New Sitcom Promotes Trans Toxicity

[Shana A]

New Sitcom Promotes Trans Toxicity

    by Care2 Causes Editors
    December 13, 2011
    6:00 am

http://www.care2.com/causes/new-sitcom-promotes-trans-toxicity.html

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Kelli Busey the creator of the Care2 petition ABC Do Not Air the Sitcom "Work It." The show "Work It," which premiers on January 3rd, features two "guy's guys" who find themselves without work due to the tanking economy. Faced with continuing unemployment, they dress in drag to get hired at an all-female pharmaceutical company. Read on to find out why the LGBTQI community has serious problems with the this new show.

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Transgender, Genderqueer, questioning and Intersexxed and the few drag queens I know were revolted.

But I still needed a better consensus, so I went to twitter and queried "ABC Work It." I was surprised to see that drag artists shared my opinion of Work It. They found that the caricatures representing cross dressers, a close cousin of theirs under the Trans umbrella, ridiculous to the point of sickening.

Drag queens are revolted by Work It.

[TheAetherealMeadow]

I'd say it's offensive to women overall instead of just trans women. First off there's that "wah wah wah women are taking over the workforce we straight white guys have it so HARD!" mansplaining crap. The fact is that the workforce remains heavily biased towards men towards the present day. The women seem like they are being depicted as shallow, incompetent airheads. When one of the male characters makes a sexualized comment to a woman, workplace sexual harassment and the toxic gender role of men as objectifiers are played for laughs. It's a shame really. A plot like this could be twisted around into a feminist perspective that shows some of the trials and tribulations that come with womanhood. Instead, telling from the trailer, it seems to be framed from a distinctly toxic masculine perspective.