I am transgender and wonder if any other transgender people find TheCab's Frank Delima ads offensive?
To me they remind me of a Blackface routine. Something that was done in the past but in today's world is way past being even remotely acceptable.
I doubt if all non-transgender people would get what I'm saying... Lighten-up! It's all in fun after all!
To that I would say if it's ok for the masses to mock a minority then would you be ok with ads that laughed at people in wheelchairs, people with mental problems or how about laughing at vets with lost limbs? What a riot.
The basis of Frank Delima's ads is that when you see a man in female attire, it's funny. I'm a male and I wear skirts every day. To me the ads tell kids that's funny. It might have been ok in Shakespeare's day and yes 35 years ago I laughed at Monty Python but it's 2016 and, like with Blackface routines, sometimes things that were tolerated in the past need to be reevaluated.
BTW I do like Frank, he's a great guy and I'm sure he just isn't aware that there are people like me that don't enjoy being laughed at simply because of the way we are.
I've been wearing skirts out-and-about for about 3 years now and have got very little flack from anybody. But guess how many other people I've seen like me? Answer: zero. Maybe I'm the only transgender here. No the answer is that it's because I'm older, retired and not worried about losing my job. It's stuff like TheCab drag queen "comedy" that stop pretty much 100% of trangenders from living how they would like to. That's why it's, so far, almost entirely people my age or older (Bruce Jenner) that feel ok not living in a phony way.
All the kids who should feel ok won't as long as society thinks that we are a joke. I feel sorry for the kids and wish I could have been encouraged to live as an "in-betweener" 50 years ago.
Things like TheCab ad send kids the massage: hide or people will laugh at you.
To me they remind me of a Blackface routine. Something that was done in the past but in today's world is way past being even remotely acceptable.
I doubt if all non-transgender people would get what I'm saying... Lighten-up! It's all in fun after all!
To that I would say if it's ok for the masses to mock a minority then would you be ok with ads that laughed at people in wheelchairs, people with mental problems or how about laughing at vets with lost limbs? What a riot.
The basis of Frank Delima's ads is that when you see a man in female attire, it's funny. I'm a male and I wear skirts every day. To me the ads tell kids that's funny. It might have been ok in Shakespeare's day and yes 35 years ago I laughed at Monty Python but it's 2016 and, like with Blackface routines, sometimes things that were tolerated in the past need to be reevaluated.
BTW I do like Frank, he's a great guy and I'm sure he just isn't aware that there are people like me that don't enjoy being laughed at simply because of the way we are.
I've been wearing skirts out-and-about for about 3 years now and have got very little flack from anybody. But guess how many other people I've seen like me? Answer: zero. Maybe I'm the only transgender here. No the answer is that it's because I'm older, retired and not worried about losing my job. It's stuff like TheCab drag queen "comedy" that stop pretty much 100% of trangenders from living how they would like to. That's why it's, so far, almost entirely people my age or older (Bruce Jenner) that feel ok not living in a phony way.
All the kids who should feel ok won't as long as society thinks that we are a joke. I feel sorry for the kids and wish I could have been encouraged to live as an "in-betweener" 50 years ago.
Things like TheCab ad send kids the massage: hide or people will laugh at you.
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