tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post3438992057559300847..comments2023-09-13T10:53:12.598-05:00Comments on Tullius est [et Tullius non est Cicero]: When My Father Told Me He Wanted to Be a WomanAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-84171464561880170652015-04-09T09:02:29.562-05:002015-04-09T09:02:29.562-05:00I had the same thoughts when I posted the story. ...I had the same thoughts when I posted the story. Of course, it could very well turn out that there are natural (or supernatural) facts which make the "free-love utopia" envisioned unlikely or impossible. As well, the story also makes plain, I think, that pursuing one's sexual desires can run smack up against one's other moral duties and the rights and interests of others.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-38276358451477977832015-04-08T21:57:47.973-05:002015-04-08T21:57:47.973-05:00Why, Tullius, shouldn't we just take this stor...Why, Tullius, shouldn't we just take this story as evidence for the progressive narrative that we live in a sexist, bigoted, misogynistic culture that needs to come to accept homosexuals and transgendered people? Yes, this woman grew up in unfortunate circumstances, but imagine a new and better world, one in which it was okay to be gay or okay for men to say that they'd rather be women and then act like one. This father would not have lived a life where he was oppressed by society's expectations. He probably wouldn't have married a woman and fathered children, because he could have happily become a woman himself and married a man, or whatever he (she?) wanted to do. It is society's fault that this man was a bad father. It wasn't his transgenderedness, or homosexuality. This is how many, many people would assess this story.JSnoreply@blogger.com