Never Mind The Politics…
…feel the welcome.
Just quickly for the record.
There’s so much sensitivity around gender. Trans people in particular.
I read a story the other day, in a print newspaper, about the recent US election — you know the one I mean. There was a boxed-off section about podcasters. They’re the “shock jocks” of today, I guess.
One of them, apparently, “comes across as charming and boyish”. He has a “shaggy, brown-haired mullet and a southern drawl”. During the election campaign, he interviewed — well, the eventual winner. The interview, it was implied, might have influenced the result.
But never mind that now.
This podcaster — I might as well tell you: Theo Von — once interviewed a trans man who asked him for advice on “how to be a dude”.
Von’s advice, as quoted by the newspaper, was: “Maybe some nice slacks. Maybe spit on the ground sometimes. I think a hat. If you like to do a hat, some guys do a hat. No matter what, we’re happy to have you.”
It’s that “we’re happy to have you” that has stuck in my mind. I had never heard of Theo Von before I read that story, and I haven’t looked him up since (except to find that link), but I like him for that attitude. Theo Von.
We could all be happier to have each other, maybe?
