”Could I be any more indifferent?”
Posted on 07/06/2022 11:58:24 AM PDT by mykroar
The co-creator of Friends has said it was a mistake not to use appropriate pronouns for Chandler Bing’s transgender parent in the hit 90s sitcom.
Marta Kauffman, 65, said she now regrets the representation of the character Amanda Bing, who was played by Kathleen Turner.
“We kept referring to her as Chandler’s father, even though Chandler’s father was trans,” she said in an interview with The Conversation on the BBC World Service, which will be broadcast on 11 July.
“Pronouns were not yet something that I understood. So we didn’t refer to that character as she. That was a mistake.”
Kauffman co-created Friends with David Crane in 1994. The show, which ran for a decade, followed the lives of six friends living in Manhattan, New York, and earned tens of millions of dollars in syndication and streaming for its creators and cast.
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If the audience didn’t she was a man, there would be no joke and no purpose to the character.
The half-life of Woke keeps on shrinking. In 3 days, he will have to apologize for his apology.
This person must be trying to get ahead of an effort to have Friends removed from syndication and streaming services. It feels like ransom virtue signaling.
What??? Glad i never watched the show
Everyone knew that Kathleen Turner is 100% woman
It was very woke by 1990s standards. But systematically racist by 2022 standards.
”Could I be any more indifferent?”
the best i did was stop and watch the few seconds i saw Jennifer Anniston on the screen.
Another hasbeen attempting to find relevance.
Please tell these losers that no one GAF (gives a fig).
Their real mistake was not casting a real tranny, Kathleen Turner was not believable as someone who used to be a man.
The only one I have seen that is passable is Blaire White, the others like Bruce Jenner and Admiral Richard Levine just look ridiculous.
Marta is a guy?????? What’s its pronoun . . . like I give a flying $h!+!!!!!!!!!!!
That pronoun already expired. I apologize.
Did the PC Inquisition get hold of Marta Kauffman and torture her to get her to confess her anti-PC sins recently? She has been on a groveling apology tour for the past couple weeks.
The preferred pronoun is fag.
As broadcast television, both over-the-air and cable, continues its decline into oblivion, those in the industry will do anything to get a bounce out of a dead cat.
Jeez, this is so stupid. Give the virtue signaling a rest.
Is there any movie or TV show, from decades ago, which would not pass the political correctness tests of today?
Is there any old movie or TV show, where you wouldn’t find something which would offend today’s liberals????
Can’t we just accept old movies and TV for what they were, without the social/political commentary of how offensive they are to liberals.
And let’s remember, the people allegedly offended are the lunatic fringe of liberal/leftist types. The vast majority of people including liberals, are not raising hell about all the offenses seen in old TV shows.
Give this stuff a rest.
I’m amazed how fast the insanity has spread. First it was just a few mentally deranged individuals who took the pronoun thing seriously. And today, you can lose your job over pronouns. Soon it will be a criminal offence to misgender someone.
Just another stinging validation of my decision to GIVE UP TELEVISION over 30 years ago.
Friends don’t let friends watch TV!!
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