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Post by kymess_jr on Jun 19, 2012 19:46:38 GMT -8
What I don't agree with is there is a clinic here in Vancouver that is meant for women but their policy states that patients must have been born female. So that means any male-to-female transgenders that are legally considered women (post-operative) can't get service but a female-to-male transgender can walk right in. And unfortunately it's a bit of a sticky point as someone in my extended family is the person who ran this clinic and came up with the policy, which made Christmas dinner conversation quite exciting one year. Is this a non-profit or government run place? If it is non-profit I wonder if securing funding had anything to do with this? It's so terrible and unfortunate but you are way more likely to receive funding for a male services facility than you are for a woman's. I am currently working in such a place where we were only able to receive the needed funding if we ran a male only facility. It's always hard to compromise your integrity and beliefs in such matters but it is often a necessary evil in order to get a successful program running and hope to convince your funders of the need to open the services to women once they have trust and faith in your program. I'm happy to say we have been given the go ahead to open a second facility next year that will accommodate both males and females. It took 3 years to get this. I do believe it's a privately funded facility, so you're probably right. There's also some personal issues tied up in this for me 'cause it just bothers me quite a bit about how the person who ran this facility viewed transgender people in general. For instance, if a male-to-female transgender is legally considered female and had been leading a life as a woman for many years, this person refused to use feminine pronouns or in any way acknowledge her as a woman. And that's part of why female-to-male transgenders were granted permission to use the facility, because they were viewed as still being women. And yet, this person is a major advocate of gay rights even though they refuse to recognize the exsistence of transgendered people.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jun 19, 2012 19:54:02 GMT -8
That is a strange and contradicting attitude that person has. I mean, it's always nice to see that these facilities are providing services to those who are often marginalized, but you always hope that the people running things are well rounded forward thinkers.
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Post by davers on Jun 19, 2012 22:31:38 GMT -8
I don't find that surprising at all since the gender reassigned person is now legally (I'm assuming with the legally part) the gender he or she has reassigned to. And in that case they are now entering into a heterosexual marriage union. The part about people being up in arms -- I agree that most people who are against gay marriage tend to also be against transgender people in general and I would think they would object in general too, but I don't think there's much they could do about it since the transgender person is, legally speaking, entering into a heterosexual union. Legally speaking it all makes sense, but from what I understand the motivation behind gays not being allowed to marry is morally (usually religiously) based. This means a law made to stop two people of the same sex from marrying has somewhat of a loophole because people can legally switch genders.* It pretty much goes without saying, but just in case I think any two people that love each other should be allowed to marry regardless of sexual orienation. The reason it amuses me is because apparently lots of countries won't let to people of the same sex marry yet will (in theory) allow two same sexed people marry if one of them gets gender reassignment. That alone makes me wonder how anyone who agrees with gender reassignment can be opposed to gay marriage. Its just laughable. *when saying this I am in no way saying that anyone would or should switch genders in order to get the right to marry. Full disclosure: I made my first post and this followup (somewhat drunk) post to stir up a little conversation because it's been pretty dull around here for a while.
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Post by Goldbart der Hexenmeister on Jun 21, 2012 15:43:58 GMT -8
The Black Keys filmed a video downtown yesterday. I found the location at 6 but there had been a line there since 4:30. Stayed outside for a bit to hear them play, also waved at them when they were outside by the crowd.
Decided to head over to Of Montreal and caught their show.
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Post by wonk on Jun 21, 2012 15:50:05 GMT -8
Decided to head over to Of Montreal and caught their show. This is gonna get good...
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Post by Goldbart der Hexenmeister on Jun 21, 2012 16:29:33 GMT -8
Also, Yeasayer is tomorrow, followed by Tenacious D on Saturday... mite b cool...
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jun 21, 2012 18:22:16 GMT -8
I just do not understand how people can tolerate of Montreal 2.0. It is so god damn shrill and atonal. And it completely lacks any subtlety whatsoever.
