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FloraFox · 17/12/2016 14:09

Can you spot what's missing from this picture?

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BeyondIBringYouGoodTidings · 17/12/2016 14:16
Angry
amispartacus · 17/12/2016 14:39

You'd have thought someone would have noticed. They've also got transwoman twice.

amispartacus · 17/12/2016 14:41

I'd also love to see how they explain gender....

tubasinthemoonlight · 17/12/2016 14:44

So are there actually eight biological males in that photograph?

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FloraFox · 17/12/2016 14:58

No the transgender male is female. Not sure about the androgynous one or the bigender one.

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amispartacus · 17/12/2016 15:10

It's a bit of a fail though. I suppose they were worried about the Twitter reaction if they used woman and transwoman - although they did use transman and man...

DameDeDoubtance · 17/12/2016 15:13

yup, transwoman always trumps woman.

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FloraFox · 17/12/2016 15:41

No twitter storm about the use of "male" rather than "cis male" though. Hmm

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BeyondIBringYouGoodTidings · 17/12/2016 16:02

Nope flora, only us women who have to use to cis quantifier. How peculiar Hmm

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 17/12/2016 20:13

Excellent!!

Fuckwits Hmm

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 17/12/2016 20:13

Aimed at the magazine obvs !!!! Shock

Dodged a bullet there

lovelearning · 17/12/2016 20:17

Am I the only one who finds this all rather confusing?

DeviTheGaelet · 17/12/2016 20:26

No I do too love
Think it's cos I am old. Male/female, homo/bi/heterosexual = easy
76 genders plus sexualities including gray/fray sexual = exploded head

LumelaMme · 17/12/2016 20:51

I know how you feel, Devi.

lovelearning · 17/12/2016 20:57

Remember when it was just boys and girls?

Twogoats · 17/12/2016 20:59

There goes their scientific credibility... Sad

TheCompanyOfCats · 17/12/2016 21:05

As fucking if! Angry

TheCompanyOfCats · 17/12/2016 21:07

And what a pile of bollocks. Literally.

TeiTetua · 17/12/2016 21:48

Everyone here knows that National Geographic is part of Rupert Murdoch's empire, right? As the Guardian wrote it, "Over the last few years the National Geographic Society has been slowly vanishing into the Murdoch family’s Fox media empire like a gazelle being swallowed by a python in one of the former’s famous videos."

So I wouldn't be looking there for much in the way scientific inquiry these days. Crowd-pleasing attempts at increasing sales are more likely.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 17/12/2016 21:52

This version is going round on Twitter.

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FloraFox · 17/12/2016 23:11

Yes that pretty much sums it up emptess

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Prawnofthepatriarchy · 18/12/2016 05:54

Love that new cover. Hope it travels far across the web.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 18/12/2016 07:10

Speed it on its way!

ChocChocPorridge · 18/12/2016 09:09

It's not a new cover - that's the subscriber only edition - the one with lots of peopleis the newstand version. The picture is of Avery Jackson - a 9 year old transgirl www.newnownext.com/national-geographic-transgender-cover-avery-jackson/12/2016/

ChocChocPorridge · 18/12/2016 09:11

Oh hang on - no! I'm a wally - that's Avery's picture, but obviously someone's been mucking around with the text now I actually read it! DOH!