You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
So I was watching America's Next Top Model, and during the judging panel of today's episode, both Paulina Porizkova and Tyra Banks used the word "tranny" in reference to one of the girls in the competition.
It's not like I have high expectations of ANTM or anything (and it's also not like Christian Siriano and Chris March didn't use that word on a regular basis during Project Runway 4), but to hear a slur used like that on national television was a little jarring. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it still made me angry enough to turn off the television and come up here to write this post. It really bothers me that people--whether on television, in books or in everyday conversation--will use that word like that, as if it's a perfectly acceptable word. It's not.
It's not like I have high expectations of ANTM or anything (and it's also not like Christian Siriano and Chris March didn't use that word on a regular basis during Project Runway 4), but to hear a slur used like that on national television was a little jarring. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it still made me angry enough to turn off the television and come up here to write this post. It really bothers me that people--whether on television, in books or in everyday conversation--will use that word like that, as if it's a perfectly acceptable word. It's not.