Date: 2011-12-24 07:36 am (UTC)
purpletigron: In profile: Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts from Dr Who (Default)
From: [personal profile] purpletigron
I think it's perfectly fair to say that there's a huge intermingling of The Hobbit into The Lord of The Rings ... just like the radio series is a rip-off of the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Universe TV series, really :-)

Date: 2011-12-24 07:41 am (UTC)
purpletigron: In profile: Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts from Dr Who (Default)
From: [personal profile] purpletigron
Interesting - my half-awake sub-conscious criticising Douglas Adams for the paucity of his vision. HHGTT-Galaxy, of course.

Date: 2011-12-23 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com
"If a child is living as a girl..."

WTF does that even mean?

Date: 2011-12-23 12:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com
Presumably the same thing it means when an adult is described as "living as a man" or "living as a woman". It's a common phrase used by medical professionals who work with transgender people to describe a stage of transition where a trans person is dressing and generally presenting as their preferred gender, but either has not yet begun medical or surgical treatments, or does not intend to do so.

Date: 2011-12-23 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com
What I mean is that I have a 2-year-old, and I've no idea if she is 'living as a girl' or not.

Date: 2011-12-23 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com
Yeah, their sense of gender becomes more obvious as they get older.

Date: 2011-12-23 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com
I say kudos to the Girl Scouts of Colorado. Their official position as quoted in the media ("If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout" and "If a child is living as a girl, that's good enough for us. We don't require any proof of gender.") is about as cool as you can get for a gender-exclusive organisation.

Date: 2011-12-24 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com
Indeed!
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Date: 2011-12-24 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laplor.livejournal.com
My spouse and I both howled. I wonder if they will think it's also a rip off of a lot of Led Zepplin's songs.

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