Friday Reads

A couple if articles on the sex role front:

Calling a man in a dress a man can cost you political party membership.

Note the pie graph of the disastrous Genderquake television show.  Jenner and Bergdorf, both men in dresses, hogged up most of the program.
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Armed with facts, an endocrinologist rakes the I Am Jazz book over the coals.

"Jazz Jennings" isn't a role model for youth.  He is a victim of child abuse, of medical quackery, of eugenics, of human rights abuse.

I have long opposed psychosurgery, especially of this type.
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Finally it became official about the death of Kris Harmon Nelson, 72, who died on April 27.  Here is an article about how rough her life was after being born into celebrity and married into celebrity.

In 1980, Kristin filed for divorce and was temporarily granted custody of the children and spousal support. Accusations of drug and alcohol use and poor parenting were exchanged before the divorce was finalized in 1982.

During this time, Kristin said she continued to use drugs and to drink “quite heavily.” Since she was too drunk to paint for a living, she said she took a job as an assistant casting director at a salary of $200 a week. For two years before Kristin’s divorce, Kelly said she took care of Sam every afternoon and all day Saturday; and for the next 18 months, Sam lived with Kristin’s parents before moving into Mark’s home with his wife Pam Dawber.

Then in 1985, Ricky died along with his fiancée Helen Blair and five members of his road company in a plane crash while traveling to Texas. As Kristin continued to spiral, Mark stepped in and urged her to sign herself into rehab.

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