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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Delightfully blasé attitude towards dangerous pharmaceuticals

Tranny and TV cartoon

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Blogger steph_angel  LOL... You really do have a lot of TS issues whizzing around that head of yours at the moment don't you ;-) 
Blogger Becky  "At the moment"? :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  mmm sweeties... 
Anonymous Anonymous  Wise words Skywalker... I'm sure you won't even get a barrage of TS harumpfs, as your diatribes have no doubt scared them away!

Keep up the good work... 
Blogger Miss K  "Russell" Hobbs...

Now that's *very* clever :) 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  Becky 'nails it' again - great stuff! :D
(hammer, nails - geddit? Oh, suit yourself!) 
Anonymous Stephanie Delacey  Brilliant! I can almost hear the voices of Pete 'n Dud.... 
Anonymous Pia  Simon...
Were you were trying to make a valid point about the difficulties of finding out that a frock, trowel of foundation and tool chest of lippy didn't answer your questions about your gender anymore? Or were you just bashing ts's again in witty cartoon form? It does seem strange, almost ironic really that a man that wears womens clothes questions another person for wanting to be a woman full time. Even more so when you have friends dealing with these issues.

Picasso said "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."...

Simon...Our distinguished spokesman...in fact most of you...I leave you with this question...When did you pick up the hammer?

and no...we are not scared...we don't paint at the weekend...we paint every day...

Love, Peace and Respect...

Pia. 
Anonymous Anonymous  It depends how you look at the cartoon. You *could* say that it's a satire of non-TS folk being drawn into a world that they don't really belong in (see 2nd to last frame) and not being able to admit it to themselves or otherwise. 
Blogger Becky  "Were you were trying to make a valid point about..."

No, I wasn't trying to make a point about that, valid or otherwise. How did you get that from the strip?

"Or were you just bashing ts's again in witty cartoon form?"

No, in as much as the TV character is pretty much established as a rather stupid transvestite, and the Tranny character is also a transvestite who does rather stupid things sometimes. So I don't specialise in bashing T-Esses, I try to be a bit more even handed. Most of "Tranny and TV" is "bashing", to use your word, Transvestites.

But I don't see it as "bashing", any more than Peanuts bashes small children or Andy Capp bashes the working class male (not for a moment am I comparing my piddly strip with those works), but the point is the same. Comedy, be it in cartoon form or whatever, is about pointing out the idiosyncrasies of a group or situation and making fun of it.

Perhaps if you could give specific examples of how this strip or anything I've written "bashes" TSs, I can address them.

"It does seem strange, almost ironic really that a man that wears womens clothes questions another person for wanting to be a woman full time. Even more so when you have friends dealing with these issues."

I do have friends who are dealing with these issues. And, in my own small way, I've dealt with these issues myself. Nowhere have I questioned the fact that someone might want to be a woman full time.

I might question how they go about it because gender reassignment as you well know is not something that can be taken lightly. It deeply affects a person's relationships, and permanently changes their body. Calling hormones "sweeties" (as I've heard TG people do in the past), and promoting ways to short-cut what should be a properly controlled process is damaging and dangerous, and I feel strongly about that.

"When did you pick up the hammer?"

I'll take that to mean "when did you start making fun of T-esses?"

The same time I started making fun of Transvestites, and all the other types of trans-people. It's part of what I do.

If you don't like it, then you don't have to read it. But you're not going to stop me. 
Anonymous Anonymous  I think any mature community should have the ability to laugh at itself from time to time. And that goes for the TG community as well. 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  I thought there was a clue in the title; and an even bigger one in frame four.
Unless I've totally missed the point - and it's really about confectionery!!! In which case, as a confectionery lover: <rant> £**$@@!! </rant> 
Anonymous Pia  "I might question how they go about it"

Does that mean I can question how you comment on that?

"I feel strongly about that...And, in my own small way, I've dealt with these issues myself.... Nowhere have I questioned the fact that someone might want to be a woman full time. "

I'll take that to mean that at no point have you actually questioned what it may be like to live full time. Why then would your opinion would be at all valid? You have no real knowledge of your chosen subject and seem to show no intention to learn about it further.

"When did you pick up the hammer?"

I'll take that to mean "when did you start making fun of T-esses?"

No... I actually meant when you got a spine...to try to follow your name sake 'en Verite' which is some nod at you trying to educate us/yourself? to deconstruct the old Simon and to recreate a simon/becky hybrid that was less of a hypocrite...to look for the truth...to look for the light...that which is beyond gender...?

Having a website for your female alter ego is actually you trying to make a point? Hey I identify with the Female gender...I'm expressing a new area of my male role....Non?

So, If you weren't making any point-valid or otherwise...why fucking bother? why not call it bex-lite...because it has no real valid content?

"If you don't like it, then you don't have to read it."

"Specific examples"
I won't even bother trying to explain to you as obviuosly you are not whom you claim to be...not someone 'en verite' but a man in a dress as you so obviously are...however..I'll take Kats lead when she says..."I'm sure you won't even get a barrage of TS harumpfs, as your diatribes have no doubt scared them away..."

And no...I don't like it...so I don't read it...but it's nice to have an opinion sometimes,
wouldn't you agree... 
Anonymous Tiffany  I think somebody needs some humor replacement therapy...funny is funny. 
Blogger Becky T  You know, I didn't see this edition of Tranny and TV as being TS-bashing. It is however a realistic, albeit simplified, portrayal of the approach of one notable professional, and the impact that's had on a number of his patients. I didn't actually laugh out loud at the cartoon this time because I happen to have spent the last few years doing things the jumping-through-hoops way and while there are certain advantages to some in early prescription - ways in which I too would have benefitted - I also don't happen to think it's a good way to proceed.

It's a pity though that some people are so wrapped up in being offended that they miss the intended send-up. 
Anonymous Helen G  Kat said ...I'm sure you won't even get a barrage of TS harumpfs, as your diatribes have no doubt scared them away!

Well, I'm still here, and am not harumpfing! TBH, this blog is increasingly a pleasant refuge from some of the more, umm, 'ardcore (you know the score) TS sites.

Kat, I even agree with you here: Keep up the good work...

And I'm staying well away from that debate up there ^ (gestures vaguely towards ceiling)...

Thank you Becky for Tranny & TV. And all the other stuff, of course (she adds hastily) 
Blogger Becky  No, thank you. And you, Becky T. :-)

I really didn't want to scare away any T-esses from this blog, and I'm really glad you're staying. 
Anonymous Stacey  Pia addressing Becky by her alternative moniker is the height of disrespect and very rude I feel. Also, surely the cartoon mocks the clinical approach of a certain physician, not TS's in general. 
Anonymous NH  Tranny and TV remind me of the old Smith and Jones talking heads routines (one knows nothing and the other thinks they know stuff but in reality knows nothing) and you can't say that they're doing a savage indictment of East End men. 

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