About Your Issues…

[Butterfly]

About Your Issues...
Feministe
April 10, 2009


http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/04/10/about-your-issues/


II'm not sure I've ever posted a warning like this before, but given the derail that happened in the last trans-centered thread: this is a post about fetishization of trans people. Cis people are welcome to post here, but please do try to advance the ball. Transphobic, transmisogynistic, and disrespectful language is unwelcome.)

In comments here, voz linked to this Annalee Newitz article on Nerve–I may even have linked it back when in a post about ->-bleeped-<-chasing and Margaret Cho. (Newitz also wrote an earlier essay about trans people–trans women, really–which is just straight-up transphobic; in the newer essay,