message to anti trans hate speakers

[ElliePhantW33]

I know it's hard to tell how mixed up you feel
Hoping what you need is behind every door
Each time you get hurt, I don't want you to change
Because everyone has hopes, you're human after all
The feeling sometimes, wishing you were someone else
Feeling as though you never belong
This feeling is not sadness, this feeling is not joy
I truly understand. Please, don't cry now

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate
For all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion, trying to change you

Transplants I LOVE that song! It was hugely popular in oz at the time....

Glad to see this thread didn't get deleted in the Great Elephant Cull of 2018.

Save me from tomorrow indeed....

Floral

Your eldest is a credit to you

CaptainBrickbeard I watched Carol Ann Duffy perform the poems from that book a few years ago and she utterly won me over (having not liked her poetry before).

Here she is reading Mrs Tiresias live in St Andrews in 2016.

Prawn
Sounds like you had a very near miss there. The school wasn't concerned about your welfare at all. Your parents saved the day it seems.

@TransplantsArePlants

Glad to see this thread didn't get deleted in the Great Elephant Cull of 2018.

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I've never been able to view Erasure in the same way since watching a male cousin rant his hatred of them when they did some song dressed up as the women from Abba. "Ugly bastards poking fun atnbeautiful women" 😂 But what a fantastic songwriter Vince Clarke is.

I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one

(Of course some asshat painted a cow purple and brought it into the lobby where Nash was staying)

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

Kind of buzz that lasts for days
Had some help from insect ways
Comes across all shy and coy
Just another nancy boy
Woman man or modern monkey
Just another happy junkie
Fifty pounds
Press my button
Going down

Hilarious. Vogan TRA poetic alliance 😁

Ruby, I'm old. It was back in the 1970s. I

Sexism was all permeating in those days. For example, women had to do papers on all the works of both Chaucer and Shakespeare to read English at Oxbridge. Men could choose one. My English teacher told me he'd have put me forward if I were a boy.

Those were the days, my friend...

Oooh now I've remembered Jeffrey Star, Scotty Vanity etc, also big back in the "scene kid" days

Hold your emotions under the knife.
Let's pretend, we're satisfied.
Non-refundable and overhyped.
Now you look like you feel on the inside.
You wanna do something with your life?
Drop dead... HELLO!
Drop dead... GOODBYE!

And this gem

Hey bitches, my scalp itches
I'll do my own damn hair
Pshyeah
I need more gel
My hair looks like hell
Fucking bitches
Oh My God

Loving the poems and the great Danny Kaye.

Shakespeare knew a thing or two...
From Midsummer Night’s Dream:

‘Nay, Faith! Let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.’

I think the words of Baldrick are poignant here...

Boom, boom, boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom
Boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom.

Hear the words I sing
War’s a horrid thing,
So I sing, sing, sing...
...ding-a-ling-a-ling

My ding-a-ling.

Sometimes late when things are real
And people share the gift of gab between themselves
Some are quick to take the bait
And catch the perfect prize that waits among the shells

But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And Cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad.

So please believe in me
When I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round
Smoke glass stain bright color
Image going down, down, down, down
Soapsuds green like bubbles

wicked
Placebo, love em.

Babee
Don't forget to take your meds..

Award for the most apt song title goes to....

Drumroll.....

TerfsUp
My Ding-a-Ling
Oh how we laughed when this got to number one and banned.

My ding-a-ling.

Is that a euphemism @TerfsUp?

Are you trying to tell us something?

Placebo! I bet Moloko would be assumed to be trans now by the kidz.

AAK

Moloko is just fine as he is [smiley]!

Where's my smiley?

Maybe smileys are transphobic now too, since everything else seems to be!

Where's my smiley?

You can't just have a generic smiley, Sciencelogic.

You have to have a specific smiley. Like a smile smiley or a sad smiley or an angry smiley - which seem like oxymorons.

Ignore me btw, I'm just fannying about on MN posting rubbish instead of getting on with my day and doing "stuff"