Dan Savage Gets Glitterbombed, Called Transphobic

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/dan-savage-glitterbombed-irvine-_n_1095354.html

After being glitterbombed for the second time in a month, sex columnist and gay rights advocate Dan Savage has fired back against reports alleging he used transphobic language while speaking prior to the stunt.

Following accusations that he provoked the attack by using the terms "shemale" and "freaky tranny porn" while appearing at the University of California Irvine during a taping of his MTV series "Savage U.," Savage took to his blog in response. "I did say "shemale," Savage wrote, noting that the word had been included on an anonymous Q&A card submitted by an audience member. "I read the question as-written, repeated the term in my response, and then used 'transexual' in place of 'shemale'modeling the use of less offensive terms, before circling back to 'shemale' in order to unpack why some find it offensive. I never used the phrase 'freaky tranny porn.'"

Savage went on to note: "I never said the word 'tranny' at UCI at all; indeed, I've made a conscious effort to stop using 'tranny' after the memo went out last year declaring the word an off-limits 'hate term.'"

As for use of the term "freaky boy," Savage insisted it wasn't meant in a derogatory fashion. "...Anyone who reads my column knows that I'm pro-freak, pro-kink, pro-porn, pro-just-about-everything," he said. "I'm a freak myself, as I've said numerous times, I married a freak, some of my best friends are freaks." He concluded, "If I'm the enemy of trans people everywhere, trans people everywhere could use more enemies like me."

The original Bilerico report notes that two individuals threw glitter on Savage, yelling "Transphobe!" Savage was said to have laughed off the stunt, adding, "I'm used to it." OC Weekly reports that one of the two individuals, who may or may not have been students, has been arrested in connection with the incident.

The UC Irvine incident comes just weeks after Savage was glitterbombed during a previous taping at the University of Oregon. He has faced numerous allegations of both being transphobic and biased against bisexuals in the past, after his earlier use of the terms "shemale" and "tranny" in several of his "Savage Love" columns.

Apparently Dan Savage isn't liberal enough.

[Ideologue]

If I'm the enemy of trans people everywhere, trans people everywhere could use more enemies like me.

No shit.

[Capetan Mihali]

Would he survive a glitternuke?

[Ed Anger]

I don't understand any of this. Or want to. But I posted anyways for my fanbase.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't understand any of this. Or want to. But I posted anyways for my fanbase.

Chicks with dicks poured shiny stuff on a famous homosexual man.

[crazy canuck]

I don't understand any of this. Or want to. But I posted anyways for my fanbase.

Chicks with dicks poured shiny stuff on a famous homosexual man.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing.

[Ideologue]

Bad, in this case, although not catastrophically so.

[Admiral Yi]

Very, very bad.  There is no greater insult in the tranniverse.

[Razgovory]

I'm pro-transfat.

[sbr]

I read his column in a shitty little indie paper that sits on a rack next to the bench were I eat lunch.  This is one of my favorites from last week:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=10653210

I'm an evangelical Christian in a country where that is not a political statement. My husband and I have been married five years. We have great sex several times a week despite having two kids under age 2. We get along so well that even a couple of my atheist friends have admitted they want what we have. What most of them don't know is that we waited until after the wedding to have sex—or even kiss.

Most secular folk would consider it reckless to tie the knot before making sure we were "sexually compatible," whatever that means. Consider our specific situation: Two adult virgins, ready to promise to our God, friends, family, and government that we will stick together until one of us dies. Is there anything we could have learned about each other through sex that would have changed our minds?

I'm not stupid (I'm a physician), but I can't figure this one out.

Happily Married Woman
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For someone who claims she isn't stupid, HMW, you're doing a pretty convincing job of playing dumb.

You damn well know what "sexually compatible" means, HMW, as you're lucky enough to be married to a man with whom you're sexually compatible. You want the same things he wants (I'm taking your word for that), you satisfy each other equally (taking your word for that), and you're both content (taking your word for that). That's what people mean by sexually compatible.

That you wound up married to a man with whom you're sexually compatible despite not fucking him once or twice before marriage can be credited to one of two things: You were smart (you figured you two would be sexually compatible and those calculations proved correct) or you were lucky (you hoped you two would be sexually compatible and, as luck would have it, you were). But don't pretend that your happiness was guaranteed by waiting or by God.

It's understandable that you're pleased that everything worked out for you, HMW, but your smugness and self-satisfaction seems a little un-Christian, if I may say so. Where's the humility? Where's some of that there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I stuff? There are plenty of people out there who made the same choices you did—they waited, they made a solemn promise before God, family, friends, etc.—and their marriages fell apart due to issues of basic sexual incompatibility.

And finally, HMW, I can think of a million examples of things you "could have learned about each other through sex" on your wedding night that might have led you to change your mind about waiting. I'm just going to toss one out there: Suppose your husband announced when you got to your honeymoon suite that he wouldn't be able to climax unless you took a massive shit on his chest before vaginal intercourse commenced. Would that have changed your mind about the advisability of marrying him without fucking him once or twice first?

[Neil]

Trannies are freaks.

[Razgovory]

For a moment I thought Sbr had simply gone off the deep end.

[Grallon]

I don't understand any of this. Or want to. But I posted anyways for my fanbase.

We truly have become decadent if 'transphobic' is now mainstream lingo.




G.

[Neil]

I don't understand any of this. Or want to. But I posted anyways for my fanbase.

We truly have become decadent if 'transphobic' is now mainstream lingo.

Our society lost the right to exist when we decriminalized homosexual behavior.

[Grallon]

Our society lost the right to exist when we decriminalized homosexual behavior.

Shoo!


Try it before you dismiss it.  You are still 'relatively' young for it.




G.