Reply #190: You posted: "all my life I've never, ever wished I were male...Until.. this very moment." [View All]

[Blackhatjack]

And you continued "It must be so damn fine..."

I find this revelation disturbing since it indicates an inner turmoil on your part regarding your own psychological gender identification.

Why is it necessary to want to be sexually different in order to address a rather straight forward issue?

It really is quite simple. The content of what O & A said was bad, wrong, and worthy of condemnation. What O & A said was carried on a private subscription service, not a public broadcast airway subject to licensure by the United States Government. As private citizens working as employees of the station, O & A are not subject to any law which would make what they said illegal. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution not only protects citizens from their Government unlawfully preventing them from exercising their free speech rights, but as the legislative history shows, it was drafted and passed to insure that citizens have the right publicly 'to state their sentiments', which may offend their fellow citizens.

People of both genders may agree or disagree in this discussion, and therefore gender does not determine the opinions held.

It certainly does not require implementation of a male v. female litmus test to determine who makes the better argument.