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There's nothing wrong with calling transition skating "tranny."
I don't think that's so unpopular, but it's just nicer not to use it.
A more fun alternative is calling any transition "vert" and making everybody lose their shit about it.
i mean it’s really not even mean. we’re talking about the inanimate objects we’re skating, there’s nothing offensive about it. if that’s the case ‘transition’ is also offensive and we shouldn’t be skating on it.
Imagine a certain skate trick/obstacle would for some reason sound really similar to a racial slur, would it be ok to still use it?
It wouldn't be mean at all, you're just naming something, not even a person. But still, just don't, because it's better not to. That's my reasoning.
in what way shape or form would an obstacle even be able to be shortened to a racial slur? tranny in skateboarding is transition short, obviously. when in the literal fuck would or could any obstacle be shortened to anything racial? my whole life i’ve referred to transition as tranny and not once did it ever cross my mind that it was homophobic or offensive. “but that’s just you, you can’t speak for everyone” okay i’m pretty sure no one else did either until the whole push for accepting any and everything (which is awesome) but that lead to finding problems where there are none which has lead us to being offended by someone calling transition tranny. stop taking nothing and making it something
and while i’m at it, if it’s that offensive, then once again let’s stop skating transition and/or just call them ramps so people that are transitioning aren’t offended and those that aren’t don’t cry a fucking river and can stop trying to make their cape shown.
Real question, though: somebody tells you that you’re doing a thing that makes them feel shitty.
Do you a.) disregard their feelings, or b.) make a minor adjustment in order to not trample their feelers?
In the case in question, you could literally add A (single) syllable to your usual vernacular, and the matter is resolved.
I suspect you are a well intentioned person. Perhaps I can appeal to your sense of reason and ask that you recognize that what was fine yesterday, may not be all wine & roses today, and by simply acknowledging that the world around us evolves, and so too can we, and by simply saying transition instead of using a word that has a historical precedent of being weaponized in acts of violence against members of OUR OWN COMMUNITY (you DO skate, so it’s YOUR community too) you can be an effective agent of positive change.
That’s a really long winded way of saying, “It’s really not that difficult: you can do it, I have faith in you.”
One more syllable. That’s what you’re arguing over.
Seems kinda silly when you think of it like that.
Feel me?
You also sound well intentioned and stuff but people have different ways of thinking and that's that, just off the top of my head I can make comparisons, like you would want people to make a bit of effort to accommodate others, a good concept, some would think you shouldn't interfere with random people for selfish causes, some would think saying "tranny" isn't really a big deal (if we're honest, is it? I don't even know) and believe that if a transexual heard it they would understand the context and not care, which in my opinion would be a decent opinion too, kinda the opposite of patronizing. Also there's that thing some people do when you change something minor and then they start going all parasitic on you and it turns to huge changes in the end of the line, this isn't the case but I get why some people would go against that "accommodate others" mentality. That's a really long winded way of saying quit being passive aggressive, that "It's really not that difficult" really doesn't sit well to paint humbleness, like people can't disagree without one being 100% right and other being a misguided dumbass. Anyway we should all chill with this topic cause I read some other messages and name-calling has begun.
Tell you what we can do to put your query to rest: let’s simply ASK any of our transgendered users how they feel about the term.
No need to take it from me, let’s go to the source.
Anybody wanna field that question?
And then, you too can be free to decide, like everybody else, if you adapt your lingo or not.
Making a defense based on the difficulty of “accommodating” others by adding a syllable still sounds a little silly to me.
This from somebody who still used the term tranny up until about 5 years ago when a trans friend pointed out that it was problematic for them.
The call is still on all of us.
You make the world you want to live in, and I’ll be over here working on mine.
Edited for typos.
My sorry.