Noam Chomsky has been, for many decades, an outspoken critic of the injustices of his own government. Here he is commenting on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's rise to prominence in the Democratic party through her own brand of outrage for the policies of an administration and party who continues to put money into the coffers of the ultra wealthy while ignoring the shrinking middle class. She has also risked censure and disdain from the centrist wing of her own party who have become the new moderate Republicans...
This entry from the transhealth website dates back to 2001 and it offers a very nice dissection of the now mostly debunked but still controversial AGP theory and how this transgender woman could care two cents about it. People who have been trying to marginalize the experience of gynephilic transwomen have pushed for the stigmatizing idea that they are actually perverted men. Well this soul, who couldn't give a hoot either way, isn't buying any of it and her frankness at times had me chuckling to myself as I read her posting. If we ever met I would give her a hug for seeing through the BS but mostly for being herself: "About a year ago I was reading on Dr. Anne Lawrence’s site about a new theory of the origin of trans called “autogynephilia.” This theory asserts that many trans women—and transsexual women in particular—desire reassignment surgery because they are eroticizing the feminization of their bodies. The first thing that struck me about it, of course, was t
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