Men with boobs.

[SuperFemme]

Originally Posted by Dylan

I wouldn't find it necessarily emasculating

I would find it intentionally transphobic


Not That You Asked Me, But That's The Word I Would Use,
Dylan

What would you find it as if the person in question was not trans?

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by SuperFemme

What would you find it as if the person in question was not trans?

Personally, and this is just me me me, I find it transgendered phobic. And I find it so, because we live in a world in which ANYONE who steps outside of the gender conformity is met with harsh consequences. This is why I personally, make a huge distinction between transgender and transsexed. ANYONE stepping out of 'this is what girls do, and this is what boys do" is met with name calling (including 'he-she'), threats, pokes, jabs, and a 'shoving' back into conformity through a number of different routes...including intentional misuse of pronouns.

"Well, if you want to look/act like a man, I'm going to treat you like a man"

"If you want to be a man so bad..."

What would YOU call it if I continually and purposefully called you, "he"?


Dylan

[betenoire]

I find it unfortunate that we've spiraled into a discussion of what word SuperFemme -should- have used, when it's clear and established that her intent/meaning was spot-on. It sounds like semantics to me.

We all already know what she meant, as she's had to explain herself over and over again. Why not just go ahead and accept her original comment AS SHE MEANT IT and move on? I think it's just so shitty that she's been made to feel as though she should apologise because the interpretation of a word that she had is different from that of (some) other people.