I'm getting tipsy
Happy second annual Trans Day of Pride.
Celebrate with a beer! Syndicated queer media writer
Gwendolyn Ann Smith has come up with a new drinking game based on the cliches of well-intentioned trans movies. "The set-up: A number of friends, a beverage of choice, and a transgender documentary. The last ingredient should not be that difficult to acquire, given that you can likely find one on the various
Discovery channels every few days," she writes. Some
excerpts follow.
"Take one drink if...
"A transwoman is shown putting on make-up or fixing her hair, or if as transman is shown shaving or slicking back his hair. If they show two transfolks in one shot, take two drinks.
"A transwoman is shown doing a stereotypically feminine action, like shopping in the mall, or a transman is shown doing something stereotypically masculine, such as playing a sport.
"Old photographs are used to try and show that a transperson used to visually fit into their birth gender.
"Anyone uses the phrase 'a man trapped in a woman's body,' or vice versa.
"Undergarments are shown. Make it two [drinks] if they happen to be a gaff or a binder."
Hic.