological imperative to behave one way or the other.
I'm saying that the person in the facebook post believes the former, not the latter.that adults who identify as LGBT deserve the same respect as any other independent human being
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Uh-huh.. Yeah.. "It's just a phase!". Pull the other one. It's not like this stuff appears out of the aether. Generally speaking it will be the case that the child is actually LGBT if such feelings are expressed (as opposed to crossdressing). An imprecise - as ability to express their feelings vary - divide being that some homosexual kids will sometimes "wish to be a girl/boy" because that seems to make sense to them for how they feel regarding their same sex and transgender kids will "feel they are a girl/boy". So despite that some young people may articulate their feelings imprecisely it isn't just something completely unrelated that you "grow out of".Insofar that gender identity can be expressed in early childhood, I believe you. But you're saying 'if such feelings are expressed' which is not applicable when all we have to go on is a single facebook post, and I was talking about this specific case. Do you take a boy saying "I like to wear dresses" to mean "I feel that I am a girl"? Neither of us is able to judge which is the case. Doesn't seem entirely relevant to the parent's attitude to their child's wishes, but still ought to be considered.
I said "Possible daughter" for a reason. But in either case you don't talk about your kid like that.
Simply not true at all. If anything gender identity is felt much earlier than sexual orientation (biological imperative). Gender isn't just a friggin' social construct; it's already there. It's completely different that kids aren't as divided along gender-lines at that age, but the boys and girls playing with each other still distinctly feel their own gender.That I understand, but surely you can agree that changing the social construct can cause this behaviour without gender dysphoria being involved?