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You're right. Its deception. A lie. Kind of like a woman posing on a dating website as an "athletic" woman. Thin face. Gorgeous. You meet, the rest of her looks like honey boo boo's mom. The deception, is you brought friends with, as she "is gorgeous". So more of a shot to your pride you will never live down if anyone finds out. If she guilt trips you, even worse.

You're better off retiring young via business ownership. IE find a country where your currency is multiplied at least 20 times, and buy property and business, and live off of it. So many retired people have done so in places like Mexico. Want a true retirement, make the investment real estate, and build a portfolio.

Millennials won't make it to retirement age. The high anxiety and laundry list of mental health issues along with toll activism and anger will take most out before they reach it.

I have been to Thailand, where they have some of the best surgeons on the planet. I don't care how good your radar is, some trans women would fool you. I had one approach me, and she clearly had her Adam's apple shaved, cheekbones rounded, surgery done from top to bottom. There was no telling, other than her voice. It immediately turned me off. But with hormones and training, even this can be altered. Bottom surgery won't make it look identical. Just similar, at best.

I disagree. He was heterosexual. He was expecting a biological woman. She okayed hopping in his car, and going to his place. He knew unless he messed things up, odds were, he was going to sleep with a biological woman. There was zero doubt in his mind. Heck, even she gushed about how "fine" he looked. I see his anger, in the same light as if I dated a woman for months, knew she was the one, and chose to have unprotected sex with her after she decided to go on the pill and got HIV. I shouldn't have to ask a woman if she has HIV (me telling her am clean and got tested should be enough), just like I shouldn't have to ask a woman if she is trans. Me telling her she is a beautiful woman, should be enough for her to know I am not aware. These are things that should be disclosed very early. Like, before hopping in his car early. If I find out I have HIV, and she starts talking about "I was scared to lose you", my anger wouldn't be because am insecure. "B****, you gave me AIDS!" I was removed from the conversation providing me choice to continue or at least, do so safely. He isn't gay, yes she is pretty, but he bought a Lexus expecting one (and paying for one) and got a Toyota with cloth seats. I don't know any heterosexual man who would keep the purchase vs demand a refund. I agree violence was overkill, but heavy handed disappointment to me would have been the emotion most heterosexual men would have felt knowing, there may be a penis under that dress. I don't care if you call it your "she penis". Its like a man bun. Uh, it's a bun. Calling it man, doesn't make it manlier. Now I have to look like an a-hole in ending the date, transphobic even when to me, she was the d*** no pun intended, in lying by omission. I see it no different than this. He was removed from the conversation of feeling he was getting a biological woman, and finding out the woman he is with has been altered via surgery. Some cultures, this would make you gay. Whether its backwards or not, again--he should have had the right to choose. Am not curious about my sexuality. I know I am not attracted to trans women. I find some highly attractive, but its not for me. Based on your logic, if she lied to him about being trans and he got upset something is wrong with him. If he lied to her about having HIV, he should go to jail.

Both sheets are blank. The idea of the joke failed. It gets a B- for effort. Carry on.

"Public Schools to Ban Prayer" Shorter, and more honest than your title. Still attracts interest. You can then elaborate in the thread, but doing so in good taste. You're not doing anything wrong. The news do it all the time. Its just deceptive. In the heart of debate, I have to call you on it, but personally I don't care what you post. Off subject, people who support this type of reporting, yet hate dishonest news or politicians, are being lost on the irony of their anger.

By the choice they can lawfully make. Again. Where is the issue?

So why didn't you put it in your title? Irrelevant? How am I lying? Obviously to you. Not to all posters reading your thread. Withholding info is used by news, to get eyes reading the story. Its done in poor taste, as like you stated: They would have to click your story, to see this, after reading your posted article. Its clickbait. You don't have to agree, either. Its a free country. You're in a school. Schools have dress codes. Behavior codes. You're eluding to society. In school, you are there to learn. Want to pray? Go to a catholic school.

I just don't understand how your article is outrageous. Send your kids to a school where they can pray. I send a kid to a public school so they can focus on education.

