Really, reading his interview with the Huffington Post, he really is insensitive and clueless when it comes to transwomen. He's a gay black man who has made a career being a draq queen. And that makes him an expert on transwomen?
Like when and what? I didn't watch his series on Logo long ago and stopped watching Logo long ago when they stopped addressing transgender issues from other than the aspect of gay men's arrogant view of them, meaning thinking and calling all of them trannies like it's ok to make it a joke because it's only a joke to him. He doesn't understand other people disagree.
Anyway, he's just another person mindlessly pretending to know the issues and problems real transwomen face during and after their transition and the discrimination every day of their life and that gives him the right to express an opinion where everyone else has to accept it even if it's a bad joke, one really bad, demeaning joke.
ABC cancealled the new show "Working It" because it wasn't funny beyond being just another arrogant view of transwomen. Even the producer said he didn't understand all the criticism since he thought "Bosom Buddies" was funny. But that was then and this is now. Something RuPaul hasn't bothered to learn except bitching when caught making arrogant, stupid remarks, like this interview.
The truth is ABC wouldn't have run a show that depicted other groups, such as gay men or lesbians, the way they depicted the two men in the show pretending to be women, like they would get one block in public before being ridiculed and never even offered an interview. They were so badly obvious it was obscene. Any personnel manager wouldn't even schedule an interview with them.
And RuPaul thinks the transcommunity and transwomen over reacted? Maybe he should listen to Vandy Beth Glenn who had to fight for her job after being fired three years ago for transitioning on the job. Does he have any idea of that? Ok, rhetorical question. Does he have any idea this is the history of transwomen? Ditto for the answer.
I won't argue RuPaul has helped the LGB community with his portrayal of drag queen into mainstream media, but he shouldn't think for a minute he's and his show reflects or has helped transwomen. Quite the opposite, he's only added to the common misconception transwomen are drag queens, or worse, trannies. And he thinks transwomen shouldn't be offended?
Lance Bass was stupid with his remarks and RuPaul has only shown he's even stupider defending him and his remarks. All the more reason to just ignore him. Wait, I've already been doing that, except for now, but that's only to remind him of this arrogant stupidity and cluelessness on the reality of transwomen.
So my advice to him, just stay on gay issues, it's the only thing you seem to know.
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you don't actually cite what RuPaul's ignorance was...
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot he's said, but mostly it's what he's done, hyping glitch and glamour, which is his style, instead of the everyday, ordnary lives of transwomen. He doesn't live like them or has spoken about their lives except to criticize them as overly sensitive when other people make insensitive or bad jokes, do sitcoms, or parody transwomen.
ReplyDeleteHas he ever spoken about transwomen in a positive light outside of his show or similar events? Does he live 24/7 as a woman? Does he engage or actively work for the transcommunity? The answer to these is the same, no. He hasn't done that for transwomen. His only interest is his image and his career. He's a gay drag queen, not a transwoman, let alone a legally-recognized woman.