Anyone here feel the Ann Coulter=tranny insults the TG community?

[Taverner]

Personally, If I were a tranny - I'd be insulted that people would want to include BatshitAnn in our group.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. you should check out my post in the glbt forum from months ago about this

and before someone chews your head off, its not just cross dressers. its all trans folk. transgendered and transsexuals.

[Taverner]

2. Yeah...that...

I'm tired - my lexicon is a bit weak this morning :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. here is the thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=221&topic_id=27592

[BOSSHOG]

4. Yes

I am a 52 year old veteran, I would not want her lumped in my group. To prove your point lets look at who would want to be like her. Religious zealots, evil hateful constitution hating bigots who value and cherish their ignorance. That's ann's group.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Well put.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. also just cos shes ugly doesnt make her transgendered. shes just ugly.

[Taverner]

8. Yes - I've seen "Gratooeys" in Thailand that looked better than most women

Ugliness does not always equal drag

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I didn't

until someone (cough*lionesspriyanka*cough) explained it to me.

:hug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. you know this is what i love about you. you are willing to grow and evolve

most people aren't. there are a lot of ways i have evolved on du. this is why i like this place.

:hug:

on edit: remember the mobile home issue? you totally helped me on that one.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I have a friend who's MTF

And she's much, much happier now. I wouldn't want to say anything to make her feel bad, even inadvertantly. Or anyone else, for that matter.

Well, unless I didn't like them. :P

I vaguely remember the mobile home thing, and I dunno what I said, but I'm glad it helped. :D

And you — you don't call me names when I don't understand something. You don't know how much I appreciate that. :hug:

[El Fuego]

10. They're trying to say "she's a hypocrite" because she herself

appears to be kind of person who is the target of her hateful bile.

But it comes off as totally insulting and insensitive.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. actually not so much, most people say manncoulter to insult her appearance

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. That has bugged the shit out of me since I first saw it.

I don't even like the phrase Mann Coulter without the accompanying tranny dig. She's a hateful disgusting human being and that's that.

[skygazer]

13. I think Ann Coulter is an insult to humanity

And comparing her to anything or anyone is insulting. She's just a vile, hateful, waste of genetic material.

[Taverner]

15. "vile, hateful, waste of genetic material..."

Yup

I hope she never reproduces

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Isn't it just a bad Austin Powers joke?

Of the "she's a man, baby, yeah!" variety? Remember when everybody was doing those long after they stopped being funny? Like used car salesmen on poorly produced local commercials?

I think if I were a tranny (is that a socially acceptable abbreviation?) I'd have a sense of humor about it, but I'd be seriously annoyed that people still think it's funny.

[Initech]

16. Yeah, I think it is. Personally I refer to her as "Annthrax Coulter".

This way it refrains from insulting an entire group of people and it's just insulting her.

[Hugin]

19. Now you've insulted an entire phylum of more worthy creatures...

who are made of better stuff than Ann Coulter.

:grr:

[Initech]

20. Damn! Is there any remotely funny name we can call her?

[Hugin]

21. It is best to not speak of it at all...

Except to tell it to rub lotion on itself.

[Lil Missy]

18. Of course it does.

She's a vicious and hateful asshole, period. And gender identity, sexuality, has nothing to do with it. She's a repuke, and that is bad enough in itself.

[Orsino]

22. Certainly. Using "gay," "retard," etc. as insults...

...is bigoted.

[LynneSin]

23. Without a doubt - hell yes

I got berated by another DUer for calling her 'Mannthrax'. And the point was valid - I was villifying a group of people by using it as a negative term about someone.

So now I call her Annthrax. I figured those anthrax germies are already bad things and will just have to deal with it. But if someone refers to her as a transexual in any form I have been known to correct that poster

[Taverner]

26. I like "BatshitAnn" myself

No offense to the guano of course ;)

[Iris]

24. Yep. And insulting a person's appearance just because we don't like what she says

is no better than what the other side does.

(But I think the implied message about transvestites is worse.)

[idgiehkt]

29. agreed

It's retrogressive and not what a supposed 'liberal' party should be about, i.e. we should know better. The tranny slur has bigotry behind it, but waging war on a person based on their appearance is not a very intelligent way to go about things.

[NewWaveChick1981]

25. Absolutely.

:grr: Coultergeist is just a tall, skinny, female bigot with a few too many male hormones (evidenced by the protruding Adam's apple). Trannies deserve a lot more respect that trying to lump her into such a group.

[jobycom]

27. Yes. nt

[Forkboy]

28. I wouldn't use the term

Not only is it offensive but it's guilty of something even worse...it's lazy comedy.