by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 16:20:00 PM EDT

QuoteQuoteDid you see that thing in make-up?
I added the emphasis -- Andrade did not say "that thing" in any particularly emphasizing way.
The reason that one evoked tears was that the last time I was called a trans related epithet to my face, it was "that thing." It just reminds me of being perceived and treated as a less than human being.