Containment Random Thoughts & Questions

[Holdek]

Did they do it legally and officially?

Yep.

Minor question: When the cops were chasing Chris after the Mall pepper-spraying, why'd they call him "Christopher"?

Probably some kind of error.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Aside from Anna, is there any other verified instance of a girl rejecting Chris because she's claiming to be gay?

 

[Morbid Boredom]

Aside from Anna, is there any other verified instance of a girl rejecting Chris because she's claiming to be gay?

Nothing verified. The Wallflower said she was asexual at some point. "Got-dang asexual woman!" and all that.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Nothing verified. The Wallflower said she was asexual at some point. "Got-dang asexual woman!" and all that.

Thanks. I know the prevailing theory behind tomgirlism is that it gives him access to dating lesbians. I just wasn't sure how many lesbians Chris thinks he knows.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Thanks. I know the prevailing theory behind tomgirlism is that it gives him access to dating lesbians. I just wasn't sure how many lesbians Chris thinks he knows.

He probably made the acquaintance of several lesbians at that rally he went to. Or, considering how emboldened Trans!Chris has been, several lesbians probably made the acquaintance of him.

 

[Morbid Boredom]

Thanks. I know the prevailing theory behind tomgirlism is that it gives him access to dating lesbians. I just wasn't sure how many lesbians Chris thinks he knows.

Chris doesn't have meaningful interactions with many people. I strongly suspect the number of women he's pursued dwindles with every passing year -if he doesn't tell a woman he's interested in her, she doesn't have to make an excuse. If the exchanges are quick enough, the women he talks to won't even realize he's sweet on them.

She said earlier in the article that her son is probably never going to be fully independent but yet she thinks he'll drive one day? give me a break.

Driving isn't that hard -Chris can drive, however poorly, and he's clearly too dysfunctional to make it on his own.

 

[drmccoy]

Thanks. I know the prevailing theory behind tomgirlism is that it gives him access to dating lesbians. I just wasn't sure how many lesbians Chris thinks he knows.

I would actually counter, based on Marv, that he felt this was a logical step to take care of his gender identity issues. I mean, for the love all things fucking holy, he refers to his duck as an "ugly growth".

Dude has serious mental issues with his gender. He may think that because of this he considers he will have a better chance with lesbians, I suppose. It's hard to gauge this because Chris's mental health is so fucked up.

 

[Male Idiot]

I honestly don't know where Chris is going to wind up on his birthday, but some company in China just created the almost-perfect gift for Christian Love Day. It ain't Legos, but I think maybe Chris might be interested:

It's a MLP inflatable "companionship doll" (and yes, you could technically order it from the link on the first pic...if you were uh, so inclined).

I like how even the factory rep showing off the product is rightfully embarrassed.

And it came to be that Officer Kimmy could retire as Officer Pony took up her place.

 

[redcent]

When does Chris have to go to court? Does anyone know the date?

 

[Trilby]

When does Chris have to go to court? Does anyone know the date?

Feb 5th

 

[timtommy]

Maybe he'd have forgotten the whole thing in time, but his parents' indulgence kept it going, until years later, they changed it. Did they do it legally and officially?

Meh. It's odd, but it seems harmless. Christian is a normal name. It made Chris happy. His parents were ok with it. He didn't seem to grow out of wanting to be called Christian (possible exception of the tomgirl phase but Christopher would have been just as much of a problem). Why shouldn't they have done it?

 

[Henry Bemis]

Meh. It's odd, but it seems harmless. Christian is a normal name. It made Chris happy. His parents were ok with it. He didn't seem to grow out of wanting to be called Christian (possible exception of the tomgirl phase but Christopher would have been just as much of a problem). Why shouldn't they have done it?

I'm not the only one who's remarked that the name change sorta coincides with the Chandlers' brouhaha over mainstreaming. His encounter with the Bear was in the middle of his home-schooled fifth grade, and the actual name change occurred some time before they appealed their suit with Greene County.

One can reasonably point out that it would make little sense for his parents to change Chris's name until after had entered him into Chesterfield County schools. However, one can also reasonably counterpoint that .

 

[normankrasner]

What division of GE did Bob bring good things to life in?

 

[Drawets Rednaxela]

My state has an actual autism card now.

http://www.villagelivingonline.com/people/autism-identification-cards123/?utm_source=Campaign_Intelligence&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=NA&utm_content=rluncefo@adap.ua.edu&utm_campaign=Media Report 012615

And people say Britian is a nanny state...

 

[spehgeddaboudit]

Bob supposedly "chickened out" on naming him Christian at birth. This is one moment of Christory that makes no sense to me - what's so wild and daring about the name Christian? It's not Adolf or Osama. Is there some fundamentalist angle here that I'm unaware of?

