RuPaul Nails It

legion · 05-29-2014, 09:18 AM

Very rarely do I so completely agree with another person.

RuPaul’s aggressive tirade in defense of the term “tranny” - Salon.com

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After decades in the public eye as America’s most famous drag queen, RuPaul has developed a strong set of opinions. And he (the pronoun commonly used in the press when describing RuPaul’s offstage public pronouncements) isn’t shy about sharing them — or shaming those who disagree.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the reality-competition show RuPaul hosts on Logo, came under fire this past season for using “She-Mail” to describe messages from the host. (“Shemale” is considered a derogatory term for transgender people.) And RuPaul also courted controversy by remarking on Marc Maron’s podcast that those offended by the use of the word “tranny” “are fringe people who are looking for story lines to strengthen their identity as victims.” (For its part, Logo refused to broadcast “any anti-trans rhetoric.”)

Over the weekend, RuPaul accused those offended by his use of that term as well as “tranny” of operating in bad faith and policing his behavior in an attempt to become the oppressor, mocked the idea that the Logo network had distanced itself from his remarks, and joked about the concept of an LGBT community in the first place.

And then this:

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@RuPaul
Orwell’s book “Animal Farm”: The pigs didn’t really want a revolution, they just wanted to BE ‘Farmer John’

For the record, I currently have three trannies in my garage: two six-speeds and a four-speed.