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February 24, 2005
Trannies
If this CTV piece is any indication, people have some serious confusion about "gaydar" and gay people. To be transgendered, a tranvestite or just a green troll in drag (more common than you might think) does not necessarily mean you are gay. To assume it does says more about a Canadian Press writer's own prejudice* than that of Hollywood, "religious" conservatives or anybody else. I think the Traditional Values Coalition critique of Shrek 2 is almost as silly as the SpongeBob SquarePants kerfuffle but I also think fair-minded people owe it to their opponents to know what it is with which they are disagreeing before getting down to some fully justified mockery and derision.
The article then proceeds to describe one of the characters, an "evil'' bartender (voiced by Larry King) who is a male-to-female transgender in transition and who expresses a sexual desire for Prince Charming. In another identified scene, Shrek and Donkey need rescuing from a dungeon by Pinocchio and his nose, which is made to extend as an escape bridge by getting the wooden boy to lie about not wearing women's underwear.
*And editors at all 25 papers running the story, apparently.
Update: Beautiful Atrocities writes on a related issue.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 24, 2005 08:03 AM
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