Comments on: More About Hir http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:10:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Olly http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3278 Olly Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:40:32 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3278 And now this comment thread has come full circle. And now this comment thread has come full circle.

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3277 Timothy Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:48:58 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3277 The "we" makes you sound like a queen. The “we” makes you sound like a queen.

]]> By: Olly http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3276 Olly Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:33:44 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3276 "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. “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.

]]> By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3275 Danimal Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:51:33 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3275 Oh, okay. Well, how about the editorial "we"? Does that suit us? Oh, okay. Well, how about the editorial “we”? Does that suit us?

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3274 Timothy Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:44:14 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3274 It looks like that sweater your grandma made you for Christmas when you were five, but with one fewer rabbit. It looks like that sweater your grandma made you for Christmas when you were five, but with one fewer rabbit.

]]> By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3273 Danimal Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:05:26 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3273 Dan Atkinson's just trying it on to see how it feels on him. Dan Atkinson’s just trying it on to see how it feels on him.

]]> By: Olly http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3272 Olly Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:43:13 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3272 It's still surpassed by Dan Atkinson's nascent campaign to refer to himself in the third person, though. It’s still surpassed by Dan Atkinson’s nascent campaign to refer to himself in the third person, though.

]]> By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3271 Danimal Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:14:59 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3271 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. 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.

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3270 Timothy Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:48:13 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3270 This is true, the dude parodies himself. This is true, the dude parodies himself.

]]> By: Olly http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3269 Olly Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:08:24 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3269 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. 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.

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3268 Timothy Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:49:34 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/10/14/more-about-hir/#comment-3268 Must be doing something right. Must be doing something right.

]]>