Comments on Becky's T-Blog: In case the Today program don't pick up this story...

Rachel,You're not slagging off puffball shouders a...

2007-11-29T19:25:00.000Z

Rachel,

You're not slagging off puffball shouders are you?! Not after that surely?!

Blimey! These labels are so confusing. I thought t...

2007-11-29T07:08:00.000Z

Blimey! These labels are so confusing. I thought that in the US it was transvestites who were gay, and crossdressers who weren't, with drag queens being both gay and (deliberately) poor in dress sense (even down to wearing dresses with puffball shoulders). In the UK we seem to use the terms interchangebly, and confuse the hell out of the colonials.

Which is no bad thing.

@Pandora - that's why I said it was pathetic and u...

2007-11-29T00:34:00.000Z

@Pandora - that's why I said it was pathetic and unsuccessful :)

Also, in the US, I believe, gay crossdressers do refer to themselves as drag queens. Over here it's more usually confined to entertainers but less so in the States. So it wasn't necessarily inaccurate.

Oh I see! Right-click disabled. I just Ctrl-c'd.I'...

2007-11-28T22:58:00.000Z

Oh I see! Right-click disabled. I just Ctrl-c'd.

I'm more concerned by the clearly inaccurate quote:

"Men trying to look like women, drag queens, transvestites is what they were," Brisco told Memphis TV station WMC-TV. (emphasis mine)

Was there any need to quote him? It adds nothing to the story. There's nothing to suggest the attackers were drag queens.

Cross dresser. I didn't notice!Now I have visions ...

2007-11-28T20:29:00.000Z

Cross dresser. I didn't notice!

Now I have visions of some kind of tranny activist group...

It's not funny, it's punny.

2007-11-28T20:24:00.000Z

It's not funny, it's punny.

Maybe that's supposed to be a "pun" on the term cr...

2007-11-28T20:18:00.000Z

Maybe that's supposed to be a "pun" on the term cross-dresser. Note the uncommon use of a space between the words, "cross" as in angry.

I'm not saying it's a funny pun of course.

The last line of the report was weird, though: "Sa...

2007-11-28T20:12:00.000Z

The last line of the report was weird, though: "Sanders said it would have been more appropriate to describe the three individuals as “cross dressers” instead of the description “transvestite.”"

What the hell is the difference? Crossdresser is simply the anglicised equivalent of transvestite and that's the end of it.

Could I also mention here that websites - like that one - which (pathetically and obviously unsuccessfully) try and block you cutting and pasting text are shite. Quoting one sentence is fair use you tossers.

>No, don't laugh. nope, too late! Haven't read the...

2007-11-28T19:55:00.000Z

>No, don't laugh.

nope, too late! Haven't read the story yet though, so that may change...