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Privileged and Pretty Equals Success

Started by Shana A, September 02, 2009, 10:08:00 PM

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September 02, 2009, 10:08:00 PM

Privileged and Pretty Equals Success

Posted by Marti Abernathey on Sep 2nd, 2009

http://www.transadvocate.com/privileged-and-pretty-equals-success.htm

This morning I received an email talking about a website called "The Pink Butterfly Network". It claims to be a knockoff of Lynn Conway's Transsexual Women's Successes, pointing to transsexual women who should inspire us.

I like Lynn Conway, and her Transsexual Women's Successes page has become more than just pretty faces. But this knockoff site and others like it bother me. A success to who? What qualifies as a success? Someone that is feminine? Someone that is pretty? To me, this list plays to the worst face of the trans-community. It's reminds me of this:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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