Trannygate! — Page 2

Except Paris is Burning is probably transphobic now.

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The guys in drag at Stonewall would probably be considered transphobic now, even though they braved the riot cops by forming a kickline and singing

We are the Stonewall girls!
We wear our hair in curls!
We wear no underwear--
We show our pubic hair!


That takes guts. And a sense of humor.

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I'm grateful my tumblr feed consists entirely of photos.

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I'll see things pop up from time to time amongst the Broadway stuff, Amy Poehler gifs, cat gifs, food images, and hot guys on my dashboard. But usually I'll stumble onto it while searching tags for something specific. No matter what you're looking for, someone will be offended by it.

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It's because transgender is an adjective not a noun. I knew that without reading the page, but it's also on that page, too.

It's because transgender is an adjective not a noun. I knew that without reading the page, but it's also on that page, too.

Well if we're going to bring grammar into the situation that page should be a hell of a lot longer.

I blame this tranny -

That's a trans*am to you, Phyllis.

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Dammit. I went down the yourfaveisproblematic/callingoutbigotry wormhole and now I feel incredibly guilty for everything I've ever done. Most of the posts culminate in "Shut the fvck up and sit down, you piece of sh!t." Gonna take a few days to scrub the paranoia that everything I do offends everyone on the planet out of my brain.

But then I wonder if they have a point. I know they do, to some extent - gypsy is indeed an ethnic slur, etc, but it's just hard to take them seriously when they post lists of celebrities they are compiling lists of "problematic" things about. It goes beyond Mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn. It's Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Benedict Cumberbatch, and the list goes on. To me that's clearly a case of people LOOKING for things to be offended by.

For the record, my all-time favorite thing is "Amy Poehler's problematic depiction of E****** on a Saturday Night Live Sketch." Sat there for ten minutes before I finally got it.

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Jayne County was banned from Facebook for using the word "tranny"

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Remember everyone: The world was specifically designed to be comfortable to Your Feelings.
You gotta be kidding me with this...

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It's great when people can learn that both things can be true. Incarceration rates are horrible, and prison fantasies can be hot. And the world goes 'round.

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Remember the good old days when activists, actually, you know, did things. Searching for bigotry and posting about it on social media isn't activism. I shudder to think what world we'd be living in if Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Larry Kramer, Gandhi, and the like posted about discrimination from the comfort of their homes and never, you know, did anything.

In a country where you can legally be fired in 33 states for being outed as a transgender individual, where there are almost no legal protections or approval for medical treatment and care most transgender people require, where there are chronic problems of unjust and unfair treatment in prisons, where something as routine as going to the bathroom could land a transgender individual in prison in many pockets of the country, calling out a stupid joke Ellen Degeneris made and feeling good about being an activist doesn't sit well with me. I also have no clue where this purging of allies movement came from. Like it or not, the world isn't being run by the transgender community and refusing to acknowledge or accept the importance of help from others in legal spheres and through, you know, actual activism, the movement is intentionally pushing itself further to the fringes of American life.

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