GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

maybe if ya see them and Know the person Ima might change ya hard crusted exterior so here is ebony the young lady no longer living

And because of were she was from or lived make her any less important than someone else ???? pardon my outrage

Every dead body has a face, a name, and a family.

Were you this outraged over the last one? How about the next one? They're all sad.

Who's hard and crusted?

Ultimately, surviving is one's personal responsibility. Not your family, not your friends, not the state's. As I've said before, life is a war and each day is a battle.

Staying alive, fed and with a roof above you means winning battle after battle, and hopefully one dies before being too weak to start losing such battles.

The day one of us gets killed, what can the rest do beyond feeling sad over it? We'll be forgotten in a week or two, as happened with those who already passed.

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As an aside, Google body+found+in+Memphis. There're ten news stories on the first page of the search alone, ranging from a twelve year old girl to a 57 year old man. They all date to this year. The story mentioned above is just the latest (although not the first body found in July.)

I'm supposed feel special sadness and outrage over this particular one? Or can I get credit for my general sadness and outrage?

Sounds to me like he was a Cross-dresser more than Transsexual, seems he was working as a Prostitute without letting his clients know he was in drag. The family keeps referring to him as just that He and Him.

I think this maybe more a Gay issue than a Transsexual issue, your outrage I find outrageous.

Phew.

That lets me off the hook then. I don't need to get outraged over dead crossdressing hookers. Or dead regular hookers, for that matter. Just the dead TS ones, right?

Well, so far you're not the one dumping those bodies, society doesn't care how you feel.

Adorable, eh?

Tess_au could die tomorrow and, to be honest, I wouldn't care. That's how one becomes, I guess.

Ya all are sick And oh so boy's don't cry mentality.
And extreamly judgmental If you had listened Ebony was hooking to live. Evidently thrown out by the immediate family and living on the streets.. @ 16 yrs OLD for christ sakes
Would you say that those Here who have lived and worked the streets in oreder to survive are Cross dressers? To me you caviler attitudes reflect your feelings for those less fortunate and that same group mentality of at least i am Not that --->
I expect reactions like that from my former macho male coaches i worked with.
Careful Gurls your Masculinity is showing threw your Skirts.

It is really ok to care and show empathy for others.

You didn't answer my question about your empathy for the other bodies found in Memphis this year.

I've plenty of empathy. I don't only turn it on for special occasions and then chide other people for not being on the same page as I am.

PS: I'm not wearing a skirt.

PPS: Bit sexist to say that empathy is only a feminine characteristic. A lot of my guy friends would probably be hurt to hear that. Especially the ones who have to go out and clean up bodies and inform the next of kin.

As someone once said, a dead person is a tragedy, but dead millions are just a statistic. It's a "well known" (and probably wrong) fact that people become desensitized to tragedy once they have been overexposed to it.

Is there any difference between caring a lot for one death and caring a little for many? If you add up many littles, they make a much.

Otherwise, what do we improve by worrying and feeling bad? Do we bring the dead back? Do we stop future crimes?

Yes, it's a terrible feeling. In a way, though, I feel that worrying over "everybody" is being well on the way toward worrying over nobody. Focusing one's outrage in one individual requires more emotional involvement than just saying, "aww those poor 4,000 soldiers killed in Iraq" for example.

So in a while Ima may achieve such dubious enlightenment and stop caring. I know there was a time when I agonized over all suffering but, eventually, even the heart tires.