Remember that Chris Crocker video defending Britney Spears? The one where he's wailing and crying about how people are making fun of her? It's made it around the world and back, and even onto Fox News. I can't find video or transcript their discussion of Chris Crocker. (If you do please send me the link!) But Chris saw it and responded here:
Fox News apparently has a problem with gender non-conformists, which shouldn't come as too big a surprise considering the station is set up to help people follow lock-step the Bush Administration. But you'd think that they'd at least have the decency not to play a video that they knew they couldn't handle respectfully.
This whole thing comes down to just accepting that some people don't feel like they can express themselves with what society labels as "male" or "female" and are out there creating something significant and fabulous for themselves. So then others have to smack it down because it's threatening to their gender privilege, threatening to conformity in general, conformity that makes them feel safe, and challenging to their own gender identification. But they really didn't have to make fun of a teenager who just likes Britney Spears, however big it might make them feel.
But Keith Olbermann also gave a sarcastic "really" when Michael Musto tells him that Chris is a man:
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And if you want to see it, here's Chris Crocker explaining it all when it comes to gender (audio's possibly NSFW):
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