Blake Lively repeatedly refers to transgender people as traxxies in resurfaced interviews

[jemgirl90]

Fury as Blake Lively repeatedly refers to transgender people as trannies in resurfaced interviews https://t.co/LCUykYaPgW pic.twitter.com/Z64aILEELW
- Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) August 18, 2024
Source:https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1825279598696796503Read more... )

Comments

[ialmrnt5]

literally it used to be a normal word for people to use

if it was said in the last 6 or so years it'd be different

[tigrebella]

I mean, so did using the r-slur and calling things you didn’t like gay, but that didn’t make it ok then either. I’m the same age as Blake and was raised in a fairly conservative, small town in Pennsylvania and still knew these words were not appropriate.

[scaredsquee]

it was a catchphrase on drag race or whatever show iirc “hot txxx mess.”

kind of wild how far along we’ve come to make certain words unacceptable to use.

[skyler_white_yo]

I think it was a contestant on Project Runway that had that catchphrase. I believe he apologized for saying it.

[adeliatala42]

Did they ever confirm #4 is a boy? I know they are named Olin or whatever…

[goldenshopper]

Yeah, Ryan confirmed it

After commending Bell’s efforts to raise money and awareness for mental health struggles, Reynolds then reveals that he also has a son.

“I want to share with you that I too have a son and that if … boy, John, if I love him one-tenth as much as you love Jake, I feel like I've done a pretty damn good job,” he adds.

https://people.com/ryan-reynolds-confirms-baby-no-4-with-wife-blake-lively-is-a-boy-8684798

[ebenetwo]

I feel like the reason they kept having kids is cos he just wants a boy so it’s like one more one more

He gives me that vibe

[genbu_no_miko24]

[michaelscott]

i never ever used this term and nor did any of my friends bc we knew it was wrong. it kinda shocks me how normalised it was for others

[genbu_no_miko24]

For me it's right up there with "that's so gay/don't be such f**" or "how ret****" and a few other words. It'd be hypocritical for me to act all offended and shocked when this was literally acceptable and normalized to a high degree when I was a kid.

I think it didn't get pushback until my 20s.

[michaelscott]

me and my friends definitely fell victim to the "that's so gay" era but... we were also gay so idk. we didn't use the other words

[skankyoulater]

I'm curious when this became a slur? Isn't it just a shortened / affectionate way to say transgender?

[genbu_no_miko24]

Sometime before the 2010s and up people in the community started saying it was a slur. Cause I remember that and "fierce" were Christian Siriano's famous catchphrases when he was on Project Runway. But he got into a bit of trouble from the trans community for using it so much :"If you think of heterosexuals, they have white-trash women and trailer parks, and we have drag queens and tr****s. I don't know if I'm the one who can explain it. It's, like, drag queens are just there." But that didn't go over well with the community and so he later apologized and said he'd remove it from his vocabulary.

I remember that being one of the first times seeing pushback against it cause it wasn't there much in the past iirc.

[ty]

Roz Kaveney wrote in The Guardian in 2010 that tranny had recently appeared to be undergoing reappropriation to be used with pride by trans activists, but "it didn't take", due in part to the word's continued use as a term of abuse.[5] After using the slur in 2011, Lance Bass said he had thought the term was not a slur after having heard it used on RuPaul's Drag Race or Project Runway, but he apologized for using the slur after learning that it was not acceptable.[6] GLAAD's 2011 Transgender Resource Page said the term is "usually considered offensive and/or defamatory to transgender people".[7]

[slinkydinks]

It also used to be used to describe "transvestites," but I think the proximity to trans people in the drag world didn't really allow for there to be distinction between the two communities, despite RuPaul's (and other queens') insistence on continuing to use it.

[progression]

I watched someone make several videos about this today because she considers herself an ally to the trans community, but she kept ignoring the 50% of the trans creators who said the word was acceptable (ish) at the time and that it’s a word still used to this day by many trans people. They weren’t saying they’re ok w/cis people using it, just that it’s not always considered a slur and she didn’t want to listen.

And that’s where I get tired of people coming after the latest widely disliked celeb. I will neeeeever defend Lively’s bullshit, but people are also pulling things out from the archives to give themselves a voice rather than the actual targets of Lively’s assholeness.

[skyler_white_yo]

The dog piling is getting old.
I know that the use of that word was somewhat acceptable 10-15 years ago but definitely not acceptable today. That said, it’s not really my lane to say we should hang her out to dry for using a word in 2009 that is not acceptable today.

[jojito]

Tbf I doubt this will get any traction. The dailymail, like many others, will do anything for more clicks.

[recognitions]

It's interesting that ONTD will go after Blake for the pettiest thing but suddenly when it's criticizing transphobia that's too far

But then again it's not like this place used to be full of terfs or anything