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Transgender: James Woods Ignites Debate Over Significant Risks to Children

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IMadepooh4U 2 days ago#1
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/14/james-woods-not-uninformed-thin-evidence-safety-child-gender-transition/

There’s growing evidence that some parents’ support for “gender transitions,” is imposing huge medical and developmental risks on children, say medical professionals and political activists – including gay activists.

The issue blew up on Twitter this week when actor James Woods tweeted a photo of a young boy with his parents at a Pride parade, showing off signs that read “I [heart] my gender creative son” and “My son wears dresses & makeup…Get over it!”

The family’s reported friend, gay actor Neil Patrick Harris, tried to shame Woods as “ignorant and classless.”

Woods shrugged off the evidence-free insults.


https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/885194634955177984

"Using one's child as a social justice propaganda doll is tantamount to child abuse. This is not about homophobia. Nice try though..."


Woods used tough love in his tweet, but he isn’t “uninformed” or “ignorant.”

In fact, a growing number of pediatricians, mental health professionals, and gay rights activists are warning American parents about the dangers of the pro-transgender “gender ideology,” which pressures parents to impose risky and dangerous treatments on their children.

“Transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws,” writes pediatrician and researcher Dr. Michelle Cretella, the mother of four and president of the American College of Pediatricians. “It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us – children – and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.”
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Gryffindor1 2 days ago#2
James Woods: The actor who's only relevance today is a cartoon school being named after him.
TheRock1525 2 days ago#3
IMadepooh4U posted...
http://www.breitbart.com/


Nope.
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JcOpIVY86 2 days ago#4
f***ING AWESOME. 
Someone has to say something and he's right. 
Glad there's pushback.
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JcOpIVY86 2 days ago#5
TheRock1525 posted...
IMadepooh4U posted...
http://www.breitbart.com/


Nope.


You're so much better than the people screaming about CNN being fake news. 
Just close your ears, so stunning and brave. Praise be.
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BilalPowell 2 days ago#6
James Woods is essentially the right's version of Val Kilmer.
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ClayGuida 2 days ago#7
This is being discussed on actual news sources, so why not link those? I'm sure AOL.com even has an article on this.
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TonyKojima 2 days ago#8
Its killing right wing nuts they can't also stop trans rights. As the sign said get over it.
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DnDer 2 days ago#9
Some days I'm not sure if James Woods is a more horrible right-wing celebrity troll or Adam Baldwin is.

I loved watching him in Chuck until I found out that... none of that was acting, and that's the kind of person he is in real life.

Couple of pretty terrible human beings... and Twitter only makes them more terrible some days.
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young_flip 2 days ago#10
James Woods is a huge a****** but he was great in these productions

-John Carpenter's Vampires
-Any Given Sunday
-Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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BilalPowell 2 days ago#11
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TonyKojima 2 days ago#12
young_flip posted...
James Woods is a huge a****** but he was great in these productions

-John Carpenter's Vampires
-Any Given Sunday
-Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

I did like Vampires. Jack Crow was a good character. Too bad Woods is a nutcase.
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cyric79 2 days ago#13
The parents look like the kind of people that cant wait to have others tell them how great they are. The mental welfare of their kid, is likely a lesser priority.
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TheRock1525 2 days ago#14
JcOpIVY86 posted...
TheRock1525 posted...
IMadepooh4U posted...
http://www.breitbart.com/


Nope.


You're so much better than the people screaming about CNN being fake news. 
Just close your ears, so stunning and brave. Praise be.


I'd rather not give garbage like BB the time of day and argue there's some false equivalency between them and CNN.
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mad_hax_man 2 days ago#15
So for the record, in one week conservative have gone to Pewdiepie for information on the wage gap and James woods for information on transgender children. What a bunch of geniuses they are
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TheRock1525 posted...
IMadepooh4U posted...
http://www.breitbart.com/


Nope.


