Political Correctness Has Missed Transgender?

[Prospero]

Shame that when they created a drama about a trangendered "hitman" they cast a GG in the role - Hit and Miss.... with Chloe Sevigny. She was good and it was a positive portrayal but how much better, in terms of wider acceptance, it would have been if the tral transgendered actress had been cast in that role.

But it is early days i think. There must be some young transgendered women who will, eventually, become important actresses. But inherent in that is also a contradiction. They should be cast in a variety of roles - anything from a Bond Girl to a costume drama about Elizabethan England - where they are women, rather than the ghettoised portrayal of "girls with a difference.' Then we'll be making progress.

So far most of the talent is in other fields - modelling for sure - and in areas such as music (Wendy carlos and a jazz bass player whose name i can't recall) art, the sciences and more.

[MacShreach]

The prejudice is on your side, having decided there are talented transexual actors who can't get a job, which for all I know may be true. You obviously don''t want to admit that most of the cast of most soap operas are not good at what they do, it may pay the rent but the quality of acting in soap operas has been a standing joke for years. And where there have been transexuals who acted -Eva Robin's for example- they have also been successful and in her case prejudice had nothing to prevent her success, so I am aware that there are transexuals with acting ability -but in terms of volume I don't know how many transexuals want to act, and I doubt it is a lot.

I will grant you the courtesy of assuming that you are less familiar with English than your own language.

To recap, I have always, and throughout this thread, supported fair treatment of transsexuals, and I was criticising the prejudice against them, not supporting it.

This is not the first time I have had cause to wonder about your reading skills. I am not going to address your comment in detail, since it definitely does not warrant the effort.

[Prospero]

Mac... Stavros is as British as you and me...

[MacShreach]

Mac... Stavros is as British as you and me...

Sorry, I'm not British. But anyway, I was just being nice.

[Prospero]

I assumed you were a Scot

[MacShreach]

I assumed you were a Scot

Indeed I am. And European.

[MacShreach]

To give a wider context, I do come from the British Isles, but in political terms I reject the Union, the monarchy, et alia and do not have any loyalty at all to the 'British' State. Therefore I do not consider myself 'British' and rather, Scottish and European. With any luck this situation will be regularised in the not-too-distant future.

[Prospero]

LOL... I wouldn't count on it. Latest opinion polls suggest otherwise.

[MacShreach]

Well, they have been wrong before, and if my compadres are stupid enough to reject the opportunity they are being offered, then I will simply finalise my naturalisation as French. So the situation will be regularised, one way or the other.

[Prospero]

As an Irish ancestored exile i do sympathise with your position