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Activist: Ferguson's Sketch Only Funny If "Transgender People [Are] a Human Punc

Started by Shana A, February 05, 2011, 04:56:53 PM

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February 05, 2011, 04:56:53 PM
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.html

Following 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."
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