She was previously male, and she told me she hates this film because it is quite innaccurate and offensive to transsexuals... I am a homosexual male, and call me ignorant, but... I don't see it?
Do any other trans-sexuals agree with her?
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Did she tell specificly why she felt like that?
shareI'm a male-to-female and I liked "Transamerica" even though it was not at all relatible to my own life. I was always feminine - was teased, called a little girl, sissy...and much worse, in junior high and high school - and started the transition in my late teens. That may have been what your friend was talking about when she said she found it 'offensive.' Bree made the transition later in life after fathering a child, and especially when you factor in Bree always wearing stereotypical girl pink and purples, then her claiming to be a Christian: fitting all the traditional stereotypes of what women are supposedly "supposed to be."
Actually, this movie reminded me a bit of the Renee Richards story, "Second Serve." A middle-aged male making the transition to female after a brief marriage where he fathered a son. Renee Richards also speaks in the same low, monotone voice, which did make me wonder if the Bree character wasn't slightly modeled after Renee, and perhaps a few other real-life transsexuals.
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Eh, your post sets off my transphobia radar. Firstly, you do the hyphenation thing with the word transsexual that biphobic gays and lesbians do with the word Bisexual, and you refer to your supposed "friend" as "previously male", which comes across as... what's the word? ... Denying? In any case, it smacks of transphobia.
And if you actually have a "friend" who is so opposed to this film, then surely she would have said why? The fact that you use her to say that this film is so bad also comes across as tokinstic and using her, which is not something I would do to a friend - it's like saying "I've got a black friend, and he said Shine is crap" - let your friend talk for himself, or at the very least say why he felt that way.
There is so much transphobia in the gay community, and in my experience, your post just comes across as more of the same.
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You're overthinking it. I'm not transphobic. At the time of writing that post, I did not know a whole hell of a lot about transgendered men and women, so I didn't realize that putting a hyphen was wrong. My bad.
I am neither transphobic or biphobic. In fact, I lean very close to bisexual as opposed to gay. And, I am completely open to transgendered men and women. I completely support their lifestyles and decisions, and think it's a very beautiful way to live, and I agree that it much too frowned upon in the gay community.
And to answer your question. The only reason she gave why is that she didn't like the film was that she felt Bree "needed help with being a woman," which was completely unlike how her experiences were when transitioning. Sorry I did not make that clear in my original post.
I'm not transphobic. You can't decide that based on ONE post... Especially one in which I never said anything even remotely negative of the transgendered community.
Hail to the king, baby.
I didn't see anything objectionable in your original post; that person was obviously just in a mood to pounce and fault-find. Your only error that I can see was in responding to him instead of to the well-intentioned, supportive earlier post from ClamsCasino60. (It's the squeaky wheel.....) What was that whole tangent of his about black people and Shine? (A movie about a white Aussie schizophrenic who plays piano.....??? )
Anyway, I wondered the same thing as you about this movie: how did trans-sexuals feel about it? I know when the book and movie The Help came out, I tiptoed inquisitively around magazines and the internet, curious to see if black people liked it. They hated it, of course, and once they explained why, I understood: another movie where helpless, victimized black people get to be rescued by a brave and noble White (literally) Knight!
And you didn't ask her why she hated it and found it quite innaccurate because ....?
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