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Friday, March 20, 2009

??!! Today in Non-Traditional Marriage

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:41 AM

Bad tranny:

James M. Mason knew his wife since she was born a boy. The janitor and former military man was a boarder in the child's home and was treated like family. Many were surprised when he married Chris nearly three years ago, not just because he knew she underwent sex-change surgery three years before, temporarily calling herself Christine Newton-John after the pop singer with the same last name. He was in his 70s, she in her 30s. He was mild-mannered; she had a domineering personality.

Then, last summer, there was another surprise: Chris Mason was accused of exercising her frail husband to death so she could inherit his retirement benefits, in an attack caught on surveillance video.

It gets weirder.

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I think the lesson here is to only marry a tranny your own age.

Posted by TheTruthHurts on March 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM

the only good tranny is a dead tranny

Posted by freakshow on March 20, 2009 at 10:01 AM

How can two men not marry, but a man surgically altered to become a woman can marry a man.

Posted by Just Askin' on March 20, 2009 at 10:08 AM

Image of said tranny here:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/…

Posted by YIKES! on March 20, 2009 at 10:11 AM

Wow #2. Thanks.

Posted by non-murderous trannie on March 20, 2009 at 10:15 AM

That looks like a tranny that has eaten two other trannys. (trannies?)

Posted by Banna on March 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM

She didn't murder him b/c she's a trans woman. She murdered him for the same reasons lots of murderers do it, to get money. She's simply a bad bad person, nay a criminal.

Don't let a set of facts lead to you incorrect hypotheses. She's a bad bad person and also coincidentally a trans woman. Demand better evidence if you want to believe she's a bad bad person b/c she's trans. You're smarter than that.

Posted by Don't be a sucker on March 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM

it looks like they had a sub/dom relationship. not saying she isn't guilty, just explains their dynamic.

Posted by ellarosa on March 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM

This was not a traditional marriage by any means. It was camouflaged as one but once that make up came off it ended as it did. This is precisely what I mean when I refer to the mockery of marriage that homosexuals want our government to recognize. Mock weddings equals the destruction of society and in the end the destruction of the lives of those that seek them.

Posted by Loveschild on March 20, 2009 at 10:38 AM

@3,

Good question. The law is all over the place on this one. In some states, a person's gender at birth is the only thing that matters, so a transwoman can marry another woman and a transman can marry another man. In other states, the reassigned gender is the only thing that matters.

Posted by keshmeshi on March 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Watch out there, Loveschild - next thing you know they'll be wanting to marry farm animals.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM

"once that make up came off it ended as it did."

you don't make any sense loveschild. none. are you employed?

Posted by ellarosa on March 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM

Oh, sweet Loveschild, bless your heart, do you ever tire of being wrong?

Posted by Rob in Baltimore on March 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM

What a terrible story.

Posted by kim in portland on March 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM

9 - hahahahahaha. Yeah, because straight people NEVER marry for reasons other than "traditional" ones, they NEVER harm/murder their spouses, they NEVER cause any trouble, right? God, do you intentionally set up your arguments to be easily defeated? Are you a troll sub looking to be virtually dominated?

Posted by DJDeeJay on March 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM

She pled guilty to reckless homicide and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Just FYI.

Posted by Nora on March 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM

soon all marriage will be exposed as a sham & no one will do it anymore.

Posted by Max Solomon on March 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM

It was an abusive relationship. The lady was a overbearing control freak. People like that don't like hearing the word "no". They either lose their shit and throw a tantrum like Christine did, or if they're cowards, they pull some evil passive aggressive back-stabby shit. She probably didn't mean to kill him, just punish him for defying her. She's going to really, really hate prison since every single thing she does is going to be controlled by someone else. The perfect punishment for an abusive control freak: the complete loss of control.

Posted by yucca flower on March 20, 2009 at 5:16 PM

@9: We have a man who married a woman, so by definition, it is a traditional marriage.

Posted by kevin on March 20, 2009 at 7:49 PM

How is the fact that she's a tranny relevant to the story?

Posted by J. on March 22, 2009 at 8:59 AM