I've posted directly to the gentleman, suggesting that he's already done enough damage to his career -- even before he started citing Wikipedia as a source for using "shemale" in order to be less offensive to the T* community.
I suspect he thought fans would be easy prey naive, ignorant, and compliant, as opposed to being savvy, well-educated, articulate, and contentious. He neither understands nor respects the people he wants to write about.
Interesting! He seems to expect his research subjects to be stereotypically feminine. Perhaps the backlash against his project will prompt him to reexamine all his assumptions about gender.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:08 pm (UTC)I've posted directly to the gentleman, suggesting that he's already done enough damage to his career -- even before he started citing Wikipedia as a source for using "shemale" in order to be less offensive to the T* community.
I suspect he thought fans would be
easy preynaive, ignorant, and compliant, as opposed to being savvy, well-educated, articulate, and contentious. He neither understands nor respects the people he wants to write about.Interesting! He seems to expect his research subjects to be stereotypically feminine. Perhaps the backlash against his project will prompt him to reexamine all his assumptions about gender.