Stay in that bubble v_v

Anyway this really needs to be brought up, it's basically child abuse what the liberal agenda wants to do.
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Dagorha 2 days ago#17
And James Woods evidence is what exactly?
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Sczoyd 2 days ago#18
I'm all for letting Transgender people pee where they want, but when activist parents are getting their three year-olds into it there's something rrrreeally unsettling about that.
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As a trans person I can confirm that what did harm me growing up was my mothers refusal to let me transition at first. Later on when she saw how much happier I was after transitioning she agreed and said she regretted the way she treated me in childhood
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Sczoyd 2 days ago#20
hivebent4life posted...
As a trans person I can confirm that what did harm me growing up was my mothers refusal to let me transition at first. Later on when she saw how much happier I was after transitioning she agreed and said she regretted the way she treated me in childhood


Hrm... so about what age did you start feeling you weren't, uh, like in the right body?
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Sczoyd posted...
hivebent4life posted...
As a trans person I can confirm that what did harm me growing up was my mothers refusal to let me transition at first. Later on when she saw how much happier I was after transitioning she agreed and said she regretted the way she treated me in childhood


Hrm... so about what age did you start feeling you weren't, uh, like in the right body?

From a very young age, around 4 or 5. I'm now in my early twenties, and the feeling never changed growing up.
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Sylph 2 days ago#23
This is all the greatest non-issue ever. Doctors never do anything medically on children younger than 11-12, and then all they do is blockers if anything. That is already 8 years older than you are crying wolf about. 

The wildest thing that they do is that they allow children to try to socialize as the gender they feel like they are. This gives them actual experience at an age to determine if it is better for them emotionally and socially development-wise. 

But by all means, go back to recommending that we re-enact the stone age psychological and medical practices you want.
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TonyKojima 2 days ago#24
hivebent4life posted...
Sczoyd posted...
hivebent4life posted...
As a trans person I can confirm that what did harm me growing up was my mothers refusal to let me transition at first. Later on when she saw how much happier I was after transitioning she agreed and said she regretted the way she treated me in childhood


Hrm... so about what age did you start feeling you weren't, uh, like in the right body?

From a very young age, around 4 or 5. I'm now in my early twenties, and the feeling never changed growing up.

You are transgender?
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TonyKojima posted...
hivebent4life posted...
Sczoyd posted...
hivebent4life posted...
As a trans person I can confirm that what did harm me growing up was my mothers refusal to let me transition at first. Later on when she saw how much happier I was after transitioning she agreed and said she regretted the way she treated me in childhood


Hrm... so about what age did you start feeling you weren't, uh, like in the right body?

From a very young age, around 4 or 5. I'm now in my early twenties, and the feeling never changed growing up.

You are transgender?

Yes
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TonyKojima 2 days ago#26
Was this known beforehand or are you just coming out now?
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TonyKojima posted...
Was this known beforehand or are you just coming out now?

I've mentioned it on this board before. I've never hidden it.
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TonyKojima 2 days ago#28
Good. Be proud of who you are. Don't listen to the ignorant right wing nuts. You are perfectly normal.
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hivebent4life posted...
I've mentioned it on this board before. I've never hidden it.
Good on you, you should be happy to be yourself and never hide that aspect of it.

In fact, you should flaunt it to the world.

This is one of the few subjects where TonyKojima and I agree on the same thing.
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Sczoyd 2 days ago#30
hivebent4life posted...
Sczoyd posted...
hivebent4life posted...
As a trans person I can confirm that what did harm me growing up was my mothers refusal to let me transition at first. Later on when she saw how much happier I was after transitioning she agreed and said she regretted the way she treated me in childhood


Hrm... so about what age did you start feeling you weren't, uh, like in the right body?

From a very young age, around 4 or 5. I'm now in my early twenties, and the feeling never changed growing up.


