Comments | metafictionally: come on eileen, oh i swear (what he means).

metafictionally

come on eileen, oh i swear (what he means).

Oct 28, 2009 22:30

I'm so glad that the grammarpolice community exists. It's like my nitpickiness about grammar and punctuation, but magnified by six thousand and made into a community! And they know so much more than me :D Reading through it is like reading Strunk & White, only cooler because it's written by the internet.

Also makes me self-conscious about my word choice and ( Read more... )

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p01s0n3d October 29 2009, 07:30:40 UTC

I wish I could make like you and write a letter to the editor of Seventeen, but I'm just too angry to leave anything coherent. Thanks for pointing it out to me though..... *fumes*

metafictionally October 29 2009, 07:33:49 UTC

It was a long email. In summary: I know that the article wasn't intended to be a dis on transpeople, but it came off that way, and I think that the trans community as a whole is due an apology in one of your next two issues.

That, and a bunch about how it was such a great opportunity to educate and they totally failed, and pointing out the ways that the journalism led to negative connotations, and their word choice was sucky, not to mention that the "He was actually a she!" caption is wrong because, uh, no, he was a he, and he still is a he, and he likely has always been a he.

So basically they misgendered a transguy and then slammed him. And then lumped transpeople in with perverts and drug addicts!

Stellar journalism. I'm sure you can tell I'm thrilled.