Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Crazy – Public health authorities across Canada are struggling to address the growing popularity of body modifications such as splitting one’s tongue like a snake’s and surgically altering ears to make them elf-like and pointy…
Not Crazy – Sex reassignment surgery in Canada: Province-by-province breakdown of SRS coverage
I’m a teepee! I’m a wigwam! I’m too tense!
@#$% me, how strange can you be?
My niece’s boyfriend has the earings that look like buttons and stretch out his earlobes. What I’d give to live long enough to see his ears dragging on the floor as he shuffles down the hallways of his future nursing home!
He’ll be chasing all the hot grannies sporting tramp stamps…..yuck!
Wow! So cool!
I like it that Alberta gave up the sexual reassignment business. How do you solve a problem with someone’s brain by cutting off their dick?
LOOK AT ME! I’M A FREAK! Yawn! The worst thing is that it’s all pretty boring, after all.
Is penis enhancement surgery covered by OHIP or other state paid medical plans?
If so to what age?
60,65,75?
Just curious.
When I had a Facebook account, every time anyone posted some new tattoo photo I’d comment something like:
“Wow! That’s gonna look awesome when you’re 60! Wait… no it’s not.”
or
“I can’t wait to live in a senior’s home with you. Gonna have some good laughs at all the droopy lobes and smeared tattoos”
Needless to say, I’m no longer on Facebook.
I see little wrong with any of these practices other than poor taste (aesthetically speaking, it represents a primitivization of society) and gender confusion (that I don’t understand) both without fiscal responsibility if covered by Medicare. It underscores another problem with third party responsibility for funding health acre, particularly as you cross over into the “desirable” from the “essential”. Since it’s Canada were talking about, that is about as far as one can go with the discussion as questioning the sanctity of the status quo in health care(single-payer, monopoly delivery) is verboten. If you considered how well the dental or veterinary service sector functions with only private insurance and delivery, it might be more enlightening and speaking of such, that guy that now has a face like a tiger could / should have used both.
I’m a little teapot,
Short and stout,
Here is my handle,
Here is my spout,
When I get all steamed up,
Hear me shout,
Tip me over, pour crazy out!
Our universal healthcare system was never meant to pay for elective procedures that have no therapeutic necessity.
Don’t spend my taxes regulating it except to pass a law making it illegal for operators to do it to anyone below the age of majority.
Then let Darwin sort it out.
When the global economic collapse comes these freaks are going to be without work and without a social safety net.
This kind of decadence is patronized by people who think the status quo as they’ve known it all their lives it built on a rock solid unshakeable foundation.
In the end, they’re the ones who are in for a shock.
Good one Joe. I can hear your wife chuckling
in the background.
But, try to imagine that when you’re in the nursing home and those young PSWs are giving you
your bath!
@Thomas_L:
re: “The worst thing is that it’s all pretty boring, after all.”
That’s the thing. This generation thinks they’re being shocking, but they don’t realize they’re in an un-shockable age.
It’s all drearily pathetic.
I mean there was a time when Madonna was shocking.
Lady Gaga? A Lady Gag (suitable anagram)
Shows what activists can accomplish when they lobby a political apparatus that will do anything for a few votes. A lobotomy would be more cost effective and put them on the required path for a NDP/Liberal political future. Good for Alberta and a couple of eastern provinces for saying no.
In the Maritimes they don’t even offer unsightly scrotal hair removal.
There seems to bean epidemic of insanity among us,in the person of “body reshapers”. The first commenter at the link owns a B-R business,has university degrees,speaks several languages,is successful in business,,and is STILL crazier than a shithouse rat,in my humble opinion.
I may yet convert to Islam, Muslims may have their “crazy” element, but infidels are far worse.
Allahu Akhbar.
Which, I think, is Arabic for “Merry Christmas”.
I didn’t read the whole “concerned” article so maybe I missed something, but, it seems to me that most of the “concern” is that these mutilations aren’t being performed by properly certified members of the medical profession in approved medical facilities.
I mean that if you had to have a psychiatric evaluation to check your suitability and then wait in line for two more years before you get your tiger teeth, then all would be good.
Given some of the recent legislative initiatives in Alberta, I’m pleasantly surprised to find we are not in the forefront (yes, small pun), of the sex mutilation business.
It will be an interesting note in some future archaeologists paper when they dig the bodies of these self mutilating mutants up, in a few thousand years.
You know I hardly think the Psychiatrists are any more sane then their patients these days.
Oh well , lots of cultures where into self mutilation.
The Mayans with head boards. The Peruvians with ear plugs ( Still today). Scythian’s with body tattoos to put fear in their enemies. Certain African tribes whose Women have rings on their necks to the point they now can’t use their necks that have been stretched until they would fall off. Chinese who used to bind Womens feet until they could hardly walk. Mostly All gone now , all forgotten, known by a few folks who like to catalog human cultural abnormalities or read history.
The shame of our age is we pay for these freaks to do this to themselves instead of allowing them to pay for their own self freakdom. They to will disappear.
What I find ironic, or hypocritical, is the BLT’s assert gender is a societial construct whilst constructing fake genders and telling us that those genders are real and legit.
revnant – and what about the lip plates among African women? Lip plates emerged, on their own, in tribes all over the world, not just in Africa. Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_plate
All peoples seem to have adorned themselves, by body mutilation at first, and then, by clothes, wigs, makeup. What is interesting is that, in the West, the ‘adornments’ seem to have moved out of clothing and ‘back’ into body mutilation.
What about tattoos? And those ever-present nose, lip, eye etc rings?
I admit that it’s beyond me to figure it out.
I never had a sex reassignment because I was afraid I would fall in love with myself..
I’ve seen three young white guys on public transit so far this week with nose rings or studs. Hindu women, fine; the others, no thanks. (Although they pay for it privately at least.)
Look: I have no objection to people doing weird stuff to their own bodies. It takes all kinds, etc. What I object to, specifically, is when a man puts on a polka-dot dress and I’m expected to call him “her” — even if he KEEPS HIS MALE ORGAN INTACT– and if I refuse to play along I’ll be accused of hate-thought-crime and even possibly hauled before a Human Rights tribunal.
Do whatever you please, but leave ME out of it. OK?
Alberta repaired my boy bits , sewed me up and let me play Mario Bro’s on the Nintendo while the anesthetic wore off.
Dad kept my helicopter mom at bay while I recovered.
I am grateful that they didn’t turn me into a female while I was out.
I would have expected that if mom had her way.
signed dwright
PS and Dad successfully had to sue her for custody
to get the said boy bits repaired.
Hell of a doctoral thesis waiting in the wings: Peckerotomies and Socialism – the chicken or the egg?
The pinnacle of self loathing.
Yet we allow these people to vote and help decide the policies that affect our lives.
They better not seriously hope that the world collapses and anarchy reigns any time soon. More than a few people would not bother to ask questions later upon meeting.
Kate, does the Saskatchewan government cover the cobweb removal procedures on that old dusty mitt of yours? Or sorry, you probably use the private sector and visit an HVAC specialist instead.
Posted by: Terrance at December 16, 2011 8:46 PM
Are you really that rude IRL?
Would you talk to your neighbor with that mouth?
Are you willing to put your home address and IP address up for that statement?
I doubt it you drive by creep.
dwright
@ dwright
Trolls like that are not worth a reply.