Activist: Ferguson's Sketch Only Funny If "Transgender People [Are] a Human Punchline"
Posted by Chris Geidner on February 5, 2011 4:39 PM
http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/02/activist-fergusons-sketch-only.htmlFollowing up on the Metro Weekly post about Craig Ferguson's Feb. 4 sketch featuring his "half-sister" -- played by a man and named "Peg" -- Metro Weekly received a significant number of comments defending Ferguson and stating that those having a problem with the sketch were "oversensitive" or in need of "a sense of humor."
Metro Weekly asked Meghan Stabler, a member of the board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign, for her thoughts. Stabler is a business executive, national LGBT activist, transsexual woman, and transgender advocate.
Of the sketch, she wrote of its punchline, "Unfortunately for this [sketch], and for us, there was no punchline, unless you regard transition as a joke and therefore transgender people as a human punchline."
