I'm shocked that she had weapons in there. I'm quite chill about the drug part but the idea of a granny pistol whipping a subpar dealer disturbs me. Someone doesn't fill their quota and gets a Vader style treatment from her: "You have failed me".
This is what people who don't understand why drugs are illegal don't get. Yes, their being contraband contributes to violence in distribution, but it is not solely responsible for it. I'm surprised she didn't have more weapons.
Aren't transexuals still very much "one or the other", though? As in their preferred gender. It's surely more excluding those with intersex conditions, which are actually more common than you might think.
I know 3 people who are getting treatment to be Gender Neutral, and that sort of claim (And the book itself) would get sharply worded answers from each of them.
Being transgender but unable to transition due to societal concerns myself, I could care less what words are used. A rose by any other name. Shit by any other name.... It's how you think about things and what values you assign to them, not what you call them. Funny, I've been called a misogynist for this. Odd saying I hate women given that I desperately wanna be one.
I can make words that ordinarily sound like the most loving, tender and respectful things, mean unspeakably horrible things depending on how I use them. Hell, the sheer number of "friends" who say they are ok with it and then disappear off the face of the earth prove that to me. "O I support you 100%." <--- Never returns phone calls; refuses to talk or acknowledge presence....
Lipservice to appease the guilty consciences of people who don't give a shit enough to actually care. Fuck. Them. All. Painfully. Slowly. In. Agony. As. They. Beg. For. It. To. Stop. The only thing worse than not caring is pretending to.
We're going to have to reinvent the English language to be gender neutral at some point.
If people actually wanted that, they could just use the pronoun "One." As in "one went to the market," instead of "he or she went to the market." Except that sounds weird when you say it.