By this same logic, isn’t the original Zoolander offensive because of Will Ferrell’s Mugatu?

If they wanted to make fun of flamboyant, homosexual fashion designers, why didn’t they just ask a real flamboyant, homosexual designer like John Galliano to play Mugatu?

Oh, step on a rusty nail, haters. This is clearly a parody of the absurdity of the fashion world these days and not transphobic at all. I don’t even think he is supposed to be transgender in the first place. I think he’s supposed to be alien-like. Which is also a joke on how people have compared Cumberbatch’s…

This is Jezebel, you have to be outraged! don’t think things through, everything is just as it seems and never has any deeper meaning!

The problem is that trans terminology goes after the identities and lived experiences of women.

The only bad things I’ve seen TERFs saying about trans women is that they’re still men, even after transitioning. Trans women =/= women. How bad is that? It’s a biological fact.

Oh, jeeze, you sure out logic-ed me. Good one....

There are many gay people (I’m bi) on respected advocacy sites like Americablog that honestly feel the trans movement has been hostile to other groups and might have a different agenda.

Fun fact: you can find photos of the little girl’s brutalized corpse on google. Say what you want about “TERFs”, but nothing about this fucked up scenario would have made anyone but Synthia’s white knights look like the bad guys.

Cathy Brennan in fact had very little to do with it; GenderTrender was the blog that broke…

From the NY Times, August 30, 1993:

Articles like this remind me why I don’t take liberal feminism seriously anymore.

If Racial identity is social and not biological, doesn’t that actually validate Dolezal’s identity? If race is some man-made construct that’s not actually based on biological characteristics, then it’s arguable that identifying as black makes more sense than identifying as the opposite gender. It’s funny because a…

I like your line of questioning. This isn’t something that I talk about very much, but I am an ethnically white woman who was raised in a Latin American country by Latinas. My Spanish is slightly better than my English. All of my culture is Latino. But when I behave normally here in the States, people accuse me of…

YES. I think the paper did the right thing.

I completely agree with this. Roof should not be given publicity at all. He should not become a household name. The focus should be on the victims and the underlying societal issues that caused this horrific mass killing ie. Racism and gun control.

Yep. Just from the little bits we’ve heard about him, it sounds like Roof was the kind of guy who really wanted notoriety and the ‘respect’ of racist asshole everywhere.

It’s not a contradiction to be able to call this racist act of terrorism for what it is without calling to much attention to the man who did it.

This needs more stars, and is a pragmatic approach. Fuck that guy and his walking red flag of an existence.

“Why not publish a photo of Dylann Roof, the racist shooter of those nine victims? Don’t bury the lede.”