Op-ed: Is Alec Baldwin Transphobic or Just Ignorant?Alec Baldwin stumbled into a transphobic slur during his farewell to public life in a recent editorial for
New York Magazine. Can you blame him for not understanding why this is wrong?
Advocate | Parker Marie Malloy
In an editorial for New York Magazine
posted Sunday on its Vulture
blog, actor Alec Baldwin said his farewells to public life, inadvertently digging himself deeper into an already substantial hole of missteps, fumbles, and botched mea culpas.
Baldwin opened the piece by telling the story of how he reached out to "a gay-rights group that [he] had researched and admired," in hopes of learning more about how words can hurt and what words in particular cause that hurt, after he was taken to task for allegedly calling a photographer a "cocksucking little ->-bleeped-<-got" late last year. Then, without a hint of irony, Baldwin writes, "We talked a lot about words and their power, especially in the lives of young people. One young man, an F-to-M ->-bleeped-<-, said ... "
Notably, Baldwin wrote this after his conversation with LGBT advocates about words and their power. As has been covered a number of times at The Advocate, the word "->-bleeped-<-" is a slur. It's a word trans individuals often hear immediately prior to being attacked.Full article at the link.
Alec Baldwin recently hosted a show on the MSNBC network.
