Interesting Links for 7-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• A more progressive tax system makes people happier
  (tags: society tax happiness)
• Possibly the least convincing suicide _ever_
  (tags: suicide murder usa crime)
• A quiz about kittens! How can you resist?
  (tags: kittens comic funny)
• Tourist complains about sight of fish in harbour.
  (tags: funny devon fish OhForFucksSake)
• Chinese Nazi Chic Cosplay Wedding.
  (tags: nazi wedding cosplay china)
• Learn to code really, really easily.
  (tags: programming web javascript coding computers development)
• Court broadcast of judges' remarks to be allowed.
  (tags: law uk tv)
• Scottish soldier first to be convicted of transgender prejudice
  (tags: transgender scotland law bigotry crime)
• Very neat invention gives motorcyclists a great rear view. So simple everyone should have thought of it.
  (tags: motorcycle perception technology awesome)
• The Art Of Clean Up
  (tags: art photography)

Comments

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

The transgender conviction saddens me.

I saddened that people think it’s okay to go and butt into to other people’s lives in a way that makes them feel unsafe or uncomfortable over an issue which (I think) is a matter of personal choice. It’s just rude.

I get that people might find unusual gender alignments in others make them uncomfortable and that they may not be in a place where they can approach the person with curiosity or indifference.

What I’m struggling with is the shift from feeling internally uncomfortable to going knocking on someone’s door and shouting at them. That’s a conscious decision to go and be rude.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

slightly puzzled by your wording:

do you mean being transgender is a personal choice, or being a dick about someone else's life is a personal choice?

the latter is totally accurate. The former is not

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Perhaps personal choice is the wrong phrase.

I think being transgender is a personal issue which one may choose how and if to engage with oneself over it.

Being a dick about is a personal choice.