Sorry, already spent it on something:
Posted on 09/16/2014 5:42:47 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Once upon a time, there was a red crayon that could only draw blue: blue fire engines, blue strawberries, blue hearts—all things we know to be red he could only draw in blue. No matter how hard the crayon tried, no matter how critical the remarks of others, the crayon couldn't behave in accordance with the label on his side.
"He was red, but he wasn't very good at it," Michael Hall explains in "Red: A Crayon's Story," a forthcoming picture book that reads like a fable of gender identity.
"I have a girl brain but a boy body," says a young child in "I Am Jazz," a picture book by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings that came out earlier this month. In Shelagh McNicholas's sherbet-hued illustrations, Jazz looks like a typical girlie-girl who likes to dance and play princess dress-up with her friends. She is also genetically male.
It is not a wholly new thing for a transgender person to appear in children's books, but soon they will abound. Last February, Susan Kuklin's "Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out" brought a series of riveting first-person accounts of teenagers who are grappling—some successfully, some less so—with sexual dysphoria, or the profound dissatisfaction with the gender of one's biological DNA.
"I Am Jazz" was next and will be followed later this month by two memoirs for older adolescents that describe either side of the much-publicized romance of two transgender teens, Arin Andrews ("Some Assembly Required") and Katie Rain Hill ("Rethinking Normal").
Then there is Ami Polonsky's novel about a 12-year-old boy undergoing sexual transition, "Gracefully Grayson, " slated to come out in November, followed in January by Alyssa Brugman's "Alex as Well," which features a conflicted male-female character. Michael Hall's red/blue crayon book debuts at the end of January.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
I was born poor but now I realize that I was born a millionaire.
Where’s my dam money? Somebody owes me a mil.
If they would just say “transformers” instead it would make it seem like a lot more “fun”. Then it would be as simple as the movie series.
WTH are we doing? (Collectively/in general)
Living through the precipitous decline of our nation and our civilization is painful.
Be sure of this. In the last days hard times will come.
2 People will love themselves. They will love money. They will talk about themselves and be proud. They will say wrong things about people. They will not obey their parents. They will not be thankful. They will not keep anything holy.
3 They will have no love. They will not agree with anybody. They will tell lies about people. They will have no self-control. They will beat people. They will not love anything that is good.
4 They cannot be trusted. They will act quickly, without thinking. They are proud of themselves. They love to have fun more than they love God.
5 They act as if they worshipped God, yet they do not let God’s power work in their lives. Keep away from people like that.
6 They are the kind who go quietly into people’s houses. There they get foolish women to believe them. These women know that they have done many wrong things. And they want to do many kinds of wrong things.
7 They are always trying to learn, but never able to find out what is really true.
God help us.
Public school is the last place I’d put my kids.
Homosexuality is inherited but gender can be chosen
I would be interested in seeing the DNA evidence of two genders at the same time. You are what your DNA says you are- male or female. If your brain contradicts your DNA there is something WRONG with your brain. Try to fix it- don’t try to mutilate your body to conform to your mental illness; or insist science and society go along with your mental aberration. DNA is truth-’transgenderism’ is the lie of a diseased mind.
>>”He was red, but he wasn’t very good at it,” Michael Hall explains in “Red: A Crayon’s Story,”
Isn’t this more of a race confusion story?
I was born blonde with brown eyes..
I know I should have had blue eyes...
I have blue eyes somewhere..
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Sorry, already spent it on something:
You blue it?
I got browned...
Not quite on topic, but just try to walk up to some woman and say “hey, I see you have a girl’s brain”, and see how quickly you get slapped physically or with a lawsuit for harassment.
But here it is “I have a girl’s brain but a boy’s body”. What is a “girl’s brain”? Are boys NEVER allowed to like girl’s toys, or to like frilly things, or to have emotions?
Exactly what I was thinking... isn’t that a sexist stance? I thought the whole womens lib movement was poised to erase the idea that we think differently... The more things change... lolol
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