From Alex, to certain gays, re "Mann Coulter"
Filed by: Alex Blaze
January 13, 2009 12:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/from_alex_to_particular_gays_re_mann_cou.phpHi gay people.
Not all gay people. Some gay people. I'm not going to name names; you know who you are.
It's the "Mann Coulter" thing. Sometimes it's spelled with one "n," as in "Man Coulter." I don't know the standard orthography is for this insult, and I don't really care. Cut it out.
Let's start with the most frivolous: it's not at all funny. It's been done to death. And it doesn't make much sense as a joke either... what's the issue if she did live as a man at some point? If it's true, then she'd be a transwoman, and we don't insult transwomen as a class, remember? If it's not, then you're stupid. And either way, there's nothing really funny about it.
It's an amorphous, joke-like entity that often comes with many of the most fashionable joke accouterments, but it falls far short of actually being funny. There's nothing unexpected about putting a woman down by calling her a man or masculine, and there's nothing absurd in the idea of someone having lived as another sex at some point in her past.
