Good question. Rapist hooligans, I'm guessing.

The poster you replied to is simply lying. Slurs? Wrong pronouns? That is such bullshit.

Not to mention that the number of reports of sexual assault in Germany have multiplied to the hundreds, in at least three different cities.

Thanks for languaging me.

My best friend is from the Punjab, and she identifies as white, as do all her family, and they look like Priyanka. It's a fascinating topic.

Oh, I meant argument as in ‘fight.’ I agree there is no real argumentation here. There’s just ridiculousness.

It was a joke. And now I really will say bye because I’m not enjoying a ridiculous argument.

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I have never argued for CALLING people by the old name. EVER. I would never call a person by a name they don’t have. I am shocked that referencing the name historically is unacceptable too. You’re asking for a weird purging of history that makes things impossible to talk about the past of famous people.

So, no quoting (not using) the old name ever, even for historical reasons? Otherwise it’s transphobic? Ok...

But do you really think he did that? That the joke was that the existence of trans people is funny? Also, he joked about the stereotype itself, not about women being bad drivers. Anyway. Taking myself out of this conversation because we don’t agree on the fundamentals.

Ok, but I disagree that that is what Gervais did. Anyway.

You’re not wrong: Megyn Kelly is redeemable, but Ricky Gervais is intolerable. Weird scale of values.

I agree that addressing the person, or referring to the person as if they still are Previous Name is offensive, but that’s not what Gervais did. It’s more like he quoted, instead of used, the name. I fail to see how this is transphobic. That’s a powerful epithet. Anyway. People seem to simply take it for granted that…

It seems extreme that simply recalling the first name — while otherwise using the feminine pronoun throughout, and never calling today’s Caitlyn Bruce instead — would be “transphobic.” It’s getting to egg-shelly around here.

Both the article and the comments are saying he was transphobic. Do you hold that view? Can you/somebody explain why?

I know. And he says it in his last year too, as if he still isn’t used to it. And look at that picture of Lincoln on the wall. It’s all very poignant.

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