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With the help of Jared over at the Emerald, I found this Register Guard story that implies that we are intolerant, hate-mongering homophobes. Guess who supplied the information.
Quote: Toby Hill-Meyer, another member of the city work group, has encountered more direct ridicule as a result of gender identity. A student government senator at the UO, Hill-Meyer was recently mocked in The Commentator, a conservative student newspaper on campus, that used vulgar language in a person-on-the-street parody.
Since when is penis vulgar?
And now this comment thread has come full circle.
The “we” makes you sound like a queen.
“Us” like us? Or “us” like just you? Was that a rhetorical question?
Best go back to the third person. It makes Dan Atkinson sound more like a professional athlete.
Oh, okay. Well, how about the editorial “we”? Does that suit us?
It looks like that sweater your grandma made you for Christmas when you were five, but with one fewer rabbit.
Dan Atkinson’s just trying it on to see how it feels on him.
It’s still surpassed by Dan Atkinson’s nascent campaign to refer to himself in the third person, though.
Maybe there’s something we’re missing here. Some grand skewering of identity politics? If so, it puts Dan Atkinson’s long lost campaign for Left-Handed Rights squarely in the shade.
This is true, the dude parodies himself.
Oh, that’s golden. [Ze] was born male but today identifies as neither male or female. “I don’t fit into the available categorizations,” said Hill-Meyer, who prefers the term “gender queer.” Right. Exactly. Unless we’re missing something dramatic here, he’s (oops) a gay man. Which is fine. More power to Toby Hill-Meyer! But the definition of transgender they’re using – “someone who feels trapped in the wrong gender” (emphasis mine) – strikes me as subject to abuse by silly, self-aggrandizing people, as is my reading of this case.
And “ridicule” is relative, anyway. As my officemate observed, it sounds quite a lot like ridicule when you just quote the guy (dammit!) directly.
Must be doing something right.