Transphobia? Only On CBS
Posted by Marti Abernathey on Feb 12th, 2010
http://www.transadvocate.com/the-new-home-for-transphobia-only-cbs.htm (http://www.transadvocate.com/the-new-home-for-transphobia-only-cbs.htm)
First they aired a tranphobic episode of The New Adventures Of Old Christine, then CBS News decided to ditch the accepted guidelines of the AP Stylebook to write this ugly little post, and now this:
CBS was recently criticized for airing an anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl while refusing to sell ad time to a gay dating site. CBS's repeated promotion of ugly stereotypes of transgender people show an obvious disregard for our community. When GLAAD gave the The New Adventures of Old Christine, I criticized them for looking the other way. I hope that they don't do so this time. It's time for CBS to stop making jokes on the backs of transgender people.
The thing that gets me is it is Ok to say "->-bleeped-<-", but if they were to use the N word or "Camel Jockey" or "Sand N" or anyother derogatory term, they would get sued.
We need a Transgendered Anti-deformation League.
It is the dehumanizing factor that comes into play. Somewhere down the road there will be a new group that is viewed as 'freaks' and we will just be another uninteresting group.
When they said, "Those are ->-bleeped-<- shoes..." it's followed by a pause and "Oh they are cute!" First the pot shot for the phobes then a compliment for all the women who think drag queens have great taste. I can guarantee you they weren't thinking your typical TS when they made that comment.
The next two weren't offensive at all. Basically "my husband has a pair of heels like mine" and "if I'm going to kick butt I'd prefer to wear men's shoes". I think they went a bit too far to make their case.