New sitcom being slammed as hurting the transgender community

[Mama Catastrophe]

ÄBC'S new sitcom "Work It"has come under critiscim by GLAAD who belive it will hurt the Transgener community. The sitcom revolves around two straight men who begin dressing as women in order to gain employment and while it doent make any reference to Trangendered folks GLAAD belive that

"many home viewers unfamiliar with the realities of being transgender will still make the connection. Work It invites the audience to laugh at images of men trying to adopt a feminine appearance, thereby also making it easier to mock people whose gender identity and expression are different than the one they were assigned at birth'"

Anyway your ol Mama hasnt seen an episode yet but for those of you who want to check it out - its readily avaiable to download

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJejMhA_8Q4

[dreadcircus]

Besides this potentially being offensive it looks like it was filmed in a car park and is about as funny as cancer.

[Virgindirk]

Adam Sandler is calling, he says he wants his cheap cross dressing jokes back.

[Phazz]

It looks more like a Saturday Night Live skit, than an actual tv show.

P.S. Dustin Hoffman did this with a movie called Tootsie.

[Brightside05]

And what about those two black guys who went as two white girls, wasn't a problem back then. This PC encroachment is spreading quick.

[dreadcircus]

And what about those two black guys who went as two white girls, wasn't a problem back then. This PC encroachment is spreading quick.

That was a vile movie, totally unfunny and stupid..

I don't know why gay men get upset when the footy show takes the piss out of them either.. So touchy and pc.

[Lazzarus]

I wish some people would stop looking for excuses to be offended all the fucking time - it's boring.

[Virgindirk]

It not so much offensive, its just unfunny and not original..... Like most american sitcoms.

[dreadcircus]

I wish people would stop dictating what is offensive to others. Obviously GLAAD have reacted to this because people may be offended. I'm mostly offended that this show even made it past focus groups. It's just not funny nor entertaining regardless on if it offends anybody.

[Dsquare]

It looks more like a Saturday Night Live skit, than an actual tv show.

P.S. Dustin Hoffman did this with a movie called Tootsie.

And Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon did it in a movie called Some Like It Hot.

[Barrin]

It's such a dated concept. In my book it's only been done well 3 times:

Some Like it Hot with Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis;
Tootsie;
Shakespeare in Love.

If you're surprised by that third one remember, Gwenyth Paltrow had to pretend to be a boy in order to play a girl in order to get her Romeo (women being banned from the stage at the time). Judi Dench as Elizabeth I also has that delicious line: "I know what it is to be a woman in a man's role."

Some might add Mrs Doubtfire but while Robin Williams is a terrific performer, that film is a paint-by-numbers comedy whereas the above all had ingenious screenplays.

[MrAsh]

I wish people would stop dictating what is offensive to others. Obviously GLAAD have reacted to this because people may be offended. I'm mostly offended that this show even made it past focus groups. It's just not funny nor entertaining regardless on if it offends anybody.

GLAAD apparently are zealots in dictating what is offensive and what isn't. The Brett Ratner resignation incident was spurned on by them and he is 'working' (read being re-programmed to their ideology) with them to address his homophobia.

I like political correctness. Yet the folk at GLAAD take it to the extreme and along the way they stifle and repress too much freedom of speech which they also purport to defend.

[datkindagal]

I'm sorry but i am still laughing at jade's Joke. Yes I too have been acquainted with this abomination. Where do you start........?

[datkindagal]

denial of the suffering of others is systemic in our community, something we should all be aware of.

It not so much offensive, its just unfunny and not original..... Like most american sitcoms.

[datkindagal]

actually there is some good reading material out there on the so called PC brigade and the PC fruits and how lazy thinkers use anti pc terminology to shut the oppressed and the socially concious down.

also ties in with the ruling patriarchal social system. ;)

And what about those two black guys who went as two white girls, wasn't a problem back then. This PC encroachment is spreading quick.

[datkindagal]

i agree with you on GLAAD, they in some ways have become PC Nazis which unfortunately derails political correctness into disrepute. But there is never just one side. Some times i hate that word. What about just respecting each other. Even when you dont want to.

GLAAD apparently are zealots in dictating what is offensive and what isn't. The Brett Ratner resignation incident was spurned on by them and he is 'working' (read being re-programmed to their ideology) with them to address his homophobia.

I like political correctness. Yet the folk at GLAAD take it to the extreme and along the way they stifle and repress too much freedom of speech which they also purport to defend.

[Asherbella]

.....and the latest Sherlock Holmes movie directed by Guy Ritchie features cross dressing on a train.
....if a scene or show is hurtful it is hurtful to that person who finds offence.
You can't intellectualise pain and feeling hurt. You just can't.
The wider hetero audience knows little about trans people - especially in an insulated country like America. When I say insulated I mean not worldly. Compartmentalized. 'Neat-o'. the average American would laugh not knowing why. They just want to be entertained. a bloke in a dress. Canned laughter. Guy speaks in high pitched voice. Funny. Peter Brady in the Brady Bunch going through puberty funny - endearing kind of humour. With a new millenium 'edge' to it. I like Murphy Brown, Frasier humour.....

[CeeJay]

Actually it sounds a bit like Bosom Buddies, the Tom Hanks sitcom from the early 80s. I must be getting old. I would have the world had moved on a bit in the last 30 years.

[Virgindirk]

Actually it sounds a bit like Bosom Buddies, the Tom Hanks sitcom from the early 80s. I must be getting old. I would have the world had moved on a bit in the last 30 years.

Most of the world has moved on but working class america has not.