It would not be transgender, it would be transvestite. If you are going to be all upset, at least get the right reason.
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It would not be transgender, it would be transvestite. If you are going to be all upset, at least get the right reason.
How is it different? Because you like Bugs Bunny?
Male characters have been dressing as women for along time for entertainment.
Some Like it Hot. Kabuki.
However what BP and others are saying is: What was once done in the name of comedy , to get a laugh has been taken to an extreme. It's used not so much for shits n giggles as more of an agenda.
Burn an American flag Free speech, a mexican one and it's racist and hateful. Call someone a cracker HA HA, call a spade a spade you might have been a food network hostess. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn a shadow of segregation, Billy has 2 mommies is acceptable.
Abstaining as part of sex education, BAD IDEA and Unrealistic, Showing elementary school kids the correct way to apply a condom acceptable.
Shooting team and rifle rack has been replaced by swat team, arrest and expulsion.
On and On.
Aaaand Jim just pretty much said it all. /thread right there! [Beer]
Seriously, if you try to use Bugs Bunny occasional crossdressing in the name of slapstick comedy as a correlation, defense, or cop out for this type of "accept or you're a bigot" type of agenda, then you seriously have no leg to stand on in this discussion.
That's the thing the turning into a women schtick is supposed to be the funny part. Here is a synopsis of the show according to a release from the network:
“an extreme dude who inherits the power ring of his deceased aunt -- the amazing FEMALE superhero SheZow! The ring gives him villain-battling super powers, but was meant to be worn by a girl, and the result is absolutely she-larious!”
It sound's stupid, I wouldn't watch it.
Sounds like it asks a tough question of "How far would you go to stand up for good?"
Would you stop a purse thief if you could?
What if the only way you could stop the crime or catch the criminal was to be dressed as a girl?
Would your desire to do good trump your disdain for playing the opposite sex?
I realize that is probably not at all the point behind the show, but it still popped into my mind after reading all the uproar about it. Really, how big of a deal is the cross dressing compared to the reason for the cross dressing?
Yes, but I'm so young* that they were not lead based.
*and hansom.