Russell Howard and the Hilarity of Transmisogyny
04/15/11-Nicole Lamb
http://lezgetreal.com/2011/04/russell-howard-and-the-hilarity-of-transmisogyny/BBC Three comedy show Russell Howard's Good News aired a sketch mocking trans women as it showed men dressed as female flight attendants flashing passengers. Trans Media Watch has condemned the sketch and say it is in response to news from a Thai airline that announced they would hire trans women as flight attendants. In response the executive Producer Sean Hancock has written:
"It is never our intention to cause offence, so of course it troubles me to hear of cases where we may have done so inadvertently.
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The Problem of Comedy and Transmisogyny
Trans people are a popular butt of a joke in comedy still. There is a lot of transphobia within our society as we are often a misunderstood and misaligned group so transphobic humor is generally not going to receive a lot of outrage from cisgender viewers. And, regardless of what Fox seems to think, trans people have relatively little political or cultural power in which to fight back against transphobic attacks as our advocacy groups are smaller then most gay organizations and many supposedly GLBT organizations at best ignore our issues.
