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July 9, 2008

Regarding the first comment

With regards to the person who wrote the following: "In all honesty, the claim that you 'felt like a girl' makes no sense... You changed your body because you too believed what society told you was true: you too believe in false predeterminations of female and male behavior and personality." What a crappy, judgmental response to such a thoughtful and brave video posting. I seriously wonder if the person who wrote the above comment could speak as well and for as long as Emeri did without saying something that could be similarly picked apart. More importantly, I think it is pretty presumptuous--not to mention inappropriate--to psychoanalyze someone so severely simply because of an apparent inconsistency in her claim that she once "felt like a girl." Seriously, did you really find Emeri's posting so upsetting that you thought it necessary to create such a scathing critique of her character? Why, because of a few potential semantic flaws? Or because of your own insecurities with the topic? I wonder what would happen if we reversed this microscope on you. I wonder if we'd find a quasi-intellectual who gets off on walking all over her peers; a pseudo-psychologist who feels more intelligent, not based on the merits of her own intellectual achievements, but on the nasty and malicious judgments of others. In essence, you try quite hard to feel superior to your peers. But you don't do so by raising yourself up. You do so relatively, by pushing others down. Well, mission accomplished. One bit of advice, though, in case you wish to publish similar critiques in the future: true critics are always first and foremost critical of their own criticisms.

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