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August 23, 2011 10:48 PM Subscribe
Will Harry be the first cissexual prince in space?
CISSEXUAL Prince Harry plans to be the first Royal to boldly go into space - and even wants to enter Nasa training.
Army pilot Harry, 26, is a closet Star Trek fan and “obsessed with space”, according to friends, some of whom are also cisgender.
They say the prince, who does not intend to undergo gender reassignment surgery, has already asked Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam for a seat on one of the first Virgin Galactic sub-orbital flights.
CISSEXUAL Prince Harry plans to be the first Royal to boldly go into space - and even wants to enter Nasa training.
Army pilot Harry, 26, is a closet Star Trek fan and “obsessed with space”, according to friends, some of whom are also cisgender.
They say the prince, who does not intend to undergo gender reassignment surgery, has already asked Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam for a seat on one of the first Virgin Galactic sub-orbital flights.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I get it, but this is not really going over well and it's sort of a one joke tumblrpost. -- jessamyn
Any info on if he likes Firefly? I'm more interested in the closet science fiction fan angle.
posted by Ad hominem at 10:56 PM on August 23, 2011
posted by Ad hominem at 10:56 PM on August 23, 2011
I get but ...well... it's kind of thin really.
posted by Poet_Lariat at 11:02 PM on August 23, 2011
posted by Poet_Lariat at 11:02 PM on August 23, 2011
pretty random post, but I got a kick out of this comment on the original article:
I hate the royals but I love Harry.
Anyone else think that a few hundred years ago he would have killed half his family, took the throne, married a really hot princes then took half the world by force. Ture Brit.
God bless you blue blood pumping, ginger, mental little heart, I salute you.
posted by mannequito at 11:03 PM on August 23, 2011
I hate the royals but I love Harry.
Anyone else think that a few hundred years ago he would have killed half his family, took the throne, married a really hot princes then took half the world by force. Ture Brit.
God bless you blue blood pumping, ginger, mental little heart, I salute you.
posted by mannequito at 11:03 PM on August 23, 2011
I don't get it.
It's trying to be like this Onion article: Area Homosexual Saves Four From Fire. That article is funny because it obsessively focuses on the man's sexuality, which is irrelevant to his accomplishment. The obvious equivalent would be to write an article irrelevantly commenting on someone being transgender, but this article (and that whole website) flips it around by commenting on people being "cisgender," i.e. not transgender.
posted by John Cohen at 11:06 PM on August 23, 2011
It's trying to be like this Onion article: Area Homosexual Saves Four From Fire. That article is funny because it obsessively focuses on the man's sexuality, which is irrelevant to his accomplishment. The obvious equivalent would be to write an article irrelevantly commenting on someone being transgender, but this article (and that whole website) flips it around by commenting on people being "cisgender," i.e. not transgender.
posted by John Cohen at 11:06 PM on August 23, 2011
Ha, my favorite part is "Harry, whose real name is Henry...." Nice touch, though it would have been better to write, "Harry, whose birth name is Henry...."
posted by lesli212 at 11:13 PM on August 23, 2011
posted by lesli212 at 11:13 PM on August 23, 2011
My favourite line is from an earlier entry: She started receiving female hormones via her ovaries during her first puberty, and intends to continue with them.
A news search on transsexual will, after you filter out the deaths, give you the inverse of these a thousand times over.
Said it before, will say it again: I hope nothing ever happens to me that makes me famous or newsworthy.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 11:14 PM on August 23, 2011
A news search on transsexual will, after you filter out the deaths, give you the inverse of these a thousand times over.
Said it before, will say it again: I hope nothing ever happens to me that makes me famous or newsworthy.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 11:14 PM on August 23, 2011
Pfft. Yeah, right! Is there any conclusive evidence that cissexual males even exist?
posted by Sys Rq at 11:14 PM on August 23, 2011 [6 favorites]
posted by Sys Rq at 11:14 PM on August 23, 2011 [6 favorites]
John Cohen, it's more like how ordinary news channels, when they have features about transgendered or transsexual people, obsessively focus on their gender or sex.
posted by wayland at 11:14 PM on August 23, 2011
posted by wayland at 11:14 PM on August 23, 2011
Next time you see a news profile of a trans woman (i.e. more than just a quick hey-this-happened wire rewrite) give yourself ten points if it has a photo of her doing her makeup. It's possible there may be a picture of her standing in front of a rack of skirts as if choosing what to wear, but that only really comes up on the longer articles and is worth twenty points.
What you do with your points is up to you.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 11:33 PM on August 23, 2011
What you do with your points is up to you.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 11:33 PM on August 23, 2011
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