Yet doesn't in your subject line. You're deliberately withholding information. I say deliberately, as you've just admitted to knowingly doing it. Public schools shouldn't be a space that enforces religious beliefs. I don't see the issue in banning prayer in school. Again. Want to pray, go to a catholic school.

Risks to who? I mean if you're choosing to travel to the US, you aren't putting any Canadians at risk other than yourself. I don't understand how I could travel in countries that are far more dangerous.

So you're confirming cancel culture is alive and well. The irony of your meme is baffling.

I think your thread title is misleading. You should add "public" schools, or its essentially sensationalism. You're withholding vital information, in order to make things sound a lot worse than it is.

I don't think prayer has a place in a public school, personally. You send your kids to public school, and to me, religion has no business in what is being taught to your children. Want prayer, go to a catholic school system.

I would agree with you, if the meetings remained platonic. I.E First date meeting basis. You don't like each other, move on--no harm no foul. She admitted not too long ago, that her delaying in being upfront could become dangerous, however. She really liked a guy, and he had invited her over. She accepted, but her mind was racing. In his car, she knew she had to tell him, so did. He assaulted her, and struck her several times, drawing blood, and ordered her to get out of his car, in the middle of nowhere. She was devastated. Keep in mind, she pleaded with him when she saw how angry that he became, that she had had bottom surgery done, and was entirely female, to no avail. I don't condone violence against anyone, and she did the right thing, in being honest, as he would have noticed if they had gotten intimate--which she knew. However, I'm from the city slums. Some people from the environment am from, will gladly shoot and kill you for something like this (on the basis, of you're free to be you--but now you're involving me?). She was lucky, he didn't have those thoughts going into his mind. I think its no different than the situations you mentioned, until you cross any lines. She should have told him before hopping into his car, likely assuming they would be intimate later. He signed up for a female at birth, so the moment that line is crossed in my opinion, she essentially lied by omission.

News lie all the time. Reprehensibly so. I don't follow news for a reason. I prefer books.

Or news lying that Trump charges are unprecedented, when war crimes were committed by predecessors.

Yeah, but are they trans and not disclosing?

Of course, but some lies are deemed socially acceptable. How acceptable is this lie?

There has been a wide ranging history of questionable stories put out as fact. Retractions as well. There is a reason why a significant percentage of Canadians who struggle to tell fake news apart from real news.

There have been questionable stories from other newspapers. There is a growing distrust of the news for a reason.

This is part of the issue with news. Nowadays, not the information provided, but the correct political alignment of the news outlet could make a statement come into question. Its no longer "the story checks out", but rather "I like the alignment, so I agree."

I think its cultural. I agree with George Carlin. Want to know how Effed up a society is, look no further than the commercials being fed to the masses. In western society, women are told they need to be thin to find a man. Beautiful. Watch a soap opera or show geared at women and the message is relentless. Makeup, diet, fitness, and somehow being happy even when you have a period. So they attack your self esteem right down to the unrealistic expectations society will have of you. You start to look old, we can fix that. Fat? That too. Oh, and make sure he has money. Men are marketed to on a level where you're told your gauge of self worth, is the woman you're with. So, luxury watches, diamond ring for her, luxury cologne, nice car. Let's not kid ourselves though. You're nothing without her. They attack that sense of self right down to your breath. Look, if anything about you doesn't exude money, you will need gallons of alcohol to compensate. *insert alcohol commercials* I have seen ads around the world, and in countries where the McDonald's ads focused on family and education, you tended to see the same discipline, socially.

I think for me, the most trans women that I had met, were in Thailand where they literally were everywhere. You in that society could quickly tell them apart, as they exaggerated female behaviors and were incredibly aggressive for the most part. Dylan Mulvaney comes to mind, for the west. Of course, some were painfully shy like in any gender. I have only met a handful here. Socially am seeing different behavior, as in Thailand they were out, loud and proud. Some are extremely passable. I saw plenty who were nervous of coming out, doing so during covid as they got to mask up. So as long as your legs to your neck looked the part, nobody would question eyes only. Obviously their voices gave them away.