Removable Penis

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WHOZIT

Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:33 PM

http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-13/news/30624125_1_gender-indentity
-damages-complaint

"The Zit" returns to RWFF with the most important storys for you to ignore!

WISHIMAY

Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:03 PM

I wouldn't care if somebody wanted to walk around with a trapeze in their shorts, as long as I didn't have to know about it.
Her/His mistake was in tellin too many people, and expecting everyone to be ok with that knowledge. Know yer audience.

BYTEMITE

Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:51 PM

...So long as the device was not sexual in nature, why would anyone care? We're not talking that she was using it as a strap-on.

People probably already knew she was going to get a sex change, and the device might have come up in the course of them asking her about it further. While, yes, it's perhaps questionable to bring such prosthetics for both herself and the male at her workplace who already underwent a change, because it is kinda bringing their private lives into their work, it would have been wrong to fire either of them.

Saying that she shouldn't have been talking about it doesn't make it NOT discrimination.

I also find it interesting that the reaction was much less to the male. Most society kinda feels contempt for the effeminate male, which can sometimes cross over into homophobia (despite transgenderism rarely having anything to do with homosexuality). But reactions are often much worse against transgender women. Perhaps because men are seen as "just slumming it" if they're interested in seeing how the women live, but women would be stepping out of some predetermined place in society.

PIRATENEWS

Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:53 PM

I don't think Hillary should be allowed to do this.

It's unbecoming of a lesbian.

WISHIMAY

Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:52 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:

Saying that she shouldn't have been talking about it doesn't make it NOT discrimination.

I'm all for people doing whatever the hell they are gonna do to themselves. Unless her job was in the sex industry, she shoulda kept it to herself and her close friends. She did not NEED to wear to it work (she could have done that in her own free time, on weekends and such), and talking about it was not a necessary part of her job criteria. She was looking for acceptance, SURPRISE! not everbody accepts it. Duh.
The company was probably lookin to limit liability when the inevitable gender-bashing took place. And it would have.

Keep it in yer pants, people, and don't talk about it at work. WHATEVER "it" is ...

AURAPTOR

Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:03 PM

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She confided in several co-workers about the device, and someone told management, according to the complaint.

In what manner did she 'confide' to her co-workers ? Why 'several' ? Seems to me, that if I heard from someone that Sally had a fake penis in her panties, so what ? But if she's going out of her way to inform folks about it, those who'd rather could give a damn, it could be seen as sexual harassment from HER, and not the company.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

KWICKO

Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:14 PM

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WHOZIT

Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:33 PM

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Hmmm....they've written a song about it?

KWICKO

Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:26 PM

More like life imitating art - it's an old song!

FREMDFIRMA

Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:14 PM

Damn you Mikey, damn youuuu...
*shakes fist*
You beat me to that one, meheheheh.

-Frem

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