Andrew Garfield in Arcade Fire's We Exist

on anything pro-trans or gender nonconformist in my experience, whether that be videos or news articles. It's the sole reason I don't follow a lot of the links people provide here: no matter how uplifting or positive the subject might be, if it has comments you can almost guarantee that the worst possible people are the ones with the loudest voices, and no amount of reasoning ever drowns them out.

Melanie E.

Which is why I had to

Which is why I had to comment. There are some positive comments you do have to look for them. Sometimes I wish this county was settled by others than the Puritans unfortunately that mindset lives on. I posted this cause I thought the song and video itself was worth it. Sometimes I wish I could brainwash the religious nuts so that they could be more accepting, I always found it hard to believe that a God of love could condone so much killing and hatred.

Read It in a Magazine

As part of my job (social media) I comment on newspaper and magazine articles.

I've noticed that the vast majority of them are snarky, if not outright nasty. The subject matter doesn't matter much.

Those sites that require you use a Facebook identification are a bit less so, in that those commenting aren't quite as anonymous.

It hurts when people say stupid things about "you". Ignorance is not a real excuse.

But . . . their "sport" isn't exclusively aimed at you. The chance to trash a transperson is a low risk venture for the scum who take part.

Not that our community isn't just as guilty. We lost years when Barney Frank cut the T off GLBT in order to get a bill passed and apparently learned NOTHING.

I read story after story on this site, along with many comments, that relegate cross-dressing to an inferior position to a "true" transsexual. Nonsense. . .. and . . . hurtful.

Compassion is compassion.

To paraphrase Forrest Gump -- I'm not the most compassionate person in the world, but I know love when I see it, and comments that damn cross-dressing by comparison to the "higher calling of the truly transed" are not "love".

Jill

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)

Jill, I agree with you that

Jill, I agree with you that some members of the trans-community are our own worst enemies. I think it is wrong to say that such and such is not transsexual if they don't get the surgery and things like that and that cross-dressing is not trans. I think anybody that seriously is questioning their gender identity is transgendered and only they can say what they are. I read a lot of the comments about a straight man playing that role, that it should be a translady. I give them credit that they used a male actor instead of an actress which is usually done. I put that link here as I think the song itself gives a positive message and there are always going to be the hatemongers unfortunately.

Speaking of snarky...

Last night on another forum, I was called both a moron AND a vile excuse for a human being; oddly condemning and exonerating me simultaneously. Since it had nothing to do with my being trans, I suppose I can be safe in the knowledge that it wasn't personal?

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Drea, I would take it as

Drea, I would take it as nothing personal. I think it easier to say hateful, spiteful things online especially when you notice the cowards are using an alias. Sometimes I think humans are their own worst enemy. I live with my brother who says the most hateful things and can be abusive so much that I wish people came with a mute button. lol. Those of us who know you though see the wonderful warm, caring lady you are.

I like the song but I'm of two minds over the video

I like the song but I'm of two minds over the video. The articles I've read about it say the song refers to the lead singers life growing up gay, so it does make me wonder why they changed it to trans issues in the music video. And one interpretation of the video could be that Andrew Garfield's character is beaten to death in the bar (going into the light and the white, dreamlike dress at the end). That being said, 'we exist' is a good message and the music is a little easier on the ears than some of Against Me's punkier stuff.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Andrew Garfield in Arcade Fire's We Exist

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Excellent video. The song

sadly the comments are mostly horrible

They usually are