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"All Zen-Contented": Who is Marten Reed?
valkygrrl:
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--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 13 Apr 2015, 07:02 ---Awful, reducing womanhood to an aesthetic, almost as bad as the infantilizing "girl mode." Not even the transsexual menace used to....
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womanhood-as-aesthetic is an appropriate lens for discussing drag-as-performance art.
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But not the concept of gender identity
--- Quote ---public drag acts, private crossdressing, and transitioning are not "better" or "worse" ways of being transgender (sensu latto), they are just different modes of self-expression qualified by a hostile, transphobic world. Transitioning is currently the most socially acceptable of the three but at different times and in different cultures this hasn't been true, or even possible.
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I maintain that if the distinction between trans and homosexual is not made then it is homophobia.
Of those three only the last could be used as an indication of identity since it would logically follow but even then under queer theory (Which as you know I don't hold to, I use dysphoria as the standard) none of the three are necessary, only holding an identity is, and that can't be known until stated. And as far as it goes, identity isn't required for any of the three, the acts alone could have any motivation.
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--- Quote ---Why would it be in character?
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Because on other occasions Veronica has demonstrated bad boundaries and a willingness to insult people for the sake of a joke.
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Delightfully transgressive doesn't equate to 'to the pain' she just likes to see people squirm. We're talking about what would be a particularity malicious act. Outting transwomen is what CB (initials to avoid her google alerts, we're in the public part of the forum and she's a nasty piece of work) does. She would _have_ to know how bad it is, she couldn't do the work she does and be oblivious.
Is it cold in here?:
Given that she told her son about the preferences of the client who's a Senator, breaking the most important imaginable professional confidence, it's fair to question her ethics.
What is "tri-ess", please?
valkygrrl:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Ess
AprilArcus:
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Is it cold in here?:
Come to think of it, an adult performer flirting with a high school boy could be creepy.
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