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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to mark taslov,
women rape men
aka mainstream comedy.
Because males are horn dogs.
and I don’t knowI miss being seen as not a threat.
Meatloaf has “man boobs” – otherwise known as boobs – and Trump has small hands…
Because if pressed to pinpoint that one ‘not quite right thing’ about Donald Trump, whether in his policy platform, his disregard for institutional integrity, the bubblecious ignorance, his celebation of tax avoidance, the divisive campaign tactics, the capriciousness, the lies and abusiveness – most evident in his treatment of women and minorities – a sexual offender by his own admission, it’s the relative size of those small and very feminine rape tongs that sets him apart. -
Speaker: Broadcasting and the Public Interest, in reply to izogi,
Thanks for your reply Izogi. While I’m here I should probably point out that in order to change the gender on a birth certificate in New Zealand Cynthia must have undergone medical treatment (not necessarily full reconstructive surgery). This is a substantive barrier for transgender people, derelicts like Cynthia included, not just in terms of the economics of finding and traveling to a suitable mental health practitioner, undergoing medical treatment and sitting on waiting lists but also for those denied treatment on the grounds that it may lead to health complications – issues that would most certainly be compounded for a 300lb derelict who likes to call himself Cynthia. This is why the police are misgendering Cynthia and why there is a possibility that Terry is presented as an appropriate cell mate.
Medical intervention is no longer a requirement in world leader Argentina, nor is it a requirement in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Israel, Taiwan, Hungary, Denmark, Latvia, Italy, Malta and Ireland. Third genders are similarly legally recognised without the necessity for medical intervention in Bangladesh, Nepal and India. By contrast, New Zealand’s current discriminatory legislation remains at odds with Yogyakarta principle 3:
No one shall be forced to undergo medical procedures, including sex reassignment surgery, sterilisation or hormonal therapy, as a requirement for legal recognition of their gender identity.
It’s almost as if the long history of gender variant identities – from the fa’afafine to the takatāpui, from the Quariwarmi to the mukhannathun doesn’t predate New Zealand’s establishment or “medical interventions” by thousands of years.
Though I’d still be concerned that if Cynthia were freely able to legally change her gender, then the cops would be scaring the women in their custody with rapey threats of a 300lb chick with a dick. Who knows…keeping with the programming.
I’ll stop this here, sorry again for derailing your thread Dylan, I’ve been enjoying the discussion.
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So you can imagine my bedazzlement when in the second episode:
Pretty funny heh, widest audience? A man in woman’s underwear, for shame. The Effemimania is strong with this one.
To think that of all the scandals that could ruin an Auckland mayor, it’s crossdressing that might just break the camel’s back. Parts of this clip appeared in the advertisements.
And it’s not so much that NZOA funded it or TVNZ broadcast it (twice), or even that this kind of transphobia pops up in NZOA funded shows across the networks
Jeremy Corbett: The following show is for adults only and contains bad language that may offend some people and there have been a lot of moves this week to ban all smoking on TV because when people see it on TV, it glamorises it making it cool and sexy, well we at 7Days have a plan to make sure that doesn’t happen [cut to shot of Paul Ego wearing a red bikini top]
Paul Ego: [husky voice] What are you looking at? pervert. [flicks ash under bra, seductively pokes out tongue]
[laughter]
Jeremy Corbett: That should do it.No. It’s more that somehow, from the writers, through the production staff, to the funders, among the crew and the actors, the editors, the TV producers and schedulers, no one thought to ask “Hey wait Terry Teo team or hey wait Seven Days team, why all the transphobia?”
Heavy use of transgender artist Randa’s music doesn’t miraculously legitimise that. I’d like to know about what “public interest” actually means.
My apologies for the tangent.
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Just as an aside.
Beyond simply informing the public there is also benefit in entertaining the public. Currently NZ On Air does an admirable job of this, and once TVNZ was returned to its commercial operation its $15 million in Charter funding went to NZ On Air, which made it available to all broadcasters in the hope of reaching the widest audiences.
As admirable as NZOA’s job is, what is the deal with the widest kiwi audience and their hard-on for 1990’s rape gags? Prison rape is a tried and tested comedy trope, but when pandering to the lowest common denominator and addessing purely public service interests collide, how could things be improved in that regard?
