Posted on 10/03/2014 5:17:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
The London Daily Mail reports Amazon.com now issues a content warning to viewers before they live-stream the second volume of classic "Tom and Jerry" cartoons. Viewers are lectured the cartoons "may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today."
If you think this makes sense, dear reader, you, too, have lost your mind. The same Amazon.com is also releasing a new 10-part Web series called "Transparent," about a 70-year-old father of three who decides he's a woman named Maura. There are no content warnings for this. There is only progressive euphoria. TV critics and the wider media are falling all over themselves expressing glory and praise for this cultural landmark.
Willa Paskin at the liberal website Slate is a perfect example. "To call it Amazon's first great series, or the only great series of the new fall season -- both of which are true -- is to damn it with faint praise."
Let's put aside the notion of art -- whether the acting or screenwriting is effective -- and dwell on reality. Art really doesn't matter. Getting the cultural politics right are the alpha and the omega here. It's about paying homage to the ongoing LGBT cultural revolution. It's a show that had to be made in a way to thrill the professional Transgender Lobby, or Big Trans. It needed the imprimatur of gender-denying political correctness, and it got it.
Jennifer (formerly James) Boylan, the first transgender co-chair of the board of directors of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is a consultant to the show. So are Rhys Ernst and Zackary Drucker, who have been celebrated in the art world as a couple who've both "transitioned," an ersatz man and an ersatz woman, or "trans superstars," as they were called in The New York Times. They declared in the Times that their goal is to "surpass" the outdated binaries of gender altogether: "That would be the greatest transition of all."
Jeffrey Tambor, the actor playing the lead character of Mort (and "Maura") Pfefferman, told the enraptured hosts at NBC's "Today" that "I was throw-up nervous pretty much all the way, really. It's a huge responsibility. But I had great consultants from the trans community." He announced, "It's the most transformative role I've ever played. I'm really honored."
The New York Times profiled series creator Jill Soloway and championed how her show "tries to fast-forward past the incremental water-testing that network TV has historically applied to shifts like this, to skip the eggshell-walking and the audience-coddling. She wants to give her viewers a fully realized trans character." Their headline also underlined the political goal: "Can Jill Soloway Do Justice to the Trans Movement?"
It turns out there is a ton of eggshell-walking here, toward the forces of political correctness. That Times story emphasizes that Soloway finds "precision about language, politics and etiquette is ever-present in the cultural milieu." It began with Soloway perusing GLAAD's list of talking points, of phrases to avoid in the press, like "gay marriage," as if that's different from marriage. Inspired by GLAAD, Soloway made her bathrooms on the set gender-neutral, because she wants the set to be "different from the rest of the world, a sanctuary where all are welcome." She also enacted a "transfirmative action program" -- hiring transgenders whenever possible in her production.
Hollywood loves to paint itself as rebellious, but more and more, it succumbs to a rigid orthodoxy. It's gone from enforcing the Hays Code to enforcing the Gays Code.
Our advice to the owners of "Tom and Jerry"? Announce it's really a "transfirmative action" cartoon.
I can’t wait to see the ratings.
Of course it will receive dozens of awards from people who won’t watch the show just like “12 years a slave.”
And here I always thought the “first great transgender show” was The Milton Berle Show.
God I hate that movie. Looks like a Klinton family reunion.
Or Flip Wilson Show....
That's good.
Light amount to what, 5-7% of the population. And a vast majority of the population do not care what these people do behind closed doors. Just leave the rest of us alone.
Why the hell did I find myself watching three TV shows in a row last night where this lifestyle is presented front and center as if EVERYONE is queer? And EVERYONE is OK with their escapades in the workplace.
If this were reflecting real life this hugging and kissing crap at work would be stopped dead in its place.
Do these queer writers live in the real world? And can’t there be drama, comedy or entertainment without supporting any combination of sexual relations? I’m no prude, but sex is only part of any life. And the longer life goes on, the smaller a part it becomes.
“Light amount to what, 5-7% of the population”
Less than 3%.
Here we go again, like other sodomites, these people will be displayed as decent folks, just like everyone else, and most people will buy into this lie.
Whatever normal character they pretend, should in the eyes of the wise, be trumped by their decadent behaviour, they are in fact, after your children, sodomites are in control of every major American institution, to include many religions.
Looks unbelievably idiotic. Like an old Monty Python drag skit, with all the funny removed.
And how is it a "TV show" if its not on television?
Well they think we are stupid
I have never heard of that movie
Disgusting on the same level as the gay scene in last night’s “How to Get Away with Murder” on ABC. That’s the end of that show...
“...the labor of Puritanism was now ending, the dark satanic mills changing into light satanic mills. The reprobates converted into children of joy, the sexual ways of the seraglio and of the Congo bush adopted by the emancipated masses of New York, Amsterdam, London.”
- Artur Sammler in Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet
TV=TeleVenom
And transsexuals are even fewer in number.
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