ugh in the news

Not one but two Seattle- or Washington-centric posts to OTF!Wank in the last few days. One about a school shooting in Tacoma, and the other a totally disturbing (although, to my mind, not really so much wanky as just plain insane) pair of parents from gods-know-where who decided to come to my city so that their developmentally disabled daughter could have surgery that will prevent her from physically aging beyond 9 years, in terms of size, reproductive aspects of biology, etc. Normally I really appreciate living in a city with world-renowned hospitals, but somehow I doubt they'll be making a deal out of this one in all of Childrens' Hospital's ads and brochures.

I'm still looking for real news sites about this (bad me for not paying attention to the news, I guess), but... great. Now we're not just the city of WTO, Starbucks and Microsoft, but the city of really disturbing and extremely controversial surgeries on minors as well. As far as actual moral response to the surgery goes... I'm not even touching that. On the one hand, yes, it would suck to care for a grown woman who has the mental capacity of an infant (as is the status of this little girl, and said status is supposedly completely permanent), but... dude, who thinks of that? Who wakes up one day and says "gee, maybe we should have our little girl's uterus and breast tissue removed, and have her go through hormone therapy so she won't grow any more! That's the perfect solution to our problems!" That's one hell of a thought to have. And one hell of a weird precedent, too.

I miss the days when we were just the city of rain.