Despite a lack of development, Cynthia is one of the more interesting characters to emerge in New Zealand fiction this century, at least Cynthia is the character I identified most with in TVNZ’s kidult production Terry Teo. Not so much the implication that Cynthia is a pedophile rapist, I didn’t identify with that at all, but as a transgender person, and not a pedophile rapist, facing discriminatory systemic and social hurdles to being correctly gendered – well we’re not making much ground, illustrated by the fear in poor Terry’s eyes.
The meta-ness of prison rape jokes being funded by a Government entity and broadcast on a Government owned TV channel, while transgender inmates are alledgedly being raped by guards in Government owned prisons is pure balls. That the mechanism of this joke in part hinges on the misgendering of this inmate, and that this is occuring while Corrections are refusing applications by transgender prisoners to be moved to gender appropriate prisons is frightening. Sophie Buchanan has being doing a considerable amount of work increasing awareness of these issues via her OIA requests at FYI.org.nz.
I was pleased to see Kelvin Davis stepping up this week to support No Pride In Prisons.
Despite the prison joke I was impressed by the slickness of the production and happy enough to continue watching
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Hard News: The conversation they want to…, in reply to Islander,
XY intersex people are frequently brought up as female (especially if the genitalia are tiny/ambiguous or some parts surgically removed in infanthood…approximately 1 in 1000 people are intersex individuals.
As high as 1.9% of the population in recent studies. Regardless of their kayrotype, it's common for intersex people to be stitched up and raised as female for the very simple reason it's easy to build a vagina than a penis and more seemly to assign "God decreed" binary gender prematurely. These practices persist despite research showing that gender dysphoria generally affects between 8.5–20% of individuals with DSD compared to 1-2% in the wider population and despite John Money's abject failure with David Reimer in the 1960s.
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Hard News: I tried Sativex: it was no…, in reply to Russell Brown,
… the risk of diversion in the New Zealand setting, should Sativex be funded, is high due to the inherent nature of its active substances and the ease of administration.
It’s pretty feeble logic all things considered, one would have imagined that as qualified professionals they would have a more functional comprehension of their remit. As I read on I couldn’t shake an encroaching sense of dread that this might be where things were headed:
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Emma Hart,
abortion is illegal. Abortion is a crime, which carries penalties including imprisonment.
Atrocious.
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to ,
Thanks for that Steven, that's behind a paywall for me, but it's obviously very encouraging. Georgina Beyer was featured in Stuff’s weekly series, Face. Her wisdom an depth of experience shines through as always but she says a couple of things that I found concerning. The first being this:
the transsexual community, the transgender community, they protested at a recent Pride parade at Auckland against us; the LGBTI community, we must remain in solidarity
Because without solidarity we have nothing. Living well outside the centres I had to check that reference.
Spokeswoman for the protest group No Pride in Prisons, Emilie Rakete, said they were there to protest the involvement of Police and Corrections, which she said were “primarily racist, violent institutions”.
She said her group had been in contact with two trans women in the past four months who had been raped while in custody.
Rakete said this was a direct result of policies introduced by Judith Collins, namely double-bunking and over crowding.
I can see how Judith Collin’s involvement in the march could be construed as problematic for some, and I was a little surprised that Gerogina framed the protest as being against the LGBTI community without expanding on that – when the chief issue would seem to be with the insitutionalisation of the march. I was also surprised to hear Georgina Beyers choice of words here:
you can’t just be a screamer from the sidelines all the time
Which recalls the Catriona MacLennan article I linked to above:
"Shrill”, “screeching”, “shrieking” and “screaming” – words applied exclusively to women engaging in political debate.
Despite the unfortunate word choice there Ms Beyer’s philosophy is sound, and she is correct to highlight that some of these issues being protested such as Intersex Genital Mutilation (against UN recommendations) and the lack of adherence in New Zealand legislation to the ‘Yogyakarta Principles’ remain significant impediments to tiny fractions of the population who are vocal – sidelined – where one can either scream or applaud – or never be heard at all.
Despite these inconsequential observations, she makes a number of salient points that anyone with divisive ambition would be wise to heed, she is a profound inspiration within the LGBTQIA community, and far beyond, and I feel incredibly lucky to live in a country that so readily accepts her.
