Posted on 05/28/2016 10:21:49 AM PDT by Morgana
DANBURY - Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the womens bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, Youre disgusting! and You dont belong here!
After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought - because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap - that she was transgender.
Besides being a pretty normal choice of style for women, Toms has a short haircut because she recently donated hair - for the third time - to a program that makes wigs for child cancer patients.
Ive had people call me all sorts of names for having short hair. Ive had people call me a boy, Ive had people call me a dyke, Ive had people call me gay. Toms said. Im grateful that that woman only called me disgusting and didnt physically attack me I was a victim of transphobia today as a cisgender female because my hair is short.
Toms said she was supportive of transgender rights before Fridays Walmart experience. She is close friends with several transgender people, including someone she went to high school with who went from prom queen to identifying as a male.
She thought her video would be seen only by friends and family, and was surprised to soon be getting messages of support from people all across the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at newstimes.com ...
There is also the desire to move away from heterosexual as the default identity. I also think there is an attraction to new jargon for the sake of newness. You have to justify those post graduate degrees you know.
Yes, eventually to identify yourself as “Straight” will one day be considered a Hate Crime.
She’s a faker looking for attention.
This story should be headlined “Hoaxie McHoaxface Fail!!!”
cisgender female? Me, too no understand. How many names do they need? And I still don’t know if this person is a woman or a man.
My wife was in a Walmart restroom once and was washing her hands when a man walked in. She told him “You don’t belong in here.”
He replied “No. Ma’am, it’s you who don’t belong in here. This is the men’s room.”
My wife apologized and walked out. She had been on the cell phone and wasn’t paying attention. It scares the hell out of me when she drives and talks on the phone.
It seems that in your knee-jerk reaction, you missed this part of the article?
...Toms has a short haircut because she recently donated hair - for the third time - to a program that makes wigs for child cancer patients.
Not buying this. I spot females, in a crowd wearing boyish garb at a glance all the time. Films often try to fool the viewer by covering up the hair and face of a female and have her, say, hanging out 5here door of a chopper hunched over a .50. The cues go a hell of a lot deeper than haircut. A person literally 3 feet away from the subject is likely to be able to immediately spot the difference (and certainly is going to look more carefully if that intend to confront the person. This is fake.
Remember the beach teen love angst film from the 80s where the brown eyed girl pretended to be a boy for some stupid get the boy to befriend her reason
Finally at the beach party she tells him but he doesn’t believe her so she pulls up her top to reveal flawless 20 something year old DOUBLE DEES
Cute very short brown hair with big does eyes
I’ll always remember that
I prefer long hair as do most men but some girls with great bods can carry off short hair
Natalie Imbruglia
That little Jewish girl from the Tim Burton movies got caught shoplifting...her....Wynonna
Janine Turner though she’d be great with tresses
I met my very long ago on blind date....cute little 100 pound pixie who looked about 17 but was 30
Right out of the gate maybe 3 sentences....now her hair was short short....she’s says “I know you probably don’t like my hair”...I stumbled around being nice but yeah....she knew....two years later it was mid back
I knew her very homosexual hairdresser buddy who we took care of in the end with AIDS dementia that he liked her twink looking.....she was his chick buddy who helped with all the society doyennes in Nashville who lined up for his cuts
She is no longer sympathetic to homosexuals...less so even than I
99 percent of men like long hair on women ....it makes them women appearance wise as much as nice breasts and the waist hip thigh dynamics
Or a soft face
I notice a regional peculiarity....the north where Germanic and Scandinavians rule the white DNA pile that women by 40 often bob or bowl cut their hair short and let it go grey and wear mandals with no toe polish
That’s a distinct difference form landed white women down here
I said 'little' dictators, as in those who tell others how to live their lives. The right is awash in them.
but those on the left typically accuse preachers of morality of dictating.
If the shoe fits...
And there is no really independent libertarian movement; just a version of the left that pretends to embrace the free market.
I don't pretend to embrace the free market; I do. If anyone is pretending, it's the 'fair' traders.
“Straight privilege” is probably already taken...
This would never have happened if the feds hadn’t got into it with their “discrimination” crap.
Notice that today that any celebrity female never comes out and says they’re “straight”, many will say they are bisexual, or wouldn’t mind sleeping with a woman, if the opportunity came about, that’s even if they are married or currently dating a guy.
You presume that anyone on the left speaks the truth?
I said libertarians pretend to embrace the free market, furthermore. Those libertarians in politics embrace open borders (a Marxist characteristic; see the second chapter of the Manifesto) and are not averse to progressive taxation.
Sniff, sniff. Smells of hoax.
There’s a difference between libertarian and Libertarian.
I am of the former. The Libertarian party’s foreign policy of open borders is nonsense and one of the reasons they’ll never win a national election.
Her other rants with respect to her appearance belie that excuse.
If something actually happened it will almost surely turn out to be that hoax on the part of the “aggrieved” party.
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