very good job, everybody, on that one. quote number two. i m a normal person, i have emotions. okay, everybody here thinks that s mitt romney, and let me just suggest this. that anyone who has to say i m a normal person, i have emotions, almost certainly does not. but are you all right. that was, in fact, mitt romney. who said i am a normal person. i have emotions. big fun. i love this game. it s so good. all right. number three. what does it mean, exact change? mitt or spock? we ve got two spocks, oh, three spocks and a mitt. i m going to go with mitt. what does it mean, exact change. this one was spock. and in my least favorite one, where they go back to like 20th century u.s., star trek 4. you didn t like that one? i love that episode. my producer lorena also
why we continue to do so much labeling work when we are dealing with transgender issues and politics. what is it about the notion of needing to label people? i think people strive to become identified because the world doesn t fit their picture of themselves. we invent labels in a way to distinguish ourselves from each other. sometimes they fractionalize ourselves. and our gender is on a whole new frontier, and the next level, we re talking about human rights beyond the labels and bringing us together on a much broader scale. we could hope that would be the place we were going. yeah, we all want a continuum. and we have these two boxes, this binary system. we get to choose one or the other. that s not really the case. the reality is that we live on a
i love that analogy. we think of the 14th amendment, passed in the aftermath of the civil war, the 14th amendment creates american citizenship, full stock. equal protection due process may have happened in result of racial inequality movement. if we can get to that level of coalition and start to have conversation likes this, to your credit. having conversations where we are hatching out some issues, labels versus coalition, separation versus togetherness. how do we move forward? what kind of laws can we put into place? allison, a quick chance to weigh in. as i listen to you talk about the issue around prisoners versus marriage, one of the reasons marriage is one of the issues versus prisons is a respectability issue. we all want to be nice and
continuum and when we want to create community that have everyone in them, we have to open the tent. as you talk about boxes, kate. i teach your book or one or two of your books in two of my classes. one of the challenges my students have when we are discussing your book, trying to have the conversation without using gendered pronouns. 35 students in class and then folks start saying how can i say kate without saying she or how do i do this? it s literally like incull pated into the very linguistic, not just politics and society. fortunately in english, people are starting to use the singular form of they and them, that s starting to help. or y all. for a while there were more arcane gender free pronounces. but they didn t sound like english in russia, for example, you cannot get away with a