Someone beat us to a lawsuit....
Published on April 25, 2005 By philomedy In Current Events
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Alright, boys and girls, I'm gonna tell you a story. Try to keep up.

The place is India. In India, there is a hermaphrodite. Said hermaphrodite falls in love with a female relative. Said female relative expresses similar feelings for said hermaphrodite. Said hermaphrodite undergoes correctional surgery to turn him-and-her self into simply himself. Newly male individual (formerly said hermaphrodite) approaches aforementioned female relative and says that he is ready to get married. Aforementioned female relative informs former hermaphrodite that she is already engaged to another man.

Is everybody with me?

This works on so many levels I hardly know where to begin.

First, the former hermaphrodite has sued his former lover for refusing to marry him. According to him, she had promised to marry him after the surgery, which he had to borrow money to pay for.

To be perfectly honest, I'm just shocked that somewhere, someone sued somebody else for something that, as far as I know, has never been contested in a court of law in the United States. Does everyone here realize how amazing this is? The United States is a nation that sees fit to sue because coffee is hot. We sue because we're fat. Because ice is slippery. Because cliffs are high. Someone beat us to a lawsuit. Global village, indeed. This may be our next big export. This will survive the cockroaches and leave its indelible mark as the United State's contribution to the world.

So there you have it, chalk up one more for American expansion.

We're exporting stupid lawsuits.

Comments
on Apr 25, 2005
I wish we could take credit for that one, but I am not sure that even Jerry Springer could!  !
on Apr 25, 2005
Guess that deserved a double post! Have a cookie on me!
on Apr 25, 2005
Wow! That's messed up.
on Apr 25, 2005
So messed up. But does this mean the idiots who sue over stuff like this are being outsourced to India too?
on Apr 25, 2005
I wish we could take credit for that one, but I am not sure that even Jerry Springer could!


God knows he's been loooking.
on Apr 25, 2005
But does this mean the idiots who sue over stuff like this are being outsourced to India too?


Not only India, but Britain too, from what I've read.Link

on Apr 25, 2005
I think this article is inflamatory come to think of it I am calling my lawyuer right now to see if I can sue.... bahhhahahahahahahahaha
on Apr 25, 2005
Not only India, but Britain too, from what I've read.


Oh my. We're losing our status in the world as suing over the stupidest things! Quick! Someone sue because the apple they owned for a month wasn't fresh!
on Apr 26, 2005
Quick! someone find something for me to sue someone over. I sure could use the money.
on Apr 26, 2005
But does this mean the idiots who sue over stuff like this are being outsourced to India too?


I'm sorry, but this is funny, funny! Goodone NJ!
on Apr 27, 2005
If we could just outsource all the lawyers...

Cheers,
Daiwa
on Apr 28, 2005

If we could just outsource all the lawyers...

Maybe sink the boat on the way over as well?

on May 07, 2005
Open your hearts and minds to empathize with thousands of Americans born each year into intersexed bodies (not the forgone term "hermaphrodite"). Until the preceding decade, OB's (particularly male OB's) removed male genitalia from infants born with partial external male apparati---deeming their reproductive organs inferior because of our phallocentric society. These helpless newborns are doomed to live a life that may not match the dominant male pattern of the victim's brain and gender identity. Not to mention the fact that many of these infants are left with so little erotic nerve tissue left, that as adults they are incapable of orgasm.

John Hopkin's Gender Research Center estimates that approximately 2000 intersexed "women" marry men each year in the United States. Unbeknown to the government, their husbands and sometimes themselves, these "women" are actually genetic males and/or intersexed. Consider the consequenses of a future federal initiative that would require everyone to submit to genetic testing. Would your "gay" marriage be annulled? What would you do if you found out that your infertile wife was actually male? Would you stay with her despite your embarrassment? Would you leave her? Or worse, would you succumb to homophobia and murder her?

The point to this is that unless we are intersexed, we can never really know how painful it must be to have to be forced to choose to be one gender, and one gender only, if we feel comfortable with both. How gut wrenching that decision must have been for this person. He must of felt unbridled love and devotion towards his fiancee'. Not to mention the financial cost of pursuing surgery to seal one's fate. In the United Stated, phalloplasty and scrotoplasty surgeries range from $50,000 upwards. It takes several years to progress through the many surgeries required to reach full effect. After each surgery, there is a lengthy period of recovery which puts work and routine on hold.

For further information visit the Intersex Society of North America www.isna.org.

Dr. John Q. Public
on May 07, 2005
"Dr. John" (please add the disclaimer: "I'm not a dr, but I play one on the internet"):

This isn't about the rights of the transgendered. This is about our culture of frivolous lawsuits extending to other countries. Nobody, but nobody, has debated the man's right to have the surgery that was performed.
on May 11, 2005
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's funny.