Current mood:

annoyed

Transsex, Lies and the Re: tag
Okay, this is semi-sorta fandom...it's from a fanlist for a webcomic (Venus Envy Comic for Venus Envy.) Venus Envy is a comic dealing with Trans* issues (the main character is a transsexual girl, who currently seems to be aiming towards a possible relationship with a transsexual boy) and, in case you're not familiar with the trans* community as a whole...we're talking well and nice steaming pot of simmering wank. It's FINALLY touched a fandom...

Now, a bit of background...well and a while away, (almost a month) someone changed the name of a thread after it had shifted and...well, here's the original post (edited for reasons of preserving anonymity...)


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Umm... the subject line here is "Re: [venusenvycomic] suspend elections in
'08?" which implies that it's a reply... Where's the original "suspend
elections in '08?" If you're starting a new thread, don't put an "Re:" in
the subject line! And if you're replying to a message but changing the
subject, don't put an "Re:" in front of it either, and leave the original
subject intact somewhere so it's easier for people to follow the thread. For
example, "New Subject (was: Old Subject)" with no "Re:" in front.
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Okay, fine. We have netiquette lessons. A little wierd in the subject, but go for it.

The "perp" responds, of course, rather sanely I believe...


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I appologise for any confusion.

I left the 'RE:' because it was a reply to another
post...

I changed the subject because I felt I was departing
from the origional subject (more that the thread had
gone completely off topic).

I did leave what I felt was sufficient length of the
origional post for readers to derive the origin of the
thread...
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So far, so un-wanky, right?


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This message was sitting in my Drafts folder for a while, and I wasn't going
to send it, but then I saw "Re: [venusenvycomic] Religion" without a message
starting a thread called "Religion." Without doing a little bit of
searching, I wouldn't know that the message was a reply to the latest "New
file uploaded to venusenvycomic" thread, and therefore should've had a
subject line like "Religion (was: Re: New file uploaded to venusenvycomic)"
and NOT "Re: Religion." "Re: Religion" implies that "Religion" (with no
"Re:" in front of it) exists somewhere. The "Re:" in "Re: random topic"
signifies that it's a reply to a message with the subject "random topic,"
not that it's simply a reply to a message; it signals a reply to a specific
message or series of messages, and not a generic reply. In short, if you're
changing the subject line, DO NOT put an "Re:" in front of it.

The rest of the message, written a while ago, relates to "Re: suspend
elections in '08?"

You just don't have a clue, do you? The "RE:" in front of a subject means
there's another message out there somewhere that has the same subject, but
WITHOUT THE "RE:." I did finally manage to figure out what message you were
replying to after I went back and started reading another thread which I had
skipped over, a thread with a subject line that is NEVER MENTIONED in your
reply.

"RE: [venusenvycomic] changing subjects..." means it's a reply to
"[venusenvycomic] changing subjects..." Put an "RE:" in front of a subject
line IF AND ONLY IF you're using the same subject line as the message you're
replying to. If you're going to change the subject line in your reply, take
out the "RE:" from the front and leave the original subject line somewhere
in the new subject, like the example I gave. The fact that your message is a
reply to another message is IRRELEVANT.
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Now, that's nitpicky. That's not the wank.


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[Name of previous poster here],

You can do two things...

1. Shut the hell up
2. Like it...

Im leaving this list and all other t* GAG lists for a few reasons. Mainly
because "skin transvestites" like yourself are rampant on the internet..
Have you gone FT yet or are you still lurking in the shadows having a good
wank when youput on womens clothes? Your kind disgusts me. You all act
like guys and it shows. You will never pass and neither will any of your
older secondary friends. Leave this poor person alone and stop beoing a
fucking nazi.

I figure if your gonna transistion you do it and get it over with and fuck
the T* community its a huge joke/excuse and an umbrella for people who
dont and can never pass to be able to hang with those of us who have
normal lives.
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(Glossary:

FT: Full Time - living as your post-transition gender all the time. You have to have gone FT at least a year before you get surgery.

Passing: Convincing someone that you're the "other" sex/your post-transition sex.

Secondary: Fuck if I know...late transitioning, maybe?)


As a footnote: She really did it. Left the group, and deleted her lj.