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Transamerican Love Story Reality Dating Show

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Shana A

January 30, 2008, 02:56:10 PM
Transamerican Love Story Reality Dating Show
Posted January 30th, 2008 by Molly Celaschi

http://www.2snaps.tv/9814260

Alec Mapa (gay dude from Desperate Housewives) hosts this groundbreaking transgendered elimination dating show.

The transgender bachelorette, Calpernia Addams, is being wooed by eight handsome men. With the advice of her trans best friend Andrea combined with multiple challenges and dates, Calpernia will shave down her group of suitors until she finds her prince charming.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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lady amarant

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January 30, 2008, 03:13:51 PM
Uhmmmm...

I don't know what to say about this one... good thing... bad thing... mind. boggled. cannot... function... ...

I kinda think I get what Calpernia and Andrea are trying to accomplish here - visibility. Don't know if this is the right avenue for it though. Reality TV is nothing if not exploitative.
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Purple Pimp

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January 30, 2008, 06:33:49 PM
Yeah... by being on LOGO, it is kind of preaching to the choir... shame they couldn't get it on a mainstream channel, it would reach more people that are trans-ignorant.

Lia
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you would do. -- Epictetus
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NicholeW.

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January 30, 2008, 06:59:18 PM
I imagine they couldn't get the show on a mainstream network.

I am sure it will be tastefully done, but something about this just sticks in my craw, something about what Julia Serano refers to as 'deceptive' portrayals. And yes, I know that no one on that show is trying to 'fool' anyone and that the show helps both Andrea and Callie's agendas as well as their purses.

Still, the Transamerican Dating Game? I dunno, I thought the original and its later syndicated reincarnation were crap. So, prolly just me.

Nichole
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Purple Pimp

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January 30, 2008, 08:05:45 PM
Quote from: Nichole W. on January 30, 2008, 06:59:18 PM
I imagine they couldn't get the show on a mainstream network.


Maybe, but "Something About Miriam" ran on a mainstream channel in the UK and in other countries (including a Fox channel, though admittedly obscure, in the US).  I bet they could have gotten it on Bravo, which most people with cable actually get (I'm in the Atlanta area, and they don't offer LOGO with whatever cable company I've got).

Lia
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you would do. -- Epictetus
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debbie.j

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January 30, 2008, 08:45:51 PM
where iam at logo is on  charter cable  genovais. and from  what i remember  with the one they hand on tbs

a while back all i can say is . i just to see the frist show before i can say anything about it one way or the other ::)
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