tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post1657205217604078305..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: AIFF 2010: Phone Dating/Kenny G jokes/European Son/Music and AgeStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-46580675061648189562010-12-12T08:10:36.835-09:002010-12-12T08:10:36.835-09:00Thank you for changing this! I'm trying to ma...Thank you for changing this! I'm trying to make my language more accurately reflect my values, which is a long and difficult process, but it does make me really sensitive to terms like this one.<br /><br />The bias I really haven't managed to scrub from my speech is the one against mental illness. I appreciate the argument that we tend to dismiss people with mental disabilities as crazy/nuts/insane, and that those terms are therefore not the best to use to describe people who I actually think are wrong/mean/hypocritical, but I still do so with astonishing regularity. But that's another conversation that can wait for Thai Kitchen...<br /><br />Kkdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-6190186752382598572010-12-11T14:51:17.216-09:002010-12-11T14:51:17.216-09:00KDS - Thanks for the note. There was someone there...KDS - Thanks for the note. There was someone there from a local transgender group for discussion after the film, but the movie didn't start until 9:45pm and people didn't seem to be sticking around to talk. This point might have come up in the discussion. This wasn't what I would call an 'educational film', though, of course, every film potentially is.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-39334603100206133712010-12-11T13:28:55.435-09:002010-12-11T13:28:55.435-09:00Quick note: much of the LGBTQ and allied community...Quick note: much of the LGBTQ and allied community considers "tranny" a pejorative slur. While the film is attempting to embrace that term precisely because it's a pejorative, using it outside of the title without acknowledgment is a little like using "fag" in a similar context.kdsnoreply@blogger.com