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Originally Posted by Dylan
Heart,
I totally get what you're saying, and I agree with you 100% if we're speaking generally.
Where I disagree with you 100% is that this comment was made about an individual by an individual who has wayyyyyyyy more intimate knowledge of the person in question. We have absolutely no idea how this particular couple sees themselves.
If Mahhh Woman called me a man without a penis, or a woman with boobs, or whatever, it's between us, and has nada to do with how the rest of the trans community sees the comment. It's nunya's business how Mahhh Woman and I interact with one another and how we refer to eachother.
Now, if Nixon or Mahhh Woman said it about all butches, or all transfolks, I'd have a problem with it...but she didn't.
But yeah, I totally agree with you in a generally-speaking sense.
Not That Mahhh Opinion Matters At All To You, But Jus' Sayin',
Dylan
P.S. I'd probably also feel differently if this comment had come from an activist in the community or someone of that stature...an actual 'representative' of the community...but it's just Cynthia Nixon. Like someone else mentioned, she's about as important to me as Anne Heche.
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OK, I believe I get what you are saying Dylan, but the thing is there are hundred of headlines reading
"Nixon calls her Lesbian Lover (and variations thereof) A Man Without Boobs."
So if a famous partner of a trans man was in an interview and said about her/his/pronoun of choice partner "he's basically a man without a dick, and what I love about him is his transness."
So all the trans people out there would get to see this headline:
"Famous Person X calls Trans Lover a Man Without A Dick
How is that going to make transmen and transwomen feel? Are they just going to shrug it off and say oh well that's between the two.
I'm not trans but personally wouldn't want to see a headline like that over and over one bit.