enigmatic
Tuesday 4th December 2012 2:49pm [Edited]
241 posts
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ December 3 2012, 4:42 PM GMT
Still, no one addressed my other points, they just sought to highlight my 'bad words' in some weirdly hypocritical attempt to look non-judgemental and inclusive.
You actually weren't being facetious with them?
Because you understand, it's a little difficult to take seriously an argument that people's stories about ladyboys and late night shock-docs and a Bond extra that got forced into the limelight 30 years ago (seriously, if I was parodying the antifavouritism argument, I'd pick those three examples) show that the current profile of transpeople can't be better. I mean, the most sensitive portrayal of trans issues in British comedy I can think of was in The League of Gentlemen FFS
And black people should have been grateful to the minstrel shows, damn them.
Judging by its reception I suspect Life's Too Short was rather more damaging to the reputation of Gervais/Merchant than to the little people. But then I haven't watched it and probably won't. Again, I'm not sure the failings of a writer whose usual schtick is poking fun at political correctness really undermines the case for giving new writers half a chance to shine in some "right on" political project.
As for your clearly very sincere fears about "blackface" I suspect that the transgendered community aren't clamouring for every single trans role to be filled by a transperson . But maybe youre right, in which case I'm sure the "mentally confused gender benders" will thank you for your brave and not-at-all-hypocritical attempt to save them from ridicule. Damn the BBC and their hypothesised insensitivity!
