transsexual wank (not as fun as that makes it sound)
feminist_fatale on LJ just seems to be full of wank. First it was asking "why slash, is it harmful, is it feminist" (blah blah blah it'sbeendonemoveON), and now a discussion started by estu_l_aftadai (the [incredibly annoying] mod?) about transsexuals turns wanky.

estu_l_aftadai goes on to heights of offensive idiocy by explaining why they won't call MTF transsexuals "she" or "her" in the comments.

Almost all comments are a trainwreckish goldmine of idiocy, my personal favourite bit being this comment by lovecrafty: What does it hurt you to play along?

How far exactly are you supposed to play along?

Let's say I'm sitting at a bar and an attractive transsexual approaches me and asks me to by zir a drink. Now, if an attractive women did this, I'd probably say "Sure." and buy her a drink, because, you know, maybe I'll get laid. And then maybe I'll fall in love, and we'll get married and have babies, and life will be peachy keen. True, that's probably not what will happen, but the possibility it could is why I would by the drink.

But I don't want to have sex with a transsexual, and I certainly don't want to fall in love with and get married to one, so obviously I should react differently to the offer to buy "her" a drink.

But then, I'm making a distinction between a transsexual woman and a real woman. I'm not "playing along".

Oh, WTF. WTF, indeed.

[ETA]: After the transsexual post, spaze asks for it "Do We as Humans have an inaliable right to define who we are as individuals?", even though they should really just let it go.

Along with rehashes of earlier opinions by lovecrafty (for the love of god just shut up), spaze also gets this serious and polite reply from estu_l_aftadai (and by serious and polite, I mean stupid and stupid).