Opinion of Memphis

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How about the one I quoted, is that enough for you?

What's the problem there?  Your taking that post and immediately comparing him to Todd Akin is absurd and probably insulting.

Reasonably sure that the 'well you wouldn't live your car unlocked would you?' argument is generally regarded as measuring pretty highly on the old 'abhorrent things men say about rape' scale.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh, there's plenty of unpleasant sexism and low level misogyny on display here; a fact that is deplorable. Not entirely sure what that has to do with the price of rice, though.

We don't have many black posters either, incidentally.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Of course the immediate tendency for most people (particularly over a certain age) leans towards finding the whole trans thing as (at best) a bit weird; it runs very much against the way we're socialised from a very early age. But the same was true of homosexuality not so very long ago as well. Sometimes we have to revise our attitudes; fundamentally we are talking about a comparatively tiny group of people who are no threat to anyone (and not even, not really, to the various gender and sexual identities of the rest of us), and who are, fundamentally, real people with real feelings.

Or, rather:

Earlier this year a transgender teacher at a primary school in Lancashire killed herself after being persistently harassed by journalists; harassment that included a vicious verbal assault in a widely-read column in a national newspaper.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Sometimes we have to revise our attitudes

Myself very much included, I should add.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's always interesting to note that groups of medical students - there are always a lot in teaching hospitals for obvious reasons - are significantly less male than groups of doctors.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's always interesting to note that groups of medical students - there are always a lot in teaching hospitals for obvious reasons - are significantly less male than groups of doctors.

A function of age?

Possibly to an extent, but I think it's also the usual subtle web of invisible obstacles.