Is this parody? Asking for a friend.

WITH THE PEELS STILL ON

No Italian either. It’s a bastardization of both. She has the “mah” of the American pronunciation (instead of “moh”), but the tapped “r” and the long “l” of the Italian.

It’s the real pronunciation, from the local Native American (Lushootseed) word for the animal. I don’t think it’s known why it came to be spelled with “geo” at the beginning, but somebody probably fucked it up once and it stuck. The real spelling should be goeduck or similar.

I choose to believe that’s piss he’s drinking.

“I always knew I’d marry into this family” ***shudder***

LOL @ “salary”. Are you sure you’ve worked in retail before?

I don’t think having your job be X and hating the fuck out of X are naturally mutually exclusive. In fact, I think they often go hand in hand.

I’m not talking about an individual person’s struggles. I’m talking about a whole population of people who are oppressed because of the color of their skin, and have far more challenges to pass as the color of their oppressor than their oppressor does to pass as them.

It means it’s different, and the two should not be equated to each other. Of course transracialism as a concept is real, but again it is not available equally across races, and is more accessible to those in a position of privilege, and thus must be looked at with a critical eye. When it is as easy for the…

You say it’s technically possible, yet it would be a “horror show”. In what way is looking like a horror show passing as white? Dolezal certainly doesn’t look like a horror show, in fact she’s quite attractive as either race. Not only that, but you yourself pointed out that it would take crazy medical procedures to…

LOL. This isn’t research. You gonna cite “internet commenters” on your next term paper?

Oh for sure. I’m not saying this isn’t stupid as hell, I’m just saying here’s one way that being transgender is different from being transracial, since OP asked.

You are very good at completely missing the point. Your question was how she is different from a transgender person. QED.

You are not disproving my point. The ability to pass/not pass is still relatively available between genders equally. Yet there is an imbalance between, say, a light-skinned white woman’s ability to braid her hair and tan and say she’s a light-skinned black woman (pretty easy - Dolezal pulled this off more or less for…

Maybe if you actually tried to listen to what they’re telling you you’d get a lot more insight. Or I dunno - deep-read an article (Oluo’s article perhaps). Or think real hard for yourself. How is being transgender different from being transrace? How is it that race is a social construct, while also having real,…

There are many ways in which Dolezal is different from a transgender person, but one way is that transgenderism is a two-way street. Someone ID’d as male at birth can realize themselves as a woman and vice versa. The same is not true across races. Ijeoma Oluo would never “pass” as a white woman. In this way,…

Am I the only one who chose outfits based on how they looked? I played on normal, and with mods it didn’t really make that much difference to me which kind I had on, so I went by what I liked (Oseram FTW) and what seemed appropriate for the climate, just to put my cognitive dissonance at ease. (Skimpy Carja silks in a…

I love how you see it tantalizingly and mysteriously at the beginning, and are only able to obtain it once you understand more or less its significance.

I think at that age you should feel extra sorry. He was a fucking kid. He probably didn’t know the first thing about how to use a gun but wanted acceptance and respect from his peers.