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thank you.. I should have known that. I got mixed up with "trans-sexual" and "transgender" re which type has surgery.
I don't think either category, by definition, has definitely had surgery. I think both can indicate someone who is in the process, taking hormones, dressing the gender they're attaining, but haven't completed the process with surgery.
"Cross dressers" only do the appearance but not the surgery, as far as I know. I think. Maybe.
Yet another magazine folds to political correctness just like Rolling Stone did when they put the Boston Marathon Bomber on the cover.. Can we file this under the cancel culture club doings?
The world is getting turned over into a Bizzaro realm where wrong is right and right is wrong. I wonder if that Brazilian trans model had the operation or it is a clever tuck and tape job or someone is really good at working the photo shop software?
I can't imagine the number of teen boys that will be questioning themselves when they find out she is really a he?
Really nothing wrong with it other than giving the bigots a fit. Doesn’t affect me in the slightest, nor you. And as long as they disclose upfront they’re not actually female, anyone dating them knows what’s up from the getgo.
Really nothing wrong with it other than giving the bigots a fit. Doesn’t affect me in the slightest, nor you. And as long as they disclose upfront they’re not actually female, anyone dating them knows what’s up from the getgo.
So people are Bigots (Racist, Sexist, Homophobic) now if they DISAGREE with your idiocy?
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Really nothing wrong with it other than giving the bigots a fit. Doesn’t affect me in the slightest, nor you. And as long as they disclose upfront they’re not actually female, anyone dating them knows what’s up from the getgo.
This is about marketing, though, to paying customers.
I'm absolutely in favor of people living their lives the way they want, and self-identifying as they wish. Everyone just gets one life, and should be allowed to live in the way they see fit.
This is different, though. This is a marketing move, that probably won't go well. Maybe the editors realize the end is coming and want to make one more big salvo over the bow before they sink.
The swimsuit edition is their most popular publication, and it's comparable to a regular customer going into a favorite restaurant and saying "surprise me"! to the chef, and waiting on what interesting and delicious food is about to be served up. Based on what the chef believes the customers want. And out comes liver and onions with lima beans. Something a very few, but hardly anyone, thinks is delicious.
Sports Illustrated has basically thumbed their noses at their customer base, IMHO. Maybe just to be "fresh" and "out there", as they've kind of been in the past with the swimsuit edition, but they were "out there" in a way that was pleasing to their male customers.
I'm just not sure who that sort of cover is supposed to appeal to. The closest I can come to it is gay women but even that seems like a stretch.
Last edited by clutchcargo777; 07-11-2020 at 08:55 AM..
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