Hey! That's not bad at all.  I can dig a harder Robert Pattinson look.  As long as I don't sparkle in the sunlight. 

He's better as Cedric Diggory anyways.   

I actually really hate the word ->-bleeped-<-. It just makes me clench my fists and grit my teeth.
My friend (now girlfriend) called me a ->-bleeped-<- (jokingly) a couple times and it just got under my skin like no tomorrow. She doesn't anymore, after I explained why it bugs me, but just the word pisses me off.

I'm dyslexic and my grammar skills are lacking, so I don't know if this is actually the correct way, but it bothers me when people use male in place of manly, masculine, man, etc. Doesn't sound right to me.

->-bleeped-<- doesn't bother me, I don't even know why, it just...doesn't. At least not OL. I've never been called it out in the real world, so that might change, but I've heard so much verbal abuse throughout my life, most of it just doesn't register or ends up making me laugh. I'm fortunate that I seem to either pass well enough, or just confuse people into not knowing so they leave me alone.

And holy crap Heath, you DO look like a better version of Rpattz! Minus the unnecessary "broodyness" and dem eyebrows of his.

It's not the words so much as how they are being used and said.

I've been called every disgusting and derogatory name out there except for ->-bleeped-<-. I don't know how I'd feel or if I'd be offended by it since every time I hear the word ->-bleeped-<- in real life, it's short for transmission and is used by mechanics so it doesn't bother me in that sense.

If anyone says anything like that I don't let it upset me because I know they're just not as well read on the subject.  Anyone who calls a transman a ->-bleeped-<- or a hermaphrodite isn't using an offensive term they're just using a blatantly incorrect term.  Take a minute and explain to them what a ->-bleeped-<-/hermaphrodite actually is and how it differs from what you are.  Most of the time they won't have much of anything to say back, which is fine.  Sometimes they'll argue back that there is no difference.  In which case you should just smirk and laugh at their ignorance hoping that someday they get jumped by a gang of brawny drag queens. 

Quote from: GnomeKid on May 14, 2011, 12:45:46 PM
If anyone says anything like that I don't let it upset me because I know they're just not as well read on the subject.  Anyone who calls a transman a ->-bleeped-<- or a hermaphrodite isn't using an offensive term they're just using a blatantly incorrect term.  Take a minute and explain to them what a ->-bleeped-<-/hermaphrodite actually is and how it differs from what you are.  Most of the time they won't have much of anything to say back, which is fine.  Sometimes they'll argue back that there is no difference.  In which case you should just smirk and laugh at their ignorance hoping that someday they get jumped by a gang of brawny drag queens.

I disagree. I feel that, in some cases, calling someone a ->-bleeped-<- or a hermaphrodite can be offensive. It is a label that some people use to identify themselves, but the person who is calling another person a ->-bleeped-<- or hermaphrodite may be trying to be offensive or insulting. It might be just confusion or using an incorrect term but from my experience it's usually being used as an offensive term.
(It can also depend on the tone of voice their using.)