'I don't care if you were born a woman or became one,' says Guardian columnist
Columnist with the UK's Guardian's newspaper defends herself against accusations of transphobia that caused an angry Twitter storm yesterday
10 January 2013 | By Anna Leach
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/i-dont-care-if-you-were-born-woman-or-became-one-says-guardian-columnist100113A columnist with the UK's Guardian newspaper has defended herself against accusations of transphobia.
This week an article was published in the New Statesman about women and anger by Suzanne Moore which said:
'The cliché is that female anger is always turned inwards rather than outwards into despair. We are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape - that of a Brazilian transsexual.'
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Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore refuses to apologise after accusations of transphobia
by Joseph Patrick McCormick
10 January 2013, 1:44pm
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/10/suzanne-moore-my-use-of-the-word-transsexual-in-an-article-was-irrelevant/Journalist Suzanne Moore has taken to Twitter, and now written a second piece defending a previous article in which she said the perceived ideal body for a woman was that of a "transsexual".
The British journalist came under fire for a line in an article in the New Statesman titled, Seeing Red: The Power of Female Anger, which was published on 8 January. In it she says:
"[Women] are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual."
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Seeing red: the power of female anger
Every statistic available shows that women and children are being hit hardest by this recession. Outbursts of fury, politicised and scalpel sharp, are everywhere we look, says Suzanne Moore.
By Suzanne Moore Published 08 January 2013 9:51
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/01/seeing-red-power-female-anger We can all be dudes. But former Sex Pistol John Lydon's chant , "anger is an energy", is still my cri de coeur. The cliché is that female anger is always turned inwards rather than outwards into despair. We are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual.
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I don't care if you were born a woman or became one
Sexuality used to be the big battle. Now we need to unite in anger against the breakdown of the social contract
Suzanne Moore
The Guardian, Wednesday 9 January 2013 15.00 EST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/09/dont-care-if-born-womanI only had sex because of David Bowie. It would have been better if I had only had sex with David Bowie. But you can't have everything. Though, for a while, he was everything. In that paleolithic period when we gathered round the TV to watch Top of the Pops, my mum would say, "Christ, is it a boy or a girl?" every time he appeared. My grandad, who was deaf (so we always had the TV at full volume), was particularly perturbed by Bryan Ferry. "It's a woman, you stupid woman!" he would yell at my mother.
In real life, however, the working-class lads I knew were starting to wear makeup, and I was starting to fancy them. So thank you, David, for the new Robert Wyatt-esque single, and thank you for making me sexually confused. And aroused. Bisexuality! Whoah! You could do it with anyone. Civilisation would fall as a result. Well, it didn't. We moved on. Gayness was still closeted and shameful. It took guts. It still does.
Some of the gutsiest people I met were the transsexuals who worked in a club called Boys will be Girls in New Orleans. I was a waitress and I served them breakfast at 5am and they were so kind to me. Many had had botched surgery in Morocco and their lives were more than difficult.
