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Transphobic journalist nominated for this year's for this year's Stonewall Awards.
QueerNews.org.uk has learned a number transgender rights groups intend to hold a public demonstration outside the event.The UK based gay rights lobby group "Stonewall" holds annual awards recognising the best of "Lesbian and Gay Talent". The awards are due to take place in London on 6th November 2008.
Guardian Writer and Feminist Julie Bindel who now has become somewhat of a synonym for transphobia in the media. Some argue that Bindel is merely a radical before her time who has simply argued that society can embrace trans people without the need for undergoing surgery but her claims that "Sex change surgery is unnecessary mutilation" have without a doubt offended and degraded a great deal of people within the trans community.
http://www.queernews.org.uk
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A hilarious new study of late-night political jokes, due to be released later today, finds the network comedians clearly avoiding humor about Democratic candidate Barack Obama, while piling the jokes on President Bush and Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
The study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs finds that only cable's Comedy Central, whose primary comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, more closely follow the day's headlines -- which have been dominated by Obama -- has slightly more jokes about the freshman Illinois senator.
The center found that the network shows broadcast only 169 jokes about Obama, compared to 428 about Bush. McCain drew 328 jokes. Hillary Clinton, who dropped out of the presidential race and much political news in early June, still drew more than twice as many attempted yuk lines (382) as Obama.
On Comedy Central, Obama and McCain were close, with 207 and 201 respectively, while Clinton and Bush nearly tied at 179 and 177 respectively.
Combining the laugh lines from all five shows, Bush was the....
:...most mocked, with 605; Clinton had 562; McCain got 549; and Obama trailed, with 382.
Letterman had the most fun at Clinton's expense, with 146 jokes about her and only 46 about Obama. Leno had the most Bush jokes (208), with Clinton right behind at 204.
Colbert worked McCain over the most, with 129 jokes, compared to 91 for Obama and 79 on Clinton. An example: "It's time the media started trumpeting McCain's exciting story. He's old, and no one likes him."
The study did not explore why Obama got off so lightly on the network shows from New York and Burbank. So we'll all just have to guess: Probably out of simple respect for Obama's long public service.
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