I need to edit the description of this blog to add, “Also, I vent about work.” Because that's what I want to do right now. I'm having a hard time becoming part of this team. I'm coming onto a sales team that doesn't have a lot of hours to allot to training/meetings/getting organized, and they didn't hire particularly talented or outgoing people to boot.

The last team I was on like this was top notch. My manager has good ideals but no tools to complete them, and the team isn't especially welcoming to me as the new full time assistant. My boss wants me to take charge and coach and get things down pat, but the girls are so far behind on training that I don't know where to start with any of them.

It would be one thing if they were genuinely enthusiastic and just didn't have the technique, then I could just course correct. I have to actually summon some energy out of thesen I didn't understand. girls. They lean up against the wall while they're helping customers.

I'm sorry. They're really nice people, genuine, nice people who want to do their best. But their best isn't being brought out and I need to find out a way to do that.

Maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew, but all I can do is try to chew faster I guess.

Anyway. Today I was sitting at the train station because my train came way earlier than I thought it would, and I overheard a daughter discussing someone with whom she had gone to school, with what I assumed was her mother. They were referring to the person as a “he” and the mother said something to the effect of, “I can't believe what they made him do,” and the daughter was saying, “I know.” I heard the mother say something like “... made him sit with the girls .... why?” And then a ton of other informatio

I was confused until I realized they were calling a she a he. They were pretty upset that the school considered a girl a girl.

Now of course, I don't know all the details. I could be talking about something much bigger than that conversation yielded.

But it got me thinking about the transgender movement in the country right now, and I wanted to talk a little bit about it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a lot of what these people stand for/claim to stand for. I do think there's a lot of things wrong with most of it. But I'll break it down.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being an individual and expressing your likes and interests with your clothing and makeup. I don't think it's good for people to judge someone who feels more or less feminine/masculine than they may be expected to. I don't think there's anything wrong with asking your friends and colleagues to respect the choices you've made with your body expression.

I think there's a lot of things wrong with telling people that their mental illness is not an illness.

I think any state of mind that makes you want to mutilate your body (cutting, self-harm, self-amputation, wanting to cut your own dick off) is an illness. Like, I'm sorry. My brother hung himself when he was 15. He was just a kid. Don't try to cause your own body damage. Your'e unwell.

I like the way Ben Shapiro describes it. You're not helping the sick person by telling them that they're not sick. You're not making anything better for them. You're just making them feel better. It's like telling someone who is poor that it's everyone else's fault. You might be making them feel better but you're not actually contributing to the change of their situation.

You're not helping a person with gender dysphoria by telling them that gender dysphoria isn't an illness. You're not helping someone with schizophrenia by telling them “Yep, the toaster really is talking to you.”

First, the country moved in a diagnosis heavy direction; everyone who has trouble in school is just mentally ill (it can't be because the school system was designed to create factory workers out of women, and is also designed to even the playing field between men and women by creating an environment women can learn much better in and that men will have lots of trouble with).

Now, of course, the country is moving in an acceptance direction. “You're not sick, you're just misunderstood.”

That doesn't help sick people. We should really be trying to help them. The suicide rate among people with gender dysphoria is many times the suicide rate among other groups of people. The attempt rate is off the charts.

Please let's just help them.