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Regarding the Smith!fail I posted about last night, there is now a petition circling.

Still planning on writing a letter to tptb though, once my migraine stops and I get this covering letter done.

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Crossposts: http://rhipowered.livejournal.com/842602.html

Smith is refusing to let this Gold Key guide host prospies, because he's a trans guy. (This is despite him stating that he would inform all prospies that would be assigned to him and that they could choose not to stay with him if they were uncomfortable.)

Here are his words, and here.

Get the word out. We know already that if there is one thing TPTB at Smith hate, it's an alum stink. Especially as Reunion approaches.

(Smith's issues with regards to trans women are myriad, and while that desperately needs to come into play and be resolved, this situation needs to be addressed in and of itself, please.)

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Crossposts: http://rhipowered.livejournal.com/842288.html

So, in Sunshine on Leith, I threw in a minor character who is both human and genderqueer/non-binary/neutrois.*

Because seriously, I started thinking a little about all the SF fandoms I love--now, admittedly, I run in particular circles, but in the future, why the fuck aren't there more humans of non-binary gender?

Okay--I freely admit this is a completely rhetorical question. I know why there aren't more characters in canon or fic, because much as it sucks, the concepts are not considered mainstream in the dominant paradigm and many people are afraid to write about them for fear of doin it rong. Still, I have half a mind to put it to a challenge and set it forth in

transfic or something.

Though then I'd have to write a 101 and things and I just do not know.

* Which of these, I'm not sure. Dr Ayala says it's none of my business as we only know per in a professional context. Also, I don't know how Gaila knew per is per pronoun...handwavey magic!

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Crossposts: http://rhipowered.livejournal.com/828214.html

Yes, I tweeted this but I do not even care.

Add massive transphobia to the list of explicit Glee fuckups. (They've probably been anti-trans before, but I don't have the spoons to go dig it up.)

NO WORDS, other than WHY THE FUCK BOTHER DOING IT. Except to be offensive.

h/t to

feverbeats for the info. Please do not come in here and try to explain the logic to me (I'm in the telly industry and well aware of showrunning/censors/viewing public), I just don't give a fuck.

Current Mood: angry
Crossposts: http://rhipowered.livejournal.com/809970.html

Seriously, I think that yours truly or anyone else out there in fandom land interested in social justice could be the fail police, and it would be a full-time job, but SORRY NO SPOONS. Suffice it to say, at the moment, I do not have anything to say about the massive trans* and genderfail fuckup that is the latest to come out of fandom.

Except that:
- The complete lack of apology and massive defensive idiocy by the author makes me want to vomit.
- I feel a bit numb. Not being angry is a bad sign.
- You know, honestly, while fail does happen across the scope of fandom, why does this keep cropping up in RPS of late? Are the answers difficult ones like what Vito and Thoracopagus were saying this week? (see Primer post for those links.) I must chew.

Collecting links, though. Please be warned that there are assault triggers in the author's comments and possibly in the posts due to discussion.
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