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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[KingGeedorah]

Looks like a future school bus driver.

 

[Abethedemon]

This is good, I don't see why people are complaining.

 

[Asuka]

So....what kind of parent just tells their 6-year-old that they need to be female or they have to be male? Don't the little tykes deserve to find out for themselves? After reading the article I just thought all the parents complaining are assholes with nothing better to do then to force their own agenda down other people's throats.

 

[Bugaboo]

As long as they don't have urinals out in the open I don't see a problem

 

[Danger]

It should be a non issue, its just a single stall. But there are few things we Americans like more than righteous indignation.

 

[kookerpie]

Why should bathrooms need to be separated, especially in an elementary school?

Well elementary school runs up into 5th grade and hormones are raging at that age.

 

[c-no]

So.. what they really mean is a "unisex" toilet.

They would except that would mean they wouldn't sound as original as "gender-neutral".

 

[CatParty]

http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/elon-musk-mars/

“There’s the fast way and the slow way,” said Musk, who called Mars “a fixer upper of a planet.”

The fast way, according to Musk, would be to drop thermonuclear weapons on the poles of Mars, which would warm the planet and would trigger a chain reaction that releases carbon dioxide into the Martian atmosphere, and then continues to warm the planet.

 

[Dr. Meme]

we should do the same thing to canada. that place is too cold.

 

[XYZpdq]

gotta nuke something

 

[Dr. Meme]

we should just have no bathrooms

 

[Bugaboo]

we should do the same thing to canada. that place is too cold.

Come on dude we already got a bomb containing a sperm tsunami dropped on us

 

[Yawning Bulbasaur]

Come on dude we already got a bomb containing a sperm tsunami dropped on us

In Nagasaki, they got nukakked

 

[Trilby]

Why should bathrooms need to be separated, especially in an elementary school?

I guess some countries have it differently than what I'm use to (we're drilled these things into our skulls when we were 5).

So....what kind of parent just tells their 6-year-old that they need to be female or they have to be male? Don't the little tykes deserve to find out for themselves? After reading the article I just thought all the parents complaining are assholes with nothing better to do then to force their own agenda down other people's throats.

Sick, sad world.

Well elementary school runs up into 5th grade and hormones are raging at that age.

It can vary from district to district. I went to one that was K-6, but there are others that could go K-5 or K-8 depending on location/demographic/budget reasons (I hardly ever heard the term "middle school" as I went to a "junior high" instead).

 

[Hyperion]

we should just have no bathrooms

Then we'll have people fighting about which gender uses which bush.

 

[Zvantastika]

Then we'll have people fighting about which gender uses which bush.

Bush?, just drop your pants and let nature take its course, lets all pee and poop wherever and whenever we want, that's true freedom.

But really: I feel bad for shy people though, if a girl likes being in a girl bathroom because she knows there's no boys around so she can take some time off, she's going to be stressed to know there's only unisex bathrooms and she have to cope with it because otherwise she's a ciscum transphobe white trash hater. Oh well, it's all about being politically correct and fix things that weren't broken to begin with, isn't it?.

 

[Pikonic]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/...nsplant-patient-schedules-procedure-for-2017/

Maybe you're skeptical of the doctors "99%" certainty of success, maybe you think science is going too far, or maybe you think shit is fucking weird.
All I know is if it works that would be neat.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

My english professor once gave a lecture about how this was a bad idea because the body will likely be haunted. I just think that it is wasteful to not give all the organs in the body to many more people

 

[Splendid]

/Prays that the body is black.

 

[Sanshain]

Even if this procedure works, there is no guarantee that it won't have massive long-term rejection issues. There have been successful limb transplants in the past, and in each case the recipient had to embark on a lifelong course of extremely powerful immunosurpressants. I recall at least one incident of a man who received a new hand and lower forearm eventually deciding it was better to just get a prosthetic limb, due to the complications he was suffering from the drugs he had to take.