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Title: Dan Savage, Racism Has Its Rewards
Post by: Shana A on September 03, 2009, 09:23:47 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 03, 2009, 09:23:47 AM
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Dan Savage, Racism Has Its Rewards
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 AM
TransGriot Note: This guest post is from my Canadian homegirl Renee at Womanist Musings
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/09/dan-savage-racism-has-its-rewards.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/09/dan-savage-racism-has-its-rewards.html)
Well, it seems that HBO has decided to give Dan Savage his own show, excuse me for a moment while I am reflexively ill. Dan is just the kind of edgy fauxgressive that the media loves to embrace. He does after all write about the great taboo – sex. To make matters even more appealing, he represents the type of gay White male that the media loves to portray.
He is educated and has class privilege – yup, that sums up the GLBT community and allows networks like HBO to put a checkmark beside their inclusive of all peoples box. No need to find a person of color in the GLBT community to promote, when the media can present yet another edgy White male.
Dan Savage, Racism Has Its Rewards
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 AM
TransGriot Note: This guest post is from my Canadian homegirl Renee at Womanist Musings
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/09/dan-savage-racism-has-its-rewards.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/09/dan-savage-racism-has-its-rewards.html)
Well, it seems that HBO has decided to give Dan Savage his own show, excuse me for a moment while I am reflexively ill. Dan is just the kind of edgy fauxgressive that the media loves to embrace. He does after all write about the great taboo – sex. To make matters even more appealing, he represents the type of gay White male that the media loves to portray.
He is educated and has class privilege – yup, that sums up the GLBT community and allows networks like HBO to put a checkmark beside their inclusive of all peoples box. No need to find a person of color in the GLBT community to promote, when the media can present yet another edgy White male.