Glee Neuters Rocky: "->-bleeped-<-" is OK but "Transsexual" isn't?

[Shana A]

Glee Neuters Rocky: "->-bleeped-<-" is OK but "Transsexual" isn't?
Filed by: Alex Blaze
October 27, 2010 7:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/10/glee_neuters_rocky_->-bleeped-<-_is_ok_but_transsexual_is.php

I probably would have just put up an open thread on the Rocky Horror episode of Glee glee-columbia-magenta-frank.pnglast night, which Jerame recorded for me, with a couple of lines if it weren't for the fact that Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee, is being asked to direct the remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While some of the changes were explained in the plot (doesn't let them off the hook much but it's better than nothing), the fact that they went a lot further than necessary to take the sexiness out, de-queer Rocky Horror, throw around some casual trans- and fat-phobia, and completely miss the point of the original.

I can't say much more without ruining the episode for people who haven't watched it; everything else is after the jump.

[Carlita]

I know the exact moment I first realised I was TS ... and it happened at a performance of The Rocky Horror Show, in a theatre on the King's Road in Chelsea (London) when Rocky sang the words ...

Whatever happened to Fay Wray
That delicate satin draped frame
As it clung to her thigh
How I started to cry
Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same

... and I knew that I did too ... more than anything else in the world. And not just dressed like her, either.

So anyone who tries to take the transexual out of that particular Transylvania is taking it out of my life.