Transgendered children

[The Grand Nudger]

The data isn't particularly friendly to polygamy. Lotta really bad examples, including inside the united states (Utah, anyone?).

It's also a property law nightmare waiting to happen. But just because it hasn't worked out so well before and I don't know a way to make the laws work with it without shredding dozens of other laws that currently make marriage work the way it does (which, could be fine).

Which would be the polygamists problem..if they want to get married to three people they're gonna have a property issue headache....every married couple has to make that decision, though, you realize?  

To interpret the legislation within the law is the purpose of the lesser courts, to interpret the meaning of legislation as it applies to the constitution is the job of the supreme court, yes. That doesn't mean that the decisions made by the supreme court are not heavily politicized (as they're picked by partisan presidents), it doesn't mean that irreconcilable interpretations of the constitution can't be active at the same time, it doesn't mean that supreme court rulings are not subject to change over time... and most critically, it doesn't mean that the supreme court is always right to *choose* to delegate some of the cases that they do.

-snipped because what the actual fuck?  Go hash out you "hur dur activist judges" bit with someone remotely interested, lol.

Weren't we talking about a specific case, in which scotus declared miscegenation laws to be unconstitutional in the face of recalcitrant states that would not, like others had, of their own accord, handle the problem legislatively?  Don't fly off into lalaland with your own examples......

Purpose of my hormones and surgeries and whatever is to "infiltrate women's groups", as the first few batches of feminists liked to say. Neither the left nor the right is my friend in my illness... wouldn't make sense for me to reach out to either side: both bad remarkably similar ways (some of which Trump certainly shares, that authoritarianism though).

You aren't even your own friend in your illness, I don't know why you'd expect anyone else to be.  With that said..it seems to me that the people who would allow you to live your life as you wish to live it..rather than legislate you away just -might- be on your side...Violet.......even if you come across to them as a shitty person for reasons you're completely oblivious to.  

I've spent the last year or so reevaluating my relationship with my progressive friends. Haven't had many, but I found myself at an impasse over responsibility. As such, I've increasingly looked out for conservative opinions and leftist opinion that have reached me whether through news (BBC, CNN, etc) until the bias grew so onesided and the falsehoods so many that I just couldn't handle it anymore.

If you happen to know of any news that *isn't* right wing as fuck or left wing as fuck, I'd much appreciate ya tellin me. As it is, I trust very little news, as whether it's raised by the right or the left: it's always overblown.

Well, if you can't find any, but are capable of recognizing bias...as you seem to be claiming above, I'm not sure why the presence of bias would be a problem in the first place, whatever it is you mean by bias?  

Well yeah, we're coming to better understand what each other are wanting to say. Narrowing it down, as it were  

Cognitive whittling.

I haven't talked to myself in a long time, so... not sure what you mean by this?

You referred to a change in the way your moderate friends treated you...and seem to be attributing it to the same laundry list of conservative canards present throughout these posts....but isn't it possible that your moderate friends have suddenly started to treat you differently...because you've been saying the sorts of shit you've said in these posts?  The only common factor in all of your interpersonal relationships is yourself.  

Perhaps they are... but I see plenty of them reaffirming themselves often enough.

Do you, though, do you really...or are -you- the one imposing those attributions...again.  

You got it, bro

Fake it till ya make it. I like it.

I seem to remember a girl who told me she wasn't faking it, and how painful it was to have to fake it, the impossibility of faking it, the effect on her life and state of mind of faking it.  It;s strange, to me, to see you advocating for the imposition of all of the above on others...and further, arguing that it has some merit because tradition™ and the sensitive feelers of bigots who must be slowly mollycoddled into common human decency.