puzzlegal:
Moderating:
msmith537:
the magazine now features mostly old ladies, transvestites, has-been actors, female athletes, and fat chicks
I believe the magazine has featured trans women, not transvestites. The word “transvestite” describes a man dressing as a woman, and has mostly been replaced with words like “cross dresser” or “drag queen”, switching on why he does it. It’s rude (and a violation of the board’s policy) to refer to trans women as transvestites, as that is misgendering them.
It’s also being a bit of a jerk to women to dismiss fat women who were selected for being beautiful fat women as “fat chicks”. This would not have garnered a mod note on its own, but it is the kind of language that makes this forum less friendly to women than we are trying to make it.
Understood. It was meant to be hyperbole reflecting how someone from 1985 with less then enlightened sensibilities might react to finding out that in the not to distant future, all SI cover models do not all look like Paulina Porizkova.