The next round of America’s Next Top Model will have a transgender candidate named Isis. I’m sure it will be a big mess, the way ANTM tends to be, with too many dramas & too much revelation about the candidates’ personal issues (issues that have nothing whatsoever to do with their ability to model).
BUT – compared to the recent footage of the recently cancelled Pretty Handsome (which was previously known as 4 oz.) – I’m sure it’ll be better, at least for the reason that the woman’s goal is not to transition on the show or anything like that. The focus will not be on her being trans, per se, but on her desire to be a model.
When transness becomes an aspect of someone’s identity – even an aspect that’s given way too much attention in light of the whole human being – they have a chance to come across as people, first.
edited to add: & I’m not going to dignify the comments made by a dickwad on Fox News about Isis by commenting or linking since it’s just the usual bullshit hateful transphobia you’d expect. GLAAD did demand an apology, but none was received.
Next weeks ‘Project Runway’ will have the designers create outfits for club-kid style drag queens.
http://www.bearotic.com/2008/08/16/project-runway-drag-queen-challenge-wednesday/
I think I’d prefer the designers make outfits for CDs or transwomen on a more serious note, but what the hell.
I don’t think ‘Pretty Handsome’ was canceled — rather, the pilot wasn’t picked up. I can see why, despite the GREAT cast. Far too many ‘in-your-face’ sexuality issues crammed into one hour.
There’s some real wisdom in that last paragraph.
I think a conversation about what it would take for a trans person to be seen as a person first would make for an interesting conversation on different levels.
I was going to call them “Fuckwads” but “Dickwad” is close enough. Didn’t the guy from us seem…well…errr…gay? Not that there aren’t gay men that as or more stupid than straight guys when it comes to us…Sure, get a cushy job making fun of people and join the oppressor.
I’m so fuming.
The FNC guy looks like he really should be on at 6:00 AM discussing hog futures on the Ames, Iowa 500 watt TV station. I bet he wears cranberry pants and white shoes.
Meanwhile the US guy tries to look “hip and cool” with long hair and “hip” unshaven face that only makes him look even more like a late 60’s loser. Didn’t that fashion become blase around 1972?
The real issue is, would the gorgeous Isis even let either of them buy her a drink? My guess? No. Instead she would vomit if they asked her.
Any of you who have Comcast cable, there is a quick clip of Isis being interviewed. It probably won’t be there too long as they frequently change clips.