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The Deeply Depressing Unpublishing Of I "Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"

Let's just disappear anything that makes anyone uncomfortable

Jesse Singal
Jan 17, 2020
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(An image of a military helicopter, with two pilots visible.)

“I sexually identify as an attack helicopter” is a meme used to make fun of trans people. It’s basically deployed in the sense of, Oh, so you’re a woman? Well I’m a piece of military equipment! It is, in 2020, a dated sort of insult, but I would imagine it still stings many trans people when t…

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