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With the help of Jared over at the Emerald, I found this Register Guard story that implies that we are intolerant, hate-mongering homophobes. Guess who supplied the information.
Quote: Toby Hill-Meyer, another member of the city work group, has encountered more direct ridicule as a result of gender identity. A student government senator at the UO, Hill-Meyer was recently mocked in The Commentator, a conservative student newspaper on campus, that used vulgar language in a person-on-the-street parody.
Since when is penis vulgar?
October 14th, 2004 at 9:49 pm
Must be doing something right.
October 15th, 2004 at 11:08 am
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.
October 15th, 2004 at 11:48 am
This is true, the dude parodies himself.
October 15th, 2004 at 3:14 pm
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.
October 15th, 2004 at 3:43 pm
It’s still surpassed by Dan Atkinson’s nascent campaign to refer to himself in the third person, though.
October 15th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Dan Atkinson’s just trying it on to see how it feels on him.
October 15th, 2004 at 8:44 pm
It looks like that sweater your grandma made you for Christmas when you were five, but with one fewer rabbit.
October 16th, 2004 at 6:51 pm
Oh, okay. Well, how about the editorial “we”? Does that suit us?
October 16th, 2004 at 7:33 pm
“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.
October 16th, 2004 at 7:48 pm
The “we” makes you sound like a queen.
October 17th, 2004 at 5:40 pm
And now this comment thread has come full circle.