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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    07/25/09

    In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
    It appears that many transgender women, prior to coming to terms with their gender identity, pursue hypermasculine careers, such as the military, as Ms. Ramsey did, in an attempt to "make men" of themselves. When I think about the level of emotional pain that's got to entail, it makes my heart hurt. I'm happy for her.
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    Image of NickelMD NickelMD
    07/25/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Its called the 'flight into hypermasculinity' and in fact its not just that they joined the military. Often transgender women would volunteer for the jobs with the highest mortality. This was in part an attempt to 'become a real man' and in part parasuicidal (untreated transgender people have about 20-30% suicidality. It falls to 1-4% after treatment.). One transwoman who was a tunnel rat in Viet Nam said she volunteered for that job because she knew that either she would come out of it as a 'real man' or she wouldn't come out at all. (Tunnel rats were soldiers who would go in search and destroy missions in the tunnel complexes the Viet Cong created. They were the 'smallest guys with the biggest cojones'.)

    regulus2.azstarnet.com/pdf/pdfs/447.pdf
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    07/25/09

    In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
    bitch, mary, please. I've been padding my facebook friend's list with trannies, and my straight coworkers are LOVING it - I'm MAKING them love it, or they know I'll BEAT THEM DOWN. tranny is the new black, I'm callin it.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    07/25/09

    In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
    The way I read the fifth- and fourth-to-last paragraphs, with the reference to genital reassignment surgery, she did indeed go for "the whole magilla."
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    Image of MissyMiss MissyMiss
    07/25/09

    In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
    Good for her. Late to get into the right body, but better late than never.
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    07/25/09

    In reply to Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny!
    You go, ma'am!
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    04/21/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    For the record, I quite like Amanda Palmer.
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    Image of z00L z00L
    04/21/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    I am way too high maintenance for that shit.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    04/21/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    Still with the make-up, Robert?
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    Image of Pareene Pareene
    04/21/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    ugh. festivals suck guys. GET OVER IT, AMERICA.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    04/20/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    The only bad thing about these pics is fake Jonah Hill. Even when fake, Jonah Hill ruins everything.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    04/20/09

    @Wrapitup: throw in skinny Seth Rogen and you have complete and utter ruination.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    04/20/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: true. Although , to be fair to portly Seth Rogen, he was at least partially ruinous.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    04/20/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    Nothing, nothing will ever be as lame as Burning Man.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    04/20/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    AINUB ON THE DANCE FLOOR


    bmm chh bmm chh bmm chh

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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    04/20/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    Coachella has been around for years. Snarking on this smells old.


    Next you'll be lamenting Lallapalooza.

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    Image of kathotdog kathotdog
    04/20/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    I don't go to festivals as I don't want to be around that many people. This is why I post on the internet. It is like having communal experience, but not really.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/20/09

    @kathotdog: Amen. The communal experience, but without having to experience Sartre's L'infer c'est les autres."
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    04/20/09

    @kathotdog: i don't go to festivals because generally the ratio of bands/artists i want to see versus the ones that i'd rather rape my own cat than see is badly, badly out of my favor. it's fucking heartbreaking to look at, like, the all points west line up some years and be like "OH MY GOD so-and-so they almost never tour!" and then be like, "oh god do i want to spend $100 to have to navigate radiohead fans to see this person?"
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    Image of naboo naboo
    04/20/09

    In reply to Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
    Actually, everyone had a good time. The captions are just trying too hard to be pre-9/11 Vice or vintage period BSL. Pareene, you can do way better than that (and you often do). And you'd probably have enjoyed it to.


    File this one under "sour grapes." Start saving up for next year.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    04/20/09

    @naboo: of course everyone who paid good money to go to a festival to see bands they like had a good time hanging out with their friends...? what the hell does that have to do with whether or not freak folk and chex towers are lame?
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