Mort Divine
Shrine Maiden of the In-Crowd
This forum has gone so soft. People getting their panties in a bunch over the word "tranny"?
It is a term associated with hate and violence towards them. You don't think that when the violence the transfolk experience occurs they don't hear such words as tranny, he-she, shim, etc.
Loosen up. People here throw around the word 'retarded' all the time and that is offensive to mentally handicapped people. I never see you go on a tirade about that though.
Which is a fair enough criticism of me, no I don't take issue with it, and I probably should but seeing as I don't know nearly as much about the issues the mentally handicapped go through I don't feel like I have ground to criticize people for it. I'm not all for super PC speech and all, but simply for avoiding words that serve no purpose other than to promote disgust and hatred.
Retarded doesn't really have the same hateful nature that tranny does, it is in bad taste to be sure though.
