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I saw, the Day After Tomorrow, Armegeddon, Twister to start. #iwasatrannywerewolf
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They made me laugh, but that's probably because friends of mine were in them. #iwasatrannywerewolf
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I don't get why she's supposed to be a "tranny" werewolf, though. She seems like a regular girl who has a problem with excess hair, who then turns into a wolfwoman. She's not dressing up like a guy, or (so far as I can tell) actually turning into a guy. She's not a drag king or drag queen. She's just... a hairy girl. In a bikini. Huh? #iwasatrannywerewolf
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I use the word myself and with my trans friends but I would be hesitant for any cis person to use it casually. Much like the use of words like shemale, chicks with dicks, heshe, etc. #iwasatrannywerewolf
10/25/09
Honestly, the worst usages of tranny I've seen have been in the cis queer community, because every once in a while you'll get someone who *thinks* they're entitled to use it, when they really aren't. #iwasatrannywerewolf
10/25/09
So makes me think this was a matter of appropriation by the cis queer community to make a film more 'obscene' (word used in their bio). #iwasatrannywerewolf
10/25/09
Don't get me started on "cisgender" though. I recognize the need for a word for non-trannies, but it's just such a graceless choice. It always makes me think of cysts. #iwasatrannywerewolf
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People get 'hung up' on terminology becaus terminology like tranny can be and regularly are used to deny our identities, demean us, and Other us. And when you are seen as "Just a tranny" and not a person it is easier for people to deny us rights and murder us. People hear words like tranny used against them in verbal if not physical attacks and so it can be hard to not have a lot of problems with the words in a casual usage.
" If somebody calls me a shemale and they obviously mean it approvingly, I'm not going to blow up over it. "
Thats nice, I am glad you take a more relaxed attitude to things like that. I know I do for some other things. No one is trying to say you have to be offended by something. Still terms can offend a lot of people and while you don't mind shemale in a positive context others may find it horribly offensive and triggering. Cis people get it into their heads that if some trans people don't mind a term then there is nothing wrong with it. Hell I once had a cis guy tell me because he worked with some trans people who didn't mind it, I or anyone else who entered into the discussion, should not be offended by the term. A member of the group with privilege should not tell members of the group without privilege what is appropriate or not.
"Don't get me started on "cisgender" though. I recognize the need for a word for non-trannies, but it's just such a graceless choice. It always makes me think of cysts."
That seems a bit silly. Cis seems like a rather appropriate term and geeky too. Whats better then the chemistry term that means the opposite of trans? I have heard complaints about it before but I have never heard a better alternative offered. #iwasatrannywerewolf
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*enters the waiting room for Waiting Room* #iwasatrannywerewolf
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Cant wait for this one. It looks like a cross between the flying cars from Back to the Future 2, a story losely based around Spiderman and the energy of a high octane action film! Count me in!!! Please...no Russian Jazz hands though.
'With great power comes great metalic carnage'!! Whoooo!
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