“Kill yourself you tranny faggot” was the contents of an anonymous comment I received the other day. I seldom receive comments like that, but when I do, they typically come from anonymous sources, who do not have the guts to stand behind their words.
I’ve been called worse to my face, so it does not bother me.
In fact, I find it a little amusing that a gutless coward is slipping into their anonymous big girl panties to find the nerve to call me a “faggot.”
I also find it sad that comments like that represent the feelings of some civilians out there, who are literally trying to kill us (dial up my good friend Diana’s blog any day of the week to see what I mean).
And that’s all I have to say about that.
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| Charley Chase (right) femulating in the 1934 film Four Parts. |
In my early dressing days (just coming out) I would go to, and sometimes with my wife in the early '90's, to The Front Page in Saint Louis. It was a tranny and mixed crowd, featuring drag shows six nights a week. My wife and I were there on a Saturday night in the cold of winter when bullets shattered the street facing pane glass windows. Everyone hit the floor.
ReplyDeleteSo, 'sticks and stones can break your bones', but, bullets can kill you. Fortunately nobody got hit. The bar closed in the late '90's.
Angel Amore
Those comments scary sad and sobering
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1990s transgender people were invisible essentially we were unknown unknown entity. Along with that there was less acceptance however I found it easier to go out and pass as a woman because no one considered that I may be transgender
Today the transgender grievance is being played by the right wing so often that it generates a huge amount of hate and I sometimes feel unsafe and an easy target and often feel that others are looking at me and reading me
Paula G
wah!
DeleteI dislike gender bigots who hide behind their keyboards, Probably wearing a skirt while they did it.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...makes me wonder why he was seeking out this kind of blog to begin with. Might be having issues of who they really are.
ReplyDeleteDear Anon...
DeleteFor my dollar, 'you are right on the money'.
I see this behavior as a Freudian Classic: ''Reaction formation".
Basically, this type of angry, enraged emotionally charged outburst is demonstrated publicly, to cover up their true repressed emotions of 'interest', 'curiosity', maybe even attraction, self identification, homosexual lust... ect..
"Haters gonna hate''---but often they have no clue as to why...
Velma
My thoughts exactly. If they don't like "Faggots" why are they wasting their time visiting femulating blogs.
DeleteI’m active in the TG & CD social life in the DC area. When I went to my first meetup with one of the local groups, I was prepared to encounter strident “Queer” politics and loud activists. Yes, there are some activists, but I discovered that the group is a representative cross-section of DC— military, ex-military, government contractors, technologists, lawyers, lobbyists and so forth. There are quite few former Seals, SF operators (De Oppresso Liber) , and Army Rangers amongst them.
ReplyDeleteWhat we mostly have in common is a desire to femulate part-time or live our lives as TG women, and just go about our business, bothering no one.
Life is too short to feed the trolls.
I seldom receive comments like that, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis... 😉 It never ceases to amaze me what faceless people will say on the internet when there is no immediate threat of being punched in the face - or worse.
ReplyDeleteI decided long ago that if anybody called me "Tranny faggot" I would enthusiastically reply, "YES!" and smile broadly. I wouldn't have to force the smile, though tranny bisexual would be more accurate. Out and proud Girl, I celebrate my Self. :)
ReplyDeleteI find the more extreme the comment, the more insecure that person is about their sexuality and gender. As it's repressed, the opposite view outbursts in a flood of anger and hate
ReplyDeleteThe only time I read anything smacking of sexual perversion in my area is when there are reports of men going after little boys and girls, men raping women, the member of the clergy or sports coach going after students. A certain Republican Congressman from Florida comes to mind. I never read anything concerning transgender women or men or cross dressers assaulting people.
ReplyDeleteThat is why I went to moderated comments, too many hateful comments and many of them are from trans people. I had a MAGA on Facebook that I had to “unfriend,” the person was quoting Fox News and other conservative conspiracy theories. His Facebook page was all about his “sexy” poses, my guess is that he never went out in public crossdressed.
ReplyDeleteMany of the comments come from my support of drag queens and crossdresssers, the only “true” trans person are those who had GCS. I think that they have a lot in internalized transphobia, they need to separate “us” from “them.”
I have moderated comments from Day 1 of this blog. It's the only way to go in this day and age.
DeleteSadly, the people who hate us are afraid of real world things not being as black and white as they believe the world should be. They would rather destroy the evidence that the world is made of many colors (or, at least, shades of gray), than to confront the idea that what they have been led to believe for many years is wrong.
ReplyDeleteWestern religion has taught (not always according to scripture, but social custom of the day) that homosexuality and gender variance is an abomination. I feel that this is because of the short life span that many people had centuries ago. Without knowing it, they were maximizing the chances (with more people's genes being available for reproduction) that they would have descendants that would survive the many plagues and pestilences of their day.
As a member of the LGBT community, these fearful people are a danger to me. And I will fight them at every opportunity to do so, as they put our community at risk....
Sometimes I think, whether biblical based or by custom, the anti-gay/lesbian hostility is based on the replenishing the male population because men go off to war, get killed and men are needed to take care of all the fertile women left behind.
DeleteSorry to hear you received such an unpleasant comment. Real men don't message femulating websites with spleen; an angry and conflicted individual does.
ReplyDeletePenny from Edinburgh.
Too long didn't read, don't be a Tranny Faggot. Also don't kill yourself.
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