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[–]Marsupial 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't care. I don't go around making unprovoked attacks at people or calling people who are perfectly nice to me slurs but I'm also not buying into the mental illness that is transgenderism. I think "tranny" is fine if "TERF" is fine, I do not think the use of "tranny" incites violence although it is rude to use face to face with somebody. If not going along with what clearly are delusions make some people think I am transphobic then meh, so what? Transphobic is just a word people hurl at you when they're upset about something, it changes meaning a lot nowadays.

[–]Kai_Decadence[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ultimately you're right. It's just a buzzword at this point just like "Terf" so it really doesn't mean anything. I guess it just annoys me because it's being used as a tactic to silence people from daring to speak the truth. It really is like 1984 where essentially they call you these things to try to alienate because you're engaging in their version of wrongthink.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I read by someone who seemed to know what they were talking about that "tranny" started in Australia. IIRC it was just a shortened "transvestite" or "trans-sexual" and not meant as a slur per se.

I lived in Australia and they did seem to shorten many words. Mosquito = Mozzie. Bathing costume = cozzie It was cute.

Who knows, but I know even when I heard it used in the US for decades, it was more a teasing descriptive than a slur. Although even back then, most people I knew who dealt with what are now called transgenders thought they were mentally unstable men.

A long time ago, I worked near an LGB center and often had to get to work early in the morning. There would always be cross-dressing male prostitutes kind of lying around in a drug or alcohol stupor. I just felt bad for them and hoped they could access help.

[–]leaveandletleave 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! :D

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, little did we know while watching Priscilla what horrors awaited us...