I have very mixed feelings, but I am wondering what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzaQkSA-s-U&NR=1&feature=fvwp#


Kristi

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH.I think that is a hoot.Score one for the T-girls .I really liked the car too.Thank's for the clip.Barb

Happy New Year Kristi

I chuckled a little bit, then I was like "HEY! No laughing!!! This is not funny! Gender poking, gender poking, must not laugh!"

Just kidding, lol. I think we're all way too sensitive about stuff sometimes. I do have a question though, why was that girl putting on a condom? I don't understand Meghan

If the premise of the "deceptive ->-bleeped-<-" weren't so damaging, it would be funny but too many of us have been assaulted or killed in that kind of situation to make me laugh too hard about it.

The expression on that guys face was priceless though, lol

hugs & smiles
Emelye

 

I didn't see that coming.  ~giggle~



Bad Janet.  That was not funny. 

Well I have been known to laugh at lots of things most people consider inappropriate.  I think we have to laugh at ourselves.  It is healthy.

What bothers me is what may well have happened next.  I can see the guy pulling out a gun or a club for being fooled like that.  That is what I meant by mixed feelings.  This can be really dangerous.

Kristi

See, they didn't show the part of the video AFTER they filmed. That's where the guy ponders for about.....1 second.....then he broke with gender/sexual orientation stereotypes and acting on his initial attraction. Oh, and they didn't mention the previous conversation on the phone where she disclosed and he said "but I'm not gay, I can't be with you" and they talked and talked and talked and he came to terms with his attraction to her. He just likes her, that's it. Plus it was Halloween hence her outfit, I mean she wouldn't dress like that to her job working at that little bookstore. When he came in to pick up that special order book he didn't know they'd go on a date  Meghan

Yeah, I am very aware of the danger.  But it did make me laugh. 

Perhaps this is part of normalizing us.  The gay community went through something like this 15 years ago.

Ever the optimist,
Kate

The first TV ad of Ha Ri Su here was also based on the same kind of reversal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JRYf5f0aI#



In 2001 she adopted the stage name Harisu, just before featuring in an advertisement for Korean cosmetics company DoDo. It turned out to be a huge success and ended up launching her career.

Barbie~~

Nah not really... 

Jay

Quote from: Emelye on January 01, 2010, 11:38:27 AM
If the premise of the "deceptive ->-bleeped-<-" weren't so damaging, it would be funny but too many of us have been assaulted or killed in that kind of situation to make me laugh too hard about it.

The expression on that guys face was priceless though, lol

hugs & smiles
Emelye

Yeah, that is pretty much how I feel.

I did get a little laugh from it, but I don't like how it just furthers that stereotype.

Very little bit of media goes out of its way to do otherwise, though.

I just know that if I were ever able to transition and pass, that I would not do something like that.

Kristi, I thought that guy was gonna pass out.

Gennee

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Quote from: barbie on January 01, 2010, 12:43:57 PM
The first TV ad of Ha Ri Su here was also based on the same kind of reversal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JRYf5f0aI#



In 2001 she adopted the stage name Harisu, just before featuring in an advertisement for Korean cosmetics company DoDo. It turned out to be a huge success and ended up launching her career.

Barbie~~

I found the second video interesting.

Gennee

It's wrong on so many levels, but still hilarious!

The only thing I "like" about it, is that the car "bounces" a little in the end of the ad.. like he went "oh, what the heck... "..
I like that.

She's no less "desirable" for it.

Quote from: Miniar on January 05, 2010, 11:59:58 AM
The only thing I "like" about it, is that the car "bounces" a little in the end of the ad.. like he went "oh, what the heck... "..
I like that.

She's no less "desirable" for it.

I had to go back and watch it again for that.  It was subtle, though redeeming.

However, I am put off by these type of commercials.  It always seems to imply that the guy has been misled and his manhood has been called into question.  "Oh Gawd!  I'm not  GAY!"

I did get a chuckle though from that aussie commercial where this guy wakes up and finds the girl from the previous night is standing at the toilet and he freaks and runs out of the apartment.  It was a commercial for an STP.

Maybe I am a bit sensitive, but then again, I have read all the names on the Honor Our Dead site.  It's hard to be objective in that regard.

-Sandy

Quote from: Miniar on January 05, 2010, 11:59:58 AM
The only thing I "like" about it, is that the car "bounces" a little in the end of the ad.. like he went "oh, what the heck... "..
I like that.

Hey you are right.  I didn't notice that.  Thanks!

Kristi

I know it's supposed to be funny... but it's hard sometimes to have a sense of humor about something that you've nearly killed yourself over.

Though, I do think if people want to make jokes at our expense, we should just live ignore it if we don't like it.

I'm not the right audience for it. 

Was I the only one that found myself hoping that they had actually followed the casting logic and give a real Trans actress some work?

There are a growing number of them in the UK, one or two whom are actually quite successful, but most of whom have been careful about what goes in their résumé to the point that while a few of us on the inside do know their past the casting directors may indeed not.

But I rather gather that in other parts of the world (USA) it's much more difficult for trans actors and actresses to get work.

I found it humorous but was the car rockin' 'cause they were "rockin"
or was it rockin' 'cause he was beating the snot out of her?

The odds of anyone - gay, straight, trans or whatever (aside from those who have family in the biz, where nepotism still is not a dirty word) ever getting a paying job for acting are a million to one at best.

How many people get off the bus, or airplane, or drive their car into LA every day thinking they are going to be an actor? How many ever actually make it?

What you know only gets you so far, and that's not even across the street or your phone calls returned or submissions read.  It's still - as it has been forever pretty much - a business of who you know, not what you know.