It deserves them. It is an interesting and heart-wrenching situation, filled with dilemmas. The kind of thing you can never know if you did the right thing until after you have made a permanent, un-undoable, life-changing decision. Behind which door the lady, and which the tiger? You'll never know until after you choose.

But I'm a BIG believer that transgenderism is not masked or misdirected homosexuality. And I think the people who need sex changes know it, surely and completely. It's only us -- whether we believe them or not -- that is the doubt. I read somewhere that the percentage of sex change regrets is lower than the percentage of Americans who think Elvis is still alive. That must say something.

In the dyke community, it can be hard to tell a big, diesel dyke from a FTM transgender by looking. But they know. And it's no close issue for them. It's a big gulf between one and the other.

So maybe the lesson is that we have to listen and believe when people tell us who they are. They know better than anyone else.

I am, frankly, tired of it. Once again, some right wing, male, douche nozzle gets to prattle on and on for the majority of the interview, and a liberal woman gets less than 1/3 the amount of air time. If it were an aberration, it wouldn't be so frustrating; but it's every damn time. And not just with "Jo-an" (and Joan, it's not impolitic to correct the guy, you know). Every liberal woman on cable news gets less time than their wingnut male counterpart.

Makes me want to switch to talk radio, but women don't ever get to speak in that medium...

Sorry for the off-topic rant.

"Alcohol changes the playing field, one in which women are assumed to be the constant gatekeepers of sex, the deciders, with men at the ready, waiting for the green light."

But, you see, this comment is entirely true. And it has been true ever since the writers of the Bible imbued Eve with responsibility for Adam's libido. But this is a rant better suited to its own post over on Open Salon, rather than muddying up this lovely place.

At this point, I'd happily indulge my inner sugar baby. I've been a liberated, self-supporting, responsible woman my entire adult life, and I'm tired. Exhausted, really. So I think I'd really enjoy some strings-free sex and a nice check each month so I can pursue all those things I don't have time for now.

But where am I going to find a sugar daddy who wants to support this 53-year old broad, whose boobs and ass are in a race to see which one will hit the floor first? Answer me that, Broadsheet.

Stereotypes be damned. You get to an age where they don't matter anymore, but having a little affection and some free money sound pretty good. Ah, youth is utterly wasted on the young...

All I can figure is that they didn't have as good a case as is reported. There should have been MUCH more money, and much more stringent requirements for the school.

Bad job, ACLU. This is the kind of case I do, and I can't believe such a poor resolution was reached. It is hardly disincentive enough to cure such an obviously pervasive problem.

And Moulitsas was being a good, old fashioned, patriarchal dick. As a blonde, not-so-young, politically active woman, I can tell you she had it just right as far as the mocking male Dems were concerned. Hard to tell who is the progressive and who is the conservative, here. Just goes to show that liberal men can be just as sexist as conservatives.

I've never listened to Meghan McCain before. I'm as big a liberal as they come, but I will definitely check her out, now. Thanks, guys, for being such dickwads that you turned me on to her!

...but I don't see ANYTHING that Obama has done to help LGBT folk. Nothing. In fact, Dick Cheney is conceptually better than Obama, who, after all, has the exact same feeling about gay marriage that the former Miss California has.

Please point me to anything he has done to help us. I can't think of a thing.

An abortion party with a cover charge, complete with dance floor "womb" and all, is a great campy way to deal the all too common financial problems. I see nothing wrong with the party, and suspect that all the handwringing about it is tacit tithing to the anti-choice meme that abortions should be solemn, shameful, private affairs.

I'm all for the "Woo-hoo! I'm not preggers anymore! Pop the keg, not the kid!" approach. Why? Well...

1. There are 6.5 billion of us on the planet. One more unborn, unwanted kid is no kind of tragedy at all. On the contrary, it's doing the world a favor. It's green, even!

2. Conservatives have successfully poisoned abortion the same way they did with "liberal." It's not something to be ashamed of. And I can think of no better way to combat that toxic meme than by an in-your-face, over the top, campy party that goes into the night and gets the cops called, to boot.

3. For college kids, affording an abortion is truly a problem. Anti-choice folks have succeeded in derailing tons of potential public funding, so these kids need to find ways to pay for the procedure out of their empty pockets. And what could be more dear to Republican and conservative hearts than an entrepreneur, capitalist, free market approach of having your friends pony up a cover charge for food and entertainment within? Sounds downright American as apple pie and explosives on July 4th, to me.

I'm all for it, and I am disappointed to see Broadsheet's contributors wringing their hands over it, no matter what their rationalizations for buying into the conservative "shame" meme.