Blake Lively has come under fire yet again for repeatedly using a transgender slur in resurfaced interviews.
via: Out
Is it a big deal that Blake Lively said "tranny" over ten years ago?
That's the question being asked all over the internet today after several quotes made by the embattled It Ends With Us star more than a decade ago have started resurfacing.
Lively is at the center of a lot of controversy right now after a chaotic press tour for her movie It Ends With Us and an alleged feud she had with her director and co-star Justin Baldoni. Now, people are digging into her past to find more reasons not to like her.
X (formerly Twitter) user @joshcharles_21 posted on social media "sometimes I'll be quietly going about my day and then I'll remember the time Blake Lively said this to a journalist," along with a picture of her being quoted from a 2012 interview with Elle.
"I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they better be trannies," she told the magazine at the time when asked the prospective fashion interests of her future children. "Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated."
Another clip, this one from NylonTV, has her talking with her Gossip Girl co-star Leighton Meester and shows the two actors being asked if they pay attention to rumors about them.
"You read the gossip magazines, and everybody is dating everyone, everybody hates everyone, everybody has had like tons of plastic surgery and they're actually men and trannies," she said. "It's just like: you don't listen to the rumors."
And a third quote, from a 2009 interview with Allure, has Lively using the word yet again.
"I feel like a tranny a lot of the time. I don't know, I'm… large?" she said. "They put me in six-inch heels and I tower over every man. I've got this long hair and lots of clothes and makeup on… I just feel really big a lot of the time, and I'm surrounded by a lot of tiny people. I feel like a man sometimes."
Now that's something that nearly every woman on earth has related to at some point in her life!
In the late 2000s the word "tranny" was thrown around with wild abandon, and even became a part of the catchphrase "hot tranny mess" thanks to beloved designer Christian Siriano coining the phrase on Project Runway.
Does this mean the anti-trans slur is okay, or was okay to use by cis people? No, absolutely not. But does it mean that a celebrity saying it ten to fifteen years ago has little impact on who that celebrity is now as a person? Probably.
With all the drama coming out regarding Blake's mean girl behavior - from her being rude to an interviewer after she congratulated her on her baby bumb, to all the stories coming out about her on-set behavior, it's unfortunate that her antics are overshadowing the fact that we have a husband and wife team (Blake and Ryan) who have two successful movies currently in theaters.
I will say this. While I'm not excisung her behavior, in the 2000s tranny was a word often thrown around without a care in the world. It wasn't until the last couple of years it has been seen as problematic.
What people should be doing is focusing on her recent problematic behavior, and less on digging up things that someone said over a decade ago as a way to justify your dislike for her.
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