Comments on: WTF? http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:54:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: omatty http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57601 omatty Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:59:59 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57601 Someone posted it on facebook.... I guess I'm late to the party...haha. Someone posted it on facebook…. I guess I’m late to the party…haha.

]]> By: Véronique http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57587 Véronique Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:27:13 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57587 I've been wondering that myself, Helen. I saw that commercial quite a while ago, and I thought others had seen it too. But now it's making the rounds again, and a lot of people seem not to have seen it before. Things move in mysterious ways! I’ve been wondering that myself, Helen. I saw that commercial quite a while ago, and I thought others had seen it too. But now it’s making the rounds again, and a lot of people seem not to have seen it before. Things move in mysterious ways!

]]> By: helenboyd http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57586 helenboyd Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:58:56 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57586 omatty, where'd you find that? that commercial has been around for a few years, but all of a sudden it's showing up all over the place. omatty, where’d you find that? that commercial has been around for a few years, but all of a sudden it’s showing up all over the place.

]]> By: omatty http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57570 omatty Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:14:20 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57570 I'm sorry to comment on this thread, but I can't get on threads that don't have comments. I get in an endless, "login to comment" cycle. Hmmph. But, this commercial is of general interest, and might serve as a good dose of positive humanism to counter the sadness of the story you posted on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaGbTr8B2o I’m sorry to comment on this thread, but I can’t get on threads that don’t have comments. I get in an endless, “login to comment” cycle. Hmmph.

But, this commercial is of general interest, and might serve as a good dose of positive humanism to counter the sadness of the story you posted on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaGbTr8B2o

]]> By: whatsername http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57443 whatsername Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:35:33 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57443 The way people hate on each other, ESPECIALLY when they've been hated on themselves...it just never makes sense. :( The way people hate on each other, ESPECIALLY when they’ve been hated on themselves…it just never makes sense. :(

]]> By: divadarya http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57437 divadarya Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:53:47 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57437 “They said, ‘What the fuck are you? Are you a girl or a boy?’” Translate that into Spanish, and it's almost word for word what a man said to a transwoman in West Hollywood about five years ago before he beat her to death with a baseball bat. We need a dialogue with our brothers and sisters in the "LGB" part on this. I also think that it's amplified by the invisible plague in all of our communities: alcohol and substance abuse. Invisible because its such a widely accepted part of our "culture", not that invisible because I've witnessed the stumbling, the unconsciousness and the vomiting in the streets at Robertson and Santa Monica on a Sunday morning about 2:15am. In this case, drunk people do stupid things they normally wouldn't; I don't know if they were drunk, but if we were betting right now, I'd raise. “They said, ‘What the fuck are you? Are you a girl or a boy?’”

Translate that into Spanish, and it’s almost word for word what a man said to a transwoman in West Hollywood about five years ago before he beat her to death with a baseball bat.
We need a dialogue with our brothers and sisters in the “LGB” part on this. I also think that it’s amplified by the invisible plague in all of our communities: alcohol and substance abuse. Invisible because its such a widely accepted part of our “culture”, not that invisible because I’ve witnessed the stumbling, the unconsciousness and the vomiting in the streets at Robertson and Santa Monica on a Sunday morning about 2:15am. In this case, drunk people do stupid things they normally wouldn’t; I don’t know if they were drunk, but if we were betting right now, I’d raise.

]]> By: jackiejoyjones http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57433 jackiejoyjones Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:24:01 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57433 Although I have many gay friends, I also have experienced quite a bit of ...well, let's just say mild intolerance from within the LGBT community. I have always been puzzled as to why that is when there clearly is a 'T' at the end of LGBT. Although I have many gay friends, I also have experienced quite a bit of …well, let’s just say mild intolerance from within the LGBT community. I have always been puzzled as to why that is when there clearly is a ‘T’ at the end of LGBT.

]]> By: VivaZoya http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57432 VivaZoya Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:12:34 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57432 Appalling. How do you "denounce someone as androgynous"? That phrasing is really weird. Appalling.
How do you “denounce someone as androgynous”? That phrasing is really weird.

]]> By: Madame George http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/03/06/wtf-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57430 Madame George Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:34:23 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=7865#comment-57430 I just saw this on the mHB. I'm stunned. I just saw this on the mHB. I’m stunned.

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