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Quoting her: "I look the way I do for myself, and I don't object to any one else's polite enjoyment of that."

Considering something like body dysmorphia (as an example) might help give someone benefit of doubt. I'm not going to pretend to understand exactly why someone feels that way.

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>Considering something like body dysmorphia (as an example) might help give someone benefit of doubt. I'm not going to pretend to understand exactly why someone feels that way.

Yes, it is something like that. But it's bullshit for me to dance around it and expect some sort of grace. I will say something.

I don't think you owe justifications for your body modifications or wardrobe to anybody: not to the police, not to the CPC, not to your parents, not to Google, and certainly not to random people on Twitter competing to see who can be the cruelest.

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