So it really is that young. There's still something weird about the super activist parents but.... I don't know... I guess I can't judge much if I've never been in the situation and I'd best not start taking Breitbart articles seriously anyway...
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young_flip posted...
James Woods is a huge a****** but he was great in these productions

-John Carpenter's Vampires
-Any Given Sunday
-Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas


HERCULES?! Nobody is going to mention ****in' HERC-

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Sczoyd posted...
So it really is that young. There's still something weird about the super activist parents but.... I don't know... I guess I can't judge much if I've never been in the situation and I'd best not start taking Breitbart articles seriously anyway...
As long as the child naturally wants to transition, I see no issue.

They shouldn't be pressured into it or forced into it by the Trans Parents.

It should come naturally and actually be desired instead of influenced into.

As far as Transitioning in the surgical / drug hormone treatment sense, it should be done at a older age when the body is ready to handle it.
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RySenkari 2 days ago#33
James Woods is the only Disney Villain voice actor who's more evil than the character he plays.
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gamer687333 2 days ago#34
Children should not be doing gender reassignments. Period. We don't let them consent to sex, so why the hell do we let them consent to a far more life altering decision? Permanently altering the body for the rest of their life is a much greater decision than a child choosing to do a sexual act, and yet it's the life changing choice that is allowed but the less significant choice is illegal. Both should be illegal until they're old enough.

It's simple. Not old enough to have sex means you're not old enough to change your sex. Anyone who has a problem with this simple and concise way of thinking of this is just flat out wrong.

Edit: I don't mean merely letting them idenifty differently and letting a trans girl wear a dress. I largely mean the surgeries and hormonal treatments that physically alter their biology.
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Sczoyd 2 days ago#35
KamenRiderBlade posted...
Sczoyd posted...
So it really is that young. There's still something weird about the super activist parents but.... I don't know... I guess I can't judge much if I've never been in the situation and I'd best not start taking Breitbart articles seriously anyway...
As long as the child naturally wants to transition, I see no issue.

They shouldn't be pressured into it or forced into it by the Trans Parents.

It should come naturally and actually be desired instead of influenced into.

As far as Transitioning in the surgical / drug hormone treatment sense, it should be done at a older age when the body is ready to handle it.


Yeah that's basically my opinion on it too, it just seems like some of these parents are pushing the kids, but then, again, we're getting this through the Breitbart filter...
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RcBcoop80 2 days ago#36
I hope the left keeps pushing this gender neutral crap. It just keeps pushing people out of the party.
LawnNinja 2 days ago#37
Considering that a majority of children who experience gender-related distress end up identifying with their birth sex after puberty, I think the best course of action for the parents of a kid who may be trans is to wait until they're old enough to understand the life-long implications of reassignment before starting any kind of hormone therapy. The option to transition will always be there, but once it's done, it's not so easy to go back. 

I do, however, strongly disagree with parents who intentionally force gender-neutrality on their young children. Putting your little boy in a sailor suit one day and a ballerina tutu on the next day isn't "progressive", it's just extremely confusing to a child who's probably far more interested in sugary cereal and Minecraft than gender expression. In my opinion, it's no different from a hard-line "traditional" parent blowing their gasket if their little girl wants to play with an action figure instead of a Barbie doll. Just let kids be kids. They will have plenty of time to worry about their gender in the future.
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Tak 2 days ago#38
gamer687333 posted...
Children should not be doing gender reassignments. Period. We don't let them consent to sex, so why the hell do we let them consent to a far more life altering decision? Permanently altering the body for the rest of their life is a much greater decision than a child choosing to do a sexual act, and yet it's the life changing choice that is allowed but the less significant choice is illegal. Both should be illegal until they're old enough.

It's simple. Not old enough to have sex means you're not old enough to change your sex. Anyone who has a problem with this simple and concise way of thinking of this is just flat out wrong.

Edit: I don't mean merely letting them idenifty differently and letting a trans girl wear a dress. I largely mean the surgeries and hormonal treatments that physically alter their biology.

