It's Pittsburgh And Green Bay At The Jerrydome

The participants in Super Bowl XLV in Arlington have been determined, and hallelujah, one of then won't be the Arlington Cowchips to Jerry Jones' disgust.

It won't be the Houston Texans either, to my disgust.

It will be the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers (to Kat Rose and Polar's disgust) and the NFC champion Green Bay Packers (to 'errbody' in Chicago's disgust) playing in Cowboys Stadium on February 6.

The best part is Jerry Jones will be hatin' from his Jerrydome luxury box as the Steelers seek to claim their seventh Super Bowl ring.   The Packers will be seeking to take the Lombardi trophy back to Wisconsin.   

Mike Tomlin will be seeking to make more NFL and Black history as he begins the quest to become the first African-American NFL coach to win it twice.

He's already the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl and the second African-American NFL head coach to do so.  Tomlin is also one of the few coaches to have taken two teams to the Super Bowl before his 40th birthday.


And has anyone noticed how much he resembles actor Omar Epps?

Super Bowl Week starts January 30 with the Pro Bowl in Hawaii.   As for who I'm picking to win it?   I'll put that post up closer to Super Bowl weekend.. 

Chris Matthews Pwns Michele Bachmann And Her Tea Klux Klan Defender

Hardball's Chris Matthews has been whacking Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for her comments made last weekend during a speech in Iowa that claimed the Founding Fathers eradicated slavery.

Yeah, right.   Anybody that's read a history book or can think knows otherwise. 

Chris went to town on her and Sal Russo, the Tea Klux Klan leader who rushed to try and defend her.

Transsexuality Is A Medical Condition, Not A Community Identifier

There are times that Cathryn Platine and I are on opposite sides of debates in this community, but every now and then she says something that I just have to say amen too and I'm in lockstep agreement with her.

We've had a lot of sniping going on in the past two weeks about who is more 'transsexual than thou'.  In addition to not liking the heated internecine rhetoric going on between wings of the trans community,  I also agree and have since the 90's that the trans community shouldn't be using a medical condition (transsexuality) as a community identifier, much less a political one.

But Cathryn was more blunt about it than the diplomatic and historical context approach I took in that post.

Cathryn Platine: "Transgender" is an identity, a political motivated one. "Transsexuality" is a medical condition, one does not identify as a medical condition unless they wish to appear a fool. If you have cancer you are not a "cancer". If you have an ulcer you are not identified as being an ulcer American.

Amen, Cathy.

Transsexuality is a medical condition.  Transgender is a community identifier.   Granted it's close to the transgenderist that was coined by Virginia Prince who let's get real, hated on transwomen.

But the transgender word for political purposes does the trick in describing the vast array of gender variant humans.

Can we do a much better job in pointing out the differences between transsexuals, intersex people, crossdressers and genderqueer people?    Yes we can and should.  Do we need to do a better job of calling out the transwomen who hate on crossdressers and vice versa?  Damn straight we do.. 

But as I have said ad nauseum, our enemies aren't each other.   Our enemies are in the Religious Reich and the conservative movement who hate all of us irregardless of how we identify under the transgender political umbrella.  

If you don't like transgender, do what I do and simply call it the trans community.    But stop hating on each other and get it through your thick heads that transsexuality is a medical condition, not a community identifier.

TransGriot Note:  transgenderist was coined by Virginia Prince.   Transgender came into more popular usage as an umbrella term in the 1990's, but has been around since the 70's.