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RE: Parents shocked by "transgender" fairy doll
December 24, 2014 at 10:33 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 5:16 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Parents who think their children will ultimately be affected by shit like this are so dumb they shouldn't be breeding anyway.
While this is true, it's ultimately impossible to stop people from reproducing given that it's a fundamental right... Sigh*...
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RE: Parents shocked by "transgender" fairy doll
December 24, 2014 at 11:05 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 10:33 pm)Blackout Wrote: While this is true, it's ultimately impossible to stop people from reproducing given that it's a fundamental right... Sigh*...
I think it's more of a biological imperative than a fundamental right. Some things can't be stopped with a book and a stern talking-to.
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RE: Parents shocked by "transgender" fairy doll
December 24, 2014 at 11:09 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 11:05 pm)Tonus Wrote: (December 24, 2014 at 10:33 pm)Blackout Wrote: While this is true, it's ultimately impossible to stop people from reproducing given that it's a fundamental right... Sigh*...
I think it's more of a biological imperative than a fundamental right. Some things can't be stopped with a book and a stern talking-to.
It's both... But I tend to see things from a legal perspective - Stopping people from reproducing certainly is not an effective measure, as some have proposed, even if I don't agree with the reproduction terms... I see many couples and women having babies before they intended to, and the only reason they don't abort is because they think it's a sin, they quit their studies and settle for a minimum wage job because they had a kid, they quit all the pleasure that may come from their 20's... I won't stop it, but I don't agree with it.
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RE: Parents shocked by "transgender" fairy doll
December 25, 2014 at 12:11 am
So these parents would have been happier if the doll sported a serious case of camel toe?
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RE: Parents shocked by "transgender" fairy doll
December 25, 2014 at 12:57 am
(December 24, 2014 at 10:15 pm)Brakeman Wrote: adults should merely teach kids that everyone has genitalia and that it is a normal part of life and not something to obsess about.
Or let a book do it.
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RE: Parents shocked by "transgender" fairy doll
December 25, 2014 at 1:32 am
When I was a kid, we played doctor. I wonder what today's adults would say about that?