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I would actually counter, based on Marv, that he felt this was a logical step to take care of his gender identity issues. I mean, for the love all things fucking holy, he refers to his duck as an "ugly growth".

The phrase "ugly growth" is one that gets me. I think it's a term he came up with, liked and then it became lodged in his brain - the same way that he can't talk about his "Date Ed" idea without mentioning that "the idea sounds dated," no matter how serious he's trying to be. Similarly, he'll keep calling it an ugly growth even when he's trying to put it in a lady. It's literally the most unattractive terminology I've ever heard used in a sexual context. It makes his cock sound like a tumour or an abscess. The phrase just seems to have stuck with him because it worked in one particular context.

As it happens, Mr. Chandler said he wanted to name his son Christian when the boy was born. As a sing-along leader at Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip in the late 1970s, he was familiar with the name among fellow Anglophiles and English friends.
'I was chicken,' he said.'It took Leonard the bear to name him Christian.

Speaking as a Brit, I've never really thought of Christian as an especially English name. The only notable Brit named Christian I can think of off the top of my head is Christian Bale, who was yet to become really prominent in the 1980s. If anything, I'd say it was more of a Scandinavian name.

 

[timtommy]

Bob supposedly "chickened out" on naming him Christian at birth. This is one moment of Christory that makes no sense to me - what's so wild and daring about the name Christian? It's not Adolf or Osama. Is there some fundamentalist angle here that I'm unaware of?

Maybe "chickened out" was the wrong phrase for him to use. I always interepreted it as a more basic "I was tempted to name him Christian when he was born, but we decided to go with the more common Chistopher instead." filtered through an aging southern guy.

The name is fine, the change is ok.
The Bear factor is where it gets weird. What bothers me is that Bob didn't seem to realize how stupid it sounded. It didn't improve any when Chris parroted it years later.

Richmond Times-Dispatch
"This is a Christmas-season story about how a bear gave a boy his name.
Good things have happened since Leonard Bearstein changed Christopher's name to Christian more than a year ago.
And the Chandlers have started the process of legally changing his name.
As it happens, Mr. Chandler said he wanted to name his son Christian when the boy was born. As a sing-along leader at Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip in the late 1970s, he was familiar with the name among fellow Anglophiles and English friends.
'I was chicken,' he said.'It took Leonard the bear to name him Christian.
Although we live in Chesterfield, closer to Cloverleaf Mall and Chesterfield Towne Center,' Mr. Chandler added, "a bear at Regency Square named my son."

Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a bit of newspaper trolling to me: "This is so stupid, it's bound to get some lulz out of our readers."

The bear is kind of silly. But when there is a little kid involved, there is a cute factor as well. I think the angle the newspaper takes is "bear accidentally makes suggestion; kid and father say 'hmm, you know what, that is actually not a bad idea, I am glad that bear made us think about that'"

Which is a far more logical interpretation than the ursine deity divine intervention interpretation Chris seems to favour. And is probably more close to the truth, at least for Bob. I am sure that if the bear called him Smelly McPoopoo, Bob would not have been in favour of changing his name to that.

Although, what if the bear had thought he was a girl? Would the tomgirl phase have started 25 years early?

 

[Trilby]

The name is fine, the change is ok.
The Bear factor is where it gets weird. What bothers me is that Bob didn't seem to realize how stupid it sounded. It didn't improve any when Chris parroted it years later.

Richmond Times-Dispatch
"This is a Christmas-season story about how a bear gave a boy his name.
Good things have happened since Leonard Bearstein changed Christopher's name to Christian more than a year ago.
And the Chandlers have started the process of legally changing his name.
As it happens, Mr. Chandler said he wanted to name his son Christian when the boy was born. As a sing-along leader at Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip in the late 1970s, he was familiar with the name among fellow Anglophiles and English friends.
'I was chicken,' he said.'It took Leonard the bear to name him Christian.
Although we live in Chesterfield, closer to Cloverleaf Mall and Chesterfield Towne Center,' Mr. Chandler added, "a bear at Regency Square named my son."

Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a bit of newspaper trolling to me: "This is so stupid, it's bound to get some lulz out of our readers."

Just seems like a normal fluff piece to me. Newspapers do that all the time to fill up those middle or pack pages.

 

[AnOminous]

Speaking as a Brit, I've never really thought of Christian as an especially English name. The only notable Brit named Christian I can think of off the top of my head is Christian Bale, who was yet to become really prominent in the 1980s. If anything, I'd say it was more of a Scandinavian name.

There's Fletcher Christian of the Mutiny on the Bounty, but that was a surname, rather than a "Christian" name.

 

[Henry Bemis]

There's Fletcher Christian of the Mutiny on the Bounty, but that was a surname, rather than a "Christian" name.

Jesus, how many "Christian" puns in Christendom can Christian apply to himself?