brilliantjoe

They still sometimes accidentally use her dead name.

Some people, myself included, take forever to remember someone's name. I can only imagine how long it would take me to not call them by the first name I learned if they change it.

I'm of the opinion that choices are fair game to be mocked. He chose the fedora, did not choose the deformity.

The one that always gets me is when someone throws the proper pronouns into quotes. "Him". "Her". That's some straight up malicious shit right there.

Hell, I was reading a story on the news the other day about how two kids were arrested as suspects in a vandalism case. The laws here prohibit minors names from being released, and Facebook was lit up bitching and whining about how the kids should have the book thrown at them, be put in real adult jail or forced to do other completely demeaning things... and they weren't even tried in court yet.

Do you think that by trying to avoid automation to save union jobs and provide more union hours, these ports might be bringing about their own demise?