I know, I know, but…

I was struck by inspiration while I was walking home just a couple hours ago.

I’m going to start a feature in this blog. The feature? It’s going to be reviews.

We all know there are TONS of movies and books and so on that deal with TS/TV topics. I’m going to pick one each week or so and review it for you. It will contain spoilers, it will be rated on a 1 to 10 scale. I’ll try to leave you a link to either purchase it or to download it.

But before I make this huge investment of my time, I want to ask you all, would you read them? Would they be a draw to this blog for you?

If there was a review feature in this blog, would you read it?

• Yes (100%, 2 Votes)
• No (0%, 0 Votes)
• Perhaps (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 2

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Well, I just took my medication, and things are “interesting” in the Chinese curse way.

I’m a bit down, if you weren’t able to tell that from the title. I feel good about this blog, and I’m glad to see that it’s gaining popularity. I do tend to note that it seems that when I post a story, people coming here jumps massively. Interesting that….

“What am I depressed about” you might ask? I’m depressed because of what I wasn’t able to do when I was young.
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Over the last several days, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this blog. I’ve come to some conclusions, and I absolutely need YOUR input to keep this process going.

I want to make this blog YOUR place to come and to read. I want to make it as accessible to YOU as possible. I want to give you the options to tell me that this post is shite, or that it’s great or whatever.

Because of that desire, I’ve given a lot of thought to the plugins I have added to this site. I’ve put plugins to make the integration for the WWW easier, such as Comment Luv, I’ve added plugins to make it easier for you to give an “attaboy” without making you sign in and leave a comment, I’m talking about the Vote box down below, I’ve now put a plugin to make it so that you still have to register, but you can leave a comment that no one else will see but you and I.

I understand that anonymity for these kinds of sites is important. I want to make some suggestions as to what you can do to make your life easier.
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This is a repost of my response to a plea on Fictionmania to remove all the disgusting material. I’ll post the plea and my response, then go on to add more of my thoughts:

Can you please remove stories involving under-age people that are sexually graphic, particuarly those by the author Stitch and Eyeball. This author’s particular stories are disgusting and could place subscribers to this site in a dangerous postion, am i right?
Such stories aren’t sweet and go against what fictionmania is about. Keep the sexually graphic content to adults please.
Such content would force me and others to concern our patronage. I am sure it’s a mistake by the moderator, but please remove it. Thanks.

No. I’m not a moderator here, but I don’t ever want to see censorship. There’s a lot of stories I find personally distasteful and hateful on the Internet, and I will not demand or even ask for them to be removed. Why? Because it’s a short step from removing one story to removing my story.

What turns me on is not what turns others on. Fine. But both stories have a right to be here and read by those who want to read them. Because of that fact, they MUST both be allowed to stay. It is not illegal to read. It is illegal to do, and if reading a fanciful account of taking a 6 year old prevents a REAL 6 year old from being raped, then well and good.

To start wholesale removing that which others don’t like, means that eventually someone could object to what I write and what I enjoy, and then they would be removed as well.

Censorship is not the answer. Exercising self discipline to read or not read, that is what should be done. Don’t want to read those disgusting accounts? Fine, don’t read them. Turn your browser to Disney.com and keep playing. Don’t want your children to read them? Then monitor what your children read and block the site or the stories wholesale. It’s the same power parents have over their TVs, over the DVDs, over the games in their children’s lives, and they don’t exercise it. Instead they would rather paint industries who make those things as evil, rather than actually (gaspshockhorror) become parents to their children.

NO censorship. Yes personal judgment.

Some of you might have tried to come to this blog between Noon and 8 PM on Monday and found it missing with a big “ACCOUNT SUSPENDED” page in place.

I hadn’t done anything wrong, and I didn’t forget to pay my bill either, it was a script I had on my site which apparently decided that it wanted to become really REALLY naughty, and the Webmistress put a big slapdown on it to make it stop.

Thus, the Account Suspended page. AFAIK the problem has been resolved and we are now back online!

Sorry for the problem.

One thing that keeps coming up for discussion in various TG/TS forums is fear of the police. There are multiple threads I’ve seen where the original poster is talking about the fear they have of being held by the police for some reason. Part of it is the humiliation of being outted as a TG/TS and the resulting ostracization that can occur from just that all the way to murder at the hands of the police.

Don’t think it’s possible? Take a look at this story and video: Woman Arrested/Striped/Left Naked By Police After Reporting A Crime

That woman is obviously a genetic girl, a real girl, and this happened to her as a victim of a crime. Then contrast that with this story:

Duanna Johnson in Memphis, TN
Memphis Police Officer Beats Transgender Suspect
Duanna Johnson Murdered
Transgender Beating Victim Found Dead in North Memphis

While I’m not going to say that the police murdered Duanna Johnson to stop the lawsuit against them, there is a pattern of violence against those who are considered “different” from the norm. That pattern has been displayed over and over again against not only those who are TS/TG, but those who are gay, those who prefer the company of another sex, and more.

I want to make some sort of grand statement here. I want to say that the entire reason that we fear is because there is truth in the fear, but I’m not that good a writer. I can’t be the voice of those who died like Duanna or Matthew Shepherd, I can’t express in text the nightmare that some feel when they go out dressed up. It is not just the frisson of fear that they will be seen and “outted” as a crossdresser, it is also the fear that there will be a violent, hate mongering, homophobic overreaction that will end with the one who is “different” being in the hospital, or worse, the morgue.

I would ask those who read this blog to pass along this story, to tell others of these experiences in their life. To try to get those who aren’t afraid to go out in clothing appropriate to their sex to understand and to be willing to prevent more of these tragedies.

All I can do is share my thoughts.