I think the author is attempting to point out the hypocrisy of supporting "alternative beauty" while continuing to practice blatant forms of discrimination. Admittedly, I don't know much about the site, but "what they sell" seems to be hot women of an "alternative" nature. On the surface, there seems no reason to discriminate against hot "alternative" pre-operative trans women unless they're showing genitals over there. (Are they? I can't tell from my quick site perusal.) So... why the discrimination? Why no trans girls? The message *I* am hearing is the one I hear all the time from sites like these... "Trans girls aren't allowed because being trans is icky, and oh, btw, you're really men and that would, like, totally gross out our readers if they found out."
Yeah, fuck that shit. You're probably right that there's a lot of other sites with problematic transphobic positions like this. I suppose I just liked this particular calling out of transphobia.
What they're doing at SG, why, and all that... I have no idea, really, and scarcely care. It's just nice seeing one of my kin kicking ass with such a great response.
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Date: 2011-01-31 10:05 am (UTC)Yeah, fuck that shit. You're probably right that there's a lot of other sites with problematic transphobic positions like this. I suppose I just liked this particular calling out of transphobia.
What they're doing at SG, why, and all that... I have no idea, really, and scarcely care. It's just nice seeing one of my kin kicking ass with such a great response.