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Title: BBC Radio 4 Today: fun with transphobic soundbites
Post by: Shana A on December 24, 2010, 09:00:43 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 24, 2010, 09:00:43 AM
BBC Radio 4 Today: fun with transphobic soundbites
http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=9353 (http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=9353)
A few days ago I wrote about an especially clueless article in the New York Times, the writer of which seemed to think that because one trans woman fashion model had had her image printed on the cover of one glossy fashion mag, that 2010 must therefore have been "the Year of the Transsexual" [sic].
I was unconvinced at the time and this morning, on listening to Today – BBC Radio 4′s "flagship news programme" – was reminded quite bluntly that trans people are still considered legitimate targets of hate speech in the name of a jolly anecdote. At a few minutes before 9 o'clock, the presenter – a cis man named John Humphrys, I believe – began an interview with two former politicians, both cis men (Gyles Brandreth and Chris Mullin) about "the sanctity of constituency surgeries".
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And in that respect, the interview was a success: there was indeed laughter amongst the three cis men. Disappointingly, however, that laughter was at the expense of binary-identified transsexual women.
http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=9353 (http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=9353)
A few days ago I wrote about an especially clueless article in the New York Times, the writer of which seemed to think that because one trans woman fashion model had had her image printed on the cover of one glossy fashion mag, that 2010 must therefore have been "the Year of the Transsexual" [sic].
I was unconvinced at the time and this morning, on listening to Today – BBC Radio 4′s "flagship news programme" – was reminded quite bluntly that trans people are still considered legitimate targets of hate speech in the name of a jolly anecdote. At a few minutes before 9 o'clock, the presenter – a cis man named John Humphrys, I believe – began an interview with two former politicians, both cis men (Gyles Brandreth and Chris Mullin) about "the sanctity of constituency surgeries".
[...]
And in that respect, the interview was a success: there was indeed laughter amongst the three cis men. Disappointingly, however, that laughter was at the expense of binary-identified transsexual women.
Title: Re: BBC Radio 4 Today: fun with transphobic soundbites
Post by: Muffin on December 24, 2010, 09:26:28 AM
Post by: Muffin on December 24, 2010, 09:26:28 AM
stay tuned coming up next we mock other people born with birth defects.. hear us rip apart people in wheelchairs and those with birthmarks in the shapes of countries...... on their foreheads.... don't go away we have hundreds of funnies coming your way....
stupid people are stupid....people
stupid people are stupid....