Comments on: Dan Brown Adds “Transgendering” to the Lexicon

By: Jacylyn

Jacylyn — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:09:02 +0000

Don, Amanda was an English major. Linguistic ignorance is to be expected.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:15:33 +0000

I agree with Don -- and Brown actually isn't the first person to use it:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2009/07/20/090720gonb_GOAT_notebook_als

Hilton Als is pretty sympathetic, I think, to the cause of transpeople, so I don't think the word itself needs to be dismissed.

By: don

don — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:55:58 +0000

So what if he made a verb out of transgender? It makes some sense, and language changes all the time. The real problem is his ignorance of transpeople and his shitty writing.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000

dan brown sucks, and is doing just as much (or more) as j.k. rowling to destroy 21t century literature.

By: benjamin

benjamin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:57:30 +0000

actually it's not a noun.
but i know what you mean.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:28:09 +0000

Thanks Michelle, I've corrected the post.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:38:17 +0000

One minor editorial correction: Sarah Liss works for CBC, not CBS.

By: recursiveparadox

recursiveparadox — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:37:22 +0000

Seriously, fuck Dan Brown. He's a shitty author and he's a cissexist.

Don't read his books, they suck. The movies are slightly more livable, but after this idiocy? I'm going to speak with my money and not give it to him and his.