Suzanne Moore's transphobic explosion
Mainstream feminist writer Suzanne Moore wrote an article in the New Statesman. Most of it was all right, until suddenly she made a throwaway comment to how women should have bodies "like a Brazilian transsexual" http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/01/seeing-red-power-female-anger
- This was a bit of a fucked-up comment. Here's an article explaining exactly why:http://lgbt.co.uk/component/content/article/28-news/issues/213-no-not-moore-transphobia
- People called Moore out on her comments. She didn't take it well.
- First she did the "you're just trying to get offended" thing.
@jonanamary I use the word transexual. I use lots of 'offensive' words. If you want to be offended it your prerogative.- Then it got a lot worse. I don't know where to begin with this tweet, I really don't.
- @jonanamary I dont prioritise this fucking lopping bits of your body over all else that is happening to women Intersectional enough for you?
- She liked that tweet so much, she made it even more problematic and tweeted it to her whole timeline.
- Then she decided to explain why she'd used the phrase in the first place.
- @jonanamary @JonnieMarbLes because I deliberately used the word Brazilian transexual as ideal shape small hips and big T and A. So ban me.
- At this point, Suzanne Moore could have got out. She could have, once people explained why this wasn't a very good excuse, apologised for a flippantly ignorant and offensive line. She, er, didn't. First she played the "you're missing the point, being angry about this" card, clearly not absorbing that what she'd been saying had been really, really terrible.
- @jonanamary @JonnieMarbLes we are not getting anywhere really and a shame. The main points of my essay seem lost in your own anger now.
- Then this happened. If you're counting, this is the second reference to a bigoted radfem ideology that trans women are mutilated men, and the eleventy billionth rejection of intersectionality.
- Making sure to tick all the boxes in a "columnist gets called out on bullshit" inventory, Moore went for the old-fashioned "language policing" defence.
- Luckily, she had her chum Frankie Boyle expressing a bit of sympathy.
- And also, guess who? That's right, Caitlin Moran, with whom Moore shared a Very Hilarious joke.
- @caitlinmoran thats because you are a white supremacist transphobic Muslim hating Hampstead dwelling ,dank smelling wanker. Like what I am.
- Complaints about the mob obviously came in, with bonus points for using a fancy word, and another accusation of misplaced rage.
- Then another sarcastic, flippant comment...
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LolaMatt, do you really think hurling the misogynist "bitch" word around at her sounds like a good idea? Am I the only one who feels she was being racist as well?2013-01-17T16:27:48.768Z- Shelly AsquithJust a point - she didn't say women *should* look like 'Brazilian transexuals', but that lots of women want to, and she criticised them for this. This is...more2013-01-09T01:27:23.874Z
- Abraham Vintherhuh?2013-06-06T16:54:23.021Z
- LolaMatt, do you really think hurling the misogynist "bitch" word around at her sounds like a good idea? Am I the only one who feels she was being racist as well?2013-01-17T16:27:48.768Z
- Matt Peakedisgusting transphobic nasy bitch!2013-01-14T00:15:05.277Z
- Shelly AsquithJust a point - she didn't say women *should* look like 'Brazilian transexuals', but that lots of women want to, and she criticised them for this. This is...Just a point - she didn't say women *should* look like 'Brazilian transexuals', but that lots of women want to, and she criticised them for this. This is obviously still bigoted, I just thought worth noting the context is not quite right. She is deplorable.more2013-01-09T01:27:23.874Z
