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Kelda:

--- Quote from: milomorris on May 21, 2011, 11:56:35 pm ---This is blatant promosexuality. Talk about selling out. Chaz is clearly more interested in his bank account and getting off the D list than helping sexual minorities.

Sad.

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Okay, I'd guess he's making at least some money out of his book, I'd guess. I'm sure  but how isn't it helping sexual minorities as well?. You're a marketer Milo, you've heard of social marketing and cause marketing. Do you not belive this book is not in that vein?

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: Kelda on May 22, 2011, 09:40:39 am ---Okay, I'd guess he's making at least some money out of his book, I'd guess. I'm sure  but how isn't it helping sexual minorities as well?. You're a marketer Milo, you've heard of social marketing and cause marketing. Do you not belive this book is not in that vein?

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I was thinking the same thing.  Writers write to make money and support themselves and to share their stories.  If they feel they have something important to say that might help others, but want to say it whether it does or not, why is that a sellout?  Do all social messages have to be non-profit to be taken seriously?

Shakesthecoffecan:
Methinks Chaz does not so much need the testosterone, but maybe a Valium.

louisev:
In other news regarding Chaz Bono, the OWN special was not well received by some transsexuals.  Over at the DailyKos trans and gender queer support group, one of their activists published a scathing review of the special (not the book).  His argument centers on the "wrong narrative" the producers use to claim that Chaz "became a man", when the "correct" narrative is that transsexuals ARE born the opposite gender to their bodies, (phenotype and genotype to the contrary) and that sexual reassignment corrects that. Therefore Chaz would have "always been a man" in the sense of brain sexuality.

I am deeply skeptical of this narrative, myself, but then again, I'm not transsexual.  I have my own issues with transsexuals who seek to appropriate the narrative and the medical legitimacy of intersex and to lump them all together as "gender nonconforming" in an effort to gain greater social acceptability for trans.    Intersex have a constellation of problems, but medical legitimacy of their conditions is not one of them.  Actually getting diagnosis and appropriate treatment are the biggest problems for the intersexed.  That hasn't slowed down the transsexual/transgender community one whit.

For anyone who is interested, here's the link to the review on DKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/14/976062/-Trans-Framing,-or-why-Chaz-Bono-doesnt-speak-for-me?via=search

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: louisev on May 22, 2011, 01:15:43 pm ---
For anyone who is interested, here's the link to the review on DKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/14/976062/-Trans-Framing,-or-why-Chaz-Bono-doesnt-speak-for-me?via=search

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I dunno.  That critique is basically telling everyone how Chaz SHOULD feel.  Only Chaz knows how he feels and it's pretty presumptuous IMO that anyone else can tell him that he's really not feeling what he's feeling.

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