Piny of Feministe hits back at the stupid “it’s ok to use sexist slurs if the target is conservative” idea.

I thought I’d talk a bit about the “Ann Coulter is a tranny” thing, and why it’s transphobic. It’s based on a bunch of transphobic ideas. Trans women all look alike. Trans women all look like men. Trans women all look totally different from “real” women. Trans women are obvious, and oblivious to their inability to blend in: cis people are much more perceptive about gender cues than trans people: trans women are delusional. Trans women are ugly and pathetic. Women who look like trans women are ugly and pathetic.

Read the quote in context here.

Um. Yeah. Whether Coulter is or isn’t is sort of beside the point. The point is if you “know better” than to sexualize someone on your side of the aisle but not to sexualize an opponent then you don’t know better.

Also, mocking a transsexual is approximately as funny as making fun of a diabetic (who needs hormones — insulin in this case — to be healthy), of someone who needs glasses (who needs prosthetics to function comfortably), or someone who wears or wore orthodontic braces (who had medical intervention to correct the way their body did or would have otherwise grown without intervention.)

Also, “trannie?”