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2012Watchin’ Em Work It
Well, after the brouhaha that preceded ABC’s Work It, we finally got to see what all the fuss was about.
Of course the CD community is not going to appreciate some of the innuendo and outright specific comments indicating that crossdressing is nothing but a last resort for desperate people and not something any normal person would ever actually want to do.
I suspect the trans community will object to the trifling with their issues and with the whole concept of changing genders.
But, my opinion is that neither CDs nor TSs are really the true victims here.
In my view the real victims are men.
This show is nothing if not another “man=stupid” diatribe. It is a continuation of repeated portrayals in media and advertising of men as unsuccessful, incompetent, ignorant, insensitive idiots in every facet of their lives – utterly useless human beings.
The male characters in this show are morons and all male behavior in the show is portrayed as asinine. The “smarter” of the two hasn’t a clue how to relate to his own wife until he “becomes” one of the gals.
“Oh, I didn’t realize that taking you out for a “romantic” dinner to the bar where my two idiot male friends will be waiting for us wouldn’t be a good idea! Why are you mad at me?”
It has become fashionable to treat men like drooling idiots, and this show is the latest and greatest insult yet.
Thank goodness the show is absolutely awful. Begone!
Sarah Wilson
Every so often a network comes up with a dud of a show, and hopefully it just meets an unceremonious end. One that has the writers asking themselves, “I know I need the work but why this?”
Caio!
Sarah
thorin25
I haven’t seen the show, but I think your comments are right on. Shows or movies that try to make crossdressing funny usually either demean men or women or both. It sounds like you are right on in that it is making men = stupid. But men crossdressing to be funny usually perpetuates harmful stereotypes about women that most women would find demeaning. I haven’t seen the show, but almost every other movie or tv show I’ve seen where crossdressing is supposed to be funny, I’ve found it degrading women.
cdjanie
I’m afraid I disagree. What tends to happen is that men portray women in a demeaning and stereotypical fashion, which is not demeaning to women because everything else in the program shows how wrong the men were. Rather, it is a comment on the utter stupidity of men, and the falseness of our transgenderism. In fact, among men, women and trans people, the only group that comes out clean is women.