Whatever Happened To Jeans And A T-Shirt?

56 Replies to “Whatever Happened To Jeans And A T-Shirt?”

1. Brian M.,
   I’m pretty sure God didn’t really have a plan when he created eve.
   It took Adam to tell God (all knowing?) that he was bored before God created eve. As if God (all knowing?) would create a world and be flabergasted that Adam was bored without casual sex….
   That is if God actually exists in the context of the anthology of stories collected at the Council of Nicaea, many books of which have proven to be forgeries or not written by those they are credited to.
   But I digress, you can believe what you want, as can this poor little kid and his parent(s).
   //sorry about the multiple posts

2. godda laff at the reeligious wackos ……..mer , good kristians and their opinions:-)))))

3. Jon, you said “Sexual preference is an individuals choice.”
   However, as pointed out by others above, this is a body-image issue not a sexual issue. These are individuals who believe their physical gender is wrong because it does not match what they feel their gender should be. It has no impact on whom they wish to have sex with (in theory anyway).
   This is why I drew the parallel above between transgender people and those who believe they should be amputees. For more information on this check out the following article: http://www.slate.com/id/2085402/
   I’ve excerpted the opening paragraph here:
   “Baz remembers first seeing an amputee when he was a 4-year old boy in Liverpool. By the time he was 7 he had begun to think, “This is the way I should be.” It was not until Baz was in his 50s, however, that he actually had his leg amputated. Baz froze his leg in dry ice until it was irreversibly damaged, then persuaded a surgeon to complete the job. When he awoke from the anesthetic and his left leg was gone, he says, “All my torment had disappeared.””
   So if Baz was growing up today, would it be right for his parents to help him live his life as an amputee at the age of 7? Should medical doctors amputate perfectly healthy limbs because the individual believes it is the only way they can really “feel like themselves”?

4. I think the poor child is being abused. obviously 9 yr olds have little life experience, he needs to be playing with a puppy and getting dirty…like all kids do. not fending off gawd knows what kind of evil childhood taunts

5. The machine code making up this post is comprised of ones and zeros. If the two got *completely* reversed you wouldn’t be reading anything at all.
   If only *some* of the ones and zeros got randomly changed the message would be quite confusing.
   I’m now not sure of the point I was trying to make. If innocent, bitflip happens, that’s OK because it’s accidental. If bitflip is encouraged or caused by the system or its administrator(s), that’s different.
   Cheers,

6. I think, the problem here, is the term “transgender”. The lines appear to have been blurred about the popular context. A truly transgendered individual is a biological anomaly, not a state of mind – not homosexual.
   “Gender re-assignment” is not always possible, or even the answer, in a prepubescent child, nor is it a panacea after maturity. Nature can be cruel.
   Its not clear from the article whether the child is truly transgendered, or simply homophilic. I’m led to believe the child may be sexually ambiguous, and is responding to how they feel as they confront that reality.
   If the situation is one of homophilia, then there is a much different dynamic at work.
   In either case, and especially if the child is truly transgendered, there is no easy route here.