"What's the Big Deal" Is Now Answered: Tobi Hill-Meyer on "->-bleeped-<-"
Filed by dentedbluemercedes
December 31, 2010
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/whats-the-big-deal-is-now-answered-tobi-hill-meyer-on-->-bleeped-<-/Tobi Hill-Meyer has an excellent series up about the controversy over "->-bleeped-<-" and its use as a slur, going far deeper than the word itself. Part one delves into meanings:
... the message that a ->-bleeped-<- is someone who is incapable of doing femininity correctly, whether you're talking about the shoes that make you look like a ->-bleeped-<-, insulting a cis woman's "->-bleeped-<- makeup," or the outfit that turns a cis woman into "a hot ->-bleeped-<- mess."
... "->-bleeped-<-" is reserved for those whose femininity is deemed fake, incorrect, or forced, those whose sexuality is either too brazen or too frigid, those who dare to take power and space and need to be knocked down a peg.