Children don't do gender reassignments. At most, they're put on hormone blockers (a reversible action, mind you) while they're in therapy and socially transitioning. What you're talking about doesn't happen. Nobody is advocating for what you're talking about.
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Goldice 2 days ago#39
Tak posted...
Nobody is advocating for what you're talking about.


Thats the breitbart filter. Discussing a strawman slippery slope that no one is actually advocating
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Tak 2 days ago#40
It must be horrible to go through life afraid of boogeymen that don't exist. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a trans agenda to force down children's throats. Oogah boogah!
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mninp 2 days ago#41
KamenRiderBlade posted...
Sczoyd posted...
So it really is that young. There's still something weird about the super activist parents but.... I don't know... I guess I can't judge much if I've never been in the situation and I'd best not start taking Breitbart articles seriously anyway...
As long as the child naturally wants to transition, I see no issue.

They shouldn't be pressured into it or forced into it by the Trans Parents.

It should come naturally and actually be desired instead of influenced into.

As far as Transitioning in the surgical / drug hormone treatment sense, it should be done at a older age when the body is ready to handle it.

This 100%. Putting makeup on your son because you are trying to promote an agenda is child abuse. If you have a son, simply treat him like you would any other boy...if he turns out to be trans, then you will realize, just like parents notice if their child is gay, or if they have learning disability or something.
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Pudendal 2 days ago#42
American College of Pediatricians is a joke organization
Goldice posted...
Tak posted...
Nobody is advocating for what you're talking about.


Thats the breitbart filter. Discussing a strawman slippery slope that no one is actually advocating


Oh? No one is doing it, huh? It's just a Breitbart lie, huh? Sure it is.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/09/child-4-worlds-youngest-ever-sex-change-patient/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-change-treatment-for-kids-on-the-rise/
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gamer687333 posted...
Goldice posted...
Tak posted...
Nobody is advocating for what you're talking about.


Thats the breitbart filter. Discussing a strawman slippery slope that no one is actually advocating


Oh? No one is doing it, huh? It's just a Breitbart lie, huh? Sure it is.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/09/child-4-worlds-youngest-ever-sex-change-patient/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-change-treatment-for-kids-on-the-rise/

If you'd bothered to read into the case instead of reading world net f***ing daily, you'd know that specific kid is intersex. Calling this gender reassignment seems misleading, she has a mix of male and female genitalia. It's just... gender assignment.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38218115

And here's an excerpt from your second link, showing you didn't read it.

Gender-reassignment surgery, which may include removing or creating penises, is only done by a handful of U.S. doctors, on patients at least 18 years old, Spack said. His clinic has worked with local surgeons who've done breast removal surgery on girls at age 16, but that surgery can be relatively minor, or avoided, if puberty is halted in time, he said.
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LawnNinja posted...
Considering that a majority of children who experience gender-related distress end up identifying with their birth sex after puberty, I think the best course of action for the parents of a kid who may be trans is to wait until they're old enough to understand the life-long implications of reassignment before starting any kind of hormone therapy. The option to transition will always be there, but once it's done, it's not so easy to go back. 

I do, however, strongly disagree with parents who intentionally force gender-neutrality on their young children. Putting your little boy in a sailor suit one day and a ballerina tutu on the next day isn't "progressive", it's just extremely confusing to a child who's probably far more interested in sugary cereal and Minecraft than gender expression. In my opinion, it's no different from a hard-line "traditional" parent blowing their gasket if their little girl wants to play with an action figure instead of a Barbie doll. Just let kids be kids. They will have plenty of time to worry about their gender in the future.



^ This, Hell I'd even support the stuff where they delay the biological components of Puberty a bit for them to decide.

The consequences of Transitioning anything other than socially before puberty can have wide ranging effects.

Hell there was a story of a Trans person in the UK who transitioned I think from Male to Female then later on in life they transitioned back because the initially transitioned thinking they'd make their parents happy not because they were Trans.

