Posted on 08/24/2013 7:17:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Soon after being sentenced by a military judge to 35 years behind bars for leaking US diplomatic cables and other evidence of war crimes, the person formerly known as Pfc Bradley Manning announced to the world that she - not he - would from now on like to be referred to as, "Chelsea". After being called everything from hero to traitor, Manning announced she wanted to be called something else: a woman.
"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female," Manning said in a statement. "Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition."
It's not hard, identifying someone as they wish to be identified. It's actually really easy and it's called politeness. But sometimes bigotry and political partisanship get in the way of good manners and basic decency.
Erick Erickson, a conservative pundit, former CNN contributor and all-American dumbass, chose to react to the news of Manning's transition with the over-compensating masculinity of a 13-year-old bully who wets the bed. "Chelsea," he wrote on Twitter, is "someone who won't man up [ editor's note: do you get it? ] to what they've done and instead goes for a sympathetic distraction in the press". Because as anyone familiar with the corporate press (and the American public) will tell you, nothing garners more sympathy than a recently convicted national security whistle-blower - "traitor" in the parlance of our times - coming out as transgender.
Earlier, because he is a tiny child in a bloated body, Erickson linked to a piece about Manning's gender identity.....
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Who doesn’t consider him a traitor? Other traitors?
He is a mentally ill traitor to his country and his name is BRADLEY.
Al Jazerra?
No, even most of them would probably spit on him.
Bradley you’re a traitor. Doesn’t matter if you’re straight, gay, lesbian, queer, bi, transgender, transexual, whatever. And I don’t care what you want us to call you.
You’re still a traitor. Bradley.
“given that surgery and hormones”
Well look at the bright side of that, at least he won’t be able to reproduce.
Based on the article and the pic by the byline, I’m thinking Charles Davis has a, shall we say, “vested interest” in the matter of Bradley Manning’s orientation.
Maybe it can answer the age old mystery how a man with a Jay Leno chin can father a daughter with no chin.
Wow, Charles really has his panties in a wad. Showing off for the new boss?
Not on my dime !
Mystery solved.
I'll be sure to thank my Muslims captors the next time I'm beheaded...
Oh, what a tangled Web we weave ....
That’s why he/she is doing it now, so it’ll be on your dime and free as the wind for him/her.
Homosexual Demon Possession PING!
I am a pony, you will call me Trigger. Or you are a transpecist or transpeciaphobe or whatever.
No, I am a puppy... you will...
Spell check wouldn't pick it up but...it's "Webb".
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