Oh my God me too. I have a bursting shooting star of love for this song and the trailer and the band. But that rly frustrated me. They've clearly been an anti-homophobic band, and they are seeking to push boundaries of gender. Even the little girl, who could have easily been a boy except we knew they'd cast a girl--I just love that crossing boundaries thing--but the term ladyboy just can't fly. I tried and tried to think of a way it'd be okay and mebe mebe mebe if the character called herself that? To reclaim the insult as something else??? Kind of like a gay character referring to himself as The Fag or something... then MAYBE. But that's not how it was presented. So THANK YOU GERARD. Proving yourself to be a class act.
I mean, Dr. Death Defying called the character "Ladyboy" on his twitter and made reference once before (a long time ago) to "packing up the lady" (even before the trailer came out). It seems to me that they've always intended to call him Ladyboy. I think maybe Gerard was just doing a little damage control with that tweet. I hate to think like that, but I don't understand why they would let it get so far if it was a mistake.
Is it bad that if you are right, I would still forgive them if they upped the damage control STAT and went much louder as on the record about transgender labels? I haven't rly followed all the twitter stuff. So I didn't know when or where she was called ladyboy. You could be right, and maybe for those of us who care, G will have to be more vocal than one little tweet comment, or our love for him will always have an asterisk next to it. No, people don't have to be perfect, but with gender and labels I do expect the highest vigilance from them. Their anti-homophobic message was why I moved from liking fic about the band to liking the band.
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I mean, Dr. Death Defying called the character "Ladyboy" on his twitter and made reference once before (a long time ago) to "packing up the lady" (even before the trailer came out). It seems to me that they've always intended to call him Ladyboy. I think maybe Gerard was just doing a little damage control with that tweet. I hate to think like that, but I don't understand why they would let it get so far if it was a mistake.
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