1. The Australian Channel Ten ads for Women's Murder Club make me
furious. Some bullshit about 'the murder show with legs' and calling them chicks, and the image at the end of the commercial is a pair of women's legs. One of them says that the coroner 'seems like an ordinary housewife' (!!) and then suggests she somehow
isn't a good wife and mother because she comments on a corpse's bikini wax. All the ads end with 'the best way to catch a man is with a woman', by which stage I've usually flicked to another channel because I can no longer take the bullshit I'm hearing. I can't even count the number of things wrong with what the ads are saying. The concept is somewhat offensive to begin with; that if you've got four women in various law-related professions it's something worth making a big deal out of, that they're automatically sexualised just because they're women; but the ads make it so much worse.
2. The
episode of NCIS that aired tonight (and had Mama Petrelli and the Yellow-Eyed Demon in it, so yay!fandom collision anyway) had a character that transitioned from a man to a woman. (Sorry if that spoiled anyone, but it's kind of important for my rant, and this was a very old episode.) The reasons for the transition weren't exactly kosher, but even with that the concept was handled so appallingly that by the end of the episode I hated everyone except McGee, who probably only didn't offend me because he didn't get a chance to talk about it. Everyone referred to her as him, stating 'she's a he!' several times. DiNozzo kissed the woman, not knowing who she was, and then Cate said 'what does it feel like to have a man's tongue down your throat?' (or something to that effect.) Even
Abby said the idea of having your 'plumbing turned inside out' was icky. Any discussion of actual trans people was thrown out the window, it was awful.
I told my sister about it and she floored me by responding that they were right, it is gross, and that trans people 'should just get over it and be what they're born.' At first I tried to talk to her about it (probably somewhat angrily, admittedly, since I was
completely shocked) but then she screamed about me about how it was her opinion and just because it was different to mine didn't give me a right to argue with her about it and how she didn't care about my 'fucking opinion'. I had to leave the room, I was so shocked and angry. It's probably just ignorance and she doesn't actually know much about it, but the fact that she could be dismissive of someone else's experiences like that floored me. I mean, the fact that anyone can say summarily that this doesn't exist without experiencing it themselves is like...men commenting on childbirth, something I can't abide in the first place. Basing an opinion on the fact that it gives you a squicky feeling rather than any actual fact is just lazy and stupid. AUGH. SO ANGRY.
On a related note, last night I saw
( Orlando )2.5 out of 5
Green Queen