TW: trans* V feminists, but this one's in a national paper

29  2013-01-13 by [deleted]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/13/julie-burchill-suzanne-moore-transsexuals

Summary:

Feminist Guardian writer Suzanne Moore causes minor twitter butthurt by saying women were angry about "not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual".

She is hounded off twitter by what is apparently the trans* lobby. Her final tweet is "People can just fuck off really. Cut their dicks off and be more feminist than me. Good for them."

Her considerably less leftwing friend and colleague Julie Burchill, the closest thing The Guardian has to a true troll writes the above piece.

For further context, the Guardian and the Observer (essentially run by the same people, but look here is Guardian Boss Alan Rusbridger damage controlling.) are the main driving force in British popular leftwing newspapers.

There is going to be a lot of fallout over this. For starters there are the (sadly heavily moderated) Guardian comments at the bottom of the link.

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