Really? When did this happen? I’ve heard the word “tranny” even be used on commercial television.
Where do you live, and how many trans people do you know? “Tranny” isn’t **as **bad as fag (and usually used out of ignorance rather than an actual intent to be insulting), but it’s definitely not kosher. Maybe a better analogy would be “Oriental” in the U.S.
Well, I AM horny, and if she’s post-op…
Whoosh?
tranny = transmission in some car commercials.
Or maybe I’m seeing things that aren’t there.
I thought what you thought.
That word is “offensive” for no logical reason I have ever been able to discern.
No, it is not at all analogous to Oriental. Oriental as a descriptor of persons is offensive because it is based on an outmoded worldview. But Oriental is not and has never been a pejorative.
Tranny, on the other hand, is a slur. It is nothing but a slur. It is transphobic and given that its use is almost universally against women, misogynistic to boot.
The equivalent of a thread entitled “MIss China: Tranny?” would be “Miss Nigeria: Nigger?” It is absolutely indefensible.
And Miss USA is failing a sobriety test!
Also, I’ve reached a point in life where very few women make me go “DAMN!”. Miss Dominican Republic is one such woman. Dear God, she’s beautiful.
Miss Phillippines makes Miss Dominican Republic look like a piker.
Miss Ukraine may be ostensibly missing an arm, but that hair makes up for it.
Miss China…well, hopefully it’s just a bad shot of her. Yikes.
As far as the way she’s built–I think the suit is extremely unflattering. If she was wearing something more like Miss Phillippines’ suit, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Oh, come on- you can totally tell that she is sucking it in!
And when is it you’ll decide that the replacement word to be used instead of tranny is offensive, and request yet another name be used?
Well, if people use that word as a put down, then yeah.
Them girls need sammiches…
Some of 'em need a whole bunch.
Is it just me or does Miss Japan look a bit like the Joker?
I’d just like to state that I’m going to continue to use the term “tranny.”
No kidding; it would be like fucking a bicycle, all hip bones and clavicles.
I think it’s the suspiciously receded hairline that makes Miss China look…off.
Miss Japan, in any given year, is an amalgam of body parts and facial features, each of which may or may not have been cute – on the original body from which they were excised. I think the point made above is relevant - you have to be a bit weird from the start anyway to enter one of these competitions.
I certainly don’t care who wins them, but I recall a scandal a few years ago in Thailand when it was eventually revealed that the winner of a beauty contest was a post-op. Many red faces all around, and they took the title away from her.
They actually do have transsexual beauty contests here, the Miss Tiffany’s Pageant being the biggest one, but the one I mention above was definitely not one of them.
On what basis? Is there a rule that Miss Whatever has to be biologically female?