shit is wild


click here for link

good for her

reinventing axl rose indeed.

i think it takes a huge amount of guts. nothing but respect towards her.

i'm of two minds on this. of course i think people have the right to do whatever they want in their own lives and coming out as gay publicly takes a lot of courage. at the same time, i'm not sure surgery is ever a good idea except in actual medical situations. i would never tell anyone else what to do, but i guess i just view the whole elective surgery industry as kind of an accepted horrorshow of our time. be gay or not, that's fine and your choice, but maybe part of accepting yourself is accepting your body the way it wants to be. this isn't the age of star trek: you may be able to chop off this and sew up that, but your body's form takes its cues on the genetic level, and until that can be altered [if even it should], maybe just be gay the way you are. that's what i would tell a friend anyway. i don't know, probably giving this way too much thought this early in the morning.

He/she isn't gay. Tom Gabel is married to a woman and will remain that way after the procedure.

so he wants to undergo invasive surgery and fairly toxic hormone regimens just for the hell of it? i take it all back, maybe he's just an idiot.

Originally posted by: Maryland Matt

He/she isn't gay. Tom Gabel is married to a woman and will remain that way after the procedure.

The 31-year-old tells Rolling Stone that as a kid he felt disconnected from his body and has a condition called gender dysphoria. He plans to take hormones and undergo electrolysis. He also is considering gender reassignment surgery.

its awesome his wife is staying by him too.

The desire to be of a different sex is not indication of hetero or homosexuality. To assume that is ignorant.

Why did I start reading the comments below the article?

Read this in the Tuesday night thread, sooooo bizarre.

Originally posted by: Maryland Matt

The desire to be of a different sex is not indication of hetero or homosexuality. To assume that is ignorant.

i know that's what some people say these days, but i'm not sure that opinion will stand the bullshit-test of time.

pop psychology is another accepted horrorshow. the dsm just got rewritten and a bunch of practicing psychologists are also suddenly ignorant.

Originally posted by: viva hate

Why did I start reading the comments below the article?

when i read comments i try to only look for most outlandish/ignorant comments and just laugh at how obsurd people are.

Originally posted by: -Jeremy-

one of the comments in that article quoted a lyric from the title track from searching for a former clarity, pretty insightful lyrics given the nature of this news

"Confessing childhood secrets of dressing up in women's clothes
Compulsions you never knew the reasons to"

That's a great song, too.

Keith Caputo did it first.

the ocean off of new wave:

If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman.
My mother once told me she would have named me Laura.
I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her.
One day I’d find an honest man to make my husband.
We would have two children, build our home on the Gulf of Mexico.
Our family would spend hot summer days at the beach together.
The sun would kiss our skin as we played in the sand and water.
We would know we loved each other without having to say it.
At night we would sleep with the windows of our house left open.
Letting the cool ocean air soothe the sunburned shoulders of our children.

There is an Ocean in my soul where the waters do not curve.