Offensive, Transphobic Commentary In MSN's Best Life (+)
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Nov 14, 2008 at 12:30:00 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8223I got a wild hair up my a** this morning after reading an article by Jason Daley (of MSN's Best Life column) that a blender sent me a link to. I actually got incensed reading it. The writer, in his piece Pop Go the Weasels, wrote about The 10 worst fatherhood role models. In writing about Thomas Beatie, Daley "went there" with transphobia:
3. Thomas Beatie
Teaching kids about sex is tough enough. But when this bearded, deep-voiced transgendered Oregon man popped out a bundle of joy earlier this year, our jobs as fathers became even more complicated: "Sit down, son. I need to talk to you about the birds, the bees...and the ->-bleeped-<-s." Oof.
