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Nice to start off the morning with a laugh. I'm not interested in the boring conversation about whether trannie is an acceptable term to our society, but the idea you had no idea what it is short for is a joke. As a graduate in Sociology, how can you understand "how technology shapes culture" and obviously never have bothered to know the name for large subsets of our culture?

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I wrote most of this, but the name on the page is my cofounder. I just forgot to create a tagline for myself before posting it. My background is math/physics/trading.

That's not an excuse. You seem to have an ignorance about a whole group of people. I'm fairly sure even the Pope could come up with the word "transsexual".

I don't mean to imply that ignorance implies anything else about you, but it's ignorance. You can alleviate it by: 1. Meeting some people outside of your apparently somewhat homogeneous bubble 2. Reading books

I'm not making excuses, I'm pointing blame at the right person. (The tagline describes my cofounder or a fictional person, probabilistically. Haven't updated it yet. )

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