Quote from: Sandy on January 08, 2012, 10:30:48 AM
My take on the commercial was that it was mildly amusing, because I spotted him as a drag queen immediately. And personally, having had three continuous months of bleeding post-operatively, I don't miss those days at all. I think many post-menopausal women have similar feelings about not having menses.
However, the public in general does not immediately pick up on the difference between a CD and a transsexual. We are generally lumped in the same category. So to their eyes, all the t-women community are just men in drag, and this commercial proves it.
For this reason, to me, this is similar to a white person singing "Mammy" in blackface makeup. It is not satire, because satire implies an understanding of what is being satirized. But since no one from the advertising staff, to the company, and even the DQ actor himself, understand what being transsexual is about, it wasn't satirical.
I appreciate the company's response and apology. I understand that the commercial has been pulled. I'm sorry that the actor in the commercial lost a gig, but, I think that because of the controversy he may find new opportunities.
-Sandy
I will just go ahead and be lazy and copy the reply I just wrote on this in the other new thread, where the DQ- "crack"- slammed the critique;
How does one know what
Crack' is supposed to be in the
ad, though?
As far as I could see, the ad do not start with a line saying; "OBS: The following commercial contains a
Bio-woman and a
DQ".
The character in the ad could just aswell be supposed to be a Transsexual. Or a ->-bleeped-<-. Or a Transvestite. Or a Crossdresser. Or whatever.
I should be honest and say that I was actually not sure about what the character was
supposed to be when I watched it, as many transsexuals do indeed look like Drag Queens while many Drag Queens indeed look like transsexuals, so it is not exactly about the producer "Submitting" to any "Stereotype" or however a transpoliticaly correct person would word it, as those "stereotypes" are already there in real life.
