not sure if this is the right section for this, but i was on yahoo.com and saw an article about a transsexual contestant who was going to be on a project runway all-stars type edition of the show, and i happened to check out the comments at the bottom of the page and was pretty shocked at what i saw... almost every comment was really mean spirited and calling the contestant "it" and saying how she will always be a man no matter how she mutilates herself and things like that, and the comments weren't meant to be a discussion but seemed to be written with the hope that the contestant would read them and hopefully be hurt by them, and while this was not completely a surprise what really amazed me was that there were no comments supporting the contestant or even just pointing out how mean these people were being to make the comments they were making... so... i was hoping someone on this forum could help me understand what the heck is going on here? is there some kind of weird thing going on on yahoo where close minded mean people just get together and bash minorities or some odd contest to see who can post the meanest comment or what is going on? i'm assuming yahoo know what kind of posts are being written on their website, so why would they even post such an article if the majority of people seeing it are just going to spew hate at seeing it? it was really scary to think this is how people see people like us when we are out in the world as i assumed there are some people like that but probably not the majority and probably not such strong anger and hatred for gender variant people... it actually made me feel kind of unsafe at the thought of someone finding out about me, which up until now i really hadn't even considered given that it is the year 2013... maybe i was ignorant?