Even so, I wish Barnes would understand that I would pay out my ass to see them play if they would play even one track off of their first five albums. Seriously! JUST ONE FUCKING TRACK from The Gay Parade or Coquelicot or Aldhils Arboretum. I don't even care if he's dressed up as a transvestite pig with a bowling pin sticking out of his ass or whatever. I don't care if it's all dancey-dance electro-funk and there's not one single kazoo. They need to fucking acknowledge the fans that fed and housed them for the first ten fucking years of their career.
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Post by Goldbart der Hexenmeister on Jun 21, 2012 19:03:53 GMT -8
I just do not understand how people can tolerate of Montreal 2.0. It is so god damn shrill and atonal. And it completely lacks any subtlety whatsoever. Even so, I wish Barnes would understand that I would pay out my ass to see them play if they would play even one track off of their first five albums. Seriously! JUST ONE FUCKING TRACK from The Gay Parade or Coquelicot or Aldhils Arboretum. I don't even care if he's dressed up as a transvestite pig with a bowling pin sticking out of his ass or whatever. I don't care if it's all dancey-dance electro-funk and there's not one single kazoo. They need to fucking acknowledge the fans that fed and housed them for the first ten fucking years of their career. Wizard Magic helps.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jun 21, 2012 19:25:56 GMT -8
Wizard magic used to make me get all emotional and shit over of Montreal records. We are officially on the outs as of Satanic Panic in the Attic.
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Post by Pea on Jun 21, 2012 20:19:13 GMT -8
This song is just fantastic.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Jun 21, 2012 21:09:12 GMT -8
Skeletal Lamping has some quality stuff going on, and the end of that new of Montreal record is the shit.
Suck on it, Trebek!
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Post by wonk on Jun 21, 2012 22:01:00 GMT -8
Decided to head over to Of Montreal and caught their show. This is gonna get good... Hahaha, Goldbeard, you're awesome, but mentioning Of Montreal around here is like saying "fuck" in church. If there is one thing the most outspoken boarder cannot ignore, it's mentioning Of Montreal. A tiny bit of rookie hazing.
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Post by Goldbart der Hexenmeister on Jun 21, 2012 22:06:18 GMT -8
I hold no things sacred!
Haze away.
Just as long...
As it gets purple haze.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 13:40:39 GMT -8
Yeah so the new Muse song is really bad. It's also the official Olympic song and I'm already sick of it.
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/warnerbrosrecords/muse-survival[/soundcloud]
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Post by StormyPinkness on Jun 27, 2012 13:59:47 GMT -8
The voice of a new generation. I can't decide which part is my favorite. It is a toss up between the incredible mixing, the faux Kim Kardashian, and the "PX90 all over your face".
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Post by badchoices on Jun 27, 2012 14:02:34 GMT -8
The voice of a new generation. I can't decide which part is my favorite. It is a toss up between the incredible mixing, the faux Kim Kardashian, and the "PX90 all over your face". This reminds me of a PARENTAL ADVISORY version of one of the free credit report commercial songs
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Post by weenie on Jun 27, 2012 14:02:37 GMT -8
Yeah so the new Muse song is really bad. It's also the official Olympic song and I'm already sick of it. [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/warnerbrosrecords/muse-survival[/soundcloud] Oh god, the words "Olympic song" just automatically got this stuck in my head for the next 3 days. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS FINALLY GONE!
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Post by StormyPinkness on Jun 27, 2012 14:37:46 GMT -8
The voice of a new generation. I can't decide which part is my favorite. It is a toss up between the incredible mixing, the faux Kim Kardashian, and the "PX90 all over your face". This reminds me of a PARENTAL ADVISORY version of one of the free credit report commercial songs I'm pretty sure they use the same producer.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Jun 27, 2012 15:58:35 GMT -8
I present my new favorite music video:
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Post by Dr. Crane on Jun 27, 2012 16:05:10 GMT -8
Fuckin' A, these are all too good not to post.
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