Saturday Night Live recently did a skit that mocks the transition of transgender women. It was a fake ad for “Estro-Maxx,” a hormone replacement therapy.
I haven't seen it yet but I will in just a minute. I became aware of it within hours because of a newswire and I thought to myself - how soon will "the community" react and how knee jerk will it be and how that automatically makes us look bad. The blogs picked it up immediately and It was only a day before I started seeing headlines about backlash. I haven't read any of those yet, either but I already know it won't look good.
In my opinion, our organisations create the "shove it down your throat" feeling we all hate. At the same time, I appreciate every single person who advocates equality for all in whatever way they can.
I know there are times to fight but this isn't one of them. Hey, they do skits about the President, right? And Jesus and rock stars, the beautiful and the ignorant people and all the silliness of life and death on our little planet, too.
Everybody and maybe even everything has been, or will be made fun of. That, itself is funny if you think about it. I'm not saying my feelings don't get hurt, they do. And even if I can't always laugh at myself, I can appreciate the humor for what it is.
I haven't seen it yet but I will in just a minute. I became aware of it within hours because of a newswire and I thought to myself - how soon will "the community" react and how knee jerk will it be and how that automatically makes us look bad. The blogs picked it up immediately and It was only a day before I started seeing headlines about backlash. I haven't read any of those yet, either but I already know it won't look good.
In my opinion, our organisations create the "shove it down your throat" feeling we all hate. At the same time, I appreciate every single person who advocates equality for all in whatever way they can.
I know there are times to fight but this isn't one of them. Hey, they do skits about the President, right? And Jesus and rock stars, the beautiful and the ignorant people and all the silliness of life and death on our little planet, too.
Everybody and maybe even everything has been, or will be made fun of. That, itself is funny if you think about it. I'm not saying my feelings don't get hurt, they do. And even if I can't always laugh at myself, I can appreciate the humor for what it is.
Laugh. You live longer.
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I saw it. I guess it can be considered an inroad, but mostly I was dismayed at its making fun of people in transition.
ReplyDeleteBut if it opens a single person's brain cell, I'm all for it. Love you Mayb!
Darcy says "We've Arrived!" LOL It's SNL, not Jerry Springer. C, the feeling is absolutely mutual.
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