"They've used their victimhood to create a situation... Don't you dare tell me what I can do or say. It's just words. You know what? *****, you need to get stronger." ... ya a situation where you've had to drop two tired jokes from a tv show. Big deal lol I know if some segment in the show was making viewers bored they'd cut it because they don't want to loose $$$, why is this any different? The 'You've got shemail' line was not what made the show, the T-word doesn't add anything to the show... idk
As for victimhood there's barely any episodes that don't have a tragic contestant backstory, which is not a bad thing, but it's just a bit... yeah we'll exploit these poor gays' victimhoods to make the audience feel like the show is fighting homophobia but but if some trans people feel alienated... well there's no dollar in that
The thing with drag queens and the T word, particularly on dragrace, is that the viewers acquire all the slang that the queens use and can't be relied upon to differentiate between drag queens who won't be offended and trans people who will be. I don't really care if they're not offended, but they're normalising or 'reclaiming' a word that's not really theirs to reclaim, just like if white people decided to use the N-word.
I also did not like the attitude Michelle Visage had where when Carmen Carrera spoke up about the ->-bleeped-<- thing, Visage said she shouldn't have opened her mouth and should be grateful to the show and that if trans people want to be part of the LGBT community they basically have to let the gays do whatever they want and not complain. :(
Kat Blaque made some pretty interesting videos about RuPaul if anyone wants to check them out too, they're on youtube
