Courtesy of The Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun unwittingly broke some new ground by featuring Amelia, the publication’s first trans Sunshine Girl. The daily feature – which quite cheerfully reduces women to their, um, assets (say, tits and some asinine defining feature like being “long” on Drake and Rihanna, or enjoying horseback riding) – features Amelia working what her momma gave her on an office chair and hotel bed.
In the best representation of Sun readership, a Stormfront-born petition was created that asks the very important question: “Is nothing sacred? Now, MEN get to be Sunshine girls?” The petition continues, “Sun Media has now allowed transsexuals, or women with penises, to pose as Sunshine girls. This is plain wrong. Let’s send them a message so they understand Canadians want some things to stay the SAME! WOMEN ARE WOMEN AND MEN ARE MEN!”
While the Sun‘s editor-in-chief James Wallace shrugs, “She’s cute and we ran her photo,” other readers are sippin’ that Haterade, demoralized by our society’s decline to a state in which “everything is now possible, like putting whipped cream on your pizza.” The Sun has never had a great rapport with the Toronto LGBT community. Some gems from the past: calling the inclusion of sexual orientation into the Ontario Human Rights Code a conspiracy of the “Limp Wrist Lobby,” and former Sun editor Peter Worthington claiming that homosexuals have no role in “perpetuating the species.”
In researching this piece, the Sun also deigned to inform me that browsing Sunshine Girls counted towards my free article quota. Next!
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Vidal Wu is an intern at Toronto Standard. You can follow him on Twitter at @vidalwuu.
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