What to expect when you break up with a Transgender girl (update: Nov 12, 2009)
Lucy Montgomery as April, Matt Berry as Douglas
While I probably appear somber in my writings here at d332.com, I don’t take myself too seriously in real life. Time and again, people who meet me at parties would dial up my website only to be shocked by some incredibly dry pursuits I consider curiosities. If anything, the collective perception of transgender folk is that we take ourselves way too seriously. The slightest provocation, a misspelled trans-label, a slipped pronoun will supposedly propel us into a 5000-word blog entry.
I’ll be the first to say I laughed long and loud at the South Park episode where Mr. Garrison gets a sex change. When she b*tches about how men are pigs, or when she proudly and openly announces that time of the month are scenes of well-researched satire.
I found The IT Crowd, a British TV series about geeks who work in the I.T. Department of an office, when I googled “Movies and TV Shows with women in suits.” The episode from the third season “The Speech” has the hilarious sexist boss Douglas, hooking up with a news reporter who turns out to be post-op transgender. After they have sex, Douglas marvels, “Amazing! Just Amazing! You really know your way around that area!” What follows is a sequence of the lovebirds going out and doing “guy things” together: chugging pints at the pub, rooting for football teams, arm-wrestling, having pizza and beer in bed.
It’s a long way from the days of Monty Python, when a man in a dress could automatically evoke laughter. Thank heavens television’s sense of humor has matured, even if the general public’s remain stunted.