It's a very delicate thing to deal with as parents can influence their kids and those about to object to this or complain I dared suggest there may be an issue. Remember people are claiming that (an there's evidence for) some things being based on societal influence such as some gender differences in parts of society. If parents / society can influence them then it's possible they can influence other aspects too or influence in other ways.

I mean Transvestites exist, they're not Trans people though, they're people who cross dress not want to permanently be the opposite sex.
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Horridhal 1 day ago#47
TonyKojima posted...
Its killing right wing nuts they can't also stop trans rights. As the sign said get over it.


There's no way in hell you can actually claim those children know they have gender dysphoria at that age, s*** poster. James Woods is right, small children are being used as a prop to push a narrative and pieces of garbage, not unlike s*** posters, feel the need to try and defend it instead of calling it bulls***.
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TheArcade 1 day ago#48
Stop posting dumbass sources!
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mad_hax_man posted...
So for the record, in one week conservative have gone to Pewdiepie for information on the wage gap and James woods for information on transgender children. What a bunch of geniuses they are


Its funny. People on the right constantly make fun of "libtard hollywood". Yet they praise a youtube celebrity and a washed out actor. Hypocrites.
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UltimaKitty posted...
mad_hax_man posted...
So for the record, in one week conservative have gone to Pewdiepie for information on the wage gap and James woods for information on transgender children. What a bunch of geniuses they are


Its funny. People on the right constantly make fun of "libtard hollywood". Yet they praise a youtube celebrity and a washed out actor. Hypocrites.


They are also the party if Trump abd Reagan. 

But I guess it's part of the anti intellectualism. The idea that a dude bro who has made a career yelling things out on the Internet knows better about the pay gap than people who have studied it for decades, ir some actor knows more about trans issues than anyone heavily involved with the trans community. Heck, it's the samw thing with the whole " it's basic high school biology" bs
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    Mirage13 1 day ago#51
    Pudendal posted...
    American College of Pediatricians is a joke organization


    Translation: Does not agree with my distorted view of genders and therefore is a joke organization. Get over yourself!
    Mirage13 posted...
    Pudendal posted...
    American College of Pediatricians is a joke organization


    Translation: Does not agree with my distorted view of genders and therefore is a joke organization. Get over yourself!


    Actually no they've been discredited to multiple organizations.
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    TheArcade 1 day ago#53
    TheRock1525 posted...
    Mirage13 posted...
    Pudendal posted...
    American College of Pediatricians is a joke organization


    Translation: Does not agree with my distorted view of genders and therefore is a joke organization. Get over yourself!


    Actually no they've been discredited to multiple organizations.

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    Gryffindor1 posted...
    James Woods: The actor who's only relevance today is a cartoon school being named after him.


    He's old and says that he doesn't care about Hollywood anymore. 

    Anyways: James Woods is awesome. I wish he would help Republicans run for office in hotly contested areas and/or raise money.

    Also he was great in the Onion Field, Once Upon a time in America, Casino and John Q.
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    NoFear 1 day ago#55
    He's right, kids aren't pets or accessories for liberal millennials to distort for attention and facebook likes
    IMadepooh4U 11 hours ago#56
    Sylph posted...
    Doctors never do anything medically on children younger than 11-12, and then all they do is blockers if anything.


    As in hormone blockers? Is that all?! /s

    That is an insidious form of child abuse.
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    Tak 5 hours ago#57
    It's abuse to allow a trans child's body to be altered permanently by the hormones of their assigned sex at birth. It's a years-long condemnation of hardship and pain that can all be avoided.
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    Saw James Woods's name and cam here to just say, f*** that human s***stain. He is a terrible, terrible person.
    cjsdowg 3 hours ago#59
    James Woods was on a episode of a family guy that did 9/11 jokes. Then complain about a black guy not respecting American.
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    DnDer 32 minutes ago#60
    RySenkari posted...
    James Woods is the only Disney Villain voice actor who's more evil than the character he plays.


    Hell, he's more evil than the villain he played in "Spirits Within."
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